OAN Staff Lillian Mann
6:33 PM – Friday, May 22, 2026
Self-described “super mayor” Tiffany Henyard, known for a string of past scandals and a tumultuous tenure, left both Illinois and the Democrat Party after suffering a historic landslide defeat in her Dolton reelection bid.
The “Dolton Dictator” has since resurfaced in Georgia, where she is running as a Republican while launching what she calls her political comeback tour, “Project Phoenix.”
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She ran unopposed to secure the Republican nomination for District 5 on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, receiving 1,136 votes—more than 2,000 fewer than the lowest vote total in the Democrat primary, according to election results.
“Thank you Fulton County! We did it,” she celebrated in a Wednesday morning Facebook post. “Support the movement.”
Before being overwhelmingly ousted by voters in a landslide Illinois election loss, Henyard’s administration plunged Dolton into a $3.6 million deficit. An independent investigation led by former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot revealed the deficit was fueled by unchecked village credit card splurges—including a staggering $218,000 spent on Amazon, $170,000 on travel, and $40,000 racked up in just a single day.
Her chaotic term was further damaged by an FBI corruption investigation, a sexual harassment lawsuit involving a Las Vegas work trip, accusations of weaponizing business licenses against political foes and shouting matches that routinely shut down public meetings.
Even after leaving office, Henyard was held in contempt of court and her team pleaded the Fifth after failing to turn over public financial records, capping off one of the most turbulent political chapters in Illinois history.
Previously during a chaotic Dolton Village Board meeting Henyard was heavily criticized after she memorably brushed off the mountain of legal trouble facing her administration by stating that she “gets sued all the time.”
Henyard now advances to the general election in a heavily Democrat district in Georgia, where she will face either Helen Zenobia Willis or Sojourner Grimmett.
The candidate has named her bid for elected office “Project Phoenix” following her defeat in Dolton last year.
“Project Phoenix is me rising, me showing the world what it looks like to come out of controversy,” she said earlier this year. “Me showing the world like when they keep trying to dirty your name up, you keep going. Don’t you ever give up.”
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