Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard has faced numerous controversies since she met with President Biden, ranging from fiery tirades in public meetings to allegedly weaponizing police against businesses that refused to donate to her causes of choice. (Village of Dolton YouTube channel | Tiffany Henyar'd TikTok)
"As you can see, our village, our community, myself, we are under attack," Henyard said at the village board meeting on Monday.
"It’s a shame that people can come to meetings and just tell one side of the stories and not get the entire side of both stories."
She claimed that the village board was "a boys club" that doesn’t want women like her leading.
"I’m going to always fight for what’s right, and I always stay the course. And I will be victorious when all the dust clears," she added.
Henyard said she is launching a podcast on Friday that will explain all the town’s finances.
"It will be all facts, receipts," she said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Dolton Trustees slammed the mayor at last month’s vote for having "disgraced this entire village" and being a "stain on our community."
They vowed to override her veto during next month’s meeting.
During the village board meeting, it was revealed that Dalton owes more than $427,000 for street paving and another $400,000 for tree-trimming services, local WGN 9 reports.
WGN 9 reported last month that a bank threatened to repossess more than a dozen village vehicles – including police cars – because lease payments were missed. After the report was published, the village sent a check to pay the bills.
"The mayor can blame everybody for what’s going on, but she has to look at herself," former trustee Edward Steave said during Monday’s meeting.
Resident Vivian Allen called for Henyard to step down to save Dolton's finances.
"You lied to us as residents. You do not, you do not stand for me," Allen said. "And I want you to step down as mayor today and save our village from this deficit you have caused."
Embattled Mayor Tiffany Henyard posted a video from January when she met President Biden. (Tiffany Henyard's Instagram)
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Henyard reportedly has a $224,000 a year salary as township supervisor alone, but has put forth an ordinance to cut the salary of any non-incumbent supervisor to $25,000.
Municipal attorney Burt Odelson, said to represent Henyard's political opposition, condemned this as "so illegal in so many ways," telling FOX 32 such conduct "violates so many tenets of the law."
Henyard has insisted God "chose" her and she met with President Biden in January.
Fox News' Alexander Hall, Alexa Moutevelis and Hannah Grossman contributed to this report.
Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
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