It’s all about Don-Don, our degenerate baby man in charge.
I love Canada using Ronald Reagan to troll Donald Trump (see video in the link to Parnas Perspective below).
I heard something about the Toronto Bluejays trolling Trump with Reagan then saw the Parnas Perspective this morning.
Of course, Trump responded in his typical way.
I don’t hate Donald Trump, but I think he sucks at his job. He said he was going to drain the swamp but he made himself King of the Swamp Monsters instead.
I prefer a President who isn’t a pathological liar or an infomercial con-artist. In other words, I prefer every other United States President of my lifetime.
It took Donald Trump to make me appreciate Ronald Reagan. I hated Ronald Reagan. I believed in Reagan, then felt betrayed. Beirut and Iran-Contra deepened my sense of betrayal.
Donald Trump got me elected to public office. I never thought I was qualified to hold public office until Trump got elected in 2016. Trump made me realize anyone… anyone could get elected, if they had the right organization.
Democrats had a tendency not to show up for local elections, not to pay attention. In April 2017, Dems could barely wait for the opportunity to say NO to Trump. In conservative Vernon Township, where Republicans ran unopposed four years before, the Vernon Township Democratic slate started a Blue Wave that overturned Republican control of Lake County for the first time in almost 100 years.
After we won every contested office, Dems reduced the property tax levy and increased social services.
Four years later Democrats ran unopposed.
Trump made me nostalgic for the Hollywood Actor who knew how to play the part. As a public servant, I appreciated the validity of Reagan’s message that taxes could be reduced without hurting social services if we cut corruption and waste. On a local level, this proved true. It’s time again to hear his message about markets and for everyone to wake up and see that we have a corrupt incompetent President who uses his power to leverage pay-to-play and filling the deep dark hole in his soul with appeals to his vanity and ego.
He’s sick. I’ll pray for him, but I also think we should move past his failures and his enablers. It is time for Truth and Reconciliation. Let’s end these toxic policies and divisions that hurt our Republic.
We can yet be the shining city on a hill, instead of the gaudy status symbol of a degenerate, pathetic man.
Former Vernon Township Trustee Adam Broad “the socialist that lowered the property tax levy” became a school bus driver for three years after an unsuccessful attempt to elect Bernie Sanders and win election to Congress.
This is a re-edited Drama Queen Facebook post from Oscar Night. I prefer to think of myself as Drama King, but Lee “The Lorax” Dynamo insists I’m DQ. Wishful thinking, Lee? Kiss, kiss.
Golda Meir famously said, “Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great.” With her good advice in mind, let me share this resolution (HR 233) almost two years ago by the Illinois General Assembly that honored my public service.
HR 233 Broad jokingly referred to this as his participation trophy. Former Township Supervisor Dan Didech, later elected to Representative in the General Assembly, was recruited by Broad to join the Vernon Township Democratic slate. They met in an Obama Alumni email chain with former campaigners discussing various plans to run for office. Didech was unaware the local party reactivated after years of being dormant. The reborn Vernon Township Democrats started as a caucus of 15 people meeting at a Panera Bread. No one present wanted to run for Supervisor.
Thanks to Dan Didech. Despite occasional disagreements and class differences, I am proud of the work he does in the General Assembly.
Also, fond thanks to our former constituency outreach director who became Lake County Treasurer, Holly Kim; the man I love and fight with like a brother, former Trustee Jon Altenberg, became Supervisor when Dan was promoted by the voters. Jon’s leadership during the pandemic proved to me he was the better Trustee to get Dan’s job. I don’t always feel that way about political battles I lose.
Shout at former Trustee Roger Addelson for his good humor and always standing up for workers, Sheila Seibor, who took Jon’s place among the Trustees and became a leader and gave friendship and respect while in disagreement to the lefty that always wanted to push the board much further than it or the voters wanted it go. Saving the best for last, Trustee Phil Hirsch, who along with Akrom Hossain, blazed a trail for there to be such a thing as Vernon Township Democrats.
Trustee Phil Hirsch.
Our Republican opponents ran unopposed four years before we challenged them. After our reforms, it was Democrats running unopposed in a conservative township.
Trustee Roger Addelson is sworn in for his second term. Vernon Township Democrats ran unopposed in 2021 eight years after Republicans ran unopposed in 2013. The Vernon Township Democrats winning all contested races in 2017 started a Blue Wave which culminated in the end of almost 100 years of Republican control in Lake County. Seated: Trustee Sheila Seibor and Supervisor Jon Altenberg.
Thanks to Gary, Barbara, and Todd, hold-overs from the previous administration that worked with us to make things better.
Retired Vernon Township Clerk Barbara Barnabee receives her own participation trophy from Township Supervisor Jon Altenberg. For decades she did the work of three people (Clerk, Office Manager, and many day to day responsibilities of former supervisor William Peterson, who simultaneously held office in Springfield).
Retired Township Assessor John Raupp watches Barbara Barnabee receive recognition for decades of public service. Raupp and the other township assessors stood up against county leadership for over-taxing property owners.
Seated next to him is Trustee Sheila Seibor (recent new leader of the Vernon Township Democrats) and Trustee Roger Addelson (now retired and living near children and grandchildren in California with his wife Susan)
An extra shout out to Phil. We started out drastically opposed and developed mutual respect. Like many progressives, I can throw slogans with the best of them. Phil knows how to read a budget. He’d be too moderate for some of the comrades, but he helped us get nicer things for the people that trusted us while reducing their financial burden.
This resolution, addressed to me, is really about all of us working together. Here’s to Broad Coalitions and the good things we can do in public service.
Also thanks to our maven Lauren Beth-Gash for suggesting that I might consider public service, Super Scott, for the ground work, Rep. Brad Schneider for giving the slate credibility. Stepson Adam for being a volunteer superstar, Deacon for helping… all the volunteers, especially the best Doctor in Lake County, Dr. Mrs. Girlfriend, who volunteered on Election Day and ran off to the courthouse with me at lunch and married me. I had no way to lose that day, and of course, she gives me most of the credibility I have in Lake County… so many others… thank you all.
Sorry, Golda, if I’m being too humble.
Dr. Mrs. Girlfriend: Dr. Lisa Peck, pictured here emerging from time travel in the late 1960s. Twice voted best doctor in Lake County. Named as one of the Top Doctors in Chicagoland by Chicago magazine. They got her name wrong, actually. They still have her listed as Peck-Rosen. They might want to consult Ira Rosen’s wife Shawna about that choice.
Ex-Marine, former Trustee, former organizer, former cab driver, barista, and recently unretired poet and truck driver, Adam Broad, hard-working guy from East Rogers Park, sitting across from the woman that lured him to the suburbs ten years ago.
TIP JAR
I suck at blogging, but I don’t want to be a starving writer again *TIP JAR*
Adam Broad 