The future of a popular polo event held annually in Barrington Hills is in doubt for 2016 and beyond, after the village zoning board refused to extend the event’s permit past this year.
Dan Wolfgram, one of the two members who voted against the plan, said he would have supported it for five years instead of 20, and if the village was protected from liability with adequate insurance coverage.
Read the full Daily Herald article here.
It’s obvious Rosene is at fault for the permit being denied. He over reached on the term and didn’t have his insurance information in order for review (supposedly). Now he uses the SOS social media to cry foul or FIRE when there is none for purely political reasons.
We have to consider the recklessness of Freeman, Anderson and Benkendorf voting to approve the permit without insurance documentation. They demonstrated their willingness to expose every taxpayer to financial liability by not postponing the vote to a later date. Just another example of their fast tracking anything benefiting their special interest group regardless of the consequences to the residents as a whole.
This whole thing is a political stunt and a set up. Much ado about nothing. It is exactly what we have become to expect from Save Open Spaces. Manufacture a fake an issue, twist it to suit their purposes, malign the other guy, and finally come in and “save” the day when it was never an issue in the first place. Political theater. One would hope that the majority of the residents in Barrington Hills are better, smarter and certainly much more mature than that. I believe in our neighbors and therefore, I am voting One Barrington Hills straight. No Meroni, no Selman no bike lady.
So true marigold! It’s another trumped up crisis meant to inflame emotions and distract from the real issues.
Our roads suck.
Our state-of-the-art 911 dispatch runs on Windows XP, circa 2001.
Our Zoning Board is still controlled by the appointees of the past administration, with two members with expired terms refusing to relinquish their seats.
But John Rosene’s phony polo predicament is the issue SOS is rallying behind?
Polo is not doomed — everybody loves it. It will continue.
But BH is doomed unless we vote One Barrington Hills —
Bryan, Michelle and Brian!
One only needs to consider the political spin placed on a new issuance for a multi-year permit to realize that if they can’t take ownership of reporting the facts regarding the vote correctly and blame McLaughlin for the end of polo in the village; then why should we believe anything else that is reported or said from the saveopenspace slate.
In the past years, I did attend the event, and it was a very nice and social event for all the community. The hostility and baseless finger-pointing coming from this group is so disturbing especially; when there are no supporting facts behind it! Facts first, accusations later. No one advocated for the Callaway Cup to be terminatatd. This is just evil fact twisting! If there are any undecided voters left in the village, who haven’t determined who will get their vote April 7, one needs to look at this single issue. If they can’t report this issue factually, can any one of their other claims against the current administration and ONEBARRINGTONHILLS candidates be correct? Perhaps, the reason why attendance was down over past years as something to do with how these “angry birds” just can’t stop themselves. VOTE FOR ONEBARRINGTONHILLS CANDIDATES: CECOLA, MAISON, AND CROLL. Let’s stop this horrible slander at the ballot box!
Rosene misquotes ZBA lawyer’s opinion too in the story. At the meeting Mary Dickson said if there were an accident at the event a lawyer might name everyone possible in a lawsuit. In other words Barrington Hills could be named.
Pretty funny that they are trying to paint McLaughlin and Konicek Hannigan as polo haters. I guess they forgot that both of them voted in favor of Resolution 13-18 for a Special Use Permit for a new Polo Field at 170 Old Sutton, and in favor of Ordinance 14-22, amending that permit.
Nice try, but Marty’s Smartys can’t be fooled.
This just goes to show how desperate these people are becoming.
If they weren’t hurting the average vilage resident I would feel sorry for their desperation!
It will take years for the anamosity to disapate!
The Daily Herald continues to show bias in stories about Barrington Hills issues. Is it lack of research or intentional?
The reporter, Doug Graham, did not attend the meeting he was reporting about. So no bias whatsoever! I think that we should all contact the DH editor and ask if that is common procedure. I know that print is trying to cut costs but this is out of control. He is as bad as the tabloid of SOS!
from the Dark Skies agenda, to the lack of opposition to Longmeadow Parkway(or was it tacit support of widening rt 62?), to the LeCompte/Shuman letter, to the Sears debacle, to the lack of performance on roads, why do we want to vote for any of these incumbents?
Yes, the only thing that is proven in the current BOT is they care more about the non taxpayers (outsiders who fit their agenda) than the taxpayers (the neighbors who don’t). Time to sweep it clean!