“America’s Worst Mayor” Tiffany Henyard lost a mayoral primary by a landslide on Tuesday. Henyard lost the primary to Dolton, Illinois Trustee Jason House.
Henyard confidently predicted she would win the primary on Tuesday morning. But Chicago suburb residents came out in droves to boot her out.
“The way that the present mayor has been doing things just hasn’t been sitting right with me,” said voter Sharon Hunley, a Democrat.
House campaigned on a platform of transparency and reform under the slogan “clean house.”
“Not only is Ms. Henyard depriving the public of what they deserve, it’s costing the village money,” he said on Election Day. “Day one, every record will be turned over.”
House will now face independent candidate Casundra Hopson-Jordan in the general election on April 1.
Henyard fought fiercely to hold onto her office that she won by 82% of the vote in 2021. She often referred to herself as “super mayor” and is accused of drowning the Village of Dolton in $7 million debt over the years.
She allegedly ran up the village’s credits cards, spending thousands of dollars on personal expenses, trips, and luxury handbags and shoes.
Henyard allegedly attended Dolton village meetings dressed like the fictional drug dealer Nino Brown in the 1991 movie “New Jack City.”
In one photo on her Instagram page, Henyard poses in her office with a stuffed toy dog, similar to the real dog Nino Brown threatened people with in New Jack City.
Dolton is a village of 20,000 residents just south of Chicago. The village is more than 90% Black.
Henyard is accused of spending over $1 million in taxpayer funds on a security detail of police officers.
One Dolton resident said the mayor ordered a shooting at her home. No one was injured.
