Hearing for Pending Charges against President Donahue

We have heard that a hearing was scheduled for 31 January 2008, first at 0900 hrs., and then, rescheduled for 1300 hrs., to hear the pending charges against President Donahue - which relate to the fact that he drove the F.O.P. into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a case that should never have even happened. This case is a matter of public record and you can get as much information on this case, as you want. The court docket number is: 05-CV-7179 or 05-C7179, in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.

But, why, was this trial panel scheduled in violation of the Constitution of the F.O.P. Lodge No. 7 and the Grand Lodge? The Constitution specifies that NO LESS than 30 days shall pass between the presentation of the charges and the trial panel hearing. Why no less than 30 days, you ask? So that everyone has an opportunity to prepare properly. There is NO provision for a waiving of the 30 day provision by either party. There is a provision for requests for reasonable continuances. Is it true that charges have been brought against the members of the trial panel - Secretary Davis & 3rd Vice President Bella -who are participating in this "train wreck"?.

Remember these are the same CityWide Team members who were so very, very quick to pronounce Past President Nolan and others affiliated with him as being arrogant!!! We submit to you that maybe two terms is more than adequate for our F.O.P. officers!!!! These people do not deserve to remain in office!

An article submitted for your consideration.

Is it true that the F.O.P. and President Donahue are in the mess that they are now faced with because they relied on the LEGAL advice of one of the trustees who just happened to be a SERGEANT & who apparently went to law school!?! Shouldn't that be reason enough to sit up and take notice of why we don't want to have SERGEANTS sitting on our Board of Directors?

Didn't that trustee fight the amendment to the F.O.P. Constitution which would have brought an end to the practice of SERGEANTS remaining in any office of the F.O.P. after their promotion? Could it have been that this SERGEANT/Legal Eagle was so inept that he couldn't make his attorney stuff into any part time job and that he had to continue to receive the monthly stipend from the F.O.P.?

This SERGEANT/Legal Eagle may have cost YOUR Lodge hundreds of thousands of dollars with his stupid advice. We won't even talk about the F.O.P. officers that went along with this stupid advice and who have now potentially caused our Lodge the loss of hundred of thousands of dollars!

Isn't that the same SERGEANT/Legal Eagle/Trustee who LED the charge to expel two members of the Lodge who had dared to speak out against the F.O.P. leadership in the 2005 election? No wonder only 69 candidates filed to run in this election. Why would you want to take the chance of being expelled and then have to fight for fair share benefits???

ON THE LAST SENTENCE ABOUT FAIR SHARE BENEFITS, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THE EXPELLED OFFICERS STILL ARE REQUIRED TO PAY HALF THEIR DUES AND ARE SUPPOSEDLY COVERED BY F.O.P. LEGAL DEFENSE FUND. BUT, ONE OF THE OFFICERS HAD A CR # AND REQUESTED COUNSEL FROM THE F.O.P. AND WAS DENIED COUNSEL! GUESS WHAT? ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST F.O.P. WITH THE EEOC, LABOR BOARD AND ANOTHER POTENTIAL LAWSUIT FOR NOT LIVING UP TO THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO FAIRLY AND IMPARTIALLY REPRESENT ALL MEMBERS! THANKS F.O.P.

IN ACCORDANCE WITH BY LAWS, RULES & REGULATIONS AND PAST PRACTICE OF CHICAGO LODGE #7

President Mark Donahue must be summarily suspended from all Lodge activities until a hearing can be scheduled which is no earlier than 30 days of the said charges being filed. Mark Donahue should immediatly turn over the keys to the F.O.P. car and office. He should be returned to his Detective Unit of assignment. Should again start to collect a Detective salary, NOT a Commanders salary which F.O.P. pays him.
He is suspended until the matter is adjudicated!
Furthermore 1st vice president Bill Dougherty should assume responsibility for Lodge #7 leadership in the interim and the State and National Lodges need to be notified along with The Management and Labor Affairs Office of C.P.D..

WILL THE F.O.P. DO WHAT IS RIGHT?
WILL ALL MEMBERS BE TREATED FAIRLY AND EQUALLY?
ARE ELECTED MEMBERS OF F.O.P. ABOVE REPROACH?
THESE ARE QUESTIONS ALL UNION MEMBERS NEED ANSWERED.

INTERESTING TIMES WE LIVE IN

Thursday, January 17, 2008
F.O.P. election meeting and General Meeting News Tue 15 Jan 08

We had a very interesting Election Committee meeting and this is what transpired:
bla bla bla everyone got the handouts and then......
Officer Harold Brown(Retired)filed formal charges against Mark Donahue our
F.O.P. President for: VIOLATION OF DUTIES AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE FOP #7
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

1. Prez Donahues conduct in the Diemer
lawsuit violated provisions of the constitution in that he failed to
comply,adhere and insure that the Elected BOARD OF DIRECTORS shall be
the governing body of the lodge thereby violating the By-Laws.
(Be it noted that in open court 17-May-07 the lodge CAN ONLY ACT THRU IT'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THAT PRESIDENT DONAHUE IS BUT 1 MEMBER OF THE BOARD!)
2. Prez Donahues above conduct violated By-Laws attempting to deny information to the Board of Directors. Deliberately interfering with their fiduciary duty to the members of Lodge #7.
3. Prez
Donahue's conduct violated By-laws failing to faithfully perform the
duties of his office as required in By-laws DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
THE FOP IS NOT INSURED FOR THIS $400,000.00 LOSS AND THE MONEY TO PAY IT WILL COME DIRECTLY OUT OF FOP MEMBERS DUES!
In addition, Pursuant to lodge 7 past practices and Roberts Rules of Order.
Prez
Donahue shall be suspended upon the filing of theses charges and in
accordance with lodge 7 by-laws article II sec 4 a hearing to be
scheduled not less than thirty(30) from the date on which a copy of the
written charges are served upon the accused member.

A quick synapses to this entire thing which FOP does not want the membership to know about is this:
1. Mark Donahue as prez
of the fop #7 decide to fire a pregnant female attorney working for
them under the auspices of lousy work when she in fact asked for a
pregnancy leave and ability to work from home and phone.
2. Said attorney filed lawsuit and offered a deal and asked for 12K I'll walk away.
3. Mark donahue said "no way" were going to court.
4. 2.5 years later F.O.P. offers to settle lawsuit with female attorney before election comes up to the tune of over $400,000.00 USC.
5. Prez Donahue conceals facts of case from Board of directors
6. Prez Donahue asks for secrecy agreement in settlement.
7. Prez Donahue agrees to settlement singlehandidly.
thereby by-passing the board of directors who are legally entitled to
the information and who are supposed to actually run the lodge
8. This leads to the formal charges against Prez Donahue for the above stated violations of by-laws.
ARTICLE
IV BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECTION 2 OF FOP CONSTITUTION STATES: The Board
of Directors shall be the Governing body of the Lodge and shallexercise
full administrative powers subject to and in accordance with the
constitution and by-laws and the constitution and the by-laws of the
national and state lodges.

F.O.P. meeting Tue 15th Jan 1900 hrs

Start your year right by attending F.O.P. meetings! This could be interesting and informative. Plus don't forget the Beer and pizza afterwards!
* Watch F.O.P. manipulate and ignore the rules of parliamentary procedure!
* Listen to them toot their horns on how good a job they do!
* Observe our elected Sgt's at Arms who refuse to keep order at a meeting!
* See who the F.O.P. suckholes are that sit up front and 1st and 2nd all there actions!
* Get a free F.O.P. book cover! (which you might be paying for)(Don't know on this one)
* See what Mark Donahue really looks like!
* NEVER SEEN HIM IN A DISTRICT UNTIL ELECTION TIME!!!
PLUS DON'T FORGET THE BEER AND PIZZA AFTERWARD!!!

FOP obviously monitoring this site

I am truly flattered by the response I have gotten from obvious FOP insiders and tag along/yes men. Lots of HATE MAIL I have to delete. Terrible stuff, when I'm trying to address issues and not personalities. FOP has resorted to the Hillary Clinton campaign of personal attacks, which we here at the BLOG find morally reprehensible! This is a question and answer BLOG, I ask the questions, YOU "THE MEMBERSHIP" give the answer.
but one comment got to us so we are going to change venues for easier access by all the PO's out there!
Those FOP upstarts didn't like my BLOG name and gave me a suggestion which I'm running with.
We are moving everything over to:
HTTP://SCCFOP7.BLOGSPOT.COM
UP AND RUNNING SOON! THANKS FOR THE ADVICE FOP!!!
GIVE ME A COUPLE OF DAYS AND NEW AND INTERESTING TOPICS
ARE COMING OUT. LAWSUITS AGAINST FOP, ALLEGED FINANCIAL
IMPROPRIETY WITH OUR FUNDS ETC...

F.O.P. Elections March 2008

The election to come looks like this so far:
3 candidates for President
2 for 1st V.P.
2nd and 3rd VP spots unopposed
2 for Treasurer
2 for financial secretary
unk Sgt at arms (3 spots)
51 for Trustee (Only 17 spots)
For those of you who don't know, according to FOP bylaws you must attend 1/2 of the years meetings to be eligible to run for office (5 meetings). A bylaw that definitely needs to be changed.
Another issue you need to be aware of is that the president appoints the inside guys. That is literally the president chooses who works in the office, who makes the big bucks regardless if they win in the election! So in knowing this the BLOG advocates choosing PO Doherty for president. PO Doherty is a 20+ year veteran officer and is a totally INDEPENDANT candidate NOT running with any SLATE. We here at the BLOG have NO AFFILIATION with said officer but find him to be knowledgable, competent and a veteran officer who we believe will represent Police Officers Issues.
WE ARE ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE! TAKE A LOOK AT THE FLIERS THAT ARE GONNA BE GOING UP IN YOUR DISTRICT! LOOK AT THE FOP COVERS THAT THE FOP WILL HAND OUT! CHECK THIS WEB SITE AND OTHERS AND KNOW WHO YOUR FOP INCUMBENT ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE!
VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS! LETS START ANEW!
CHANGE IS GOOD!

Happy New Year! Let the F.O.P. Electioneering begin!!!

I think we have a 3 way run for the F.O.P. presidency. Mark $'s Donahue plus 2 patrolmen. One a goof another seems like a contender, we will let the membership decide who is who. I would argue that even a goof might be better for us than the pompous self centered F.O.P. leadership we now suffer. Not too much word yet on other candidates. About 40 running for 17 trustee spots.
WE SAY VOTE FOR ANYONE NOT CURRENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH F.O.P.
VOTE IN SOME NEW LIFE, ENERGY AND IDEAS!
AT THE VERY LEAST DON'T GIVE DONAHUE A "YES MAN" BOARD OF DIRECTORS!