Bait and switch, then tax and spend

For months, the DuPage County Board has threatened to cut 200 law enforcement jobs unless voters approved the county's $40 million sales tax referendum.

However, Chairman Schillerstrom went behind our backs and convinced Springfield to raise the sales tax by $47 million, which made the county's referendum unnecessary.

But now, Schillerstrom and the County Board says they really only needed $10 million to prevent those job cuts and they plan on spending the remaining millions from the sales tax increase on other projects.

The old “bait and switch” trick followed up by the old "tax and spend" trick both executed perfectly by DuPage County Republicans.

Does anyone else feel duped?

/s/ Robert “Bob” Brandt
Candidate for DuPage County Board – District 3