Do you like the taxes you pay…

…. for nothing?

Then you must love the way Judy Sigwalt and Paul Humpfer spend your tax dollars!

Between 5/1/05 and 1/31/08, Judy Sigwalt, Paul Humpfer “and friends” have taken approximately $15,000 in tax dollars to pay for legal fees. These fees are related mostly to things that were unconstitutional, unenforceable, unethical, or even unlawful.

The Daily Herald wrote in an editorial on Sunday:

Undaunted, and without board support, Sarto spent more than $20,000 in public funds seeking legal backing.

However, actual examination of the charges finds the statement to be completely wrong. In reality, Sigwalt and Humpfer are the cause for over 70% of that money.

Did they get “board support” for their spending of those “public funds”?  If not, then why are they requiring it of Sarto, even though the expenses are considerably less? 

Seems like a bit of a political double-standard, doesn’t it?

The list of charges can be lumped into the following:

• Illegal Immigration Ordinance — $4,869.50
• English-only Resolution — $3,620.50 (that’s a lot of money for “fluff”)
• Attempts to recall or censure Sarto (in each case, Sarto had done nothing wrong so no action could be taken) — $2,141.
• improper use of Village resources (conference rooms at Fire Station) for campaign activity and meetings with Fox Valley Citizens — $2,493 (An investigation by the Illinois Attorney General’s office is presently underway on a complaint of violations of the Open Meetings Act, and possible ethics violations)

These 4 items alone total $13,124.

How do you like the results of your tax dollars at work…?

Additional fees attributable to Sigwalt and Humpfer, “and Friends”, include:

• $940 — for libel suit threatened against Trustees responsible for writing letter alleging that Tom Roeser knowingly hires illegal immigrants.
• $676.50 — attempting to stop the purchase of the Tamarac property (Note: this purchase settled a lawsuit filed Town and Country Homes; and is being used in a plan for a new Public Works Facility)

(Total: $14,740.50)

Already included in the above immigration ordinance figures, but worth noting is that friends of Sigwalt and Humpfer generated legal costs of $828. Of that figure, $626 was created by someone who isn’t even a resident of Carpentersville!

And, those are just legal costs associated with so-called “controversial issues”. That doesn’t even begin to account for what they have cost the Village by their actions and opinions.

I think Paul and Judy have some ‘splaining to taxpayers to do…

Is this how you deal with Domestic Violence?

Daily Action Report: May 7, 2008

Good morning, New Carpentersville!

Last night was a late night, so this will be relatively short; as I bring you the first edition from … The Twilight Zone.

New Carpentersville is where law breakers get a pass, and law keepers get busted.

At last night’s meeting of the Village Board, in a 5-2 vote, Trustees declared that attacking your wife with a baseball bat isn’t a serious crime in Carpentersville.

According to Trustees Judy Sigwalt, Paul Humpfer, Kay Teeter, Ed Ritter and Keith Hinz, the crime of aggravated battery (commission of battery with a deadly weapon) does not “violate common standards of honesty, decency, and moral turpitude.”

Both the Daily Herald and Courier-News have coverage.

Then, Trustees voted 5-2 in favor of limiting the powers of the Village President to prevent him from saying or doing anything that might lead people to conclude that attacking your wife with a baseball bat isn’t an honest, decent and moral thing to do.

And, finally, Trustees directed the Village Manager and Village Attorney to draw up an ordinance that would remove committee members if they have 3 consecutive meeting absences.

The item was in response to some members of the Audit and Finance Commission having dared make a statement that attacking your wife with a baseball bat is likely not a honest, decent and moral thing to do, by choosing not to attend the commission’s special meeting last week.

Paul Humpfer also announced once again that he plans to return to Carpentersville. Of course, he does. Hammond, IN isn’t the wife-beater-friendly town that Carpentersville is.

Enjoy New Carpentersville. The criminals are.