Trustee Coleen Sehy's Extreme Exaggerations of Conduct at Lisle Library District Meeting

On March 8, 2017, Coleen Sehy published fabricated and extreme exaggerations of LLD Trustee Candidate Liz Sullivan's conduct at the Library District (LLD) Board of Trustees February 22 Committee Meeting. Sehy's publication was apparently designed to be a personal attack against an opposing candidate, and is most certainly not in keeping with the intent of the state's Code of Fair Campaign Practices because it misrepresents, distorts, and falsified facts of the conduct in question, designed to create mistrust in candidate Sullivan. For the record, I do not know either candidate, do not endorse any candidate, and am drawing this opinion from reading the words presented, and from my personal experience providing public comment at many public meetings.

My first set of questions to the LLD Board is how late did Sullivan arrive, and did they time her on unrolling her power chords – because it rarely takes “several minutes” to do that? Would it have been too difficult for the Chairman to offer her a chance to speak after discussion on the budget? As far as breaking the “Patron Code of Conduct” I think you must reconsider exactly what a “patron” is and when that “Code of Conduct” applies, as I am most certain it does not and cannot apply to public meetings of the board. These "Code of Conduct" claims are a tactic mostly used by school boards to limit public participation. Additionally, please define “proper conduct” and who gets to determine exactly what proper conduct is.

By describing Sullivan's behavior as “agitated, erratic, and disturbing” Sehy is placing labels on it in order to somehow claim she is a victim – which she clearly is not. A board member claiming they feel “threatened and intimidated” is simply another tactic to claim victimhood against the public who wishes to speak – I have seen these types of unwarranted claims almost everywhere I go. It's sole purpose is typically to discredit the speaker and used as propaganda to claim they are somehow causing the board to feel threatened so they have to spend money to protect themselves. Ms. Sehy, consider limiting your own exaggerations while writing an article about others’ conduct.

The next claim by Ms. Sehy was that Sullivan was “representing a danger to herself or others” and it was “alarming” behavior – still more extreme exaggerations which should lead readers to consider disregarding the entire extreme, exaggerated article written by Ms. Sehy. What a shame she decide to campaign in such a way as to level personal attacks on a candidate who is running against her. “Stormed out of the room”??? What exactly does that mean?