Local Elections Cause Bolingbrook Report to go dark

It is a sad day when the Bolingbrook Report shuts up.  The reason?  The same ol' elected officials are running unopposed in the local elections coming up.  Despite the fact that they have ran up the highest amount of bonds for a village in all of Illinois, while claiming they are Republican...  Despite the fact that one member drives drunk and one is a hot tempered thief, and the rest of them lied to residents repeatedly.  Despite the fact all of them have stepped on many residents to get where they are, for little in return other than being seen as morally corrupt.... Need we go on? 

Over the past 6 years we have seen the FBI push them to the back burner, despite the crimes they have committed against the residents.  The words "Small fish in big pond" was used often.  We have seen one candidate run against the Mayor, and be booted off the ballot twice by the Mayor's slate who got to vote if she stayed or went, and whom still immorally booted her off.  (Talk about wrong!).  We have seen them call this same candidate a "killer", and get sued for it, on your tax dime. 

We have seen another gentleman, who spoke at meetings, have his house burned down, and a year later thrown in jail.  While the police claim innocent on who told the States Attorney to arrest him, and the police losing evidence? 

We have seen people like Devon, passed up for scholarships over Jim Mitchems son.  We saw teachers stalking students. 

Even worse, we have seen people pocketing money.  The DuPage Township Supervisor was giving winning bids to a phone company, of which he worked in sales by day.  We saw the same man take conference dollars to a school, not township, conference, get sloshed, and make us look bad.  Drew Peterson did not help that either.

We see large bids get passed in the village, while million dollar war chests get filled by those companies.  We see losing money every day in properties taxpayers purchased, like the golf course. 

We see one man, an attorney, pulling strings of a puppet called the "Mayor" to bank money.  Another pulling puppet strings the other way to advance Republican power hold.  Manipulating the system against good candidates and lying to the public.

We see the taxes skyrocketing from the poorly run school board, while leaving top heavy admin. in charge.  We see public officials donating your tax dollars to their private charities. We see them making excuses to pay bonuses of $66K without a written contract.

We have seen a lot over the years.  This election is no different.  You get what you voted for.  There were others that ran you could have voted for. Honest and respectable individuals that could have helped Bolingbrook.  They could have stopped the spending, corruption, and poor morals.  They could have stopped the puppet strings.

All we can offer as advice for voting this season, is to stay AWAY from anyone in office currently, or one that has aligned themselves with someone in office.  The only exception  is Shirley V.  She stands alone.

For the school board, we suggest only candidates that are NOT aligned with any of Claar or Quigley's hold. 

For the Township, we suggest Shirley and anyone NOT aligned with Bill Mayer.  This group not only lies about candidates, but they steal signs, banners, and run dirty campaigns.

For the Village Board, your all screwed.  Let's pray the Mayor retires early. 

Most of all, keep an eye out for the dirty campaigners.  If they cover others signs, yank signs, steal signs, and lie about their opponents, you know how they do business. 

Good luck, God Bless, and when all else fails and you can't take it anymore, move!

Update on Devon Hodges

Devon is doing well, and his family is happy.  The courts refused to throw out his case and it is moving forward.  We pray for the family for the injustice that was done to this young Bolingbrook High Graduate who was held back for scholarships because he was competing against children whose parents hold power in the community.  We will keep you updated!