Debbie Williams Creates
Hostility: Passive Aggressive, Always the Victim
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| Debbie Williams |
Just who is this Trustee 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 indicate all to the contrary. The acronym she
touts is “P.E.A.C.E.” but what 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 going about town slandering the Mayor’s
name, giving her opinion about his ability to run the Village
and telling people why she should be 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, a mere 4.6% of the electorate in
2019, surely confirms this. Even so, a win, no matter how sorry, was
good enough in Debbie’s book. Well, hopefully we can give you some
food for thought before you repeat this fatal mistake yet a third time and
endanger the survival of our Village.
(This
is the third in a series of expose articles that we will publish so stay tuned
as the drama and TRUTH unfolds).
Debbie
Williams coming off a stinging defeat in 2017 lost her $17,000 per year job as
Village Clerk, an income she had come to rely on. But Debbie
Williams, like a feral cat with 9 lives living on Shirley Avenue
dodging loose pitbulls, ever the resourceful and
self-preservationist, landed a politically connected job as deputy
clerk. Her stock really began to rise as did her bank account as she was
now earning $52,000 per year, the most she has ever made in life.
Even so, she managed not to keep her job long claiming, “I
have resigned under duress due to the hostile work environment”. It
seems everywhere Debbie Williams lands becomes a “hostile work
environment”. The truth is Debbie Williams is no stranger to
“hostile work environments”, in fact many Sauk Village former employees in
previous administrations of Lewis Towers and David Hanks claimed that Debbie
Williams herself made Village Hall a “hostile work environment”. In
fact many employees in Village Hall are under that same "hostility"
that she and her coalition bring today. One former employee even noted that Debbie Williams brought with her and her friends a "hostile work environment" to Village Hall after the 2019 election. Some former employees
have even filed suits and complaints citing this very fact and
made claims that Debbie Williams used racial slurs against them.
Come
clean Debbie! Truth is Debbie Williams
did not “resign” from her position as Calumet City’s Deputy
Clerk; she, in fact, was probably given an ultimatum to resign
or be fired on June 21, 2018. Reading between the lines, it appears one could
deduce she got into a heated discussion with her boss which precipitated
her actions. In the professional arena, an
immediate resignation without a courteous two
week prior notification, usually indicates a firing was imminent
or in fact already occurred. Forever,
the spin master, Debbie’s resignation letter even stated, “I have
enjoyed my time in Calumet City…” Well, if that were true, then the
work environment could not have been “hostile” unless you were the creator of
the hostility. But readers we want you to draw your own conclusion on
that, these are the facts.
So poor
Debbie, always and forever the victim, found herself not only voted out as
Village Clerk in Sauk Village in 2017, had now been tossed out of
the highest paying job she ever landed. Debbie
Williams wanted revenge and she wanted revenge against Sauk Village
and those who delivered that defeat. So Debbie Williams scours the “ole”
guard residents to find others who had an axe to grind with their
perceived “enemy” to run for Trustees in 2019.
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| Sherry Jasinski |
She
found a willing accomplice in Sherry Jasinski who was let go by
the Village Board of Trustees at that time after they made a
financial decision to consolidate her position in 2018. Jasinski had 13
months to show she could do her job under Mayor Derrick Burgess and the
Trustees at that time (Jaskinski began working for Sauk Village on April 15,
1998 and was given the position as Director in 2006 while her step-father sat
on the Village Board of Trustees at that time). Jasinski, who
was the department head for Community Development (which included
Code Enforcement and the Building Department) was the primary individual
responsible for the decline in the Village’s housing standards from 2008 to
2018. (If you take a look around town and see homes boarded up, burned
out, vacant and abandoned, you can ask “what did Sherry Jasinski do
to help the Village when she was in charge of Code Enforcement and the Building
Department for a decade of decline? Not a single grant was written in her
tenure as department head, and she is rumored to have colluded with
slumlords to keep the standards and values low- more on this later)
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| Gary Bell |
The
final piece to this political puzzle rounding out their non-diverse,
all-white slate, Gary Bell, another “scorned” cast off from the Sauk Village
Fire Department who allegedly sustained an injury while serving on the
department and was being blocked by the former and late Fire Chief from
re-joining the Department. Bell quit his full-time job as a janitor
and apparently became “disabled” due to that alleged injury.
After getting his little settlement monies from his injury, Bell took
his money bought him a new car and left Sauk Village; only to return a couple
years later. Bell found himself outside looking in pinning for the days
of yesteryear. So the “scorned” slate of candidates was now complete and
ready to take their vengeance against "those people" in Sauk
Village and to shut down the progress Mayor Burgess had begun to make in
Sauk Village. (More on Gary Bell, his "disability" and
racist rants a little later)
Both
Jasinski and Bell had a small handful of "friends" who
supported their misguided way of thinking who bought into their scam
and con of "making Sauk Village great again" and
bringing the Village back to the “good ole boys” days. Of
course Debbie Williams ever the opportunist latched her wagon on to anything and
anyone she could, including the very "friends" that could not stand
the sight of her just two years earlier. They needed to work
to get black votes to and could not do that with an all-white slate, so she found
another willing accomplice they could use and exploit for their own benefit in
failed perennial candidate and ex-Trustee Lynda Allen Washington-House.
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| Lynda Washington-House |
Debbie
Williams used Washington-House to give the trio of candidates an
African American face they could latch onto and put her picture up on their
billboard to give them an appearance of a ‘diverse slate’. Lynda
Washington may as well have put on the billboard “Pick THREE just not me”
as her entire election effort worked to help them win their election as she
came in dead last, again. No telling Washington-House would want to put
her picture up on a billboard with a racist man like Gary Bell who called Sauk
Village a “Golden Ghetto” and demeaned black residents for walking at Village
Hall. He also uses other colorful racial slurs to define African-Americans when
he is around “his own kind”.
Never-the-less, Washington-House tied herself to them.
Stay
tuned to our 4th in a series as we continue the history lesson about Debbie
Williams and how she is hurting Sauk Village.
