Mayor: 'I Sure Did Get Paid' for 'Speeders'
Mayor Dave Heilmann fights back charges from mayoral challenger that he broke the law by using his position as elected official to gain personally and financially from work on cable TV show.
Like the pesky speeders that once appeared before him on Speeders Fight Back, Mayor Dave Heilmann fought back questions that he used his position as an elected official to gain personally and financially from the cable TV series during Tuesday’s village board meeting. (107:17 for those recording the board meeting playbacks on Ch. 4.) Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Charges that he may have broken the law by accepting payment for his role as the judge on the TruTV reality show featuring people’s bizarre excuses when caught breaking traffic laws, were lobbed by the mayoral challenger, Sandra Bury. Heilmann is running for his third term as mayor. In a blog post on Patch, Bury alleged that Heilmann possibly …
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11:57 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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