Thursday, January 10, 2013
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 …
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Oak Lawn Village Board meets for the first time in 2013.
The curtain rises on a new year as the Oak Lawn Village Board meets for the first time in 2013. Today (Tuesday, Jan. 8) also would have been Elvis’s 78th birthday. This group hasn’t gotten together since Dec. 11. Since then, much has transpired: another federal criminal subpoena, gunfire outside of Chuck E. Cheese’s, a trustee’s announcement that he would not be seeking another term and the battening down of village board races. See the attached pdf of the Jan. 8 Elvis memorial village board agenda. If the last village board meeting is any indication, audiences in the board chamber are starting to get larger for the latest installments of “Village Board Kabuki Theater” as we ramp up toward the April 9 election. Here’s what we’ll be …
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Every time a bell rings it means that Oak Lawn Patch has received another leaked pdf from a disgruntled local village official or political candidate.
There was no shortage of reading material on Oak Lawn Patch in 2012, which was the recipient of numerous leaked pdf documents from various local elected officials and political candidates. Color-coded or just plain black and white, we were happy to provide the back-story to the ongoing, continuing-to-unfold drama on the Oak Lawn political scene. Do you have a pdf or a dime to drop on someone? Want to put it on Patch? We don’t discriminate. Send it our way to lorraine.swanson@patch.com. Here are the top five documents leaked to Patch in 2012: With the upcoming April election there will no doubt be more pdfs coming our way, as well as the Patch editor's butt taking on the shape of a booth at Huck Finn Donuts attempting to make sense of this …
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