6 Comments - t-rex - Friday, Feb 1, 08 @ 9:19 am: Deratany had A hilarious cartoon ad on cable and broadcast last pm. Anyone find it online? - Team America, World Police - Friday, Feb 1, 08 @ 9:48 am: I saw the Deratany ad and laughed out loud, but I think it gave me nightmares. - Napoleon has left the building - Friday, Feb 1, 08 @ 10:10 am: The Deratany ad is very funny, saw it twice during Lost on ABC I think. The Dan Proft piece on the Northwestern Forum was nice. Rich did you attend? Have you found any other coverage of it? I’m curious. N - Anon - Friday, Feb 1, 08 @ 10:56 am: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MS7rx-k1v60 - This Aint' Good - Friday, Feb 1, 08 @ 12:30 pm: I saw this today on Carl Nyberg’s Website this morning http://provisoprobe.blogspot.com/ Vicenik and Yarbrough use taxpayer resources for political work West Suburban Journal-News (L. Nicole Trottie with Kevin Williams contributing) covers the criticism Broadview Village President Henry Vicenik took over letting Rep. Karen Yarbrough and U.S. Rep Danny Davis use a village-owned property rent free. Vicenik said the board’s decision to offer the space rent free was never a board agenda item…. Vicenik counters, the decision by the board is justified as providing a service to Broadview residents. “I thought it would be good for the village and residents to have a state representative and congressman here as a resource for the people of Broadview,” Vicenik said Tuesday. Having a village subsidize constituent services is at least an unusual arrangement. And unusual arrangements need more specific contracts. And contracts need to be approved by the governing boards, or they formally delegate this power. Broadview has been in financial trouble for years. Why wouldn’t it ask its tenants to pay for using village property? IMO, Yarbrough and Vicenik are in some legal trouble, or should be, for using public resources for political activities. I assumed that Yarbrough and her organization were paying rent and that there was a contract which separated the political portion of the premises from the government part of the premises. I’m pretty sure my assumption was based on this being claimed or implied by Yarbrough. Maybe I’m misremembering. If Yarbrough and Vicenik knew that the space was provided gratis by the Village of Broadview they both know that there should be no political activity being done there. I made a formal complaint to the Cook County State’s Attorney against Eugene Moore and District 209 for a comparatively minor transgression. h/t Proviso Insider BTW, there is something of a back story to Trottie’s interest in this building. Trottie sought to acquire use of the property for free from Vicenik. Trottie mentioned the arrangement to Yarbrough. Apparently Vicenik decided it was more advantageous to him to give the property to Yarbrough and Davis than to Trottie’s newspaper which was brand new at the time. However, whether Trottie has an ax to grind with Vicenik and Yarbrough over this property, it doesn’t mitigate the wrongdoing by Vicenik and Yarbrough. - Tollway Dan - Friday, Feb 1, 08 @ 8:35 pm: Wrong! Previous adminstrations, the adminstrations prior to Rod Blagojevich came up with ‘open road tolling, not Rod Blagojevich. Rod Blagojevich has taken credit for many things he did not do. Besides Blagojevich being corrupt, he is also a huge fraud. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.