Bad play of the year goes to.... Mr. Claar

Well Mr. Mayor Claar, it seems that the opposing Independent Party outplayed and out maneuvered you.  I believe in a game of chess, you booting Bonnie would have been a check mate.  So how did she get your queen?

Bonnie Alicea knew there was no way to get a fair hearing in Bolingbrook.  She knew her option was to go to Will County.  Since her hearing was suppose to be based off the objectors objections, she would have immediatly had it overturned in Will County and re-entered the race.  Why?  Mr. Kavanagh and Mr. Claar forgot a few rules of the political game...

First, Mr. Kavanagh's entire objections were based off the month of September to March.  This was prior to the April 5th deadline.  It would appear that he did not spend enough time researching law to write this document.  Bonnie was prepared for the hearing based on all her evidence showing April to June timeframes.  Since she had the attorneys beat hands down, Roger went for additional time.  He made an executive decision to remove Bonnie from the ballot for not having proof to her whereabouts in July and August. 

It is not the chairs decision to add information to an objection.  Did Bonnie disprove her objectors claims, yes.  But that is not how kangaroo courts in Bolingbrook work.  She knew that when it happened to her last year.  Matter of fact, just yesterday she laughed when she stated that it was funny to see new accusations included in the final decision.  Accusations that the objector never supplied, their attorney never produced, and the board did not bring up.  It was adding new evidence after a hearing.  When I asked her like what, she mentioned her business PO Box was apparently a last ditch effort to stake a residency claim on her. 

So how can a board add things that an objector did not file in the objection or that their attorney did not bring up in the documents?  They don't in the real law.  Throwing Bonnie off a ballot because she brought proof to contest the objections, then the board changing the objections during the hearing is as low as it comes.

So although the objections stated her residency in question from October 2009-March 2010, she was booted off the ballot for after she sold her home in June because there was not ENOUGH evidence brought to the hearing to clear that.  (Even though these dates or objections were NEVER lauched by anyone other than the board.)

So the fact that she did her online change of address for her drivers license meant nothing to the head of the Police Mr. Claar, who Bonnie asked to have it run, right there and then, to prove the allegations.  He asked TWICE when she ran it.  So he knew she did.  Why did he not run it to prove the case?  It is called a kangaroo court residents!

Furthermore, the ultimate joke is on the board.  First, Bonnie knew how corrupt they were and selflesly threw her name in the hat for trustee.  She knew that they would be so hell bent on getting her off the ballot, and for protecting the school board members, they had no choice then to focus on that and not bumping others off the ballot.  She took the 5% chance that they would let her on and ran anyways, distracting them enough to get four other good candidates access to the ballot.

Well the plan worked.  While Mr. Claar wanted to hunt Bonnie down and allow his anger and power take over her hearing and access to the ballot, others slipped right by him.  This should teach Mr. Claar a good lesson on treating people a certain way.

But incase he does not follow the drift, here are the lessons he should have learned.
1.  Don't under estimate the  intelligence of a woman who knows IL politics are a broken system and can find her way around it. Expecailly when they use the same game plan two years in a row.
2.  When you spend too much time and anger on one person, you fail to see the others creeping up behind you.
3.  When you have only one attorney to do your biddings, it might not be enough to save your and others asses next time.
4.  When you remove someone from a ballot, you narrow the odds against your own people.  Since there are more then one person running this time, you have given your candidates a death sentence in politics.  There are four highly educated, highly well known members of the community that are running against your three candidates, two of which have been wating to retire anyways. 

Now let the games begin during this election cycle!