Illinois Dem Mayor Who Shuts Down Companies That Will not Donate to Her, Will get Blasted for Dressing Like a ‘Drug Kingpin’ | Information World

The mayor of a small Illinois neighborhood brings swagger to her function, and a few say she has crossed the road from dressing like a gangsta to appearing like one.

As famous by Ballotpedia, Tiffany Henyard, a Democrat, was elected in 2021. A recall to take away her in 2022 failed as a result of the outcomes, which might have eliminated her, had been dominated invalid.

And now, critics say, she isn’t just dressing like a drug kingpin but additionally abusing her energy, in line with the New York Post.

“Individuals take a look at politics like a joke, it’s like a mockery proper now due to all these things,” Village of Dolton Trustee Kiana Belcher stated. “She involves board conferences dressed like Nino Brown.”

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Throughout official conferences, Tiffany Henyard is seen dressed because the film gangster Nino Brown from ‘New Jack Metropolis.’

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— Limitless L’s (@unlimited_ls) February 18, 2024

Brown was a personality within the 1991 gangsta film “New Jack Metropolis.” The Submit reported that in one assembly, Henyard had a DJ play Rihanna’s “Bitch Higher Have My Cash” as she walked a couple of room.

Enterprise house owners say the present has a dark side.

Lawrence Gardner, 57, stated Henyard pressured his enterprise to shut when he wouldn’t reprise an preliminary $3,500 contribution to her marketing campaign fund.

“I made the fee,” he stated. “Then yearly she began coming and required the identical factor, and we had an issue about that.”

Gardner stated faux claims of promoting alcohol and revocation of his enterprise license adopted his refusal to pay out additional cash.

“What’s she, Nino Brown?” he stated. “Something she needs completed, she will get them to harass you. She likes no one. In case you are not doing what she say, in case you are not doing how she’s saying to do it, you’re a drawback. She don’t like them.”

Former Dolton Mayor Riley Rogers, who misplaced to Henyard in 2021, stated it’s not simply the perspective, however the spending that’s a priority. The village is an estimated $6 million in debt.

“Some folks take it as being glamorous by having a bunch of cops round you and being escorted and being pushed round,” Rogers stated. “I by no means had a safety element as mayor.”

“I attempted to steer clear of the cash,” he stated. “It’s not your cash so you possibly can’t use it prefer it’s your piggy financial institution.”

Village resident Sherry Britton, 55, stated she regrets her vote for Henyard.

“It was a vote that I remorse,” she stated. “Please put that in there! It was a vote that I remorse deeply. When she acquired into workplace, she simply shut everybody out and he or she went into the wrong way. She turned this tyrant and dictator.”

“It looks as if her aspirations and targets are for her to be a actuality star,” she stated. “She didn’t [previously] put on all that make up. She simply now thinks she’s this actuality star. I don’t know this for positive however they are saying she is filming a actuality present, as a result of the cameras are all the time together with her.”

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— Steven Vago (@Vagoish) February 16, 2024

Earlier this month, a financial institution stated the village was thus far behind on its funds it threatened to repossess all 13 village autos, together with its police vehicles, in line with WGN-TV.

Trustees stated they’d accredited the fee, nevertheless it was not made till the risk arrived.

Henyard has usually rebuked her critics on the grounds of race.

“You all ought to be ashamed of yourselves since you all are black. You all are black! And also you all sitting up right here beating and attacking a black lady that’s in energy,” she stated at a Feb. 5 assembly

A resident whose identify was not utilized by the New York Post likened the village to Venezuela.

“It’s like a dictator. There is no such thing as a name for it.  “I’ve by no means seen a city that’s extra screwed up underneath her, and I’ve seen 20 years of this malarkey. She’s … power-hungry. She doesn’t care how a lot she bleeds an space out of assets. It’s her life and that’s it,” the resident stated.

This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.