The ILSC shoots Mike Noland down!
Former state senator and current judge Mike Noland, the man who puts the “jackass” in the Kane County Democratic Party, was unceremoniously dismantled by the Illinois Supreme Court last week by a lopsided score of six to nothing. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer nitwit!
For those who need to catch up, Noland filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois regarding the COLA raises he and his general assembly peers gleefully abandoned during the Great Recession from 2009 through 2019. And those legislators made quite the big campaign deal out of it, too.
But shortly after the dust cleared from his disastrous 2017 congressional run, claiming that voting against his own salary increase was unconstitutional, Noland filed suit to recover that 72 grand in back pay.
As Elgin’s fine Hispanic community would say, the man acts “sin el menor empacho.”
Because truth is always stranger than fiction and anything that can happen in Cook County generally does, a Chicago judge initially upheld that legal maneuver ins 2019 agreeing with the former senator’s idiotic unconstitutional theory.
But God bless comptroller Susan Mendoza who, after frothing at the mouth over the absurd ruling, skipped the appeals process and went directly to the Illinois Supreme Court who dispensed with our errant judge faster than a federal judge with an unrepentant January 6 insurrectionist.
Mendoza, represented by the Kwame Raoul’s office, avoided the constitutionality issue by arguing that Noland had waived any right to recovery by specifically voting for the pay reduction and that he waited too long to file the suit.
Justice P. Scott Neville wrote the following in his ruling:
We conclude that under the facts here, where plaintiffs, former legislators, agreed to, acquiesced in, and voted for the Salary Reduction Laws, plaintiffs cannot now be allowed to challenge the reductions in their salaries during their previous terms in office.
So apparently citing your own stupidity and lack of scruples isn’t always a workable defense in the Land of Lincoln. Perhaps there’s hope for us yet!
Noland getting spanked in this entertaining a manner would be hilarious if it weren’t for the fact that his imbecilic lawsuit cost the people of Illinois somewhere between $200,000 to $400,000 to defend. And I’m sure this contingency case didn’t cost him a dime, either. Let’s not forget that Noland’s already into the taxpayer for $210,000 a year as a circuit judge, and between that gig and his time a state rep, he’s looking at a six-figure pension.
The real tragedy is, despite this debacle, Noland’s self-righteous Elgin posse consisting mainly of state senator Cristina Castro, her lackey Rich Jacobs, Judge John Dalton, police task force member Danise Habun, and former Elgin Township supervisor Franklin Ramirez, will continue to unconditionally support this piece of unadulterated judicial slime.
Clearly, there’s nothing on this planet that can embarrass Mike Noland, not even me. But he is up for retention, which means Kane County has the means to get rid of this cancerous lesion. I’ll keep you posted.
No election denying sheriffs required
I’m not going to mention the name of the Republican Kane County sheriff candidate in question, because up to now, he has about as much name recognition as the fifth third Stooge (wasn’t it Zeppo?) and I’m not about to change that.
Considering all those beyond a reasonable doubt courtroom constraints, I’m sure you understand why, of the elected officials who roam the County of Kane, the one I want to be the most concerned with the processing of actual evidence is the sheriff.
But not only has this full-Trumper declared the 2020 election stolen, he’s calling the entire KC electoral process into question by accusing the county clerk of a rapt nefariousness on the slightest of pretenses.
The first is that his name was inadvertently left off the clerk’s online listing of 2022 candidates. But instead of reaching out to ask them correct the obvious omission – something any reasonable candidate would do – he embarked upon a smear campaign claiming, “This is what happens when the Democrats run a Republican held office.”
No, it’s what happens when human beings are involved in the complexities of creating a lengthy ballot, and the error was corrected the second they became aware of it. So, the clerk’s office’s dastardly scheme is to leave just one Republican candidate’s name off the list? That is pretty sneaky
Personally, I think this candidate would’ve done a lot better in November if he chose to remain anonymous. That way voters couldn’t look up his fascinating legal history.
Meanwhile, his second contention is the recent lack of provisional ballots is an ominous and obvious indication of a vast conspiracy aligned against him.
Oh lord, not again! Before they were rendered obsolete by same-day voter registration, the largest number of provisional ballots ever issued in Kane County was a mere 120 in 2012. With the average number of even year KC ballots cast sitting somewhere around 200,000, 120 of them, or 0.06 percent, couldn’t possibly make a difference in the smallest race.
Have I also mentioned that I’d greatly prefer a sheriff who can tie his own shoes and owns an IQ that squeaks somewhat north of the double-digit mark? God willing and the creek don’t rise, right? How many Ken Ramsey’s can Kane County take?
I could go on about this candidate’s peculiar notions, but being an election denier is all it takes to cross him off my list. And to make matters so much better, Ron Hain has done a great job:
- Keeping the jail population low with innovative programs to prevent recidivism
- Addressing addiction as the underlying cause of so many crimes
- Keeping the real bad guys off the street
- Going easy on the taxpayer’s wallet
Sure, he can be a pain in the ass, but so can I, which clearly indicates there’s a great deal of merit in that capacity.
Put more simply, Ron has earned reelection.
A bridge too short!
The roof of Long Grove’s iconic covered bridge was just struck and damaged for the 41st time in in the last two years. If you do the math, that means the structure gets hit once every 17.8 days, or about twice a month. And all of this comes after the bridge had to be completely closed down due to severe truck damage back in 2020.
It would seem that no amount of signage admonishing truckers to avoid the short 8-foot, 6-inch clearance will put a dent in those bridge dents, as they insist on barreling right into it.
So, while I certainly admire the persistence and dedication on the part of those longsuffering Long Grove city administrators who keep fixing the bridge, per Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity, perhaps it’s time to move it to a location prone only to pedestrians.
Either that or the city could promote it as the newest Tik Tok challenge. Just a thought!
