After the Daily Herald caught 26th state senate district Democratic Party candidate Bill Gentes saying that he was on a leave of absence when he had been fired, the Daily Herald ran a story.

This is the first time I remember the Northwest Herald’s citing a Daily Herald story as the source of an article.

To do that means it is an important development in the 26th district contest with Dan Duffy.

Actually, the NW Herald article is mild compared to Round Lake School Board member and former Illinois Libertarian Party State Chairman W. Guy Finley’s “Stay the Course” blog story.

On its front page is a photo of mine from which Finley has extracted just Gentes’ eyes and nose.

The scathing headline is indicative of the story’s content:

Finley talks about “Lying eyes,” going on to describe a developer impact disagreement that the school board had with the Round Lake Mayor about development impact fees.

Before the meeting, Finley said he had a lot of respect for the mayor.

But not afterward.

Here’s what Finley wrote,

“…he demanded RLAS (Round Lake Area Schools) come to an agreement with a developer to lower our impact fees or he would dictate to us what we would get.

“We had researched our impact fees before adopting them and they were in line with other school districts.

“But because the developer had been quoted fees from several years ago and had already negotiated impact fees with other entities they were unwilling to give RLAS what we wanted.

“Here I thought Bill would step in on our behalf, we’re under state oversight after all and we’re talking about critical funds to help provide infrastructure for the additional kids we would take on, and he was telling me our fees were way out of line.

“He then accused me of threatening him when I said I would take my case to the village trustees and said,

‘Do you know who runs the village, Guy?’

“I hesitated and replied,

‘The board of trustees.’

“Bill leaned forward in his chair towards me at that point and said,

‘No, Guy, the mayor does’

as he pointed a finger into his chest looking dead at me.

“In a matter of a few moments my opinion had totally changed and it was clear to me that Bill was not the person I thought he was.

“So this latest admission on his part comes as no surprise to me.”

Compared to this, the NW Herald article is mild.