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Welcome to the Bolingbrook Report. The BR has been operating as the local hottest news source since April 2009. Always controversial, and always on the scene, the Brook Report has over 80,000 hits and counting! The BR is an online electronic news source ran by volunteers and residents of Bolingbrook.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Ken Cygan a Roger Stooge?

Two years ago we reported that Ken Cygan was connected to Roger's party.  Some unfortunate Democrats supported him, which was appauling.  I mean, who serves on a Democratic party and gets signatures for a Republican to get on the ballot?  Well, he lied to his voters by telling them he was independent.  We told the public he was not independent.  Two years later, Roger Claar publically has supported him, and is assisting him to win a new office. 

Stay tuned to the truth, here on the Bolingbrook Report!

Who is running for office?

As information arrives, we will be posting information on whom is running this year for office and what position will be up for re-election.  Stay tuned for more information!

Bolingbrook Local Election Kickoff for Spring Election

Yes, the Mayoral race is back and ready for a run.  Some candidates, either running for Trustee, school, etc, have picked up their packets and begin the process of gathering signatures to get on the local ballots.

Did you know that IL is the final state to use this process?  Since the process itself is corrupt, all other states have abandoned this process.

Just last week, the Democratic party candidates were removed from the ballot on a technicality by the Republican Party attorney (Yes, we are speaking of Dick Kavinaugh).  They fought to stay back on and won.  However, this is not the last time we will hear about this.

So what is new?  Some local candidates have bi-passed the local offices when picking up the petitions.  They have gone past the local offices and right to Will County.  (No more being booted off ballots because Republican Carol Penning gives them the wrong packet, sheets, advice, etc.)  Some of these local candidates are also using attorneys who are sick of the current Republican party not allowing people on the ballot.  "Leave the choice to the residents on voting", is the new philosophy. 

Are the current office holders nervous?  You bet!  They are looking for information.  For example, Roger Claar used his Linked In account a few days ago to search for Bob Bowen's information.  Are they gathering info?  Are they worried about his experience and # of votes in the last election?  Are they trying to get information to twist facts?  Whatever the purpose, Claar has a reason to be worried. Election season brings out the worst in the Republican Party candidates and their loyal Hitler like followers.  Just two years ago Trustee Morales snapped because people in his neighborhood put up signs for the opposition.  Just two years before that, they waged an attack on Bonnie Alicea, just because she wanted to run for office.  The outcome?  Pure ugliness....  And as always, we will be here to post when the ugliness comes out... This is the fall show of the season! 

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Kalnickys Senete Run Falls Flat

Bob Kalnicki has decided to run for the State Representitive Seat.  He has some hard core financial backers.  This month alone, the House Republican Committee donated about $15K to his cause, which adds to his approx. $9k that he had from donars such as Tressler LLC (Bolingbrook Village Attorney that gets over a million and a half a year of our tax dollars while other Village attorneys make $350K). 

Bob has shown himself as a leader in the Will County Republican Party. This is the same party we speak of a great deal on our web site by exposing politicians in this org. for alleged corruption in Bolingbrook.  He also is the head chair of a Facebook Site posted a little more then a year ago as the local TEA PARTY.  That is correct, this man is the HEAD of the local tea party movement.  So it is of no suprise that when Cedra Crenshaw, (who ran last time) donated what was left of her money to the campaign funds of Tom Cross, it would wind up back into Kalnicki's hands.  In the sum of $14,500 this month as a donation to his campaign.

Is the world ready for a Tea Party Extremist in the IL seat?  Is he really a tea party person?  He states he is, but when the library last year was going to sell the old furniture, he voted to donate it to a local charity that he sits on the board to.  The residents outcried, because we wanted this money to go towards the bills that the tax payers were forking out for the new library.  But hey, we all want something free for our organizations, right?  It is too bad the tax payers caught this move and exposed this move to be illegal.  The funds were placed into the library fund.  Alleged corruption again?  Horray for the tax payers for stopping it! 

Steve Quigley in possible Kick Back Scheme?

This month Steve Quigley accepted a large campaign donation of $1000.00 from Government Consulting Services of IL during a non-campaign year for himself.  This company's main work is to be a lobbyist for government entities, such as ours.  We already know that he works within the WCGL which hires lobbyists for our community issues.  The WCGL gets the money from our Village, from our tax dollars. 

Now he takes donations so that he will continue to hire this company to lobby on our behalf?  Horrifying!  Also, a tid bit many of you don't know, the items they are lobbying for are far right wing republican items, even though Valley View area (Bolingbrook/ Romeoville) are largely Democratic.  I am sure many of you will be upset to know that this is how your money is being spent. 

Pay to Play don't play with us!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Steve "Mongo" McMichael running for Mayor Romeoville

Steve "Mongo" McMichael, from the Chicago Bears and World Champion Wrestling, currently owner of Mongo's in Romeoville, announced bid to run for Mayor of Romeoville.  With sports fame and money behind him, we will defiantly follow this race, as well as the race for Mayor in Bolingbrook.  It will prove to be an interesting one!  Will the Republican team be able to boot him off the ballot?

More election information coming early October!

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Follow up on Devon Hodges

The courts have ruled to allow Devon Hodges lawsuit to continue and not be dismissed.  The lawsuit has added on a few names, other then previously posted.  Amongst about a dozen names, Mr. Mitchem and Steve Quigley have been named in the lawsuit for failure to assist a boy from harassment and bullying, and showing nepotism against him to secure scholarships for Mitchems son. 

This is not the first case that will likely be tried in courts, as on one another occasion, an African American boy was taken off the same years academic scholarship list for no good reason by Mitchems assistant, and then Mitchems son received the scholarships. The administration then claimed that boy might have gotten only $300, and offered to pay for that when we exposed the story.

Just to recap for new followers, Devon Hodges suffered immense stalking, humiliation, bullying, and harassment from teachers and school officials because his family moved from Romeoville to Bolingbrook.  Since he was a star athlete in Romeoville, the basketball coaches did not want him to leave.  At one point, the basketball coach had them make nasty signs and tee shirts to attend a game again Bolingbrook, shirts calling his names in reference to his intelligence, amongst many other allegations. 

To add insult to injury, Bolingbrook's team did not want him because that position was already being played by Mr. Mitchem (former principle, now Superintendent) son.  The situation was so compounded that they blocked Devon's ability to show college recruiters what he could do and to gain scholarships. 

For more information or to see the lawsuit, you can send us an email.  However, we will follow the story right here for you!

Friday, May 11, 2012

30 Mayors locally call for reform. Bolingbrook is not one of them.

The rush to fix pension reform in high in Illinois.  Illinois is broke and pensions are the top problem.  It is costing the residents high taxes and future downfalls.  What cost pennies years ago cost millions today in pensions.  There is no way this problem could have been for seen so many years ago and contributions to the pension funds were too low to support the current needs and demands.  If no pension reform is done, there will be higher taxes and higher costs to each resident. 

Thirty local Mayors in the Chicago suburbs have joined together to tackle pension reform in IL. Not surprisingly, Bolingbrook is NOT one that wants reform.  Could it be because many of these elected officials in Bolingbrook are retiring within the next four years?  What will this cost you in the next few years?

With elections coming, this will be a hot topic.  We will be interviewing candidates to get perspective on how each of them feels about pension reform. 

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Tressler Law firm to charge more that a Million ths year!

With the Devon Hodges lawsuit and the church lawsuit in full swing, Tressler Law Firm will be making a killing ff of taxpayers for the bad decisions made by both the Village Trustees, Mayor, and District 365-U school board. 

These boards are costing us a fortune in bad decisions!  They are the same boards that built a Golf Club in a year where industry screamed that Golf Clubs were on the financial down slides.  This is the same board who was sued for illegally kicking Bonnie Alicea off the ballot twice and calling her a "murdered" to try to stop her from running for office (the right of every US Citizen 18 and up!)  The same board who ran for office while taking Union Pay to Play campaign funds... Should we go on about what the bad decisions are costing us?  Just remember election season will be here soon enough again and bad decisions need to be done with forever.

Devon Hodges Update

Pretty soon we will all be hearing the juicy details of stalking, harassment, and bullying that was administered to a student on school time and after school.  This student, whom we thought the school was there to protect during school hours, was subjected to this behavior by adults, coaches, and others.  Devon Hodges is suing the school district and will bring to light how the administration of our school district is run.  From the school board ignoring his families complaints and allowing it to happen, to the Superintendent claiming he would do something and then did (he ignored it all).  All the way down to coaches and players of the team. 

We look forward to reporting on this case and wish the Hodges family luck on exposing the TRUTH!