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I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

Doughton, Illinois is a town of about 22,000 people just south of Chicago.

The average annual income is about $21,000.

It's not a community of big spenders. Unless you're the mayor, 40-year-old Tiffany Henyard was having

the time of her life as mayor of the small Chicago border town. She made $300,000 a year, had a major security detail, complete with luxury

vehicles, and spent over $24,000 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 re-election, the next mayor will have their salary knocked down to $25,000 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 Dulton 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. Don't 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 $21,000 a year.

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