SALINE CO.—One of the county’s most recently-elected board members has resigned, it was announced tonight at the regular county board meeting.
Molly Wilson Dearing
Molly Wilson Dearing, niece of Harrisburg attorney/CPA/former mayor Robert “ChickenBob” Wilson, has resigned the position that she won in last November’s election, and the reason is a decent one: she’s received an appointment by Governor Pat Quinn, this ostensibly the workmen’s comp adjudicator position we talked about on segment 1 of the weekend’s vidcast.
Dearing, an attorney, is by law unable to hold an elected position at the same time as holding an appointed position.
This doesn’t happen with every executive appointment…but it does happen across appointments where a decision needs to be reached in a “case,” such as a workmen’s comp case, an environmental protection case…or a parole case, such as what former mayor Eric Gregg is appointed to (the Illinois Prisoner Review Board).
Gregg stubbornly held onto his position as mayor—and, say many, is still holding paying jobs, which is in violation of 730 ILCS 3-3-1—after his appointment to that board.
Tonight, Dearing resigned upon accepting the appointment, displaying the way it’s supposed to be done.
There were also a couple of other extremely interesting developments at tonight’s meeting, and they had to do with ChickenBob as well.
We’ll have more a little bit later, but not all of it…we’ll piece it out, and bring you the entire package in the September-October edition of Disclosure, online right here if you have an e-Edition subscription on September 9, and on stands beginning Sept. 10 and continuing through Sept. 11. Meanwhile, pick up the current (August-September) issue right now, while they last…they’re going fast, and we’re resupplying until we run out!