WHO IS DEBBIE WILLIAMS AND WHY IS SHE HURTING SAUK VILLAGE

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by Joachim Mahomes

Just who is this Debra “Debbie” Williams that has Sauk Village residents angry and raging mad? Just who is this power hungry, glory seeking nemesis of Sauk Village?  Her mouth says she just wants “peace” for Sauk Village and that everyone should sing Kumbaya, But her historical actions in Sauk Village clearly indicates all to the contrary.  Her acronym she touts “P.E.A.C.E.” we hear from a good number of people is that she "practices evil and chaos everyday". They tell us that this controversial and political hot mess is out telling people she wants to become Mayor!

Really, Sauk Village?  What monster have you unleashed on the good people of this village?  Have you given up on yourselves?  Your dismal voter turnout of only 382 votes or a mere 4.6% of the electorate in 2019 surely confirms this, never-the-less a success in Debbie’s book.  Well, hopefully we can give you some food for thought before you repeat yet a third time a fatal mistake for the survival of this Village.

(This is the first in a series of expose articles that we will publish so stay tuned as the drama unfolds).  

WHERE DID DEBBIE WILLIAMS COME FROM?  WHAT HAS SHE DONE FOR OR TO SAUK VILLAGE?  

Records indicate that she and her husband moved to Sauk Village in 1987.  Even though she volunteered to be a Girl Scout Leader, a member of the PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) and a member of the Housing Commission, controversies often clouded these groups and committees on which she served.  

We cannot find any evidence of Debbie Williams ever attending college or holding a long-term, meaningful career.  We found that she sold Pampered Chef and Avon and she is a writer for the infamous attack rag paper which had launched a campaign against the current Mayor since he took office.  Prior to that career change, she was a part-time survey-taker at Pammer Research.  But wait, we found that she worked, very briefly, (13-months) in a position she was gifted in Calumet City before being let go. (Sources from public records and self-biographies).

WHERE DID SAUK VILLAGE GO WRONG? Let's count the ways! 

2007 - Debbie Williams ran unopposed to victory in the election for the McConathy Public Library Board of Trustees after having developed a personal friendship with then Head Librarian Nan Wargo.  Williams sat on the Library Board, and at some point rose to become president of that exclusive political clique.  More on the library later.    

2008 - So with two years of all that political experience in hand, she forms an alliance with Lewis Towers to strengthen her odds of winning in the 2009 Village Clerk race.  They formed Sauk Village’s first political party. 

2009 - After her party’s election win, Williams as Village Clerk and her daughter, Rosie Williams as Trustee, quickly turned against their friend, Mayor Lewis Towers after achieving what they wanted.  Williams, brought her experience of chaos to Village Hall; often overstepping her position, routinely commenting during Village Board meetings which was not the role of a Village Clerk position.  Williams and her daughter continued to stay in the political fray from 2009 to 2012.   Williams continually locking horns with Towers' pick for his Chief of Staff Brunetta Hill-Corley causing a "hostile" work environment at Village Hall during that time.

DEBBIE WILLIAMS AND HER FOOD

2011 - Village Trustees stripped the ability of the Mayor to appoint a Village Administrator and they appointed Henrietta Turner, an African-American woman.  Debbie Williams was named in a complaint to the Illinois Human Rights Commission and within lawsuit later field by Turner.  Turner claimed, among other things, that Debbie Williams used racial slurs against her.  This was a ploy that Debbie Williams will once again use against the current Mayor, more on that a little later. 

2013 - Ever the opportunist Debbie Williams was the lone white candidate for her bid at re-election running against three African-American candidates for Village Clerk.  Williams always the opportunist, won a plurality, but did not win a majority of the votes cast.  She fared better in her re-election at the same election for her Library Board seat running yet again, unopposed for a six-year term. 

2014 - 2016 Village Clerk Debbie Williams, her daughter Trustee Rosie Williams and David Hanks orchestrate controversial policies that entrench Sauk Village in financial chaos.  Under their misguided lack of leadership the Village routinely had over $1 million in unpaid bills

2017 - Village Clerk Debbie Williams loses her bid for Village Clerk and her daughter Rosie Williams-Baig loses her bid for Mayor to that Black candidate... .Mayor Derrick Burgess.  Deposed Debbie Declares, “Vengeance is Mine!”  

Tune in for our next part in the series!