New Illinois Pay-To-Play Demonstration Using Evidence From The Mystery of the Missing Midlothian Municipal Code Pages
Discovering the Role of Paid Discovery Referees While Revealing Structures of Various Pay-To-Play Schemes
How absolutely whacked. Check this out.
If you go to court and a lawyer attempts to obstruct the process of discovery, you have the consumer choice to go ahead and invest even further into your pursuit of justice a chunk of change for a Discovery Referee.
Whereas the Referee Roster might hold a long list of relative unknowns, the bigger the name, the bigger the draw upon resources due to attracting either a higher quantity of clients or a small quantity of large clients.
And now here is my Internet Impressionist summary of past approaches used to see the Village of Midlothian Municipal Code Book one time in its complete and full composition.
1st and 2nd attempt
Me: “I’d like to see your Municipal Code Book please.”
Director of PR: “No.”
Me: “Yes.”
Director of PR: “No. Go away.”
Me: “Okay for now, but I will try again in the future.”
Director of PR: “You’re crazy. Go away.”
3rd attempt
Me: “I’d like to see your Municipal Code Book please.”
Public Library: “Here you are. We need your library card.”
Me: “Thank you.”
Public Library: “You’re welcome”
3 rounds of conversations before I was able to touch a grey binder with the seal on it claiming it contains our Municipal Codes.
So in glancing through the Library copy, there became apparent a list of severe breach of contracts staring me right in the face, starting with an inability to validate when the last pages had been inserted into the binder.
Back to the Village
2 or 3 more attempts
Me: “I’d like to see your Municipal Code Book please.”
Director of PR: “No.”
Me: “Yes.”
Director of PR: “No. Go away.”
Me: “Okay for now, but I will try again in the future.”
Director of PR: “You’re crazy. Go away.”
Now lets just stop right here for a moment to catch our breath. The Director of Public Relations for the Village has already repeatedly rejected any attempts to cure the condition of the code book, so what’s the next step?
The Village Lawyer
Me: “I’d like to see your Municipal Code Book please.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “No. We do not need to produce a copy for your review.”
Me: “I’m going to tell on you.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Just make sure you use your full legal name when you do.”
Me: “I usually do.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Now get out of my office before I call the police, you loon.”
Me: “You’ll hear from me soon!”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Whatever.”
So now there have been repetitive breaches of contract to produce such an important and vital document upon demand, but it gets even more fun…
Me: “I’d like to see copies of any and all laws governing the video taping of a Village Board Meeting please.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “No. Go away.”
Me: “I’m going to tell on you.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Just make sure you use your full legal name when you do.”
Me: “I usually do.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Now get out of my office before I call the police, you loon.”
Me: “You’ll hear from me soon!”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Whatever.”
Now it seems the role of Discovery Referee would have at least held potential to wipe out this long scroll of events over a long period of time, but you can’t hire one until file a charge or complaint.
So I turned to something that sounded a lot like this type of role, the Illinois Public Access Counselors Office and I tattle-tailed on J. Daniel McGrath.
Next conversation:
Me: “I’d like to see copies of any and all laws governing the video taping of a Village Board Meeting please.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “No. Go away.”
Illinois Public Access Counselors Office: “Actually, I am on the line also and I’d like to see a copy of your rules if I may.”
McGrath faxes first draft and rules are rejected.
McGrath faxes next draft and rules appear on the surface to be more in compliance with public access rules and regulations.
So now we have McGrath cooking up rules and regulations that are designed to create conflict with the existing censure rule in the Municipal Code book pages that at least are at the library for anyone to see by circumventing the check and balance of a unanimous decision being a mandate for a member of the public audience to speak during any other time other than what is designated as the public discussion portion of the meeting.
Keep in mind I haven’t coughed up too much in change to pursue reasonable settlement of this matter, but McGrath was certainly open to the idea of billing the Village for providing such exceptional legal counsel with such a delicate matter and these rules were eventually rejected after the current Mayor took office and cameras were possessed by multiple people and for multiple purpose.
Still not finished yet…back to the code book, missing pages and how pay-to-play is more than just a politician paying for a seat on a commission or board. This one happened a few times, swapping in Schuler for McGrath.
Me: “I’d like to see your Municipal Code Book please and here is my FOIA request using my own comprehensive format to record all relevant information in connection with the reason and purpose of my request.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “No. It’s unduly burdensome to the Village and so is your request to view any and all invoices paid out for codifying services since 2005.”
Me: “I’m going to tell on you.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Just make sure you use your full legal name when you do.”
Me: “I usually do.”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Now get out of my office before I call the police, you loon.”
Me: “You’ll hear from me soon!”
J. Daniel McGrath: “Whatever.”
Now one website was promoting the idea that “even routine matters may justify a referee” in connection with the sales pitch why choosing a Discovery Referee is potentially the most economic way to pursue unobstructed discovery.
But the act of publishing our Municipal Code book is not something that ever needed such obstructions despite the original non-compliance discovery that began this path of revelations into the Mystery of the Missing Municipal Code Pages.
So the long and short of it is that the condition of the Municipal Code book represents but one of many long-standing pay-to-play resolution schemes for the few, by the few and of the few, including the deletion of Title III, Chapter 1, Section 22 back around 2003 which at least at some point and time had once promised instructions to the following:
“Investigation into Formal Complaints Against Police Officers”
Not only was that type of line item title still in existence for the Fire Department Chief back in 2006, there is no way of discovering if even that free access to all resolution process.
So if I had chosen to take this circumstance into such a pay-to-play potential for victory, J. Daniel McGrath and Gladys Schuler would have first secured multiple fines for these multiple obstructions of fair and timely discovery of a list of vital matters pertaining to the public safety and well-being of the community.
Instead, I’d rather close by mentioning that Representative Davis was one of the multiple receivers of two of my formal complaints against Village employees that continues to be completely dismissed by reversing the complaints into a criminal-like setting thanks to theoretical technicalities, as well as being invited to get involved with resolving these matters.
I even asked him point blank why he endorsed Murawski for Mayor considering all I had previously shared with him about the pay-to-play schemes going on in the Village. He told me its standard practice to endorse an incumbent.
And outsiders still wonder how corruption can last as long as it has within Illinois. Between zero recall options on a local level combined with the default rubber stamp of endorsement of an incumbent…that’s enough to choke some of the best of them out of contention…
and add a zero penalty protocol for all of the various political propaganda violations, including total and complete misrepresentations of the truth getting mailed through the United States Postal Service…
Just think of the investigation costs into trying to discover who actually approved the Mysterious “Mom for Murawski” endorsement and who actually carried it to the post office for delivery…
And just think about this…
Blockading the production and publication of municipal law is but one of many large and small structures designed to appear constructive in nature, but in performance settings, it only acts as a further tool to obstruct someone from reading a rule for any reason and for any purpose.
There are few that hard-core celebrate the crooked dimensions of the State of Illinois and my former State and Local Government teacher once made the claim in our classroom that Springfield, Illinois held more political power than Washington, D.C.
Growing up around the people I did…
I had no trouble believing it…except…
My problem still remains that with people like J. Daniel McGrath, Gladys Schuler and Thomas J. Murawksi, they’d rather keep the resolution process in the hands of the few since the legal universe offers a variety of 8 or 9 Billion Dollar Jackpots amongst the other millions of smaller jackpots being offered if I went and hired a lawyer, filed suit against the Village and then what? Walk away with some bucks? Nope. My whole point is that some of these illegally garnered pay-to-play bucks being sucked from this Village’s bank accounts needs to be put back into these accounts along with a note of apology attached to each of the three resignations for not being able to perform their job in a compenent manner
Oh wait.
Murawski was fired.
Okay. So only two inside of this Village continue to provide entertaining but anticipatory breaches of contract between the Village as a municipality and their publishing obligations as outlined under the job description of the Village Clerk who still remains entirely silent about the entire matter…at least to my ears.
So Governor Pat Quinn, please remember how you stepped up into the role of governor since it was through a legal process designed to provide a side-band to a traditional court setting.
Arbitrators and Discovery Referees offer an even more politically elastic pay-to-play schematic and if we had recall options even two years ago, a more extensively detailed record would have been provided as to why Representative Davis’ rubber stamp endorsement of such a political style, including trying to direct me into talk with the head of the South Suburban Mayor’s Whatever. Not only am I going to deal with yet another layer of pay-to-play politics, Davis failed the Village by not acting as the Discovery Referee he has authority to perform as a theoretical representative of the people, for the people and by the people. Instead of sounding the call for major pay-to-play reform based on what was transpiring in his own backyard, he chose to play old-school politics using severely outdated protocols and allowed his name to be displayed in print on a promotional item for our previous Mayor who once was a member of this same South Suburban whatever its called.
A permanent Illinois Public Access Counselor’s Office can begin the mandatory process of shutting down this very powerful, very perverse twisting of the justice system throughout the entire state and can perform sweeping reform in a matter of months, if not weeks if the message is sent loud and clear that there will be no more tolerance of these types of pay-to-play schemes right in front of the public’s view.
Victims don’t always need to enter a courtroom to gain resolution and closure and every single major and minor media outlet has lost countless revenue dollars due to these types of blockade games like what I experienced when submitting but a few FOIA requests for a few basics.
I won’t even get started on figuring out the total dollars stolen from not-for-profit organizations ready, willing and able to perform with high ethical standards and practices the task of keeping the public domain actually open to the public and free from political penalties…
So part of the answer to this Mystery of the Missing Midlothian Municipal Code Pages has to do with at least one Illinois pay-to-play schematic being sustained clearly at all costs by at least two figures still holding public office here in Midlothian.
And since these two characters are not the only ones contributing to this particular Midlothian Mystery Series…
a glimpse into the excessively deceptive pricing practices of the codifying industry operations should help serve up hopefully more answers than questions…
‘cause this ain’t no small time matter at hand.
The entire codifying industry has been systematically violating a variety of rules and regulations governing the publication of public domain materials for decades now across this entire nation…picking and choosing what locations they will and will not serve and then the political influence over selecting a codifying service consistently using deceptive pricing practices for their legal services while violating fair use guidelines by charging upwards of $75.00 to $150.00 per copy of a document that one digital copy will suffice just fine and that hosting ordinances online does not cost a couple hundred dollars to maintain and sustain when they are kept in their readable format rather than lifted and then dropped into some sort of CSS/HTML schematic that prohibits a variety of reasonable acts, such as bookmarking pages or being able to maximize any attempt to print such large quantities of text.
Raise your hand if you know how to burn a file to disk…
Raise your hand if you touch a 6 ½” by 9 ½” piece of paper on a daily basis…
Raise your hand if you can see a portion of their deceptive pricing practices since codifiers typically charges a per page fee. If it is an odd-lot size to begin with…the printable space is significantly reduced.
Raise your hand if you have ever examined for yourself how many letters go across a page using the Times New Roman font versus using an Arial font like the codifiers tend to do…you can loose quite a few characters to the next line below even with the margins and point size remaining static.
The use of sans-serif fonts to publish books of law is just another obstruction of justice contribution courtesy of a group of lawyers inserting their pay-to-play policies and procedures, including an insistence that no law will become a part of the permanent character of this Village without our codifiers stamped approval.
How the codifying industry can still sleep at night knowing they sell defective products and services to the public for a dollar or two from a collection of tax dollars promised to be sitting in a bank account somewhere remains stunning…especially when the pay-to-pay schematics end up stretching across multiple jurisdictions…remains beyond my reasonable and rational comprehension.
Maybe that’s my mistake. I keep looking for evidence of rational reasoning and instead keep turning up everything but the one thing I seek…okay. The few things I seek.
For now, The Mystery of the Missing Midlothian Municipal Code Pages might remain a bulk of mysteries wrapped in evidence previously not available…
But one thing is for sure.
The bulk of politicians at least here in the State of Illinois seem to have either misplaced or have never been made aware that I already have been forced to pay nothing but penalties and punishments over and over and over and over again for my documented efforts spread out across this state to produce enough evidence for at least people outside of the State of Illinois to see that it is not the bulk of citizens here in Illinois that have somehow “permitted” such disturbingly destructive pay to play politics.
Our codifier continues to still have multiple clients in multiple states, with a big chunk of them being in the State of California…
So I guess its one of those anticipatory moments where I get to fall asleep to dreams of what else I will need to come up with to continue counter-acting the continued actions of these disgraceful politicians and special interest groups here in Illinois that apparently have forgotten that perpetuating the perception of a disability in the State of Illinois is against the law, which includes the crafting of a perception of some form of mental instability.
Now that’s a lawsuit I know I could win in a heartbeat…but I would have to first identity each individual who keeps producing evidence when challenged that it is my mind and my words that somehow still clearly proves I am such a terrifying nuisance to the State of Illinois…
So keep clinging to these insidious and insipid pay to play politics right in my backyard with public domain documents and it still will not be my publications on the Internet that cause you concern once a variety of spotlights are placed upon your operations, but yeah. These shallow and empty commentary movements towards having published under the keywords of “reform” and “cleaning out corruption” are still the same old and tired storylines designed to keep a lid on as much of the incompetence, negligence, fraud, theft as possible, lest our state really would come crumbling down, both literally and figuratively.
Just ask anyone who has had their car hit a pothole in Chicago or any number of members of the media profession that have been smacked around in backrooms and alleys and over open telephone lines and emails…
Rock and roll never forgets and neither will the rest of the world…
So choose wisely each and every one of you.
You don’t need to know my name.
You don’t even need my face.
You just need the facts.
And the fact of the matter is, the Illinois Pay-To-Play Politics Playbook doesn’t need to be produced in a neatly codified manner in order for people to still be able recognize what needs to be clearly sanitized while identify some (if not all) of the players pouring such poisonous language and tactics into our government and legal system while being provided safe harbor simply because someone happens to be on American soil…let alone having personally met and spent so much time with the author of The Legend of Lizzie Lou Chambers I know virtually all members of our previous Illinois Congress received at least hard copies of the summary complaint that covered not just these topics, but a whole laundry list of other pay-to-play points being injected into the justice system in exchange for ensuring the rubber-stamping tactics by both parties of incumbents regardless of past performance remains a practical method of endorsing a political candidate for office.
The other fact you need is that the Illinois Public Access Counselor’s Office has the right title, the right division and the right staff to get the job done well…it just isn’t being given the promise of being guaranteed the right stuff and apparently that is up to Governor Quinn…yet.
The world has known for years that politicians and private citizens have run rampant throughout our state for purpose of positioning themselves to profiteer from civil unrest either through political popularity votes or some other form of payment for either causing the unrest…
Or possessing the magical master cure for the ailment.
Sort of how the pharmaceutical industry…
Oh wait. Sorry. That’s not a part of this particular Mystery!
But at least it hopefully is no longer a mystery why I personally refuse to pay one penny out of my pocket, let alone triggering purpose to subtract dollars from bank accounts for something that should not be a cause for release of funds by any side to reconcile these types of circumstances I continue to encounter as I seek opportunity to review the full composition called The Village of Midlothian Municipal Code Book that should be free to view to begin with.
Step up or get out of the way is what I say to those who continue to choose to cover themselves with the blanket idea that none of this goes on and even if it did, there would be no way to stop it due to retaliation…which happens to be the same excuse delivered as to why top executives continue to get excessive payment packages even if they deliver a poor performance…
The wealthy and powerful can be even more vicious and dangerous than what is typically defined as a common criminal or individual violent offender as this blockade of publishing law books demonstrates. These are the people that have the means and methods to reward their own armies of individuals who have already sworn allegiance to whatever mission statement they signed onto in exchange for a paycheck.
So where are the Missing Midlothian Municipal Code pages?
Wait!
I know!
They have to be on someone’s hard drive somewhere because they had to be present at a board meeting at some point and time…
I wonder what format that kind of a request would have to take…
asking for a copy of something on a government hard drive…
Oh forget it! Even that kind of a direction holds the same anticipatory breach of contract ability since they’ve had to have had these copies on their hard drives for some time now…
And I already filed my FOIA request at Village Hall, with the Village Lawyer and online. I would say that is a sufficient number of copies to have on file in paper format while the scanned copy is available for the public to review of their own accord.
This list has been duplicated from Illinois.gov in compliance with fair use of public information in a not-for-profit setting and context.
* indicates the member is currently inactive.
Democrats: 37 Republicans: 22
To view a report listing contact information for all active members, click here.
* indicates the member is currently inactive.
Democrats: 70 Republicans: 48
To view a report listing contact information for all active members, click here.
