Bolingbrook Clout can overlook Sunshine Laws?

Does being a Bolingbrook "clout" candidate help you in breaking village "sunshine laws" directed at transparency?

Sunshine laws are laws that are put in place that allow residents the ability to request a FOIA (Freedom of info act) and trust that the local elected officials will honor the FOIA request as law states they need to.  However, in Bolingbrook where fair elections are not honored, local officials worried about losing their seats, break the Sunshine Laws to avoid publicity.  They also break the trust of the residents who believe in the law and the system.

The sunshine laws for FOIAs are as follows: 

"Pursuant to the fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form

of government, it is declared to be the public policy of the State of Illinois that

all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of

government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as

public officials and public employees consistent with the terms of this Act.

Such access is necessary to enable the people to fulfill their duties of discussing

public issues fully and freely, making informed political judgments and monitoring

government to ensure that it is being conducted in the public interest."

When someone FOIAs the village and asks for the list of candidates that have picked up packets to run for office, they would think this simple request would give them documents to show details of this request.  Week after week that list was supplied, but left off the current elected officials.

Now why would they do that?  What are they trying to hide? 

Isn't it hard for the village to hide this break in sunshine laws when Mr. Morales, who did not appear on the FOIA request list, has possession of the signature sheets and is collecting signatures?  Does the Village not care about breaking the trust of the residents who submit the FOIA requests?

The questions we should be asking are: 
Who is Mr. Morales paying off to get the Village to break the public's trust in the FOIA laws? 
How can the residents believe that their government is honest?
How can they trust that Mr. Morales is honest?
Are Village employees interfering in an election, when this is a felony to do so? 
Who will be the one to "get in trouble" from the State's Attorney's office if this is submitted to them?
Is all this risk worth hiding the fact that Trustee Morales is using clout to cover his candidacy?

We will be following the story as it progresses.