Sigwalt is a uniter?

If one reads the reactions of residents in the local news articles, one quickly discovers that the useless resolution passed on Tuesday night has divided the community. Attend or watch any Village Board meeting and you’ll see both a town and a Board divided.But, don’t tell that to Trustee Sigwalt.

Trustee Judy Sigwalt [said] Sarto has lost touch with how to unite the community.

Wow! Again, I just have to shake my head and ask: Really? Sarto is the one who has “lost touch with how to unite the community”? Really?!

Shortly after the his election, the Daily Herald was praising Sarto’s work at uniting a Board that was often contentious, and which the Courier News said has made much progress — until the immigration ordinance was put out there at the hands of Sigwalt and Humpfer.

Although the village board rarely has been as rancorous as it has been during Sarto’s tenure, it also has made a lot of headway during the past two years. It has updated and expanded the village’s nearly 10-year-old comprehensive plan and put money into repairing and maintaining its roads for the first time in decades. The beautification committee started shortly after he took office, and the village is almost finished updating its building and zoning codes, an often meandering list that critics said foiled and frustrated developers for the past 30 years.

Part of the rancor is the different opinions of the right direction for the Village. Obviously, since the Village is moving forward, those debates are not fruitless. But, the immigration ordinances have been nothing but contentious … and have divided the community.

That division is the work of a “uniter” like Sigwalt.

“This resolution makes a statement that says if you come to America and make America your new home, you should learn the English language”.

Remember that stock boy from the Mexican supermarket that I mentioned in one of yesterday’s entries? He mentioned his father’s attempts to learn English…

His father took two years of English lessons in Crystal Lake, he said, but had to quit because his two jobs left him little time to attend class.

I’m guessing that if its between learning English and being able to eat, any rational person is going to choose eating.

“We have to start somewhere to bring back the old days when this country was strong and united. It’s not like that anymore.”

Oh, you mean like in the 60s? You know, when there were war protests and civil rights marches? Is that what you mean? Or maybe you mean the 30s and 40s when we resolved to stay out of the war, until we got attacked? Or perhaps the poverty of the Great Depression? Maybe you mean the 70s? Watergate, presidential resignation/impeachment, gas shortages, the Iran hostage crisis? Ok … I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you mean the 50s… not a bad time, although it was bookended by war.

Face it. The world’s changed. Some things are good and some things are not. But you can’t legislate based on nostalgia.

Who the heck is this guy?

I’ve been hearing a lot of questions already … “Who the heck is this guy?”And, as I mentioned in my intro post, I’m not telling.

I’m not “chicken” or a “coward”. Rather, I want the focus to be on what is written and presented. Not accepted or dismissed based on who I am or who I know.

You can speculate all you want as to my identity, but I am neither going to confirm nor deny such speculation.

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