ECW... The truth
Edgar County Watchdogs aren't watchdogs. They are a Political Action Group 4 the Will County Republicans.
The story and history....
Welcome
ECW is a team who involve themselves in local politics, using their web site to defame people so that a WC Republican Fascist can get elected. It is a hostile takeover of Democracy, as they pose fraudulently as "real watchdogs "and journalist, when in fact they are a Political Action Group.
Investigation
Additional Information
In November 2020 we started an investigation based on a tip that the Edgar County Watchdogs were not actual Watchdogs. We started tracking their stories for the past 6 months and found the following:
1. For each village/ city/ Township they write about, they had one person they supported and one person they were trying to remove.
2. For the person they tried to remove, it was typically a Democratic Elected Official. In many cases it was one that went from being a Republican to a Democrat.
3. For each person they supported, we found the supported person to be a far right wing radical.
4. Some of these radicals have publicly stated their Patriot position.
5. Others that have not, have been called far right wing extremists.
6. Once we narrowed down and confirmed ECW Political Position (Which was also Extreme far right Republican), we looked for their favorite news sites. This of course was Fox News.
7. After that we began looking into their goals. Were these Patriots coming to them for help or were they offering ahead of time, promising to help them win elections or promising they would get someone to quit so they could put another Patriot on these boards.
8. What we discovered is that in over a Dozen IL political offices so far, this is the case.
9. In Avon Township, they have gotten 3 radicals on the board and then censured the non-radicals.
10. In DuPage Township they tried for over a year to get a Supervisor to resign and replaced him with a Republican. Then the Patriot on the board pushed him around, took over all his duties and tried to get other members to quit to replace with other Patriots. Now she is running on a slate as a Supervisor with those Patriots on her slate that she wanted in the chairs if they were successful in getting others to quit.
11. The story is the same Statewide, with the Patriots, led by John Kraft and Kirk Allen, going after Governor Rauner because of supporting Extreme Right Wing Jeanne Ives.
12. The same story can be found county by county and we are still gathering the information from each to post here in the next few months. We are receiving so many documents from these locations, we cannot keep up. From financial hits they have caused in the hundreds of thousands of taxpayers dollars, probably hitting high millions across the state. From wasted time for FOIA officers and frivolous claims sent to State Investigators, the amount of labor and cost they have hit taxpayers for is ridiculous..
13. One thing for sure, is that we know they are behind going county to county, city to city, trying to remove ALREADY ELECTED BY THE VOTERS officials and trying to replace them by board majority vote with radicals that residents are not aware of. This is directly avoiding the will of the voters, trying to override their votes with using threats, bullying, and scare tactics, as well as defamation, to remove these people. This is destroying our democracy, fair elections, and more!
14. Over the next week we will be posting so much evidence to these allegations that you will see what we have discovered. There is no doubt that the ECW are NOT Watchdogs, they are Right Wing Radical Patriots single-handedly using IL as their location of destruction of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Will of the People.
Thinking about asking for ECW help? STOP
Edgar County Watchdogs get involved
When the Edgar County Watchdogs get involved in your community, it is a disaster. They run up legal bills on frivolous lawsuits, they personally attach people's character and even elected officials at the podium, they harass, bully and scare people because they believe they are Patriots fighting for the American "cause". What they do is far from that truth. They are scary people, mentally unstable. Their affiliations run deep in Illinois, where they support Patriots to get into office, even if they are corrupt. They will destroy any Democrat or Republican that stands in their way, in order to take over the boards by hostile and abusive force. If they show up at your meeting, please take precautions and have Police on hand.
What happens when you use ECW
Example 1: DuPage Township
When Alysia Benford brought ECCW to Bolingbrook, nobody knew what would happen. Now Bolingbrook has been through over 400 FOIA's, lawsuits. reporting, and costs in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Her reputation and team are destroyed. Her election is destroyed. It has been exposed she was the reason and then her team, including the ECW, was exposed for the slanderous, harassing bullier that they are. This caused them to cross state lines to pursue the journalist who exposed them and a Federal jurisdiction to investigate.
Example 2: Wesley Township
When ECW trained local insurgents, two of them went extreme with hundreds of FOIA requests in a short timeframe, multiple lawsuits, and these insurgents were then found in Bolingbrook helping the next cause. One w2ound up arrested for assaulting and elected official.
Find the above cities facebook pages run by locals
If you question our stories, go to Facebook. Look up Bolingbrook Politics or Bolingbrook Reporter. See what they have done, as they are on their daily. Can you still live in your community when people know you have brought this to their town?
Want more proof? FB page Citizens for a Better Bolingbrook was created by their team to combat the journaling about them. Take a look!
2021 current situations, more coming as list grows!
DuPage Township
Statewide Elections
DuPage Township
Supporting the Patriot slate of Alyssia Benford, Deb Williams, Antonio Timothee, Jean Kelly while defaming current Trustees Maripat Oliver (12 stories), Ken Burgess, Felix George, Linda Youngs (works in office) and local reporter Bonnie Kurowski (5 stories and harassed her job/ boss repeatedly). In 37 articles they wrote about or featured the former Supervisor Bill Mayer, even though he has not been an elected official for 2 years and articles are recent.
Avon Township
Statewide Elections
DuPage Township
Supporting extremists and Right Wing Patriots while defaming candidate Terry Wilke (7 stories) and more!
Patriots/ Extremists
Jeanne Kearby, Township Clerk
Michele Bauman, Township Trustee
Doug Kearney, local rightwing extremist
Dick Barr, Local kook, Lake County board Member (Reputed Klan member)
Travis Haley, Local right wing extremist
Pat Duby Township Board member
Statewide Elections
Statewide Elections
Statewide Elections
Supported Extremist accused of reading Hitler phrases on the Capitol steps during Jan 6 insurgence, Jennie Ives, by bullying dozens of stories on Governor Rauner, Dave Carlin and others. They promoted stories for her (38 stories in her favor).
She lost the election in Nov 2020.
DW Fire District
Pecatonica Township
Statewide Elections
They are just starting with FOIAs sent on these dates to the Fire Department 10/4/2020 and 10/16/2020
We are looking into the parties involved.
Pecatonica Township
Pecatonica Township
Pecatonica Township
Joe Russo and attorney John Nelson have been attacked on 21 different articles.
Wesley Township
Pecatonica Township
Pecatonica Township
Harassment and Bullying in 72 stories! Awaiting final numbers on what they have cost this Township and the damage they have done. This is no jut the Township but the Highway commissioner is still in lawsuits an has alleged his home being shot by a .22 and brake lines cut!
Joliet Township
FOIA Requests with this address
Joliet Township
Harassment and bullying in 49 stories!
55 FOIA's submitted to them.
1 Frivolous lawsuit filed against them because ECW asked for a hard drive of information. It would cost over $300 for IT costs they refused to pay. The request was not denied but the FREE was, so they sued.
Seward Township
FOIA Requests with this address
Joliet Township
Trying to get rid of the total incumbent slate!
This is a big deal!
FOIA Requests with this address
FOIA Requests with this address
FOIA Requests with this address
Yes, they send out FOIA's under the address of their fictitious business. The FOIA sais ECW but the address says:
Heirloom Videography
7060 Illinois Highway 1, Paris, IL 61944
(217) 808-2527