receive information on, discuss, and vote on all issues in his capacity as a Board member is protected by the First Amendment. A County Board is a legislative body. See Carver v. Sheriff of LaSalle County, Illinois, 243 F.3d 379, 381 (7th Cir.2001) (referring to the County Board as “the county’s legislative branch”); Lutheran Social Services of Illinois v. Henry County, 124 Ill.App.3d 753, 79 Ill.Dec. 907, 464 N.E.2d 811 (1984) (The Illinois Supreme Court “designat[ed] a county board as a legislative body.”). Most federal courts to address the specific issue of whether a public official in a legislative position has a First Amendment right to speech in pursuance of his duties have agreed with Hoffman in following the holding of Bond. See Conservation Comm’n of the Town of We Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>). In Pleva, cited by Defendants in arguing that
holding that judges who were appointed rather than elected were entitled to same treatment provided by pertinent section of constitution holding that mayor is a high public official holding that an employment contract between an outgoing city council and the city manager was void on public policy grounds because it attempted to take away the governmental or legislative power of the incoming council to appoint and remove public officers holding the public acts of the pittsburgh director of public safety were valid even if his purported recess appointment by the mayor or was invalid because the city council was not in fact in recess holding that bond and miller did not apply because the plaintiff was appointed to the city council by the mayor rather than elected by the public