LITH Village Board President Criticized for Only Appointing Friends, Men to Board

A former female village president is accusing the current Lake in the Hills village president Paul Mulcahy of only appointing men and friends to the village board.

Paul Mulcahy’s most recent appointment, the third man he has nominated to the board during his first term, is David McPhee, who sits on the LITH Sanitary District board, according to the Daily Herald. McPhee is set to take the place of Paula Yensen who was elected to the McHenry County Board.

Tina Thornrose, who served as village president in the 1990s, told the newspaper Mulcahy only picks trustees “who are favorable to him who are already insiders” and has created a board that is not “representative of our village at all.”

“For him to appoint all male acquaintances of his tells me he is really close-minded of who he is willing work with,” Thornrose told the Daily Herald.

McPhee is set to be formally appointed to the village board on Thursday evening.

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