OT - Renegade Councilwoman?

[BUBrave28]

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x1291577232/Van-Auken-BU-spar-on-noise

Drunk councilwoman confronts BU fraternity with cronies. Renegade city council? Sure seems that way. I was actually on the street that night, about a block away. I can assure you their music was inaudible from half a block away. Thankfully, I left before this crazy lady could make her way down the block. Even more thankful I didn't see those teeth in person...

She then follows up her colossal mistake by attacking BU and their police. I, for one, am thankful for the BU police. They do a great job for their size and are constantly patrolling the area doing their job. She then basically says they are rent-a-cops and they know nothing. Funny because they have jurisdiction off-campus, they can issue city or county citations, and do so often. This lady is digging herself a hole that Rand and the neighborhood won't be able to save her from.

She then defends herself all day, and even gets another front page article to the PJS while BU simply says everyone acted correctly on their part (including the fraternity, I believe).

http://www.pjstar.com/homepage/x1338086399/Van-Auken-says-BU-must-do-better-job

Someone should tell her, you shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house. Especially when you insult the integrity of those who hold the rocks.

My only question is..she obviously trespassed on private property and refused to leave (with 2 others). Then, she was suspected of being intoxicated which was written in the police report. WHY WASN'T SHE BREATHALYZED?????????? WHY WASN'T SHE TICKETED????? I guarantee I would have been, immediately. So were members of our bball team in the past. Seems like more of the same from Peoria, sadly.

T, maybe you can access the public records for this police report..

[Beninator]

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x12915772...-spar-on-noise

Drunk councilwoman confronts BU fraternity with cronies. Renegade city council? Sure seems that way. I was actually on the street that night, about a block away. I can assure you their music was inaudible from half a block away. Thankfully, I left before this crazy lady could make her way down the block. Even more thankful I didn't see those teeth in person...

She then follows up her colossal mistake by attacking BU and their police. I, for one, am thankful for the BU police. They do a great job for their size and are constantly patrolling the area doing their job. She then basically says they are rent-a-cops and they know nothing. Funny because they have jurisdiction off-campus, they can issue city or county citations, and do so often. This lady is digging herself a hole that Rand and the neighborhood won't be able to save her from.

She then defends herself all day, and even gets another front page article to the PJS while BU simply says everyone acted correctly on their part (including the fraternity, I believe).

http://www.pjstar.com/homepage/x1338086399/Van-Auken-says-BU-must-do-better-job

Someone should tell her, you shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house. Especially when you insult the integrity of those who hold the rocks.

My only question is..she obviously trespassed on private property and refused to leave (with 2 others). Then, she was suspected of being intoxicated which was written in the police report. WHY WASN'T SHE BREATHALYZED?????????? WHY WASN'T SHE TICKETED????? I guarantee I would have been, immediately. So were members of our bball team in the past. Seems like more of the same from Peoria, sadly.

T, maybe you can access the public records for this police report..

Glad to hear your side of the story BUBrave28. Looks like another local politician with an aganda and as T stated, we can be certain that the PJS will over report this and run the story into the ground.

[MacabreMob]

Van Auken = Bully

She should get raked over the coals.

MacabreMob = Schadenfreude

[Dallas Brave]

Very interesting and entertaining. Don't kow what the real story is, and can't tell from the PJS story since it is basically regurgitating the councilwoman's POV and doesn't try to investigate the story.

[Lakeview Brave]

Since when does 15 people "talking and laughing" constitute a party? No music, no dancing and no booze means it was not a party it was a gathering. This woman has a few drinks and then decides to have a power trip in front of some important people in the neighboorhood. What does Illinois law allow when it comes to confronting trespassers? They should have taken out the hose out and sprayed her down till she left the steps.

[BradleyBrave]

What a j@ck@ss. This woman should have been arrested for criminal trespass. Typical politician - Thinking that the rules don't apply to them. Drunkenness and belligerence is unacceptable...unless you're the one partaking in it, right? I don't know when she's up for re-election, but I sure hope that who's ever running against her brings this up. Methinks this isn't the first time our esteemed councilwoman has thrown back a few and thrown her weight around...

[Gwright]

I think there is going to be a lot of "egg on face" if the video evidence supports Sis Nu's story, which I fully believe it will.

[BradleyBrave]

If I was Sigma Nu I would send that video to the state's attorney, to the media, and post it on YouTube. Maybe next time our esteemed councilwoman will think twice before getting lit up and trying to bully people around. Of course, she won't be doing any bullying when she doesn't get re-elected.

[BU_EMT128]

I just wanna see Sigma Nu's security tape on youtube, lol

[BradleyBrave]

Why has the PJS referred to the third person in the Van Auken group as "an unidentified man" and "the other man, who she refused to identify"?
Surely someone knows who this man is....weren't the police there asking questions?
Are they trying to protect someone's identity? Why?

BTW-- Andrew Rand's address is listed as 1230 W. Moss.
That is two blocks away, and yet apparently nobody else in between showed up or complained to police. (there is a report someone else called Rand).
1230 W. Moss is on the south side of Moss, and Barker Ave. is in between Moss and Fredonia, so why is a guy from 2 blocks away hiking with Van Auken to Fredonia to lodge the complaints?
Sounds a little fishy, as if an agenda was already drawn up and waiting for a middle of the night confrontation.

From all accounts (except her own of course), it seems that Van Auken got a little tipsy and decided to use her 'beer muscles' to try and bully some college kids and impress her friends. You'll find similar behavior at many bars and watering holes throughout the country. Good to know our fine councilwoman isn't above such neanderthal behavior...

[Scouter]

Looks to me like the PJS is painting BVA to be a whiny, uh, witch.

[Dubl R 1]

Looks to me like the PJS is painting BVA to be a whiny, uh, witch.

Yeah, but it kind of looks like BVA is supplying the paint and the brush.

[Scouter]

Yeah, but it kind of looks like BVA is supplying the paint and the brush.

Which is probably why it went back to talk to her yesterday...

[mike radigan]

If I was Sigma Nu I would send that video to the state's attorney, to the media, and post it on YouTube.

Come on, guys, post it on YouTube.

[BU_EMT128]

then you and I clearly see it differently...
it appears to me that the PJS is giving strong support to her side of the story, and also giving her a wide open mike to state her case, almost as if they are functioning as her publicist.....
they also seem to have left out key parts of this interesting story...and have not even addressed the questions of...
--who was the other unidentified person?
--what is Rand's part in all this, as he lives two full blocks away, and certainly can't be all that bothered by what's going on over on Fredonia.
he lives along "Mansion Row" on the bluff side of Moss.
--and nothing has been hinted at all of the intense and strong political connection Rand has with the city of Peoria, in that his business is in direct competition with the city's efforts to organize ambulance services through the Fire Dept.
Rand's embroilment in lots of issues with the city, make his "wining and dining" of City Councilwoman Van Auken quite interesting!

http://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/1996/feb/interview-andrew-rand

https://www.peoriasmedicalmafia.blogspot.com/2006/03/ambulance-monopoly-unhealthy-for-city.html

https://www.peoriasmedicalmafia.blogspot.com/2006/03/osf-amt-relationship.html

if I was wining and dining a Peoria City Councilman or woman, but was in the middle of serious business deals with the city, and negotiations with the city, and disagreements with certain other city officials....then I'd have to think the PJS would really take that story and run with it!!
but oddly, they dance around it and leave it alone altogether.......

Very interesting... gotta love corruption...