Why Ed Young Does Not Want To Meet You

The Lisle Patch publication has been running a "Meet The Candidate" series on candidates for the Village Board.  One of the candidates, Ed Young, had his profile removed from the "Meet The Candidate" pages.  Why would a candidate not want his profile to be known to the voters?  Well, it turns out that Ed Young has established quite a track record in 12 years as a trustee, and some of that record was coming to light in the comments of Lisle residents responding to his profile.  So Ed decided to return to the shadows, hide his profile, and hope that voters would not have the time to learn the truth about his record.


Here are some of the reasons Ed doesn't want to "meet" you:

1. Young and Joe Broda have presided over 10 years of increases in the property tax levy and 8 consecutive years of deficit spending
2. During 8 years of spending more than they took in, Young and Broda have drastically depleted the Village's reserve fund, putting Lisle in a precarious financial position
3. The current budget proposal calls for yet another deficit ($991,000+) -- Young's comment on the budget is:  "I believe we have made all the cuts we can without cutting services."  He refuses to consider any of the remedies businesses have to use when they face declining revenues (restructuring, staff reductions, outsourcing) -- this in spite of glaring failures and inefficiencies in Lisle Village staff performance.
4. Young supported the outrageous and abusive rules change in the Lisle Planning and Zoning Commission hearings and pushed through an illegal Tax Increment Financing scheme. 
5. On June 3, 2009 a secret meeting of the Lisle Village Board was held to discuss a Tax Increment Financing scheme - the meeting was illegal, in violation of the Open Meetings Act.  Taxpayers were not told of the meeting and were not allowed to participate, but proponents of the TIF were included in the meeting. No minutes were kept (another violation of the law). Ed Young not only actively participated in the illegal meeting, but he led the move to make it clandestine by making the motion to move the meeting to "Executive Session".

When a candidate wants to hide his record from voters, one has to wonder about issues related to personal integrity. More on that part of Ed Young's track record in a subsequent post.