Local Candidate Gets "Endorsement"

Despite the fact that the election is months away, candidate Chicken Little has won a round -- and picked up a key endorsement.

During yet another long-days-journey-into night, best known as a Village Board meeting, trustee De Ann Glover suggested that the Board use an egg timer to monitor lengthy discussions.

“I’m flattered,” said Little. “After all these years, it’s good to see that the Board has finally gone afowl with its proceedings. Ironically enough, the discussion about the board going afowl came as a result of perennial pain in the neck Lisa Stone, once again waving her sabre, claiming the board operated afoul.

"I'm glad the Board is beginning to see the light and wisdom of what I have to offer," Little said. "I hope they won't need to use the egg timer, but with some trustees, it may be needed."

When informed that Stone offered to bring an egg timer too, Little smirked. "Do you think she even knows what time limits are?"

The discussion about egg timers came as a result of an ordinance being discussed. The ordinance (as reviewed in a previous blog) cites needed procedures for conducting village business. Part of the provisions detailed in the ordinance, which will be discussed at the next Village Board meeting on Monday, May 3, impact a 10-minute limit on comments by board members during a meeting. During the past year some board members have seen fit to not be considerate enough of other board members, or residents waiting to address the board, and ramble incessantly about their own personal agenda.

This has agitated Glover who recalls that at a recent meeting, a resident waited patiently until 12:30 a.m. to make comments to the board. "That was unconscionable and I never want to see that happen again," Glover said.
Stone did not agree. She reiterated that as an independent and reformer time needs to be allocated for board members to bring up issues of interest to the Board. She claimed that no procedures were in place, apparently not realizing that the section under "new business" is where items of community concern can be brought up. Stone, instead prefers to use the Trustee reports as her personal grandstand, probably because it's early in the meaning when most of the persons in attendance and media are still there. New business is toward the end of the meeting and by the time Stoney is done trying to derail everything, it's late -- very late.

So why not focus on quantity and not quality and make a scene with the greater number of people present.

It's not to unlike a strategy used by another Illinois politician -- Rod Blagojevich. Now
I'm not saying Lisa Stone is another Blagojevich -- because (as far as I know) she's not.

But she and Blago do share one common trait.

Nice hair.