The situation in Cahokia only gets worse and worse. In '09 four men were charged with vote fraud, two of which were newly elected village trustees.
One of these men, Trevor Tompkin, again became mixed up in a situation with Cahokia police yesterday at a polling place.
"Why are you eyeballing me?" We're supposed to believe a police officer said that out of the blue? And the response to the officer was "I'm eyeballing you because you're eyeballing me."? Seriously? Then the cuffs were placed on him. If that dialog is what actually happened it's the most ridiculous back and forth between a cop and a person I've heard of since I last watched a good rerun of Cops from the 90's.According to Tompkin, the officer, who was not identified, asked him, "Why are you eyeballing me?" to which Tompkin said he replied, "I'm eyeballing you because you're eyeballing me." The officer then placed Tompkin in handcuffs.
I imagine more was said between the two before he was arrested.
Columbia:
At least Columbia didn't have any arrests at polling places yesterday during our election.
Instead we had four new aldermen elected. No incumbents won the right to serve four more years. With the vote totals from the election a candidate really needed to have a few blocks of their wards turn out and vote to win. 200-300 voters is all it took to win yesterday. That's it.
If your candidate won then I hope you follow their actions at city hall very closely and make them stand by what the told you they could/would do for you, take notes and keep them accountable.
If your candidate lost, I'll assume you'll be watching their successor very closely in order to point out their failures and what they have done that you do not like or want. I would however caution against this. It will be nearly impossible to measure the newly elected aldermen against what the sitting aldermen accomplished and stood for while they held the position. In every ward that had a true aldermanic race the candidates stood for different ideas and very different ways of achieving even similar goals. I feel these comparisons will only continue to split the community. I encourage those who voted for the incumbents to grade the new aldermen on what they said they could/would do if elected. They all had some lofty goals, some of which I feel may be unattainable. Grade them on what they said they would be, not on what you wanted from your candidate.
For those of you who did not vote, I would ask why not? Then again if you take the time to read the blog I would hope you took 10 minutes yesterday and voted. If you were silent yesterday I would encourage you to keep tabs on your aldermen in the same manner I stated everyone else should. They are your aldermen now.
In closing I would offer the incumbents leaving office soon my thanks. As disingenuous as that may sound post election, I do mean it. Your time spent serving the city should be appreciated and a thanks should be extended to you, being an elected official is often a thankless job at the end of the day.
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