Those are insane numbers for a town of 20k.If you google her name there’s a long list of sleaze surrounding her.
She hires DJs for town meetings, uses the cops as backup dancers in her music videos (paid for by the town apparently) and has a full time handpicked 6 man security detail from the PD everywhere she goes … including Austin, NYC etc. Flies first class and stays four star.
Her contract says she can have security but it’s supposed to be sourced from cops already on shift, and changed when the shift changes. Instead she uses the same guys all the time.
An FOIA request for security detail records show some of them logging 200hours per two-week pay period, and one claimed 303 hours - there are only 336 hours total in 14 days. Overtime costs have built up to $1M, and the town is in debt $5M.
And if you mention any of this, it’s because your “against black women in power”.
This is a town of 20,000 people. Apparently they were thrilled when they elected the youngest mayor ever. They’re not so thrilled now.
Elections have consequences said a famous community activist from Chicago, of which this town is a suburb.
@amboy49Thankfully the mayor chose not to run for re-election and we now have a new mayor that will be a little more level headed.
You are right, I had friends there 30 + years ago. Quiet suburb, mostly working class people. Pretty sure the gun shop was called Chucks. We would stop by restaurants and stores, never once felt danger.My cousins grew up in Dolton, in the 60's and 70's it was as perfect a place to grow up as Mayberry. We spent days in open fields riding our bikes and shooting BB guns. It was growing like crazy as the fields were being built into subdivisions. Like a lightswitch my Aunt and Uncle had to get out in the 90's as the demographics changed. It was run by the infamous Shaw brothers for years and as time went by they has lots of legal troubles and scandals. Harvey next door had Donald Kellog as mayor for years with one scandal after another and I believe he ended up in jail or died before he could be locked up. After seeing what happened with the other scandalous politicians it is all the more perplexing to me why she thought she could somehow get away with all this.
Charities have to follow a LOT of laws.
But people seem to think, you can just throw up a sign, and it's 'free money'.
They’re starting to care, now that they’re $5M in the hole and counting.I remember all the news coverage about her music ads or such for personal stuff but apparently they don't care or something in that place.
You forgot a "glitch" in their accounting software that prevented them from actually knowing how much money they had. And I think it went on for over 6 months?Sad, but not entirely surprising, the town I live in Indiana just went thru 4 years of a democrat mayor that didn't show up to town council meetings. She tried to fire the fire chief and lost two court battles costing tens of thousand s of public dollars to pay an attorney and didn't get it done.
The state board of accounts did an annual review of the town's finances and discovered multiple questionable issues and stated some were even likely illegal. There were a multitude of other issues that arose, but none to the point that the mayor was officially charged with any wrongdoing.
There is no legal method to relieve a mayor of their duties in Indiana unless they are charged and convicted of a crime.
Thankfully the mayor chose not to run for re-election and we now have a new mayor that will be a little more level headed.
She be fightin’ back!
TLDR: two hours after Chicago news station live interviews a couple bars that were having trouble renewing their licenses (and coincidentally had not contributed any money to Henyard’s campaign) the Dolton police show up and shut down the bars.
One of the complaints floating around town is that any business that doesn’t contribute to Henyard’s campaign is suddenly finding their business license suspended or not renewed.
This is like an old western movie, when some corrupt butthole comes in and takes over the town.If you google her name there’s a long list of sleaze surrounding her.
She hires DJs for town meetings, uses the cops as backup dancers in her music videos (paid for by the town apparently) and has a full time handpicked 6 man security detail from the PD everywhere she goes … including Austin, NYC etc. Flies first class and stays four star.
Her contract says she can have security but it’s supposed to be sourced from cops already on shift, and changed when the shift changes. Instead she uses the same guys all the time.
An FOIA request for security detail records show some of them logging 200hours per two-week pay period, and one claimed 303 hours - there are only 336 hours total in 14 days. Overtime costs have built up to $1M, and the town is in debt $5M.
And if you mention any of this, it’s because your “against black women in power”.
This is a town of 20,000 people. Apparently they were thrilled when they elected the youngest mayor ever. They’re not so thrilled now.
Elections have consequences said a famous community activist from Chicago, of which this town is a suburb.