This outrageous con woman — ‘Dolton Dictator’ Tiffany Henyard –is the true face of the American political class |
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This outrageous con woman — ‘Dolton Dictator’ Tiffany Henyard –is the true face of the American political class
“Dolton Dictator” Tiffany Henyard is back — switching states and parties to seek a new elected office a year after her town’s voters finally ousted her.
As Democratic mayor of Dolton, Ill. (pop. 21,000), Henyard won infamy for allegedly treating the public purse like her own piggy bank, and certainly behaving like a mad fusion of Marie Antoinette and Kim Jong-un.
A 2024 investigation cited her as using a town credit card to spend more than $43,000 on Amazon purchases in one day; Dalton laid out millions so local cops could serve as her personal Praetorian guard.
Her mismanagement left the tiny Chicago suburb millions in the red.
Democratic voters rejected her in an early 2025 primary; her bid to sell a tell-all book failed next.
So she moved to Georgia, where she’s running as a Republican for the Fulton County Board of Commissioners — a move she hilariously calls “Project Phoenix.”
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Sorry, Tiffany: If you’re any bird, it’s vulture or a cuckoo.
On the other hand, you have to credit her eye for opportunity: Fulton County voters are the ones who elected self-serving would-be-Trump-slayer Fani Willis as their district attorney.
It all recalls Mark Twain’s observation that politicians qualify as the “distinctly native American criminal class.”
It’s fully bipartisan: Just recall, ex-Rep. George Santos, the Long Island con artist who won a House seat with his tall tales.
Of course, Sen. Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez actually survived one major corruption scandal and kept winning re-election before his final downfall.
Which is to say: Con artistry is a prime skill in politics — just consider Bill Clinton’s remarkable career.
And so is finding creative ways to make up for the low pay of public office: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s remarkable stock-market “luck” is only the most obvious recent example.
Really, Tiffany Henyard is doing the whole country a favor: Her in-your-face outrageousness makes her game obvious, but perhaps the lesson will bring more Americans to look more closely before being suckered by the rest of the political class.
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