Thursday, January 24, 2013
Island Lake Electoral Hearings Drag Out
The Island Lake electoral board convened this morning in the cases of Fields/Sharp against Amrich/Sciarone. The attorneys for the canidates motioned disqualify Deborah Herrmann and Connie Mascillino. After a brief statement, both recused themselves voluntarily from both proceedings and in their place was installed, Trustee Thea Morris.
The outcome of the hearings is a continuation to February 4 at 8:30 p.m. Also, a motion for the Objectors to provide evidence was approved 3-0. The attorneys insinuated that they felt this would or could be wrapped up at the February 4 hearing.
The room was filled with residents and supporters and during public comment portion seemed very angry that the hearings were being dragged out, costing the taxpayers in more legal fees. Canidate and resident Mark Beeson made a statement about the process being delayed since the beginning starting with the delay in notifying the canidates of the objections.
More on this is available at the DH online . I was able to listen to the hearing in full at www.cbgil.com.
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How can this charade benefit the taxpayers. From what I heard, it seems that AG has gotten to the young lawyer from Willis Tower.
ReplyDeleteHis appearance in Island Lake will surely taint his firm's reputation.
When was this "lottery" held to choose the replacement of the recused member?
When I heard the words of Mr Jenkins it truly resonates the feelings of MANY Island Lake residents. Poor Charlie and Tony are being squeezed through the wringer at the expense of the taxpayers.
What is even more funny, Reconn?
ReplyDeleteAttorney Dave McArdle advanced obvious, relevant and settled Case Law JUDGEMENTS that entirely directed for the total dismissal of ALL Objections filed.
Yet the Objectors' Attorney's final summation in argument against?
That "the State Supreme Court was "confused"', as regards OBVIOUS and ENTERED rulings on this subject.
And then this "Kangaroo Court", decided to side with the Mr. Kindergarten Herrmm-attorney, rather than with the Illinois Supreme Court's own rulings.
Yeah, Herrmie and Herd - this is gonna look so good an' all, now ain't it? LOL!
You're all a naked embarrassment and fraud in support of what YOU want - over the CHOICE that THE PEOPLE want!
ReplyDeleteOr is it the whole Herd legacy, that just drags on and on and on..... It's like a chronic infection. It's like the deputies pursuing a murder investigation against a village, who keep dragging the lake, who finally start pulling up chunks of red meat snagged on their barbs just lately?
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference a day makes, or at least 9 or 10 hours or so. The pressure's on, and Trustee Fox finally had a hissy-fit melt-down at tonight's Board Meeting. Mee-ooow! Cat Fight!
The day started out innocently enough. Just another wasted $2,500 or so for one day's continued relentlessly-plodding Electoral Board Hearing on Objections against the FOR THE PEOPLE slate, those running for E-lection against Herrmann's RE-election slate - no wait - Fox's own favored reelection slate as well. When added to the previous initial Objection Hearing, plus the next relentlessly-plodding Electoral Board Hearing on Objections scheduled for next week? 3 "Hearings" so far.
ReplyDeletePlus the 2 failed Objection "Hearings" on the Town Hall Referendum question, of which Fox and Herrmann opposed putting on the ballot? Yet when placed on the ballot anyway, resulted in a resounding 75% "NO" vote against Herrmann and Fox? On the $6M Village Hall we KNOW we can't afford?
Gee - so on fruitless legal - worthless legal - why, we're only guaranteed to be "in the hole" by about $12,500 so far on frivolous Objections of all kinds by Objectors who continue to derive income from the Village, and of course, also support the Mayor.
ReplyDeleteMany of us remember many Election Board Hearings in the past when we had it all out in just one session, including just one punch to a resident from a sitting Trustee; and then called it a day and moved on. Not with Herrmann's Herd! Not with the Ancel Glink Herd.
All such costly challenges, while definitely directed against the challengers' FOR THE PEOPLE Slate, are ultimately, directed AGAINST "The People of Island Lake" - directed against having THE PEOPLE decide on the BALLOT. What are they afraid of? Another 75th-percentile defeat once again or something? Sure - and they're using OUR money, THE PEOPLE'S money in pursuit of denying you, THE PEOPLE of having ANY choice at all on a BALLOT.
So - right there - there's a frivolous $12,500 so far that THE PEOPLE can't afford.
ReplyDeleteAnd then, as a resident at tonight's meeting pointed out, we also have the $30,000 we spent on design services for a $6M village hall that THE PEOPLE decided on the BALLOT this past fall that we cannot also afford. A tone-deaf colossus and folly that Fox and Herrmann also tried to ram down our throats. And that figure might not even include legal!
So Trustee Fox, we're now up to $42,500 or more and counting! On YOUR say-so - just in the last few months! LOL! And that's just for starters! I could "drag on, and on, and on"..... We have you on record in support of approximately $45K in worthless legal and professional billings in support of YOU, in support of Herrmann - in support of NOTHING - yet in direct disregard for THE PEOPLE of Island Lake.
River dude you can add another 20K to the wasted taxpayer dollars column. I heard there was another settlement with an employee that was put on unpaid administrative leave due to an altercation that had nothing to do with her employment by the village. I heard Herrman had said the employee would be fully compensated for time off if found not quilty. I guess she felt she didn't have to pay the employee so after a long drawn out police investigation and legal work, it has cost us taxpayers nearly 20K. So Fox needs to rethink her fiscaly responsible statement.
DeleteI guess she means only when she wants to be fiscaly responsible.
So - back to tonight's meeting's delicious Trustee Foxy's Hissy-Fit.
ReplyDelete"Trustee" Fox goes well out of her way to hiss-out a public statement decrying ACTUAL Trustee Rabattini's filing of an Open Meeting Act violation against Herrmie, Foxy and The Herd's obvious violation of same, as having conducted; in Executive Session - a "straw poll" on the fate of our VOIL Police Dispatchers' fate. And Rabattini was right to do so - not only just at that meeting, but having done so numerous times in the past as well against The Herd. How dare Rabattini "cross" Foxy?! The NERVE! LOL! Ahem! Foxy? Foxy "crossed" the law - Foxy "crossed" the line, and FOXY "crossed" THE PEOPLE.
The proof? As much as The Herd and Assh*le Stink tried to shrug it off with AG's Office? Yet, as Trustee Rabattini patiently explained this evening, then WHY is it the AG's Office STILL interested in our Official OMA Violation Complaint? After another or so $1,000's ruckus was raised and spent by y'all by Assh*le Stink?
Hmmm... Could it be, that if you troll the web, and place search terms for "Executive Session" + "Straw Poll" + "OMA Violations", one will find copious citations and judgements AGAINST that practice?:
"No action may be taken in executive session except to (a) adjourn or (b) return to public session, and no vote or straw poll may be taken. The members of a public body may not commit the public body to a course of action by a polling of members in executive session."
ReplyDelete"Even a non-binding straw poll was held to be illegal in Miller v. Tacoma, 138 Wn.2d 318 (1999), and so only discussion should occur in executive session "
“There is absolutely clear case law that they can’t make the final decision in executive session, and they can’t really do a straw poll to try to narrow the field in an executive session,” Nixon said. “(I)t’s obvious they did that – because they published a news release, even if it was accidental, before the meeting. They clearly violated the open meetings act.’’
“There is absolutely clear case law that they can’t make the final decision in executive session, and they can’t really do a straw poll to try to narrow the field in an executive session,” noted Toby Nixon, a former state lawmaker and president of the Washington Coalition for Open Government. “They clearly violated the open meetings act.”
The "closer" on this sad and catty public Fox melt-down?
ReplyDelete1) Trustee Rabattini appears to be absolutely correct once again. And while it costs a mere pittance to find Rabattini to be right? It's always cost us TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars to prove Foxy and Herrmie to be wrong. Yet Foxy then goes into an impassioned soliloquy about "fiduciary responsibility"?! Really?! As Jack Nicholson might have said, "You can't handle fiduciary responsibility", Foxy!
2) "Trustee" Fox dares to bitch about - by Attorney Tappendorf's own accounting at tonight's meeting - about $300-$600 (2 hours) in legal spent by Rabattini's filing in pursuit of TRUTH & LAW that appears to be well-spent? That is, if it only costs a few hundred dollars in pursuit of upholding TRUTH & LAW in the first place? Rather than costing us TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars to prove Foxy and Herrmie to be wrong ultimately? You "Trustee" Fox, "Trustee" Morris, "Clerk" Mascillino and the rest of The Herd have been, and continue to be; one entire, massive, messy, sloppy and stinky OMA violation since Week One.
I can't help it that you're now all desperate and scared in that regard.
3) Yet "Trustee" Fox does b*tch away anyhow, while totally ignoring the more than $42+k SHE'S been all about supporting and spending in not only EVADING the LAW, but has also spent in pursuit of DENYING village residents' having THEIR OWN SAY on the past fall BALLOT, AND on the upcoming spring BALLOT as well?
"Trustee" Fox had a right to be angry and embarrassed today. But it's not Trustee Rabattini that's brought this reckoning upon her - it is her own ignorance and law-breaking that has done so.
ReplyDeleteBoo-Hoo, Foxy! Have you noticed that SOMEHOW, that it's all more apparently due YOUR fault, than it is Herrmie's?
Now why might that be? You can't say we hadn't warned you, now can you?
You chose a false idol over Truth. That the ends justified the means.
Now, you're seeing that Herrmie's means will justify your end.
I would only add, as Joe Ptak used to once say, "and have a nice day!"
Wait - I'll go so far as to add a smiley as well:
:-)
Dunce!
ReplyDeleteSo why are you ion a panic Foxy?
Herrmie and Ancel no longer got your back?
It sucks to be a "dupe", now don't it?
ReplyDeleteYou were NOT elected a "dupe" - yet you ELECTED to be a "dupe".
Geez, ain't you a "dupe"!
4 weeks and 3 days to kick her ass!
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