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I’d mentioned in my last posting that the team of “Ritter, Teeter, Schultz and McFeggan” were the team of empty promises. There are several good reasons why I say this, and why I think that voters need to take a pass on what Judy Sigwalt referred to as the “Carpentersville Cares” team, in her endorsement of these candidates.
The “Cares” team is part of a group that made promises before the 2007 election — and held this Village hostage with their antics, some of which violated local and state ordinances/statutes — only to break those promises after they were back in office.
Today, I’ll remind voters of what was promised before the 2007 election, and what happened after the election.
You likely recall that the team of Sigwalt, <a href=”Humpfer and Hinz dubbed themselves “The All-American Team”. They promised to take on illegal immigrants in the Village of Carpentersville. But, their campaign really started in September 2006, when they began to talk about unpaid ambulance bills and their opinion that those unpaid bills were due to illegal Hispanic immigrants.
When Sigwalt and Humpfer tried to bring an ordinance forward, President Bill Sarto immediately cautioned that passage of such an ordinance would result in a lawsuit.
This was proven out by the fact that other communities trying to pass similar ordinances were being sued. Some, like Hazelton, PA, which the proposed Carpentersville ordinance was modeled after, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to fight the suit.
Still, knowing the strong likelihood of the Village being sued if they passed this ordinance, Sigwalt and Humpfer continued. They met with a small group of residents and non-residents, and even other members of the Board and committees, in an attempt to press on. They even violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act (and prompted a letter of caution from the Illinois Attorney General’s office), and engaged in misappropriation of Village property.
For months they dismissed any concern of the Village being sued, and even said they’d gladly fight a lawsuit when it came.
Clearly they didn’t care about the jeopardy they were putting Village in, nor did they care about the people of Carpentersville. They continued to promise the voters that, if they voted for them, they would pass this ordinance, without mentioning any possibility of lawsuit — even though they were certainly aware of it.
Only when they had won re-election did they finally shut up about illegal immigration. At three separate meetings, they were given an opportunity to discuss it, and they refused.
They abandoned the voters to whom they had promised the illegal immigration ordinance. Their only care had obviously been “four more years” in office.
They now say that they don’t want the Village to get sued, but for those 6 months leading to the election, they accepted the threat of a lawsuit — even welcomed the challenge. Because of the months of their discriminatory talk and divisiveness, the Village has been sued — over failure to put a Hispanic child in an ambulance and transport him to the hospital, when they were saying that unpaid ambulance fees were a result of illegal Hispanic immigrants.
This was something that President Sarto warned about from the very moment the “All American Team” raised it. But, the “All American Team” had an election to win. Once they won, however, they abandoned it …
… just as Ed Ritter, Kay Teeter, Patricia “Pat” Schultz and Brad McFeggan will break any promises they make in this election.
You know what they say, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
Next up, I’ll talk about the “respect” they are now boasting about in their campaign.
Mr. Danahey, new reporter on the Carpentersville beat, might want to hold off a little bit before uploading certain stories to the Courier News web site …
Approximately 4pm today, he posted this story announcing the launch of a campaign web site for Carpentersville Village President candidate, Jim Krenz.
The short article said that Krenz’s site would be up by 5pm today. However, as of the writing of this entry (10:30pm), attempts to reach the site were unsuccessful.
Welcome to the party, Mike.
The following is a press release from Robert Lee, candidate fo District 300 school board:
EAST DUNDEE – Robert Lee, candidate for District 300 school board, highlighted his efforts to incorporate new web based technologies into his campaign. He released a YouTube video in the hopes of communicating to more voters directly before the April 7, 2009 election, and plans to release more in the coming weeks.
“Before the holiday, the Policy Committee discussed the use of technology in the classroom. It made me realize how little I know about it,” Lee said. “I decided to incorporate that technology into my campaign to both communicate with the community better and educate myself about its potential.”
Lee continued that the Policy Committee’s discussion included a detailed presentation by the technology staff of the district, which helped to spur his interest into different technologies available. Additionally, Monday night’s board meeting saw a presentation directly from students on the power of web based technologies in the classroom.
“Incorporating these simple and widely available technologies opens up tremendous opportunity for the school district. We could literally broadcast public meetings to the entire community to view at their leisure, and the utility in the classroom is obviously invaluable. Most importantly, these technologies are of minimal cost, helping the district to do more with less money.”
In the coming weeks, Lee plans to release more videos about why he’s running for District 300 and the issues important to his campaign. He encourages people to use the same tools to communicate with him about
the issues, as well. Lee hopes to incorporate all his videos on his website soon. In the meantime, he said community members can visit http://www.youtube.com/leeforillinois.
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