The Plot to Expand Government: Library Board Thinks "It's Important that people feel pain"

The Bugle reports on the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove:

After self-reporting itself for violating the Illinois Open Meetings Act, the Morton Grove Library Board of Trustees voted to release several audio tapes from past executive sessions, some recordings that include controversial comments.

For example the Oct. 14, 2010 and Nov. 11, 2010 executive sessions involved discussions about acquiring property and support for a new library. In the November tape, a female trustee said, "I think it's important that people feel pain."

The other female trustee immediately followed that comment by suggesting a reduction in parking and relocating the youth services department to the front of the library to make patrons realize a referendum is needed. The two female trustees on the board at that time were Renee Miller and Bernadette Fahy.

Discussions in both the October and November tapes also involved a desire to get politically affiliated residents onto the Village Board to support a new library since the village was choosing not to back the then-board's efforts to build a new library.

For those history buffs out there: this is the very same Morton Grove that passed the first handgun ban in the United States.