This self-proclaimed “super mayor” is now a brilliant loser.
Dolton “Dictator” Tiffany Henyard suffered a landslide loss in Tuesday’s Democratic main after greater than a yr of seedy scandals, wild antics and haughty remarks that lastly caught as much as her on the poll field.
The under-fire Illinois mayor lastly bumped into her kryptonite — voters in her personal Chicago suburb that overwhelmingly picked village Trustee Jason Home because the Democratic nominee.
With all precincts reporting, Home notched almost 88% of the vote whereas Henyard gained a measly 12%, in accordance with Prepare dinner County election outcomes.
Earlier Tuesday, Henyard confidently claimed she would simply win, making clear, “I see no competition,” in accordance with Fox 32.
“Come be part of me making history once again,” she crowed on Fb.
“I’m calling for my base, I’m calling for all the people that love the super mayor, who say you support me, I need you to show up and show out,” Henyard added, a request that apparently fell on deaf ears.
Main as much as the first, the 40-year-old pol, who was first elected mayor in 2021, was dogged by an avalanche of damaging accusations and sordid headlines that led to constituent fury.
She confronted accusations of overseeing off-the-rails spending with Dolton village authorities turning into the main focus of an FBI probe final yr.
The mayor lately jumped right into a raucous brawl at a city board assembly in Thorntown the place she serves as supervisor, although she misplaced the Democratic nomination for that place earlier this yr.
She has persistently defended herself in opposition to the stinging criticism and accusations, calling it a smear marketing campaign and blasting pretend information.
“I want to heal my community after this,” the divisive character stated on-line earlier than later arguing there was voter suppression within the village as a result of a polling place was moved.
Henyard’s complete slate of candidates additionally misplaced to candidates that ran with Home, in accordance with outcomes.
Residents and enterprise house owners rejoiced Tuesday evening, together with Lawrence Gardner, 57, who had alleged Henyard focused his now-shuttered trucking enterprise as a result of he didn’t contribute to her marketing campaign coffers.
“The Wicked Witch of the West is dead! It’s over. Now we have to go another eight weeks to bury her,” he informed The Put up in a message.
Henyard’s mayoral time period can be over in Could if she will’t discover a technique to win within the basic election.
“It was just like I was reborn,” he stated of the outcomes.
One other vocal critic, Valeria Stubbs, was glad to see voters prepared to maneuver on.
“She got the stuffing beat out of her!” she stated in a short interview.
“If I can do a backwards hand flip right now — and I’m 67-years-old next month — I would definitely do it,” Stubbs continued.
“I praise God. That’s all I have to say. Ding, dong the witch is gone!”
