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Monday, October
3, 2011 
Zion official in city seal scandal suspended
from
day job for stealing opponents' campaign signs!
The Reverend Shantal Taylor, who is under intense pressure to resign from the Zion City Council for a wide array of unethical behavior and misconduct, including illegally using the unconstitutional religious former Zion city seal in a newspaper ad regarding an event of city business, apparently won her election to be on the City Council by preventing her opponents from getting their political message out.
How did she do that? By personally stealing their campaign signs, and then getting caught, by a co-worker at the office, throwing away those campaign signs in a Dumpster at her office!
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That's a pretty dumb thing to do, when your day job is being a dispatcher at the office of the Lake County Sheriff! If you are going to steal your opponents' campaign signs, or anything, for that matter, don't throw it out at the Sheriff's office, where trained observers are working and watching your every move! Find somewhere else to dispose of it, you idiot! Nobody can be that stupid, can she?
Shantal Taylor, who was suspended from her day job at the
Sheriff's Office for stealing, and the unconstitutional religious
former Zion city seal that she illegally used in a newspaper ad.
According to a story entitled Suburban 911 worker suspected of trashing election signs on April 13, 2009, in the Breaking News Center of the Chicago Tribune, Shantal Taylor was suspended from her dispatcher's job at the Sheriff's office (Oh, that's a great job for a thief!) for the incident. For some inexplicable reason, however, she didn't lose her job.
I would have fired her, on the spot!
The Reverend Shantal's theft of her opponents' campaign signs is still the talk of the county, as her crime came up, again, just this past Thursday, in an article in the Lake County News Sun entitled Talk of the County (See paragraphs 3 and 5). The News Sun is essentially the Lake County edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
So, what we have here is an ordained minister who is a known thief (no big surprise, there; what a credit to her profession!), a person who has declared bankruptcy twice, a person who thumbed her nose at a federal judge by defying a court order (see Paragraph 59) to not use an unconstitutional city seal in association with city business, and a person who got stripped of her authority over the Building Department when the rest of the City Council found that the allegations against her of misconduct were substantiated; continuing to ignore growing calls that she resign as an elected official because she is clearly and overwhelming unfit to serve.
Clint Harris, the successful Plaintiff in the original Zion city seal case
and the Plaintiff in the case against the City of Zion and Shantal Taylor
for using the unconstitutional city seal despite a court order prohibiting it.
Here's the deal, Reverend Shantal Taylor: Resign TODAY and pay the cost of Clint Harris' attorney (or the City can pay for Clint's lawyer), and we'll drop the court case. Otherwise, we are going to demand that the Honorable (a term that you certainly are not entitled to use) Judge James Zagel send you to prison for a really long time ... as long as the law will allow.
With that would come a declaration by the City Council that your seat is vacant, so you're going to lose your seat on the City Council, either way. The only question, now, is whether you are going to jump, or have to be pushed overboard.
Go ahead, Shantal. Call my bluff. We'll see you, or your lawyer, in court, tomorrow, unless Judge Zagel issues an Order today in the case to require you and the City to show cause as to why you should not be held in contempt of court.
Careful, Shantal! You and Rod could be roommates, some day. Same judge, too!
Not only that. Being incarcerated in a federal prison could make it really difficult for you to continue making payments in your 2007 bankruptcy case, particularly since prison would surely mess up your chances of keeping the income that you get from your day job as a Sheriff's dispatcher, despite being a known thief.
Time to blink, Shantal, before things get even worse for you.
Previous stories in Rob Sherman News and in other publications about this subject matter:
In Rob Sherman News:
Sunday, October 2: Zion official in city seal scandal declares bankruptcy ... twice!
Wednesday, September 28: Zion City Council strips Shantal Taylor of her authority over Building Department
Monday, September 26: Residents start "Citizens for the Resignation of Shantal Taylor" Facebook page
Sunday, September 25: News Sun gives Front Page treatment to Sherman challenge to Zion use of old city seal
Thursday, September 22: Zion sued for defying judge by using City Seal with Christian cross in newspaper ad
In other publications:
Friday, September 30: In the Lake County News Sun: Talk of the County
Thursday, September 29:
In the Lake County News Sun: Talk of the County (See paragraphs 3 and 5)
In the Zion-Benton News: Sherman calls for Shantal Taylor's resignation
Tuesday, September 27: In the Lake County News Sun: Calls mount for Zion commissioner to resign
Monday, September 26:
In the Lake County News Sun: Talk of the County See "Playing catch up" (Paragraph 1) and "Legal battle" (Paragraph 11)
Saturday, September 24:
On WLS-TV Channel 7 ABC in Chicago: Atheist in court again over Zion's seal
In the Christian Post: Atheist Takes Zion City to Court Over Seal with Cross
At Christian Bible Information - Walk With God: Atheist Takes Zion City to Court Over Seal with Cross
In the Chicago Tribune: Atheist who forced change in Zion's seal is in court again over its use in newspaper ad
The story ran under the same headline in The Republic in Columbus, Indiana, 40 miles south of Indianapolis on Interstate 65.
In the Houston Chronicle: Atheist in court again over Zion's seal
In Atheist Empire: Atheist takes Zion City to Court Over Seal with Cross
On WICD-TV Channel 15 ABC in Champaign, Illinois: Atheist in court again over Zion's seal
At the Boone County Watchdog: Atheist in court again over Zion's seal
The Associated Press story "Atheist in court again over Zion's seal" was also carried in the following publications:
The Carmi Times. Carmi, Illinois, is 275 miles south of Chicago, on Illinois Route 1, ten miles west of the Indiana border.
The State Journal-Register in Springfield, the capital of Illinois.
The Northwest Herald in McHenry County, Illinois, the second county west of Lake Michigan on the Wisconsin border.
WGIL Radio 14. AM 1400, WGIL, as in Galesburg, Illinois, located on US 34, 150 southwest of Chicago.
KFVS Channel 12, CBS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 100 miles south of St. Louis on the Mississippi River.
The Danbury News Times, a Hearst newspaper in Connecticut, 50 miles northeast of New York City.
The Albany Times Union. Albany is the capital of New York.
WREX Channel 13, NBC-TV in Rockford, Illinois, about 75 miles northwest of Chicago on Interstate 90.
KWQC Channel 6, in the Quad Cities of Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois. On the Mississippi River, 150 miles west of Chicago.
WHBF-TV Channel 4, CBS-TV in the Quad Cities.
The Washington Examiner, in our nation's capital.
The Connecticut Post, located in Bridgeport, which is on Long Island Sound, 50 miles northeast of Manhattan.
The San Antonio Express, deep in the heart of Texas.
WAND Channel 17, NBC-TV in Champaign, Springfield and Decatur, Illinois.
The Belleville News Democrat. Belleville is an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
Wednesday, September 21: In the Daily Herald: Rob Sherman taking Zion to court again over old seal
Monday, April 13, 2009:
In the Breaking News Center (Chicago Tribune): Suburban 911 worker suspected of trashing election signs
Tuesday, March 19, 1991: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: Clint Harris versus the City of Zion
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