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Mayor Withdraws TRO Request Against WRPW-FM


Mayor Renner of Bloomington, IL's petition for a restraining order against WRPW-FM (Cities 92.9)'s Ian Bayne morning program reporter Josh "Fistbump" Schmidgall has been dropped by Renner's communications director. The city was attempting to avoid the morning program's continued questions about what it calls "a shady business transaction with taxpayer dollars" to purchase a block of land from a former mayor of a nearby town.

A motion to withdraw the restraining order was filed Wednesday by the city communications director, Nora Dukowitz, just one day before the hearing was scheduled. Bayne says that dozens of supporters had planned to show up at the hearing scheduled for Thursday (6-4), adding that the city is afraid of sanctions for abusing a process designed to protect people from violent crime.

"This is pretty disgusting overall, a city communications director, at the order of a mayor, filing a restraining order to not answer questions from the media," said Bayne. "Anyone who relies on the process designed to protect people from violent crime should be offended, anyone in the media should be outraged."

Bayne said that the mayor had previously been censured for cyberbullying a local blogger and added that the mayor's description of the now-withdrawn petition as "a felony" was designed to bully the media. "if this is a felony, why is it being dropped?" asked Bayne. "Or is the mayor lying?"

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