Now this is the FCB podcast Network. Just listen to yourself presents. I'm just said with Davis. Dolton, Illinois, is a town of about twenty two thousand people just south of Chicago. The average annual income is about twenty one thousand dollars. It's not a community of big spenders unless you're the mayor. Forty year old Tiffany Henyard was having the time of her life as mayor of the small Chicago border town. She made three hundred thousand dollars a year, had a major security detail complete with luxury vehicles, and spent over twenty four thousand dollars in one year on restaurants alone. She also flew first class to Las Vegas and other vacation spots for activities that were not relevant to her position. All of that is enough to cause some raised eyebrows, but it's what she did next that finally spurred a recall. Henyard issued an executive order to change the rules of the next election cycle. If she loses reelection, the next mayor will have their salary knocked down to twenty five thousand dollars a year. If she wins, the salary will stay the same. She then proceeded to commandeer city billboards meant to advertise welfare services and splashed her face and campaign slogans all over them. The billboards included the information for the services, but that information was barely legible. These were blatant campaign signs. As I mentioned, the citizens of Dalton are now launching a recall effort. But let this be a lesson to all of us who think the most important elections in our lives are presidential elections. The worst kind of government corruption comes from the government closest to you, and yet we spend the least amount of time thinking about it. Dolton residents have limited police services, disintegrating roads, and community improvements that are desperately needed and yet cannot be funded. All of this while they take home an average of twenty one thousand dollars a year, and Henyard takes home nearly fifteen times that amount. Don't let the presidential election doldrums keep you from voting in your own elections. The Tiffany Henyards of the world depend on your despair and your laziness. I'm Kira Davis, and I'm just saying this has been a presentation of the FCB podcast network where real talk lives. Visitors online at Fcbpodcasts dot com.
