Ollie should also drop out. Someone please run against him. Does Desmond live in Oak Lawn ?Anyone running should be required to live in Oak Lawn.

Good riddance, Phelan.

The farce in this article is Olejniczak, Duhig, Phelan calling themselves independent. They are about as independent as Moe, Larry and Curly. They come in a set, and they are joined at the hip and all equally full of themselves and full of crap.

Carberry, " former 36th District state representative and currently services as the deputy director of acilities management for Cook County" MUST be an independent with no ties or allegiance to anybody. Yeah, right.

Sandra Bury is a uni-dimensional candidate. Her thing is (1) Dave is evil, and (2) I'm not Dave. Brilliant. She is big on the whole shop Oak lawn thing, though, since she owns a business. Tim Desmond going to be pushing shop Oak Lawn thing? When they say a Bury campaign release, is that more authored by Tphelan? This next election should be interesting to say the least.

Glad someone is running for 1st district. As of now Jack Desmond has my vote. I attended a meeting where Dave H. presented candidates to replace Jerry and asked for our opinion. Cindy Trautsch was NOT one of those people and nothing I read explained why she was the most qualified . So far, I have not seen her do anything memorable other than be quite (which may be an accomplishment). Also as a resident of the 1st district, I have never met her, heard of her reaching out to residents of Dist1. I tried to contact he and the web site did not have an alternate contact number (cell) and voice mail was never returned. She strikes me as disengaged and too busy --gee lets make the meetings shorter so I can get home and do what I really need to do. In private industry someone who is temporarily holding a position and REALLY wants the job will work very hard to prove they are worthy and contributing.. Showing up at the board meetings, not engaging with the people you serve and not being available does not demonstrate a drive or passion for the job-in my opinion. Also, clearly the current board is not working together for the good of Oak Lawn. Good or bad, I say vote out all the incumbents and start over. If the new candidates prove to be no better incumbents can run again. Oh...and send them all to the best team building camp we can find and a couple of "play nice" seminars before the 1st board meeting.

HMMMM

Isn't Mike Carberry the same guy who filled the 36th Districty seat for 6 months, only to get a $90K a year job with the county for his efforts? I wonder what HIS agenda is for District 6 or will he be working for Phelan?

Christy,
Your thinking is really on the money. The best thing to happen in this coming electionis to vote out all the incumbents. They are like little kids arguing ith their toys. We need some fresh blood that can get along for the good of our town. We used to have some input when Ernie and his side were in control. All the trustees only worry about their selves and their bragging rights.
Our family has lived in Oak Lawn since the mid 1940's and after we were married we bought our home in 1973. I have 7 brothers and sisters who all live in our town plus many aunts and uncles, cousins and inlaws. We are all getting tired of the fighting and coniving and will vote to any new people that will promise to work together for the betterment of our town.

Quote from above: “It’s time to put an end to insider deals for special interests – for lawyers, hospitals, family members, and the like,” Duhig said, who works in the court services division of the Cook County Sheriff’s office." Without even going into the patronage it takes to work for the sheriff, let's review, shall we?

Insider deals like ... oh, let's see...the Querrey & Harrow deal to your buddy's buddy Stillman, that you voted for. Like the $25,000 to Odelson & Sterk for a bogus "investigation" of the former attorneys, obviously intended to take a shot at the mayor? Like the $500,000 to Phelan's Wisconsin law firm buddies at Godfrey & Kahn to further "investigate" the former attorneys.

Look, Mr. Duhig, wake up! Literally. Phelan has stated out loud that his number one goal in life is "to take down Dave Heilmann." This is the kind of guy you hang with? There's a life's dream. But wait! There's more! You hang with another guy who solves his problems with another trustee by punching him out. Maybe the label Three Stooges is the right one. So, Carberry would be Shemp?

Great news!! I love how someone complains about trustees not being independent, and then says nothing about the farcical Mayor's " independence " party?? Like they won't due what he says?? We saw how the Mayor's last party ended up.. They all left him. Can't wait till April

Really Andy? You didn't know about all of this? Did Tom stop quickly and you fell out the back door and therefore didn't know that your buddy was walking away?
I must agree however that this is a great day for the people of Oak Lawn because Tom Phelan is gone! No matter who wins in the district, the people of Oak Lawn will be better off

Middle of camalot, you forgot a big one!:
Both Have Ties To Mr Madigan

The story listed before this one shows Oak Lawn home sale in November 2012 up from 2011; 21.2% . Medium price up from $145,000 to $160,160 in the same period. Zero comments. Instead we have read campaign attacking crap from our Oak Lawnians. Not a single comment about Oak Lawn rebounding. We own a stake in Oak Lawn protect it, quit disgracing it behind a fake name on here. Lorraine I hate to repeat myself; no real name, no post. Barney Leifker

I won my bet!! I said it wouldn't even take a day for one of the Mayor's supporters to bring up the name Madigan and his alleged ties to anyone who disagrees with the Mayor!! Phelan,Duhig and Olejniczak can be that bad I mean The Mayor ran with them before didn't he?? Oh yeah that was before He showed his true colors and started attacking anyone who disagreed with him Can't wait for the anti-Desmond, anti- Carberry posts!!! Should be worth a laugh

Now if Mr Smug-O would not be in office next year this village might have a chance of not being the laughingstock it has become with the antics of the Gang of Three.

Honestly, its all b.s. and saying these "independents are aligning with Burry is misleading. You should be ashamed.

What's Thug-O going to do without Tommy Boy?!? Thug-O has got to go. Idiot bully!

Here come the Phelan Madigan rants already!! Can't talk about issues so here comes the personal stuff.

Tom Phelan= Tea Party TP does not equal Madigan

I don't know why everyone bitchin about being associated with Madigan , he the most powerfull pol in IL. If you wanted to get something accomplished for OL .

We hope TDesmond doesn't run an office like he builds homes.

Good buy to Tom Phelan he has never served the residents of his district,now my hope is he finds himself in knee high water and nobody cares