The antics and shenanigans of Mayor Tiffany Henyard of Dolton, Illinois, have been well documented for a while now.

The so-called “super mayor,” who held dual roles as the mayor of the township of Dolton (and lived it up on the taxpayer dime), along with being supervisor of Thornton Township, had become a chronic embarrassment to the area. Perhaps the last straw was the brawl that she and her boyfriend got into at the end of January during a board meeting.

There’s now lawsuits over that brawl. Tiffany Henyard has seen her grip on power slowly slipping away, as she lost the nomination for her Thornton Township position. Henyard claimed “voter suppression” because the nomination was switched from being a primary to a caucus, vowing that she would have been nominated if the primary had stayed in place.

Well, the primary vote for Dolton mayor was yesterday, and Tiffany Henyard initially bragged that she was going to win in a landslide.

Henyard dropped by a voting site on Tuesday morning and predicted that she would win reelection. She arrived to the voting site with a car stereo turned up to a campaign song she recorded titled, “We the People.”

“Well, I see no competition, so when I come in with a landslide this evening, [it will] be so great,” Henyard said to gathered media. “Y’all can all come to the after party and we can talk about it.”

Turns out the landslide went the other way, and the voters have had enough of her power trip. And it wasn’t close.

BREAKING: Corrupt "SuperMayor" Tiffany Henyard of Dolton, IL, is a no-show at her own election party after getting blown out by over 3,000 votes in her primary race, only garnering 12% of the vote. Her X account is currently set to private. pic.twitter.com/Bsz0j05ZAM

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 26, 2025

Those numbers are not a typo.

With 17 of 17 precincts reported and 100% of the vote counted, per the Cook County Clerk website, (Trustee Jason) House won the primary with 3,896 votes (87.91%), compared to Henyard’s 536 votes (12.09%).

In total, 4,446 ballots were cast, equal to 26.94% of the 16,506 registered voters.

Henyard was a no-show at her election-night party Tuesday, just hours after saying she would be victorious. She did, however, tell WGN by phone that she accepted the election result.

“The people have spoken,” Henyard said. “God must have a different plan.”

Now, Dolton voters will decide on Henyard’s replacement in the consolidated election on April 1, choosing between House and independent candidate Casundra Hopson-Jordan. House is a lifelong resident of the village and has spent eight years serving on the village board.

That would be the same village board that watched Tiffany Henyard blow through taxpayer money like it was going out of style, and then she rebuked them for daring to criticize her, “a black woman in power.”

Mayor Tiffany Henyard:

"You all should be ashamed of yourselves because you all black & you sitting here attacking a black woman in power"

This was her response when questioned about using tax funds to pay for lavish trips, 1st class tickets, a $1M giveaway, and a $287k salary pic.twitter.com/m4SYjCWqlu

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 7, 2024

That same village board hired Lori Lightfoot (yes, the former mayor of Chicago) to look through the books and determine how Dolton had gotten into so much debt under Tiffany Henyard. It wasn’t pretty. Lightfoot presented her initial findings last August, but put out a full report at the end of January.
https://twitter.com/unlimited_ls/status/1884340778035515553

The bombshell report delved into Henyard’s spending habits and her alleged misuse of taxpayer dollars, highlighting just how much trouble the village is in financially.

Lightfoot said that in April 2022, Dolton’s general fund balance was $5.61 million. By May 2024, the balance had fallen to a deficit of $3.65 million.

Over the course of nine months, Lightfoot delved into village credit card transactions. In 2023, charges amounted to more than $779,000.

On Amazon, more than $50,000 was spent on ice skates and artificial ice tiles for a winter rink; purchases that Lightfoot says were not made in compliance with the Purchasing Policy.

In examining the village’s six credit cards that Lightfoot’s team was aware of, receipts for purchases were “rarely provided.”

Lightfoot revealed that village credit cards were used to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair, and other retailers.

Lightfoot also estimates that the amount owed to vendors remains in excess of $5 million.

Additionally, Lightfoot revealed that one concession that the village had to make “in order to get coverage for the 2024-2025 period was the cancellation of coverage for Mayor Henyard.”

The findings have been released just one month before Henyard will seek re-election in the Democratic Primary for mayor.

Voting Tiffany Henyard out, instead of suing her to recoup the money spent, looks like she is getting off easy. But since she is being sued after that brawl, and is under investigation by the FBI, she’s going to have other financial issues to deal with – and no general fund from Dolton to treat as her own personal piggy bank.

While there is always a lot of consternation and uproar about politics on the national level, voters need to keep in mind that politics at the local level always, always, ALWAYS has a greater effect on your day-to-day life. Those who run at the local level deserve just as much scrutiny as those who run at the federal level. While policy can be set federally, it always gets implemented locally. And if a local elected official decides to misuse their power, and taxpayer dollars, for their own benefit, then people should be paying attention long before those shenanigans reach the national media.

Tiffany Henyard got a stinging rebuke from her consitutents, and it remains to be seen if she will face further legal consequences – and if the next mayor can actually clean up the mess. It’s Illinois, though – don’t get your hopes too high.

Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click