Corrupt Gangster Moll "Super-Mayor" Kicked Off Ballot for Reelection

The citizens of Thornton, Illinois had enough of this hoodrat using their money to buy herself extravagant gifts and vacations, and then using more of their money to bribe people not to blow the whistle on the self-declared "Super-Mayor," so they organized a caucus to determine the candidates for the town council and voted her off the ballot.

Unfortunately, somehow this self-styled "gangsta" holds not one but two top positions, one in Thornton and another in nearby Dolton, and she's only off the Thornton ballot.

THORNTON TOWNSHIP, lll. -- Thirteen months after the first WGN Investigates report on questionable spending by south suburban politician Tiffany Henyard, it appears she has been forced off the ballot.
This involves just one of the two elected positions Henyard holds.
Now her allies are calling the move illegal and vowing to fight.
Henyard didn't even get the chance to speak before the democratic township committeeman dispatched her from the ballot in a simple voice vote Tuesday night. In seconds, the crowd of hundreds sang her out like a ball player who has just struck out.

Given that Thornton is mostly black, at least the ghetto Super-Mayor won't be able to play the race card.

Or will it?

"This is prime example of puppet masters trying to control the narrative," she said.
In an interview before Tuesday’s unusual caucus, Henyard cried foul saying her supporters were stuck outside while backers of the committeeman, Napoleon Harris, gathered inside.
Harris is also a state senator who selected himself to run for township supervisor at the top of the democratic ticket.

They canceled the primary and reverted to the alternative form of choosing the Democrat nominee, a caucus. It's unusual -- but it's perfectly legal.

Bill Cadigan is a former state board of elections chairman who says the caucus system is legal in Illinois as is holding multiple elected positions.
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The two south suburban governments Henyard runs have been in chaos since soon after WGN Investigates began reporting on her spending and abrasive leadership style. She and her entourage racked-up more than $100,000 in travel, meals and more. Her namesake cancer charity was shut down for failing to report how it spends money.
Even after the FBI served subpoenas in April, the spending continued. One sparsely attended concert cost more than $85,000.
Before Tuesday’s defeat, Henyard vowed not to be deterred.
"The show will go on," she said.
Her team says they’re asking the state's attorney and Illinois Attorney General to investigate the legality of Tuesday's "raucous caucus."
Henyard can run as a write-in candidate for township supervisor; but remember she's also facing a big challenge to stay on as the mayor of Dolton.

In a Dolton town council meeting, the "Super-Mayor" showed up a half hour late with no apology or explanation. Citizens then told her that they were counting down the days until they booted her out of that office as well.

Black Conservative Perspective has video of the "raucus caucus," starting around 6:15. She runs her fat mouth a lot.

Actual Justice Warrior reviews her history of graft and theft of taxpayer funds.

She had a special law written to protect her job in Dolton-- the job originally pays $25,000 per year. But she gets paid $65,000 per year. If anyone else but her gets elected to the job, the pay rate goes back down to $25,000.

This is to discourage anyone from challenging her.

That may sound like a paltry salary but with her salary from Thornton, she makes over $220,000 per year, more than the Illinois governor.

And her salary is only one of her streams of revenue. Don't forget, she's also stealing them blind.

Posted by: Ace at 03:27 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2024 03:26 PM (Rcnd3)

2 Sucks to be the resident of thornton township, IL, but at some point in the past you voted for this.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2024 03:27 PM (Rcnd3)

3 Read the content and still got fourth?

Posted by: Half Dozen at December 05, 2024 03:30 PM (uVHlT)

4 Uh oh, I broke the blog again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2024 03:31 PM (Rcnd3)

5 *tap* *tap* *tap*
This thing on?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 05, 2024 03:31 PM (VGRuw)

6 We
Wuz
Super mayorzzz

Posted by: n sheit at December 05, 2024 03:31 PM (adRDv)

7 why isn't this national news? only republican politicians act like this

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 05, 2024 03:31 PM (CWTWj)

8 Bill Cadigan is a former state board of elections chairman who says the caucus system is legal in Illinois as is holding multiple elected positions.
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Since it's Chicago, doesn't that mean shooting your opponents is legal too? Or is that only on Feb 14?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2024 03:32 PM (1bNHn)

9 I think LBJ got it wrong. It is not 100 years yet.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2024 03:32 PM (D7oie)

10 It's not just Chicago that's corrupt in Illinois. It's pervasive.

(Southern Illinois is more insulated, but Illinois has a LOOONG history of corruption.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2024 03:33 PM (N1DT3)

11 People who agreed to be fleeced now say they regret agreeing to be fleeced. Okay.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2024 03:34 PM (gBv1i)

12 I did the heavy lifting down below.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 2024 03:34 PM (iAdx3)

13 Henyard? That's an actual surname?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 03:34 PM (v6JzV)

14 Why isn't she breaking rocks into gravel yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2024 03:34 PM (F0j7f)

15 Hoodrat… well put ace… sometimes the simplest description is the most apt.

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2024 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

16 You don't see many black women named Tiffany.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (2UnvF)

17 It's not just Chicago that's corrupt in Illinois. It's pervasive.

(Southern Illinois is more insulated, but Illinois has a LOOONG history of corruption.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 05, 2024 03:33 PM (N1DT3)

Rod Blagojevich is out doing interviews, and I wonder if he is doing "consulting" work since he used to be tops in the Ill Machine and seems the sort to carry a grudge.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (D7oie)

18 13 Henyard? That's an actual surname?
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 03:34 PM (v6JzV)

Much like Hoglot…

Posted by: tubal at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (PCK5/)

19 "This is prime example of puppet masters trying to control the narrative," she said.

Jooos!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (KcwUg)

20 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

21 These DEI political hires never work out well...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (TGPs7)

22 Illinois has been corrupt for so long that I start to wonder if we can really blame the voters for this.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (aD39U)

23 Another blue shithole.

She got elected. She f*cked the town.

She's rich.

You're f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

24 I'm always amazed at how much it takes for a black electorate to hold black politicians accountable.

Posted by: Leupold at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (4pwAx)

25 Stuff like this happens in NJ and it's perfectly legal (but should it be?)
Town officials like municipal judge and prosecutor can be appointed in multiple towns, there isn't really a limit except how many places they can be in at once.
Each down pays different, but if they stitch enough together they can easily make 6 figures.
One infamous example was a town judge down the shore who was making over 200k, more than ackshual full-time Superior Court judges.
He got indicted and thrown off the bench because he was fixing tickets for his buddies, surprise surprise.
And these folks can even maintain private practices and rake in more money.
It used to be worse: people would retire from the County Prosecutor's office, drawing a pension form there, then get vested again by getting appointed as part-time municipal prosecutor in Podunk, NJ and end up getting 2 pensions, all funded by suckers like me.
Chris Christie, before he got horrible, ackshually put a stop to the double pension dipping. Of course, much lamentation was had.
People get too hung up on the corruption on the national level, the rot in this society extends all the way down to your local dogchatcher.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (gUzGB)

26 Illinois has been corrupt for so long that I start to wonder if we can really blame the voters for this.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (aD39U)

Machines don't care about the material they process. Neither to political machines

Posted by: Kindltot at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (D7oie)

27 24 I'm always amazed at how much it takes for a black electorate to hold black politicians accountable.
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It's the Maff Blue Wall.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (jFCkp)

28 Mayorkas’ blend of zealous progressivism and consumer-economy colonialism has killed many Americans, and cut wages for many millions of Americans as it enriched the Democratic Party’s donor class.

His exploitative welcome also helped to kill thousands of migrants, enabled the rape of hundreds of thousands of migrants, divided millions of foreign families, and kneecapped economic and democratic development for tens of millions of poor people in many poor countries.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 03:37 PM (RHGPo)

29 Caw da row!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 03:37 PM (Aqu9a)

30 Sure the Daley machine was corrupt but they were smart enough to only steal a little at time.

Unlike Tiffany who is Grand Theft Thug.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2024 03:37 PM (F0j7f)

31 You don't see many black women named Tiffany.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (2UnvF)

Ya, it's usually Tiffiani, and they work on the main stage.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2024 03:37 PM (CIS44)

32 Most everyone I interviewed in this Mexico City migrant camp told me they’re giving up, going home after Trump is inaugurated and cancels the CBP One phone app parole program. Back to Venezuela. Back to Colombia. Some say they’ll settle permanently in Mexico.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 03:37 PM (RHGPo)

33 Living in Illinois, I'm still shocked when I see election results here.

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at December 05, 2024 03:38 PM (gxokI)

34 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at December 05, 2024 03:38 PM (z0QHk)

35 You hatin' on a black . . . woman . . . . in power!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 03:38 PM (Aqu9a)

36 Does anyone here believe the new mayor will be any less corrupt than the old mayor?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 03:39 PM (rNE21)

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Posted by: Ciampino - European rocket at December 05, 2024 03:39 PM (i0xsb)

38 24 I'm always amazed at how much it takes for a black electorate to hold black politicians accountable.
Posted by: Leupold at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (4pwAx)

A lot of the black community nurses a sense of aggrieved entitlement, that it is owed. So this kind of corruption doesn't register as anything other than black folks taking what is theirs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2024 03:39 PM (gBv1i)

39 What happened to the city’s budget?

[Looks at mayor]

Oh.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 05, 2024 03:39 PM (lvNuV)

40 32 Most everyone I interviewed in this Mexico City migrant camp told me they’re giving up, going home after Trump is inaugurated and cancels the CBP One phone app parole program. Back to Venezuela. Back to Colombia. Some say they’ll settle permanently in Mexico.
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 03:37 PM (RHGPo)

=======

*stifles laughter*
-Mexican Immigration Law

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

41 She had a special law written to protect her job in Dolton-- the job originally pays $25,000 per year. But she gets paid $65,000 per year. If anyone else but her gets elected to the job, the pay rate goes back down to $25,000.
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I don't know anything about the Illinois constitution, but I think just about every state has a provision about "special legislation" that prohibits this.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2024 03:40 PM (Dm8we)

42 >>>>You don't see many black women named Tiffany.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2024 03:35 PM (2UnvF)
*****
It’s short for Le’Tiffany.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 2024 03:41 PM (iAdx3)

43 Most everyone I interviewed in this Mexico City migrant camp told me they’re giving up, going home after Trump is inaugurated and cancels the CBP One phone app parole program. Back to Venezuela. Back to Colombia. Some say they’ll settle permanently in Mexico.
Posted by: SMOD
===

If Mexico was smart, they'd want this stop also so they're country isn't a freeway for the poorest people on Earth. If even a small percent stick around Mexico, it's more mouths to feed.

Posted by: Leupold at December 05, 2024 03:41 PM (4pwAx)

44 I don't know anything about the Illinois constitution, but I think just about every state has a provision about "special legislation" that prohibits this.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2024 03:40 PM (Dm8we)

Ya but that's a "you law" not a "her law"

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2024 03:41 PM (CIS44)

45 I bet, like here in NJ, she also qualifies for multiple public pensions. Our retired police chief has two public pensions and a pension from the local university, and has three houses, one here, one in Maine and one in Florida. Rich as Croesus.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2024 03:41 PM (C7Pt/)

46 So her nickname is Le'Tiff?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2024 03:42 PM (F0j7f)

47 Poking around the internet, there are a lot of claims of malfeasance by Henyard.

-Used $560,000 of taxpayer money to repave her mom's driveway
-Made herself the sole authority to approve spending
-Spends $6,500 per week on armed security
-Spent $24,000 on restaurant meals in one year
-Leased a $149,000 Tahoe for herself

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 03:43 PM (Odg76)

48 The citizens of Thornton, Illinois had enough of this hoodrat using their money to buy herself extravagant gifts and vacations, and then using more of their money to bribe people not to blow the whistle on the self-declared "Super-Mayor,"
_________________

Insert my usual rant here.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

49 Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2024 03:41 PM (C7Pt/)

Oh yeah this happens all the time.
County Sheriff retires but his buddy the Mayor of Wherever appoints him as police chief, town public safety director, or whatever, it doesn't matter.
Now the leech is going to get 2 pensions because he technically served in 2 separate positions.
They can easily be getting like 250k+ in pension payments when all is said and done.
Buys a nice place in FL and even a little boat too.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 05, 2024 03:44 PM (gUzGB)

50 The DOJ doesn't have much time to prosecute the locals for pushing out their superior.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 03:44 PM (lTGtQ)

51 > Henyard? That's an actual surname?

She changed it from Cocklot.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 03:44 PM (Odg76)

52 Won't someone think of the children?!?

Posted by: That Guy Always Thinking About The Children at December 05, 2024 03:45 PM (1Yy3c)

53 Hair extensions, bad dye jobs, false eyelashes, Louboutin heels, and 2" acrylic nails are not cheap, suckahs!

Posted by: fly gal at December 05, 2024 03:45 PM (6CtMt)

54 Most everyone I interviewed in this Mexico City migrant camp told me they’re giving up, going home after Trump is inaugurated and cancels the CBP One phone app parole program. Back to Venezuela. Back to Colombia. Some say they’ll settle permanently in Mexico.
Posted by: SMOD

Mexico: Like hell you will.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 05, 2024 03:45 PM (xYpKG)

55 She a brat? It's a damn shame that the dumbest culture in the world is what gets propped up in this country.

Posted by: resist_we_much at December 05, 2024 03:46 PM (cpys8)

56 Background info = The Thornton Township comprises an area of 17 villages, of which Dalton Village is one.

As township supervisor, Tiffany kept having her township social events in Dalton, as none of the other villages wanted her mess in their immediate vicinity.

As the Mayor of Dalton, Tiffany could secure the necessary permits / security / sanitation, etc. for the township's events from her village AND waive any pesky requirements for liability insurance from her vendors.

This story has been a rollicking wreck for over a year and it's reaching it's climax.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 03:46 PM (Aqu9a)

57 People get too hung up on the corruption on the national level, the rot in this society extends all the way down to your local dogchatcher.
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Your average US city, 200k pop. and up, has a revenue greater than most all Fortune 500 companies.

Recall that article months ago that stated no election at any level is actually honest?
Because there's way, way too much money at stake to let the people decide how it's spent.

I'll also point to the Republican's mandatory "preferred vendors" lists. That goes all the way down to cities. That's how your local Republican is laundering your taxes to him and his buddies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 03:47 PM (rNE21)

58 Chicago politics is a giant hole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Quarry

Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2024 03:47 PM (FhXTo)

59 I don't know anything about the Illinois constitution, but I think just about every state has a provision about "special legislation" that prohibits this.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2024 03:40 PM (Dm8we)
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That's racist.

Posted by: Sunny Hostin, DEI Lawyer at December 05, 2024 03:47 PM (MkDc8)

60 3/4 of the city is a giant quary. It’s weird that it’s even an incorporated city. It’s like it was specifically created for graft.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (SsUR/)

61 Small correction about this article that has to do with the vast proliferation of governmental entities in IL. Thorton Township is a division of Cook County and Dolton's a city in that township. So Dolton isn't "nearby" Thorton Township so much as in it.

Posted by: Octochicken at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (oCS0o)

62 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 03:47 PM (rNE21)

A friend of mine ran for State Senate as a GOP.
He lost.
He told me that he learned that the worst people go into politics.
And if the people going into state/local politics are bad, can you imagine how horrible the people going into national politics are?
It drives me nuts when a Dem NPC voter says that a Dem pol "cares about the little guy."

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (gUzGB)

63 Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 03:43 PM (Odg76)

Did her mother have a three mile driveway? How.
could it cost over $500, 000 dollars?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (wiROh)

64 Local rot is as much going as federal corruption goes

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2024 03:49 PM (fwDg9)

65 I'm always amazed at how much it takes for a black electorate to hold black politicians accountable.
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It's the Maff Blue Wall.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (jFCkp)

I remember when I moved to Chicago area in the 80s and the black mayor Washington replaced the white mayors literally nobody there could imagine that their might be a government that would not steal, the only question was who got the loot.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2024 03:49 PM (n7h9X)

66 Did her mother have a three mile driveway? How.
could it cost over $500, 000 dollars?
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The driveway needed a new house?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 03:49 PM (jFCkp)

67 Who doesn't love Canadian Bacon or Cowboy Pillows...

https://tinyurl.com/ytr7v6sd

Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 05, 2024 03:50 PM (TGPs7)

68 Really hoping the new DOJ has a robust public corruption unit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2024 03:50 PM (2UnvF)

69

The driveway cost was probably so high because she hired "friends" to do the work and she probably stole some of the money.

Posted by: four seasons at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (3ek7K)

70 These leeches are everywhere. Make tar and feathering great again, and these types would disappear from public life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (i24o9)

71 >>-Leased a $149,000 Tahoe for herself

How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)

72 Small correction about this article that has to do with the vast proliferation of governmental entities in IL. Thorton Township is a division of Cook County and Dolton's a city in that township. So Dolton isn't "nearby" Thorton Township so much as in it.
Posted by: Octochicken at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (oCS0o)

I used to live south of that area when working for the U of Chicago in the city.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (n7h9X)

73 Poking around the internet, there are a lot of claims of malfeasance by Henyard.

-Used $560,000 of taxpayer money to repave her mom's driveway
-Made herself the sole authority to approve spending
-Spends $6,500 per week on armed security
-Spent $24,000 on restaurant meals in one year
-Leased a $149,000 Tahoe for herself
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 03:43 PM (Odg76)

Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump them numbers up, girl.

Posted by: Fmr Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner at December 05, 2024 03:52 PM (Aqu9a)

74
It's over. The communist public unions have control of the courts and are now in a no work - retire at full benefits or we take all your money by RULE OF LAW.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2024 03:52 PM (j4U/Z)

75 How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)

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Those spinner wheels ain't cheap.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2024 03:52 PM (2UnvF)

76 Really hoping the new DOJ has a robust public corruption unit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2024 03:50 PM (2UnvF)

we used to call that "Illinois Term Limits" as being convicted of corruption makes you ineligible for election in the state. CA has no such law.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2024 03:52 PM (n7h9X)

77 I also like the firefighter and police officer scams.

Firefighters get the union to mandate no more that 4 days on as full time.
Then they get a job in another fire department for the other days.
7 days a week, mostly sitting on their ass getting paid. Double vacation days; double pension.

And our brave men in blue. Kicking it part time as "security" at private events. Or as funeral or over-sized load escorts. In their uniform, wearing their badge, using the police equipment. But getting paid by the business.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 03:53 PM (rNE21)

78 This sounds like the first part of one of those Hallmark Christmas Specials.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (dIske)

79 I grew up in the town next to Thorton, it was not then, and is not now "mostly black."

Posted by: Build your own damn stadium!!! at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (lNr8Q)

80 62 It drives me nuts when a Dem NPC voter says that a Dem pol "cares about the little guy."
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (gUzGB)

=======

Base assumption:

Politician = gutter trash.

You'll see a lot clearer with that as part of your firmware.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

81 Just in:

Arson attack in Melbourne synagogue, with people inside. One with serious injuries.

Probably Australian MAGA supporters.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (uxCna)

82 3/4 of the city is a giant quary. It’s weird that it’s even an incorporated city. It’s like it was specifically created for graft.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (SsUR/)

the quarry workers need some place to live.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (n7h9X)

83 Having seen how a town is run, I can't think of any place where there isn't corruption when elected people are involved.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (lTGtQ)

84 81 Just in:

Arson attack in Melbourne synagogue, with people inside. One with serious injuries.

Probably Australian MAGA supporters.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (uxCna)

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Mad about the passage of the ACA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

85 How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)
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Those spinner wheels ain't cheap.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
.......

especially the gold-plated ones.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2024 03:55 PM (v0R5T)

86 A lot of the black community nurses a sense of aggrieved entitlement, that it is owed. So this kind of corruption doesn't register as anything other than black folks taking what is theirs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 05, 2024 03:39 PM (gBv1i)
__________________

This is the core of the problem. Blacks taking up a position seem to default to thinking that that is a license to do whatever they want - enrich themselves, push money toward their friends/families, pursue political enemies, harass whites generally, shamelessly favor black criminals, whatever - with no regard for law, rules, or common decency.

See, e.g., Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Kim Foxx, and Kim Gardener, to name a few off the top of my head.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

87 -Used $560,000 of taxpayer money to repave her mom's driveway

I'm sure no kickbacks were involved...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2024 03:55 PM (uxCna)

88 At a recent food box giveaway for Thanksgiving, associates of Mayor Henyard (aka her goons) walked off with 14 turkeys and 12 hams.

Allegedly.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 03:55 PM (Aqu9a)

89 Thirteen months after the first WGN Investigates report on questionable spending by south suburban politician Tiffany Henyard, it appears she has been forced off the ballot.

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nee Tiffany Cornbread, amirite?

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 03:56 PM (wakyH)

90 >>>>Who doesn't love Canadian Bacon or Cowboy Pillows...
https://tinyurl.com/ytr7v6sd
Posted by: Mister Ghost at December 05, 2024 03:50 PM (TGPs7)
*******
Alright, I was wrong about not annexing Canada. But Ontario, Quebec City and Montreal are out of the deal.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 05, 2024 03:57 PM (nNmjv)

91 See, e.g., Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Kim Foxx, and Kim Gardener, to name a few off the top of my head.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Who was that mayor of Baltimore who had some book scam?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)

92 A friend of mine ran for State Senate as a GOP.
He lost.
He told me that he learned that the worst people go into politics.
And if the people going into state/local politics are bad, can you imagine how horrible the people going into national politics are?
It drives me nuts when a Dem NPC voter says that a Dem pol "cares about the little guy."

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 05, 2024 03:48 PM (gUzGB)

The only guy I've known to say he wanted to go into politics was a useless idiot nepot. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can do neither and are otherwise irredeemable go into politics.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2024 03:57 PM (i24o9)

93 -Used $560,000 of taxpayer money to repave her mom's driveway
-Made herself the sole authority to approve spending
-Spends $6,500 per week on armed security
-Spent $24,000 on restaurant meals in one year
-Leased a $149,000 Tahoe for herself
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 03:43 PM (Odg76)

That's half a million $1 bills, and $60,000 for the Gorilla Glue to stick them to the ground.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2024 03:58 PM (UHhgC)

94 Does anyone here believe the new mayor will be any less corrupt than the old mayor?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 03:39 PM (rNE21)

The hope is they are out of practice and will have to work up to $500000 driveways.

I also imagine a lot of the stolen money is federal money

Posted by: Oldcat at December 05, 2024 03:59 PM (n7h9X)

95 > Did her mother have a three mile driveway? How.
could it cost over $500, 000 dollars?

I couldn't find details. I'm assuming a lot of that is not the real cost of the driveway. I did find a reaction video that contains video from the town council meeting where a council member talks about the payment and has a copy of the check signed by Henyard.

https://youtu.be/TgiCLmPC2DU

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 03:59 PM (Odg76)

96 See, e.g., Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Kim Foxx, and Kim Gardener, to name a few off the top of my head.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Who was that mayor of Baltimore who had some book scam?

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)
_____________

Yeah, I was trying to recall her name too. I also omitted Kwame Kilpatrick from that list. I'm sure others will come to mind with time.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 03:59 PM (YqDXo)

97 Bitch set me up!!!!

Posted by: Marion Barry at December 05, 2024 03:59 PM (dIske)

98 I also imagine a lot of the stolen money is federal money

Posted by: Oldcat

That stuff is free. They just print what they need.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (lTGtQ)

99 See, e.g., Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Kim Foxx, and Kim Gardener, to name a few off the top of my head.-----
See also black athletes.
It's crazy how they think they are required to support their whole families.
And "give back" to the community.
You have 5 years at average to make your money and you're carrying a thousand ticks?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (rNE21)

100 How are any of these actually different ?

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might leave the U.S. after Trump win

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might jump off of bridge after Trump win

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might be the cause of Climate Change

... they all use "might" so they are pretty much the same

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

101 How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)
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Those spinner wheels ain't cheap.
Posted by: Duke Lowell
.......

especially the gold-plated ones.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2024 03:55 PM (v0R5T)

It's the Illinois winters. She took the undercoating option, the deluxe floormats, and a set of winter tires. Also a heated garage to store the accessories.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (Aqu9a)

102 And her salary is only one of her streams of revenue. Don't forget, she's also stealing them blind.

--------------

Qualifying her for addition to the short list of Gruesome Newscum's 2028 potential VP picks.

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:01 PM (wakyH)

103 100 How are any of these actually different ?

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might leave the U.S. after Trump win

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might jump off of bridge after Trump win

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might be the cause of Climate Change

... they all use "might" so they are pretty much the same
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

======

I think Musk has implied that Hoffman is on the Epstein client list.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

104 See, e.g., Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Kim Foxx, and Kim Gardener, to name a few off the top of my head.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......

oddly familiar looking bunch.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2024 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

105 It's only like getting foty acres and a mule and suppotin' the chilluns. And a leased Bentley.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2024 04:01 PM (gm9Sb)

106 Poking around the internet, there are a lot of claims of malfeasance by Henyard.

-Used $560,000 of taxpayer money to repave her mom's driveway
-Made herself the sole authority to approve spending
-Spends $6,500 per week on armed security
-Spent $24,000 on restaurant meals in one year
-Leased a $149,000 Tahoe for herself

==

Sounds like the thief needs to be charged with crimes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (qBdHI)

107 You know a lot of this blatant corruption is because of Covid funds.

They basically came with no strings, no accountability.

You're about to see a whole shitload of cities with major budget shortfalls.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (rNE21)

108 LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might be the cause of Climate Change

... they all use "might" so they are pretty much the same
Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (RHGPo)

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I think Musk has implied that Hoffman is on the Epstein clien tlist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might be fucking kids.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (i24o9)

109 Bitch set me up!!!!
Posted by: Marion Barry

Ah yes, the patron saint of corrupt Black politicians.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (v6JzV)

110 Used $560,000 of taxpayer money to repave her mom's driveway

Posted by: bonhomme
__________

What, exactly, did they pass it off as? Surely it was like a quarter mile access road or something with only her mom's house off of it.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (Dm8we)

111 They can easily be getting like 250k+ in pension payments when all is said and done.
Buys a nice place in FL and even a little boat too.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at December 05, 2024 03:44 PM (gUzGB)

AOP's Iron Law for pensions: no double-dipping, ever. You get the full rate for the last position held, as long as it was held for at least 50% of the duration of the longest position held. Failing that, you get pensioned at the rate for the longest position held. Full stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (UHhgC)

112 Y’all holdin’ people back.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (jgmnb)

113 It's crazy how they think they are required to support their whole families.
And "give back" to the community.
You have 5 years at average to make your money and you're carrying a thousand ticks?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:00 PM (rNE21)
_______________

I've read that that is also the custom in Africa itself. Anyone who meets with any success is expected to pull the wagon while everybody and his brother climbs into it for the ride.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

114 See, e.g., Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Kim Foxx, and Kim Gardener, to name a few off the top of my head.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......

oddly familiar looking bunch.

----
Interesting how they all will sell their soul (and R+B) for a handful of dollars

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

115 Catherine Pugh was the Baltimore mayor and Marilyn Mosby was the State AG charged with corruption.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 05, 2024 04:03 PM (gGMRM)

116 107 You know a lot of this blatant corruption is because of Covid funds.

They basically came with no strings, no accountability.

You're about to see a whole shitload of cities with major budget shortfalls.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (rNE21)

========

"You were supposed to buy plastic dividers. Instead you...bought a pool for every administrator in the school."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

117 Catherine Pugh was the Baltimore mayor and Marilyn Mosby was the State AG charged with corruption.
Posted by: Ben Had

Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:04 PM (v6JzV)

118 Don't forget the one of the greatest Democrat mayors:
Marion Berry.

"you didn't see me on that video smoking crack--bitch set me up!"

And they re-elected him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:04 PM (rNE21)

119 How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?
Posted by: JackStraw

Armoring stock vehicles is expensive. Upgraded suspension, crate engine, armored panels, BP glass, run-flats.... Yeah, you could get there if you really tried.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2024 04:04 PM (IG4Id)

120 Illinois has been corrupt for so long that I start to wonder if we can really blame the voters for this.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 05, 2024 03:36 PM (aD39U)

💡

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2024 04:04 PM (QTCRF)

121 I think Musk has implied that Hoffman is on the Epstein client list.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

His pronouns are: him/young

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:04 PM (lTGtQ)

122 News reporter's name in that video clip is Jermont.

Is that a portmanteau of Jerry and Lamont?

"Jermont, you Big Dummy!"

/Yeah, I know, don't give Ace any ideas ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:05 PM (wakyH)

123 You know a lot of this blatant corruption is because of Covid funds.

They basically came with no strings, no accountability.

You're about to see a whole shitload of cities with major budget shortfalls.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:02 PM (rNE21)
_______________

That would explain Tacoma's claim that it's facing a looming budget shortfall.

When things are bad, just think "this too shall pass."

Of course, when things are good, think "THIS too shall pass."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 04:05 PM (YqDXo)

124 119 spinner rims. Rented. Places do dat.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 05, 2024 04:05 PM (gm9Sb)

125 LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman might have eaten all of those 155,00 unaccompanied alien kids lost by Alejandro Mayorkas.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 04:06 PM (RHGPo)

126 118 Don't forget the one of the greatest Democrat mayors:
Marion Berry.

"you didn't see me on that video smoking crack--bitch set me up!"

And they re-elected him.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2024 04:04 PM (rNE21)

=======

I wouldn't vote for Marion Berry.

But I would vote for Matt Berry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

127 The politics of Joy.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2024 04:07 PM (fV+MH)

128 It gets better:

Tiffany and her married live-in boyfriend have been sued for eviction from their rental love shack for non-payment of rent. She makes over $250k combined between her 2 part time jobs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 04:08 PM (Aqu9a)

129 Amazing the DoJ hasn’t gotten involved. Oh right…

Posted by: Lizzy at December 05, 2024 04:08 PM (Hkcdp)

130 What are the chances Nancy Pelosi purchased $250,000 of Palo Alto Networks on the same day there was a cybersecurity breach at United Healthcare?

Then she makes big money when that is one of the companies tasked with investigating what happened.

Then the person who would be able to expose her likely criminal activity was assassinated outside his hotel today. What a coincidence! Right before the Trump DOJ would have a chance to investigate everything.

Posted by: SMOD at December 05, 2024 04:09 PM (RHGPo)

131 NC sheriff's deputies stole key start generators that were slated to go to disabled victims who couldn't use a pull start. When they were confronted about the missing generators, they claimed they delivered the generators, but refused to say where or even identify themselves. They threatened to arrest the people who were trying to find out where the generators went.

http://tiny.cc/9udzzz

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2024 04:09 PM (Odg76)

132 I grew up in the town next to Thorton, it was not then, and is not now "mostly black."

2020 census
Thorton Township 14.11% White, 69.94% African American, 15.19% Hispanic

Village of Thorton 55,53% White, 23.13% African American, 18.52% Hispanic; down from 93% White in 2000

Posted by: Chuck C at December 05, 2024 04:09 PM (yOPBE)

133 >>And her salary is only one of her streams of revenue. Don't forget, she's also stealing them blind.

Remember, billions of dollars are raised and spent to win election for a job that, on paper, pay a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2024 04:10 PM (XV/Pl)

134 It gets better:

Tiffany and her married live-in boyfriend have been sued for eviction from their rental love shack for non-payment of rent. She makes over $250k combined between her 2 part time jobs.
Posted by: Count de Monet
.......

She's living with Hunter?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2024 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

135 133 Remember, billions of dollars are raised and spent to win election for a job that, on paper, pay a couple of hundred thousand dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2024 04:10 PM (XV/Pl)

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"And only the pure of heart do it on our side!"
-partisans

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

136 119 How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?
Posted by: JackStraw

Armoring stock vehicles is expensive. Upgraded suspension, crate engine, armored panels, BP glass, run-flats.... Yeah, you could get there if you really tried.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
---

Or you could buy a Tesla Truck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 05, 2024 04:11 PM (fRIwc)

137 How much bling would you have to throw on a Tahoe to get the price to $149,000?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)

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It came with a very expensive handgun and cannoli.

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (/Me05)

138 There are certain selections for elected office that seem to be fundamentally un-serious.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (TN0g+)

139 I grew up in the town next to Thorton, it was not then, and is not now "mostly black."
Posted by: Build your own damn stadium!!! at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (lNr8Q)

then what is it ? are demographics @132 correct ? or is it a different little town ?

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (QTCRF)

140 The fact they held a caucus instead of a primary, tells me the primary voters would have reelected her.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (UWRAE)

141 "I wouldn't vote for Marion B[a]rry."

Years ago I asked my mother why he kept getting reelected -- there was a guy named Sterling Tucker who was a decent candidate. My mother said that when constituents called in needing potholes fixed, Barry got 'em fixed quick. Also, before he got into drug and hooker shenanigans actually had a fairly admirable resume.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (KAi1n)

142 141 Years ago I asked my mother why he kept getting reelected -- there was a guy named Sterling Tucker who was a decent candidate. My mother said that when constituents called in needing potholes fixed, Barry got 'em fixed quick. Also, before he got into drug and hooker shenanigans actually had a fairly admirable resume.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (KAi1n)

========

Constituent services buys a lot of loyalty.

People like Lindsay Graham understand this well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

143 Amazing the DoJ hasn’t gotten involved. Oh right…

Posted by: Lizzy

They are investigating the people complaining.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:13 PM (lTGtQ)

144 I wouldn't vote for Marion Berry.

But I would vote for Matt Berry.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:06 PM (GBKbO)
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"Just think, when we first met - you were worried because you were from Iran"

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 05, 2024 04:14 PM (ggOdn)

145 OT:

I am looking forward to Trump's visit to Notre Dame this weekend. I wonder if any other countries will beg him to be their president, too? LOL

Posted by: jmel at December 05, 2024 04:14 PM (bVhJi)

146 144 "Just think, when we first met - you were worried because you were from Iran"
Posted by: jhawk90 at December 05, 2024 04:14 PM (ggOdn)

==========

FATHER!!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

147 Damn. I'm a Virginia notary. Got to figure out how to make some bank off of that position.

I'm only allowed to charge $5 for a notarization, but where there's a will, there's a way!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:14 PM (v6JzV)

148 Old Wisdom: Don't stick your dick in crazy
New Wisdom: Don't vote ratchet
Future Wisdom: Get the fuCk out of Illinois

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 05, 2024 04:15 PM (wBaIH)

149 The fact they held a caucus instead of a primary, tells me the primary voters would have reelected her.
Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 05, 2024 04:12 PM (UWRAE)

OR , it is more difficult to cheat in a caucus - no phantom votes and ballots, have to show up in person.

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2024 04:15 PM (QTCRF)

150 It gets better:

Tiffany and her married live-in boyfriend have been sued for eviction from their rental love shack for non-payment of rent. She makes over $250k combined between her 2 part time jobs.
Posted by: Count de Monet
.......

She's living with Hunter?
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2024 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

--------------

Anybody ever find Darius "Sweetdick" Honeycum?

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:15 PM (/Me05)

151 "Just think, when we first met - you were worried because you were from Iran"

lololololololol!

btw from that show I went to Moone Boy and it is fantastic!!! more family friendly but still so funny

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2024 04:16 PM (Pv3Rg)

152 Constituents should call up Lindsey and tell him straighten up ---
as in get on the Trump train or stfu.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 05, 2024 04:16 PM (fRIwc)

153 My mother said that when constituents called in needing potholes fixed, Barry got 'em fixed quick.

Yes, I've read that about Barry as well. He was actually competent as a member of the DC Council.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:16 PM (v6JzV)

154 Sen. Joni Ernst, who is reportedly lobbying to replace Hegseth as Trump's SecDef nominee, supports the transing of the military and requiring women to be eligible for the draft. Not entirely surprising she prefers the status quo to Pete Hegseth.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 5, 2024

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 05, 2024 04:16 PM (V6W16)

155 149 Posted by: runner at December 05, 2024 04:15 PM (QTCRF)

*or* it was done as poetic justice for her locking her foes out of meeting at the township and the town council both....

SOOPA-MAYA!

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2024 04:16 PM (X0I7i)

156 Meanwhile in NYC we have some assholes on that Penny jury that want to convict, and the good people cannot get them to agree.

Janine Pirro on FNC's The Five said yesterday the requests the jury made that day for transcripts of testimony, that the jury was digging into exactly what they should be doing, highlighting the questionable cause-of-death findings.

Three full days of deliberation and no verdict indicates somebody is trying to hang it, likely some racist black, and the good jurors do not want to declare hang and are trying to beat up the stupe or stupes with facts.

But the stupes have feelings. Racism feelings.

Fucking mess.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 05, 2024 04:17 PM (KiBMU)

157 They engineered the caucus to freeze her out. Time, place, rules, all of it. And it worked!

The caucus took 7 minutes from start to finish.

Primary voting would have taken the better part of a month.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 04:17 PM (Aqu9a)

158 lololololololol!

btw from that show I went to Moone Boy and it is fantastic!!! more family friendly but still so funny
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 05, 2024 04:16 PM (Pv3Rg)
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I went from that to Toast which...isn't lol

"Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango!"

Posted by: jhawk90 at December 05, 2024 04:17 PM (ggOdn)

159 Read Barry's wiki page. It's quite interesting.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2024 04:17 PM (KAi1n)

160 Meanwhile in NYC we have some assholes on that Penny jury that want to convict, and the good people cannot get them to agree.
_________________

Penny is lucky he's not being tried in Minneapolis, or he would be Derek Chauvin's cellie.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

161 118 Don't forget the one of the greatest Democrat mayors:
Marion Berry.

"you didn't see me on that video smoking crack--bitch set me up!"

And they re-elected him.
----------------
He was a lot better than Muriel Bowser

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 04:19 PM (jFCkp)

162 Damn. I'm a Virginia notary. Got to figure out how to make some bank off of that position.

I'm only allowed to charge $5 for a notarization, but where there's a will, there's a way!

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:14 PM (v6JzV)

----------------

Online AI Notary Bot FTW!

/My wife can write the app ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:19 PM (FMZCR)

163 154 Sen. Joni Ernst, who is reportedly lobbying to replace Hegseth as Trump's SecDef nominee, supports the transing of the military and requiring women to be eligible for the draft. Not entirely surprising she prefers the status quo to Pete Hegseth.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 5, 2024
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes
---

Now we know why she really wanted to castrate those hogs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 05, 2024 04:19 PM (fRIwc)

164 "requiring women to be eligible for the draft"

They should be. Plenty of military jobs that don't put women anywhere near close combat. Drone operators, supply, mechanics, rear signal, etc.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2024 04:19 PM (KAi1n)

165 He was a lot better than Muriel Bowser
Posted by: Pudinhead

Vince Gray was as corrupt as the rest of him, but I thought he was a decent mayor.

Anthony Williams, too.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

166 Saw yesterday on my Google news a Pennsylvania local official pocketed 1/2 a Million in taxes.

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2024 04:21 PM (fwDg9)

167 *as the rest of them*

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:21 PM (v6JzV)

168 I think Muriel Bowser's cute, though.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:22 PM (v6JzV)

169 163 154 Sen. Joni Ernst, who is reportedly lobbying to replace Hegseth as Trump's SecDef nominee

Nope.. Never liked her

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2024 04:22 PM (IyPmt)

170 YASSS
SLAYYYY
KWEEN n.nnn…???

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2024 04:23 PM (WQbU6)

171 168 I think Muriel Bowser's cute, though.
----------------
You know she's gay married to Donna Bazile, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 04:24 PM (jFCkp)

172 169 163 154 Sen. Joni Ernst, who is reportedly lobbying to replace Hegseth as Trump's SecDef nominee

Nope.. Never liked her
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2024 04:22 PM (IyPmt)

=========

She's one of the reasons I'm so thoroughly cynical about political rhetoric.

Going from "cutting off their balls" to just being another milquetoast GOPe senator in record time.

Her words meant nothing. It taught me something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trying to figure out Joel Schumacher at December 05, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

173 I want to know where in the world Ernst got the idea PDT liked and trusted her enough to be SecDef?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 05, 2024 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

174 I'm gonna love on you and there's nothing you can do about it.

Posted by: Super Mayor Tiffany Henyard at December 05, 2024 04:24 PM (Aqu9a)

175 >>Also, before he got into drug and hooker shenanigans actually had a fairly admirable resume.

It happens.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 04:24 PM (LkLld)

176 The village hire former Chicago mayor Groot to do an investigation of Henyard.
To paraphrase her findings: WTF

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2024 04:25 PM (FxDm7)

177 Sen. Joni Ernst, who is reportedly lobbying to replace Hegseth as Trump's SecDef nominee

Sorry, SecDef should be a man.

Except for Joan of Arc, Boudicca, Elizabeth I, Maggie Thatcher, and our own commenter SMH, war is primarily man's work.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:25 PM (v6JzV)

178 If you think about it, a community with 10,000 houses and a few businesses is taking in $50 million per year just in property taxes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:26 PM (lTGtQ)

179 Hmm, here's an idea: Hire Ernst, allow the Governor to replace Ernst with a real conservative and fire Ernst within minutes of being confirmed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 05, 2024 04:26 PM (tT6L1)

180 YASSS
SLAYYYY
KWEEN n.nnn…???
Posted by: kallisto
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Maybe she can twerk her way out of it.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2024 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

181 I think Muriel Bowser's cute, though.
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You know she's gay married to Donna Bazile, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yes, of course. But attractive lesbians abound: Muriel, KJP, Queen Latifah, Catherine Bell...

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:27 PM (v6JzV)

182 Joni is an inherently unserious name.

Posted by: Chachi at December 05, 2024 04:27 PM (gBv1i)

183 Saw yesterday on my Google news a Pennsylvania local official pocketed 1/2 a Million in taxes.
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2024 04:21 PM (fwDg9)
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There's a reason they call PA a "commonwealth."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2024 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

184 Her words meant nothing. It taught me something.

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She a ho

Ho will do ho things

ho ho ho

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Certified Cranberry Sauce and Keto Stuffing Cook at December 05, 2024 04:29 PM (M7vhK)

185 Queen Latifah was gorgeous in Free Willy.

Posted by: Brian Dennehy Played The Ocean at December 05, 2024 04:29 PM (gBv1i)

186 There's a reason they call PA a "commonwealth."
Posted by: San Franpsycho

A Navy acquaintance of mine once referred to "the Communistwealth of Virginia."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:30 PM (v6JzV)

187 Washington D.C. has the most Black millionaires in the United States. Over 25 percent of the city's millionaires are Black.

Factoid.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 04:30 PM (jFCkp)

188 I think Muriel Bowser's cute, though.
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You know she's gay married to Donna Bazile, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Yes, of course. But attractive lesbians abound: Muriel, KJP, Queen Latifah, Catherine Bell...
Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:27 PM (v6JzV)

Olivia Wilde?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 04:30 PM (Aqu9a)

189 Queen Latifah was gorgeous in Free Willy.

Posted by: Brian Dennehy

To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:30 PM (lTGtQ)

190 To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is.
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You don't want to know.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2024 04:31 PM (jFCkp)

191 To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:30 PM (lTGtQ)
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Played "Momma" in "Chicago."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 05, 2024 04:32 PM (tT6L1)

192 To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Very attractive (IMO), though overweight, Black female singer and actress.

She was fantastic in the film version of "Chicago."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:32 PM (v6JzV)

193 For what it's is worth, if there was an ace ofspades city, this is how it would be governed, but with more whorehoues and hobo hunts.

And the women would not have shoes

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:32 PM (8XibL)

194 To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is.
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You don't want to know.

Posted by: Pudinhead

The first time I heard the name, I guessed sub-Saharan royalty from one of those small African nations.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:32 PM (lTGtQ)

195 Queen Latifah was gorgeous in Free Willy.
Posted by: Brian Dennehy

To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:30 PM

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I think he played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and has an affectionate relationship with Chairman "Winnie the Pooh" Xi.

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:33 PM (OpoaD)

196 I want to know where in the world Ernst got the idea PDT liked and trusted her enough to be SecDef?

Could be she just has that much of an ego.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2024 04:33 PM (lUFok)

197 Oh now, she was only doing what Biden would do.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 05, 2024 04:33 PM (d2bW3)

198 How could Queen Latifah leap out of the water over that levee?

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2024 04:33 PM (fwDg9)

199 I see the emergency broadcast had to be a tease by suggesting the California shoreline was going to be wiped out by a tsunami, thus giving us permanent super majority trumpian rule for the rest of our days

I sadness now

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Seeker of Mistletoes Hanging Over Bodacious Wagshambas at December 05, 2024 04:33 PM (M7vhK)

200 To this day I have no idea who Queen Latifah is

She's the current head of the tribe that sold Africans into slavery

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:34 PM (8XibL)

201 Queen Latifah's real name is "Dana Owens," which I think is a very pretty female name.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:34 PM (v6JzV)

202 The first time I heard the name, I guessed sub-Saharan royalty from one of those small African nations.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:32 PM (lTGtQ)

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Like a character in those "Coming to America" films with Eddie Murphy.

Posted by: ShainS -- I heard that James Carville is a Scientologist as well as Pederast at December 05, 2024 04:34 PM (Gwk3C)

203 201 Kinda how like the name "Stephanie Clifford" is a much prettier and feminine name than "Stormy Daniels."

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:36 PM (v6JzV)

204 I want to know where in the world Ernst got the idea PDT liked and trusted her enough to be SecDef?

Could be she just has that much of an ego.

Posted by: Blanco Basura

One would think that after a decade of observation of Trump, the idea that you threaten him in order to have him drop his choice and give you the job would not be on your to-do list.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 05, 2024 04:36 PM (lTGtQ)

205 Some board for Village of Dolton just had a hearing to remove mayoral candidates from the ballot. Can't hear much from the YT video.

https://www.youtube.com/live/x6Bfa_Wix80

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 05, 2024 04:36 PM (Aqu9a)

206
Except for Joan of Arc, Boudicca, Elizabeth I, Maggie Thatcher, and our own commenter SMH, war is primarily man's work.
Posted by: B

Nome of those did much working

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:36 PM (8XibL)

207 So acting head of Secret Service is a drama king...he can't be fired soon enough...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2024 04:36 PM (exHjb)

208 "How could Queen Latifah leap out of the water over that levee?"

You joke, but some idiot cast her as a Chuck-Norrris-in-his-prime crimefighter on a network television show and this country is stupid enough to have kept that horrible television offering on the air for several seasons.

Posted by: Crusader at December 05, 2024 04:37 PM (TN0g+)

209 Not all sub-sea earthquakes will generate a tsunami. If the seabed is thrown up, or thrown down, you will likely get one. If it's just a lateral slide, like much of the movement in Cali and offshore, there will be no great volume of water displaced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 05, 2024 04:37 PM (UHhgC)

210 nood

Chuck

Posted by: banana Dream at December 05, 2024 04:37 PM (TjoGZ)

211 Except for Joan of Arc, Boudicca, Elizabeth I, Maggie Thatcher, and our own commenter SMH, war is primarily man's work.
Posted by: B

Nome of those did much working

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:36 PM (8XibL)
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And the first two came to a sticky end.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 05, 2024 04:38 PM (YqDXo)

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Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Seeker of Mistletoes Hanging Over Bodacious Wagshambas at December 05, 2024 04:33 PM (M7vhK)

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They evacuated my workplace and sent us all home. Bridges over the bays clogged with traffic. People relocating to lower ground. Then the warning was called off almost as soon as we were all more than halfway home. Working offsite now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at December 05, 2024 04:38 PM (86voT)

213 Except for Joan of Arc, Boudicca, Elizabeth I, Maggie Thatcher, and our own commenter SMH, war is primarily man's work.
Posted by: B

Nome of those did much working
Posted by: N

I think Joan led armies in the field. Maybe she didn't come up with the plans of battle, but she was definitely in the fray. She even had her own, specially made suit of armor.

Posted by: Bulg at December 05, 2024 04:38 PM (v6JzV)

214
NOOD Bidenomics ribbed for your Pleasure!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2024 04:39 PM (iJfKG)

215 Not the Bee: DAVID HOGG WANTS TO BECOME THE NEW DNC CHAIR

https://tinyurl.com/y3jmahs8

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 05, 2024 04:39 PM (VNX3d)

216 I think Joan led armies in the field. Maybe she didn't come up with the plans of battle, but she was definitely in the fray. She even had her own, specially made suit of armor.
Posted by: B

Como se dice figurehead

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:39 PM (8XibL)

217 Nood is bad manners

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:39 PM (8XibL)

218 Kamala Harris spent $1.5 billion on her campaign in 3 months and still managed to owe $20 million.

And Kamala Harris will never be president.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2024 04:40 PM (LkLld)

219 The acting SS director actually brought up 9/11 to defend the SS. A bureaucratic goon who should never be near power

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2024 04:40 PM (FxDm7)

220 The acting SS director

Is that oberfuhrer or gruppen fuller?

Posted by: N at December 05, 2024 04:41 PM (8XibL)

221 She's the mayor of Dolton, IL. She was booted from being committeeman of Thornto Township. Townships are how the county (Cook) are divided up

Posted by: Johnny Gondo at December 05, 2024 05:31 PM (LC8+B)

222 139 I grew up in the town next to Thorton, it was not then, and is not now "mostly black."
Posted by: Build your own damn stadium!!! at December 05, 2024 03:54 PM (lNr8Q)

then what is it ? are demographics @132 correct ? or is it a different little town ?

Since leaving IL, I forgot how many gov't layers IL has created. The town of Thornton (that I meant) is less than 3k people and roughly mirrors US demographics. The township of Thornton includes many cities, is a regional sub-county kind of thing, and does have a high black population.

Posted by: Build your own damn stadium!!! at December 05, 2024 05:46 PM (lNr8Q)

223 I don't have pretty much any sympathy for the residents.

She got voted into TWO DIFFERENT mayor spots.

If you were stupid enough to vote for her, you deserve what you get.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 05, 2024 06:00 PM (lCHt6)

224 ..."Unfortunately, somehow this self-styled "gangsta" holds not one but two top positions, one in Thornton and another in nearby Dolton, and she's only off the Thornton ballot."...

Aaah... Hell-Annoy! The Land I fled for greener pastures (IN)!

In the Eastern portion of the US, way back in the day, for land surveying purposes, Territories and States were subdivided into Counties and Counties into Townships. Most of these Townships still exist in many states (in name only), but being the Land of Grift and Politics that it is, IL decided at some point that the Townships would function as an added layer of Government Control, Corruption and Excess. So, if you live there, you have an extra layer of government between the City/Town/Village level and the County level to steal your money and screw with you! Isn't that great?

This crook decided to double dip her beak by getting "elected" at 2 levels of Government at once!

Sorry if this is confusing to most Americans. Illinois is just extra special when it comes to finding new and unique ways to screw the taxpayers!

THE MORE YOU KNOW!...

Posted by: Mr. Right at December 05, 2024 10:27 PM (s3gLo)

225 1/2
"The citizens of Thornton, Illinois had enough of this hoodrat ..., so they organized a caucus to determine the candidates for the town council and voted her off the ballot."

Thornton is not a town. It is a Township. The Land Ordinance of 1785 created a system of surveying the land between the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, the southern boundary of Pennsylvania extended west and the boundary with Canada into 6-mile square districts called Townships. These became public lands owned by the Federal government. A form of government was defined for them and provisions for selling the land were defined. They were divided up into 36 one square mile parcels. Four of those were reserved for future use of the Fed. Gov't, one was reserved to be sold off for the support of a public school, and the rest to be sold to settlers (with especial attention to Revolutionary War veterans).

Here in Illinois they have been mostly superseded by actual towns/villages/cities that have incorporated the land. However, in some areas they still perform some functions (roads and senior citizen services, mostly).

Posted by: RonF at December 06, 2024 06:38 PM (l8nW6)

226 2/2
If you live in one of the States where the land was affected by this you will find that most of your major streets run along boundaries of the 1-square-mile plats in your township.

She is also Mayor of Dolton, a village in that Township. She's still slated for re-election as Mayor; we'll see how that goes. The election will be in April. Illinois separated its municipal elections from the regular biennial Federal/State/County elections years ago.

Posted by: RonF at December 06, 2024 06:43 PM (l8nW6)

227 "Rod Blagojevich is out doing interviews, and I wonder if he is doing "consulting" work since he used to be tops in the Ill Machine and seems the sort to carry a grudge."

He was never tops in the Ill. machine. He was an actual power broker's son-in-law and was a useful idiot. At some point he bought into the illusion that he was in fact tops in the machine. That pissed off his father-in-law who then withdrew his support. He was impeached and removed from office soon thereafter.

Posted by: RonF at December 11, 2024 10:47 AM (l8nW6)

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