Winfield United’s Failed Self-Serving Agenda

Like the Dukes who tried to corner the market in frozen concentrated orange juice in the film Trading Places, Winfield United is getting its comeuppance now.

Today, as Winfield is in disarray and continues to slide, the directors of Winfield United have taken over from their board members. And those directors are running from the realities of their agenda all the while trying to minimize the damage their organization has done — just as the movie’s orange traders did 27 years ago.

We have long known Winfield United would put our community at great risk with their anti-growth, self-serving agenda and Winfield would face the difficult times we are now experiencing. And we remain of the view that a renewed level of instability is upon us because Winfield United’s control is exacerbating our current situation.

All the way back in 2004, we were cautioned that Winfield United’s dirty little secret was absolutely no-growth, no progress, and no new ideas, which displaced old-fashioned tried and true methods of building a viable, successful and happy community. Further adding to Winfield’s woes was Winfield United’s Deborah Birutis’ stated position that development would sow the seeds of our own destruction. Read Deborah Birutis’ flawed “White Paper Report”  True Cost of Development.

Since the beginning of Winfield United in 2004, we have witnessed the morphing of the town into a shell of itself. As Randolph Duke reminded us in Trading Places, they took a “perfectly useless psychopath like Valentine, and turned him into a successful executive. And during the same time, we turned an honest, hard-working man (Winthorpe) into a violently, deranged, would-be killer!”

In 2004, we were warned about the consequences of allowing the special interest group Winfield United to control and unwind our town and the volatility that would follow.

The Dukes traded in orange juice; Winfield United has an overzealous love affair for power and their own agenda. Winfield United convinced as many people who would listen their agenda was the right one and they, Winfield United would take Winfield to the big dance….that is until the music stopped.

Over the last few years, the pain in Winfield has become as thick as the fog rising from Shinneock Bay in the Hamptons this morning. Fear of rising losses, higher taxes, a depletion of essential services, the lack of new ideas and a loss of community has many residents nervously biting their finger nails hoping and praying for change.

The Case for Voting NO’ on the Winfield Road Referendum TAX

This an archived article from February of 2010

This fall our village is putting to a public vote a referendum for $3.3 Million in order to fix the most decrepit roads in our town. After that, we need an additional $705 Thousand Dollars per year just to maintain the remaining roads. The initial tax will show up on your property tax bill as an extra $243 charge if your house is worth $300,000. If your house is worth more, your tax bill will be proportionally more. The tax will continue until the bond is paid off in 20 years. (Daily Herald, 12-18-09)

Note: The $243.00 does not include the additional cost of  the $705 thousand dollars for the next 20 years. In reality you are looking at approximately a 200% tax increase on the Winfield side of your tax bill.

An Epic Failure of Leadership

If you have been a resident for a few years, and if you watch the newspapers, you are probably aware  Winfield has had many opportunities to develop and grow our commercial tax base, which alleviates the financial pressure put on residents in the form of property taxes. Commercial real estate creates higher land values, puts no additional pressure on our schools, and they pay higher taxes per square foot than residential real estate does. Commercial developments also have the distinct advantage, if done right, of creating sales taxes. This town’s politicians for years have actively denied growth opportunities that would create net tax revenues for our town. (Daily Herald 3-25-09) If we had taken even a few of them, we would not find ourselves in such dire straights.

Lost Annual Transaction Tax

It is impossible to truly know how much sales tax revenue Winfield has forgone. I checked with the Illinois Department of Revenue and they tell me specific numbers are confidential. I have general numbers, and they are in the millions of dollars.

Currently, our heaviest traveled corridor is Roosevelt Road. The land along Roosevelt is zoned residential. Roosevelt Road has a traffic count of 30,000 cars each day. Of all the opportunities our village has to generate revenue in order to provide services like road maintenance, there is no better opportunity than Roosevelt Road.

“Winfield has lost every opportunity to raise tax revenue without raising taxes on our people…”

An Epic Failure of Government

During the last election cycle we were assured that Winfield Village President Deborah Birutis was a financial wizard that had spent 5 years on the finance committee and all was well with the budget. Glenn VadeBonCoeur and Jack Bajor also served with her on the finance committee and still do. Jack Bajor and Joel Kunesh are long time Winfield Trustees. One has to wonder, given their financial prowess, how did they NOT see this coming? In that same election cycle we were assured the budget was balanced and there was nothing to worry about. We should all be disappointed that we have arrived at this juncture in our town’s history; out of money and worse, out of ideas that do not revolve around raising taxes on the residents of this great town. The next step for these politicians is apparently to outsource our police department. The way I see it, if you boil the village’s responsibility to the residents down to its core, the local government is responsible for delivering clean water, disposing of sewage and garbage and providing police protection. If Village President Birutis doesn’t think Winfield should provide police protection anymore, then what, really, are we paying a local government for? If disbanding the police department is really an option, then disbanding the Winfield’s Village government should be too.

Why I ask you to join me in voting NO for the Winfield Road Referendum.

Let’s be honest with ourselves, the roads need to be fixed and Winfield is in a very bad spot because of monumentally bad management. But unless we take this opportunity to set the town on a path to fiscal responsibility, you can rest assured your politicians will come back to you in a few years from now to ask for more money for something else that is lurking (or should I say lacking) in our budget. However, we must vote NO for the Winfield Road Referendum UNTIL such time as they adopt reforms such as changing the zoning on Roosevelt Road to create the possibility for future revenues and outline a plan for developing a sustainable revenue stream. If our elected officials can put together a cogent plan with vision that clearly demonstrates a path to sustainable revenue, then we should change our vote to YES. I am not looking at a complete denial of the fact the roads need to be addressed, just a pause in doing what needs to be done. A pause just long enough for our current elected officials to do the right thing, to remember they are the stewards of the entire town and they manage the resources for the benefit of all the residents. I ask you to vote NO until a clearly defined plan has been devised to never have to come back to the residents again for more tax dollars.

Questions to Ask Your Elected Officials

1. President Birutis, Trustee VadeBonCoeur, with your 5 years on the finance committee, how long did you know that Winfield was out of money?
2. Did you know we were going to have to go to referendum for the roads during the last election cycle?
3. All your campaign literature said that you had “Balanced the Budget”. Tell me, is the budget really balanced when you are robbing from the road maintenance fund to cover operating expenses?
4. If getting a “Yes” vote for this referendum required changing the zoning of land in Winfield’s control on Roosevelt Road to commercial zoning would you do it?
5. Would you support leasing the Metra Commuter lots to a private company in order to raise $1 Million dollars?
6. Why did you vote against video gambling in Winfield that would have raised $45,000 per year?
7. Why did you not support the proton treatment center and its estimated $450,000 of tax revenue in the TIF district?
8. If we had the opportunity for a major commercial development to go in on Roosevelt Rd would you support it and the millions of dollars it would make for the Village?

“…the village needs to realize that there is a correlation between having an anti-development mindset and paying increased taxes …”

Aloof & Disinterested in Winfield

At the June 17th village board meeting the details of bond issuance for the $18 Million Road Referendum were presented for the public. This sparked an exchange between me and the village manager, Curt Barrett. The exchange clearly had Trustee Robert Mrugacz agitated as can be seen from the end of this video clip. I apologize but you will have to wait until after Bob Bersodi helps village manager Curt Barrett realize that he has no “Plan B” for raising the revenue to fix the roads.

I was disturbed by the comments of Trustee Robert Mrugacz at the end of the video clip. He mentioned something about being on somebody’s payroll. I had no idea what he meant so I fired off a very polite email, the exchange can be seen at the end of this post. What I got in response was silence. This is not entirely surprising to me. Trustee Mrugacz was appointed to the position by Village President Birutis. I have to assume that his disinterest in responding to me is borne out of not being elected by the people. There is a different level of commitment and accountability to the office when you are put in your position by a popular vote than when you are appointed. I thought it was possible that I had put myself on the “Pay No Never Mind” list through my many critical interactions with the Birutis Administration.

However, as I started walking around and talking with the citizens about Politically Districting Winfield, I started to hear the anecdotes of an aloof and disinterested village board that is too disinterested or too disconnected to return phone calls or answer their emails. While up in Klein Creek, I heard about the frustration of the people regarding the golf course that had their very own double-secret-Klein-Creek-Only-noise-ordinance written for them and how they felt they were being ignored by the trustees. When I was stomping around Fred-Farms I heard about the sexual assault and the glacial response of the village in getting out composite sketches of the perpetrator or even communicating with the the people the fact there had been an assault in the first place. I have written a pithy parody the village’s stunning use of 17th century technology to communicate here.

Two out of six of Winfield Trustees are unelected to their positions. A majority of the Birutis administration hails from the Southern most reaches of Winfield. A sexual assault in Fred Farms may as well be in Milwaukee. Noise at 5:00 in the morning in Klein Creek may as well be noise on Mars. Why respond to an email or phone call when if they are ignored long enough they will go away.

Politically Districting Winfield would help in all these situations. The Frederic Farms trustee would be held accountable for the blase response to a sexual assault. The Klein Creek Trustee would have pounded the tables for the Klein Creek residents, and my trustee would have pounded on the unelected and unaccountable Trustee Robert Mrugacz for a measured response to my very polite request for further clarification of his comments.

My quest for better, more caring and more customer centric government is the rocket fuel that drives me on my petition drive for signatures for Districting Winfield. If you feel as I do and if you have had less than acceptable interactions with our government please share your stories here at www.Winfield411.com. By working together we can make sure that customer service as practiced by the Birutis Administration never happens again.

That Voodoo That You Do So Well?

The village board approved the $6000 for their contribution to the Good Old Days festival on Thursday at the village board meeting.

Good Old Days has been in trouble for several years now as evidenced by the state of the declining revenues generated by event. I have already opined about how I believe the village board should take some degree of ownership of the event. Festivals are a data-point on a time-line in a community’s collective consciousness. The shared experience creates both a venue and the glue which binds the citizens of a town into a community. Winfield has very little community spirit compared to Naperville, St. Charles or even Wheaton. I lay the blame for this at the feet of the village board that does not recognize that they have a responsibility to encourage these events. If the charities can’t deliver these events then the village should step in and fill the gap in the name of creating community spirit and lifting morale. It is generally preferred charities and civic organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Columbus, Lions and Winfield Juniors organize these events themselves but the village should provide technical support, logistical support, labor, equipment, moral support and, if necessary, a shoulder to cry on if the need presents itself. The trustee’s should have a vested interest in these events being successful from the standpoint of how they reflect back on the administration and from the standpoint of how they reflect on the Village of Winfield.

Unfortunately the relationship between our current Village Administration and our community organizers is one of a low level general disdain. When Trustee Chuck Martschinke relates to the Winfield Chamber of Commerce’s executive board on the Tuesday before the Thursday village board vote that the straw poll of trustees is 60% against and 40% for, it shows the village has no personal stake in the event. It suggests the board feels that Good Old Days is an aggravation they tolerate like a parent who is annoyed by his own child. To take the Village-Board-As-Disinterested-Parent analogy further, I am looking at the declining revenues of the Winfield Chamber of Commerce and see a village board that is either so bored with their own child or so self consumed they can’t be bothered to step in and offer assistance, like a parent that is to consumed in watching “American Idol” to help out with their child’s science fair project for school. The message I get from our trustees is, “Let ‘em fail, the TV is not going to watch itself”.

I would be dishonest if I told you that I was not giving this a lot of thought.

… and then it came to me…

It came to me like a flash, like a vision!

If only we had the expertise available that could help restore Good Old Days to it’s formal glory. Expertise that only someone with the appropriate education could deliver. I’m thinking of someone who could act like a consultant and offer suggestion and guidance born from a wealth of business acumen. Maybe someone with an Masters in Business Administration that could show us scrubs down here in the gallery of the Chamber of Commerce how a real business is run. Maybe someone with an MBA from the prestigious Lake Erie College?

Wait, isn’t Village President Birutis an MBA? … and wasn’t her masters from Lake Erie College? Oh, Joy of Joys.

Village President Birutis an MBA from Lake Erie College?

Mrs. Birutis, meet your new baby. Among the many responsibilities of having your new baby you will need to feed it, clothe it, love it, nurture it and educate it. When your baby fails, you fail. When your baby wins, you win. It’s time to take an interest in your baby. This means when homework time comes around, you make sure it gets done and gets done correctly. This might require viewing a lot less “Oprah” but because your baby is a reflection of you and the quality of parenting you are doing, so it will be worth the sacrifice. The bar has been set at $3000 for last years Good Old Days. Clear that bar and show us your business Mojo, your Voodoo, so to speak. Because we have an objective starting point of $3K we will know how effective your input has been. I challenge you to take responsibility for the 2011 Good Old Days which gives you 13 months to plan and prepare.

The way I see it is, you are already asking the village to trust you that you know how to make a thriving town center, all I am asking you to do is make a thriving Good Old Days. I assure you, I will be the first to extrapolate out your success or failure in this venture as a foreshadowing of what will happen with our town center under your leadership.

Bad Time for Two-Month Vacation for Winfield Village President

Note: This is a cross post with the Daily Herald. The links provide below will take you to the posting in the Daily Herald. Interesting enough the Daily Herald posted the article under two different titles. Even more interesting are the reader comments made under the post titled, Bad time for two-month vacation for Winfield Village President made by none other than Winfield’s own Citizen Pain, Stanley Zegel.

Mr. Zegel’s comments left us scratching our heads especially since Mr. Zegel was the owner of the “Slam Publication” The Winfield Register. The Winfield Register with Zegel at the helm operated on half-truths outright distortions and a barrage of personal attacks against public servants and well-meaning citizen volunteers. The “Slam Publication’s” entire context was written by Zegel or tendered by proxies recruited by Mr. Zegel masquerading as “concerned citizens.” The hypocrisy of Zegel’s comment is incomprehensible but then again you have to look at who you are dealing with. The real question is: Where is our village president?

Bad time for two-month vacation

Bad time for two-month vacation for Winfield village president

While most people would agree, everyone is entitled to a vacation, Village President Deborah Birutis gives new meaning to the expression “a little time off.”  Ms. Birutis is once again out of the country on a two month vacation, a sojourn she takes every year.

A public official needs to be accessible almost all the time to respond to the resident’s concerns or in case of an emergency to provide assistance and help.  Most people who run for office understand that part of the bargain.  But Village President Birutis does not yet seem to understand taking a two month vacation is overly excessive and irresponsible.

Missing Winfield Village President Deborah Birutis

If being village president is job number one as Ms. Birutis has told everyone, then why is she off on a two month vacation?  Especially when back home Winfield is struggling for its’ economic life. As Birutis underachieves her way through managing Winfield’s future, attempts to prop up Ms. Birutis’ leadership makes the opposite point intended: Good leaders are a very rare thing, and Deborah Birutis isn’t one of them.

Birutis has a lackadaisical attitude, evidenced by the fact she is out of the country for two months and not here working towards a solution for Winfield’s revenue shortfalls.  It’s not leadership when you try and shove all the problems facing the community onto the backs of the residents.  Furthermore, does a good leader abandon the residents in a time of need?

When Birutis was elected the residents didn’t choose for her to have a eight week vacation.  Given the challenges facing Winfield, Birutis’ two month vacation can only be view for what it is, an abandonment of concern and a gross failure of her responsibilities.

The residents are looking for leadership during these tough times, not pathetic schemes to force through yet another unpopular tax increase that would unfairly burden the residents.  More importantly, the residents are looking to their village president to be working on solutions in these difficult times, not off sunny herself for two months.

Cruzin Winfield Steamrolled

What a shame last Monday night’s Cruzin Winfield was marred by construction equipment left parked on the street in front of John’s. Cruzin Winfield is an exciting event which promotes the towncenter and is designed to bring guests and foot traffic to the downtown. The bigger question is why wasn’t this resurfacing put off until after Monday’s car show?

It’s not like Cruzin Winfield was not a last minute addition, the event is schedule every Monday from June through Good Old Days and is prominently displayed on the Chamber’s website. The lack of communication between the village and the Chamber of Commerce is very disheartening. Furthermore, where is the Winfield Chamber of Commerce and town support for this event?

Once again Village President Deborah Birutis is out of the country for two months on her yearly sabbatical. Sadly, our remaining elected officials appear to be just as disinterested in the success of Cruzin Winfield as our missing village president.

Winfield’s Infrastructure Woes

This is an archived article from February 2010

Chances are you don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the intricate system of underground pipes that bring us drinking water, carry away sewage and ensure rainstorms don’t leave us waterlogged. That is, of course, unless you’ve found your home flooded or your commute blocked by thousands of gallons of water gushing into the streets.

Winfield officials have been warned for years their system is in need of repairs, many pipes are close to 60 years old and worn down by ground water and acidic soil. Over the last five years Winfield Village President Deborah Birutis has failed to even marginally address a solution to mend Winfield’s crumbling infrastructure and miles of deteriorating roads throughout town. Now she’s in panic mode scrambling to get support from a taxed-out public for a referendum to fix the massive problems caused by her leadership mismanagement.

A few years back the village had a long cold snap with about a month and a half of below-freezing temperatures. Then, abruptly, the mercury rose and over the course of the next several months, 54 water mains broke, causing all sorts of havoc. The pipes were old. Some were ancient. And they were laid shallow without much protection. So with any radical changes in temperature, they were susceptible to breaking. The village is currently operating at about a 20 percent loss in their system of finished water out of the system through leaks and failures. How long could a business stay viable if they have a 20 percent shrinkage walking out the door?

The question that is now on everyone’s mind is: What has Village President Birutis and the village board done to stop the hemorrhaging of Winfield’s infrastructure?

The answer, absolutely nothing.

Trustee Jack Bajor has been the Public Works Committee Chairman for the past five years. Maybe Mr. Bajor can explain why over the last five years under his leadership he turned away from our screaming infrastructure needs and let the deterioration continue. It has been Mr. Bajor’s responsibility as public works chair to ensure the village’s infrastructure needs are met and the community is safeguarded. Public Works Chair Bajor talks a good game but that’s all it is, talk. Sadly, Mr. Bajor needs to be informed that ignoring these problems imperils public safety, diminishes our economic competitiveness, is penny-wise and pound-foolish, and results in tremendous missed opportunities for the village.

Winfield is near the top in DuPage County for the number of structurally deficient and functionally obsolete infrastructure. Why is Winfield in this predicament? The answer lies with Village President Birutis and her board. Ms. Birutis along with her village board blindly follow the anti-growth philosophy of Winfield United. Ms. Birutis espouse Winfield United’s self-serving and highly flawed position that Roosevelt Road should remain residential. This is a thoroughfare which is commercialized from the Lake Michigan to DeKalb and affords Winfield the best opportunity for revenue growth. The past five years of  Ms. Birutis’ economic plan has produced not one single dollar in new revenue. Revenues badly needed to repair and maintain the decaying infrastructure in town.

At the start of every year Ms. Birutis throws around the terms economic development – downtown redevelopment and this years was no different. But these are merely buzz words to try and hide the failed policies of her administration and mislead the voting public. In the last 6 years Winfield has not seen one new development, downtown or anywhere else.

How did Ms. Birutis think she was going to be able to fund the needed infrastructure improvements? Obviously she had no idea. So the village board pushed aside infrastructure initiatives, including basic maintenance and repair. If you think this is an exaggeration consider a little known fact, the village owns the fire hydrants in town, the village is responsible for their maintenance yet the village has not tested the fire hydrants in over 5 years. Hydrants must be tested on a regular basis to ensure they are capable of delivering water at a pressure and a rate of flow for public health and effective firefighting operations. If this isn’t a cause for concern, I don’t know what is?

Now throw in the board’s wasteful spending of $8 million in taxpayer’s monies earmarked for water, sewer and road improvements on projects to make themselves look good. Think $2 million for remote meters, $1.5 million for new water and sewer lines to an empty lot and $1.5 million for a new public works building. Try finding out where the remaining $3 million went, you’ll need a full scale forensic audit. While the village board boast about these projects they mean nothing if the village they are operating in has its vital organs fail on them.

What this board never understood is infrastructure spending is a crucial investment in the village’s future. Delaying infrastructure maintenance, repairs and replacement never pays off in the long run. Who can say what breach of public health and safety it might result in next time? Addressing Winfield’s infrastructure shortcomings should be of the highest priority for the community.

It is clear, maybe not to this board that getting Winfield’s infrastructure act together is critical to the town’s future. If Winfield doesn’t, it would be worse than foolish. It would be tragic.

Winfield’s Road Referendum Won’t Benefit Residents

The residents of Winfield are currently agitated by the specter of having to pony up $3.3 million and another $14 million over 20 years for deferred road maintenance. So far, there have been three town hall meetings, one hosted by the village and two hosted by me for the purposes of educating the people about the referendum.

There is another issue that runs hand in hand with the road referendum and that is the Winfield politicians’ disinterest in finding sustainable revenues through retail sales taxes and commercial real estate taxes to help take some of the burden off the citizens of this town. Six out of seven of our politicians are either members of the Winfield United Political Action Committee or are hand-picked by President Deborah Birutis, who was elected as the candidate choice of Winfield United.

When you consider that Winfield’s best opportunity for creating sustainable revenues is on the Roosevelt Road corridor, it calls into question the motivation of the members of Winfield United. Based on records from the state, I have compiled a list of Winfield United political donors and where they live. Not surprisingly, they all live in a one or two block radius of Roosevelt Road.

The choice to not develop Roosevelt Road into a commercial district that can be harnessed to alleviate some of the financial burdens associated with running a village represents a wealth transfer payment. The wealth transfer is from all of the other 9,000 people who do not live along Roosevelt Road to the few people that do. It is a miscarriage of justice that Village President Birutis is using her political station not to the benefit of the whole village but to the benefit of a small cabal of landowners who have paid $32,000 in political donations for a small town village election to make sure their backyard view never has to change.

NIMBY stands for “not in my backyard”; this self-serving attitude is a sad commentary on the state of Winfield politics when our elected officials run the town for themselves and their cronies at the expense of the rest of the residents. The $32,000 represents a small amount of money to pay to buy an outcome to an election that ensures the rest of the town gets taxed for $18 million over 20 years.

I am writing to you today to let you know that as you cover the story of the Winfield Road Referendum which will be on the ballot this November, there is a back story that explains the motivations of this referendum. I would also like you to know that I plan to have on that same ballot, an opportunity to vote to district the Village of Winfield so that each section of Winfield is represented and the needs of the whole town are considered when planning this towns future.

Will Red Light Cameras Really Prevent Accidents in Winfield?

Or is installing sneaky red light cameras just another way for Deborah Birutis & the Village Board to “TAX” the residents?

“Red Light Runners Compilation”

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YouTube – Red Light Runners Compilation

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Winfield Village Board Considers Red Light Cameras – Safety of Trap?

Just the Facts?

The late, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously asserted, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” The senator was wrong. Of course, for those of us who still believe that objectivity is objective, a fact is still a fact, though the heavens may fall.

The key word here is “entitled.” Today in Winfield, not only does the political action committee Winfield United believe the community is entitled to pay for their self-serving lifestyle. Winfield United feels they are entitled to their own facts to support their claim, to their own entitlement to the residents money to support their narrow positions.

Not only that, they believe they are entitled to their own facts to describe the character and conduct of their political opponents. In the last election, Winfield United used The Winfield Register to collectively smear candidates who opposed their hand-picked candidates in the absence of a single verified fact to support their outrageous claims.

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. –John Adams (“Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,” December 1770).

Though Adams may have been correct technically — the facts cannot be altered in the eyes of God — he was wrong to the extent that the facts cannot be altered in the eyes of the public.

Winfield United repeatedly told the community their endorsed candidate for village president, Deborah Birutis, was a “financial genius” and because of her “financial insight” over the previous four years, the village was “financially sound.” But here we are barely one year after the “financial facts” were presented by Winfield United’s “financial genius” Deborah Birutis and the residents are now faced with a $3.3 million dollar road referendum, coupled with an additional $705 thousand dollar, 20 year tax to maintain the roads which will increase taxes upwards 200%. A reduction in police protection, a possible outright dismantling of the entire police department, higher water cost, increased waste collection fees, red light cameras, and a budget on life support due to Ms. Birutis’ blatant distortions and  financial mismanagement.

It will be interesting to see, seven months from now, how stubborn the facts will be. How effectively the advocates of the non-fact “communicate” to the residents — and how effective the rest of us are — will determine whether residents are hit with a massive tax bill. And remember, Winfield elections tend to be won or lost on the margin. If 18% of the voters are motivated by incorrect “facts” to vote, that may well be enough for the massive tax hikes to go through.

Of course, it is not a novelty in Winfield since Winfield United’s formation, there is often a struggle over convincing the public of the truth. As has been said, “A lie is halfway ’round the world before truth has got its boots on.”

So, we have a jolly seven-month public match over economic and political theory, Winfield United’s agenda  and the honest facts. Deborah Birutis and Winfield United have been quite upset for being called out as the responsible parties for Winfield’s financial troubles and for being identified as a  self-concerned, myopically-designed, deeply controlling organization desperately trying to save their sorry self-serving agenda. But if this massive tax increase goes through, Winfield United will once again enjoy the benefits of the taxpaying residents to maintain their lifestyle.

So, come out, come out where ever you are, my little WU’ers. We want to debate the facts, not duck your mud balls. What are you afraid of? Admittedly, the truth may hurt you — but only metaphorically. And, as the phrase goes, the truth will set us (even WU) free.