Dr. Sandra Bury kept her declaration speech simple and to the point: “I’m humbled and proud tonight, here with all of you so dear to my heart, to declare my candidacy for mayor of .”
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Bury is the first to publicly announce her candidacy challenging incumbent Mayor Dave Heilmann, who is running for his third term in office. The consolidated election is April 9, 2013.
Her associate, Dr. Katherine Narbone, introduced the mayoral challenger at a Wednesday reception at Bury’s optometry practice,
Watch the video of Bury's candidacy announcement.
“She’s so incredibly hardworking, when she gets involved in a project she throws herself right into it,” Narbone said. “No one is more dedicated to do right by Oak Lawn.”
Speaking to an audience of local business owners, family, friends and neighbors, Bury spoke of the
“Oak Lawn is a wonderful community. Everyone here gets together, digs in and works together except for a few people,” she said to laughter. “We’re going to change that. We’re going to take this town back.”
Bury, who filed the former Oak Lawn village attorneys, hit hard on ethics.
“Your tax dollars are not piggy banks for elected officials’ personal vendettas,” she said. “We always have to put the interests of residents first. We need transparency in village hall. Conflicts of interest need to be disclosed and accountable.”
Several local business owners turned out for Bury’s announcement, many from the where Bury has sat on the board of directors since 1997.
While not attendees at Bury’s were a younger crowd who stated that they “had enough of Dave.”
“He doesn’t patronize my business,” a business owner said.
I will try to use smaller words for you. That would be unlikely: one, she lost my vote before she never had it because of the dopey and unnecessary 're-naming' of the train station. Not to mention that I have no 'friends' on the board, so at least my 'suspicion' is unbiased and generalized (as some others are...even if you fail to acknowledge them because it is inconvenient for you). Why the doctor is SO crazy about it even when she is friends with some of them and must know more than she lets on OR is actively pushing even her newfound friends for reasons unfathomable. So there is a big difference there. You obviously read the comment, else you wouldn't have mentioned that it says to skip it...so close, I know, but you couldn't resist... You can keep hurtling insults, it doesn't make me wrong or you right, it only shows you have nothing else to contribute. Like a petulant child that stomps your feet, you have no logic on your side so instead whine for attention. Neither mature nor effective, but its your fingers... IF by 'zero insight' you mean you simply do not agree with the PROFESSIONAL INSIGHT of multiple people in the EXACT field discussed, you are right, got me... Lastly... I NEVER undestand why ANYBODY is against (let alone VEHEMENTLY) openness or public knowledge...maybe since you know so much, you can explain to us what is so important that taxpayers aren't allowed to know. Instead of attacking me for wanting to know, explain why not.
You are right! I started reading it but fell fast to sleep. On this latest post, I only got to the part where you start arguing with me about whether I read your post. I'm getting sleepy just thinking about you writing again. Please let us off the hook!
I apologize. I just made it through your whole post. It took a while Dude. I'm glad to see you are consulting professionals but I can probably save you some time on my couch by providing a snapshot profile that we like to give in the business. If I had to guess,You are a man 40 years old or younger. You have a job you don't like. You would rather be a writer of novels or perhaps the Daily Southtown. As realistic as you are, you are contemplating a change in your profession. You believe that the other people working there are not as intellectual as you. YOu are not married and you don't have any ongoing longterm relationship at this time with any gender. You think that you are the most honest person that you know and you are suspicious of others. The suspicion arises from how you were treated as a child and you've been lied to by others. You easily graduated from high school but you didn't go any further academically. You like living in Oak Lawn but you think you could do a better job than the Mayor or Trustees. You would run but you believe that you have to kiss up to voters and others to win and you won't do that no matter what the reward. You've thought about starting your own blog but have become too much of a staple on Patch to leave. There, I saved you from having to consult more professionals. You are welcome.
Cellphone address leases come from a proxy for most client connections. Although you have a dynamic IP that changes from tower to tower, your public facing IP is usually "static" but not in the classic sense of the word. The proxy is what allows you to watch a youtube video without interruption as you move from tower to tower. The avg dynamic IP address using 1 cable router on 1 connection will generally use the same IP address in a long enough period for an article's interest to wane, making the duplicate accounts from 1 individual evident. Yes they can go to mcdonalds. Yes they can go to starbucks. The idea isn't to stop it, just to make it more annoying, and in turn discourage the use. Many forums use this method to prevent the very issue we are discussing.
Can't stop yourself, can you? Unable to answer my question, you resume your personal attack to deflect why you like secrecy. Understandable, since it is a pretty unttenable position to mantain. You got that I graduated high school. I not only find my job rewarding, but REALLY like my coworkers and think many of them intellectually equal or superior to myself. I do not mind that because I cannot learn or grow by surrounding myself by people who are otherwise. Saying somebody is an adult and has been lied to by others is like mentioning they have been breathing air the whole time as well... By "providing a snapshot profile that we like to give in the business," do you have a high rate of success with such amazing insights? Are you a medium or a carnival worker? Can you guess my weight? You guess broad generalities and miss the specifics too much to be in the medical or law enforcment fields (we hope). I could have come up with a profile for me, or you, or most of the people on here with the same parameters, and I've only got watching Tv shows as my 'formal' training... I'm sure your intellectual curiosty (such as it is) would like to know more details of my life, but for just that reason they will stay not your business...(Okay, a hint...you missed more than half, but that is all I'm saying...oh, and that you are clearly a hack job if you AREN'T the carnival worker.) Let us know when you can explain why you like government secrecy so much, okay? Thanks.
Wow, you really do get angry when people question you. I'm guessing that the ladies love that about you. But I digress into the stuff you didn't want to talk about. I know, I know, you are in charge of this board big guy. I'm guessing you come in at 165 lbs. In any case, I don't like secrecy as you put it but I also don't like blowhards who attack government officials with innuendo and little else. I think of myself as the good cop protecting the others from bullies. Do you know who you are in that scenario? By the way, way to give props to the knuckleheads you work with by saying that some are smarter than you. No kidding!
The people that ran into those buildiings, ran around for days helping people, helped clean up afterward...none of them did it because they were thinking "Wow, I'm proud to be an American." They may very well be heroes (thinking the people running into falling, burning buildings here), but it is a confusion of words (if indeed we still speak English as a first language in Oak Lawn) to say they were patriots. Are the local police and firefighters and paramedics "PATRIOTS'" everytime they put out a blaze or pull somebody from wreckage? No more than a teacher helping a student become the next great captain of industry or statesman...or a FEMA worker piling sandbags in a flood. They may all well be heroes, but they aren't doing their jobs for love of country, or to protect our borders from hostile invasion. Words have meaning, and when we misuse them, it dilutes the meaning of them, distracts from what we are trying to say, and confuses people about the topic or subject matter. It wasn't that re-naming the station itself was such a terrible idea, but something more in line with 'Heroes of September 11th' or honoring our emergency workers would have been more apropos, especially given our town's high profile due to the hospital. "Patriot" is thrown around too much for want of sounding pro-American or something...it loses the power it should have. Forcing the issue lost my vote.
The word might mean different things to different people, but it has a defintion in a book for a reason, like all words do. Once we are going to slide away from that premise, we end up with less communication, which the opposite of what we need in this country and this world right now. Nobody got hurt with this, but there was some resistance to the name change, bvut people were sort of bullied with the whole 'If you don't agree with me, you're anti-American, aren't you?' thing. The monument, the thought behind it, are great, no dispute...just didn't like how it was handled...whether it was by the doctor, you, the mayor, my dad...just not right, to me and some others. Not the end of the world, and we have bigger things to move onto now, don't we? Seems like they are going to release the 'secret' report...watch it all be about something silly and small that we can't believe was ever a secret...
Also, proponents of the name took the trustees to task for wanting to give residents a fair chance at input. It was renaming an existing train station, not voting for medical supplies to an arctic outpost. How un-American is that, for the wants of the few to run over the rights of the many? The monument was a great public-private work, with a lot of work by the doctor. Nobody ever said not to build/erect it. The contribution is fantastic...no doubt about it...throwing around 'patriot' only lessens its meaning to people who fit the description. Same with calling sports figures as 'role models' or 'heroes'...for playing a game. I'm pretty sure I could NOT do as well as the Rotary folks did...but this wasn't a monument on the doctor's front doorstep. It is representative of the whole town...the name goes on every train map, Google maps, etc...to not even want discussion was elitist and presumptive to say the least. We will agree to disagree on this, I'm sure.
I wasn't calling names. The post you took down was actually a Quote BY Sandy Bury. Please re-read it. Thanks