Mayor Ballard:

The men and women of IPD are with you!!

Morale just went up 25% on IMPD. Officers just felt a large weight lifted from them. Now , we can get to work without the politics.

can’t wait for ballard to take office, so everytime there’s a murder, i can post “just another example of ballard’s safe city” over at indyu.

seriously, though, we dems have monroe gray to thank for this crap on the council. i think anti-incumbency swept across teh board, and i just hope they feel the same way a year from now.

Now that The Democrat Machine is dying, there is one last thing that MUST be done: Prosecutor Carl Brizzi MUST issue indictments for Ghost Employment and Conflict of Interest post haste…..

Without question, this was the biggest upset in Indiana political history.
Now comes the hard part. With great victories comes great responsibility.
Incredibly enough, it was Democratic Mayor Barton who lost to Lugar in 1967 by 9,000 votes. During that campaign local Democratic leaders ridiculed Lugar for his lack of experience stating that Lugar, being an Eagle Scout, did not qualify him to run this city.
Fast forward 40 years and Ballard far surpassed that historic Lugar victory.
I loved Ballard’s statement “Money can’t buy you love and it won’t buy you an election either”.
How true!
This election is one that needs to be taught in a civics class. Textbook grassroots effort.

Never underestimate the power of a dream!

The PEOPLE have spoken loud and clear when casting their ballot. Ain’t America GREAT!

Congratulations Mayor Ballard!

Time to start cleaning this town up. My oh my!

can’t wait for ballard to take office, so everytime there’s a murder, i can post “just another example of ballard’s safe city” over at indyu

yeah but the homicides will be down from 2007 as the Mayor pudts it. Troll

To paraphrase my name, the people have spoken. Congrats to Mr. Ballard and good luck in your endeavors.

look again; you said it was “a lot of money”, Ballard didn’t have any money compared to Peterson. It was pissed off voters!

We are blessed beyond measure to live in a country where a crooked, thieving government can be changed by the will of the people, without firing a shot and with relative civility. No wonder everyone else in the world wants to come here. We should all fall to our knees and thank Almighty God for this unspeakably great privilege.

It is amazing how the past comes around. The following is the opening of the Declaration of Independence, and I believe this very closely mimics what happened last night. It was our right and duty to de-thrown the ‘king’ and form a new government. Thank you voters. To Mayor elect Ballard: you have been given a gift and a challenge. Meet it with integrity and conscience or I will work twice as hard to get rid of you too. God Bless…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.— Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Does this mean that Wilson will spend less time trolling blogs? That’d be nice.

Nope!

Now comes the time for Mayor-elect Ballard to get off to a running start. From what I read this morning, I am encouraged by his hints at a transition team.

In the end, I think that the combination of the last minute jumping on the bandwagon by the Republican insiders -and- the Peterson campaign’s decision to roll with negative advertising put Ballard over the top.

This election was Mayor Peterson’s to lose, and he did it.

Indianapolis does NOT want The Democrat Machine! There are still good people who believe in this city and want to continue to live here. We do not want to be known as “South Detroit” because of the corruption and violent crime.

We have a real leader now!

It would seem that money, connections, a well-oiled election team, the support of his party and an 8 year running start would have given Peterson all the advantage he needed.

Peterson erred, I think, in going negative when he saw his 14 point lead slipping away. Waving off complaints about property taxes with an offhand “that has nothing to do with the Mayor’s office” didn’t satisfy and showed that he was unable to connect with that level of dissatisfaction among the electorate.

Couple all of this with a Dem-led CCC that’s been in the news–and not for uplifting reasons–and his loss seemed fated. As one poster said “It was his race to lose.” And lose, he did.

Since it was a grassroots endeavor that brought Greg into the office,
perhaps Winston Churchill said it best, “Never in the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Great job Indianapolis!! We finally got fed up enough to do what we should have done four years ago. I look forward to Mayor-elect Ballard taking office. I look forward to the end of uncontrolled spending, dismissive attitudes, “pet projects” being shoved down our throats and the funding for these projects being stolen from our pockets.

Now if we can get Dr. White to get IPS spending under control we may actually have a chance at positive change in this city.

Grrr, firefox at my post. Let’s try this again.

I’m stunned. I figured there would be a shift on the CCC to a (R) majority and that Peterson would win by a slim majority. But nope, I was wrong.

The next four years will be very interesting.

Monroe Gray, the most corrupt of the corrupt (from what we can gather) still managed to win. With the (R)’s holding a 72% majority on the CCC I wonder what his fate will be.

After moving control of the police to the mayor’s office and away from the Sheriff I wonder what else will go on. Probably lots of budget cuts, as that is what was promised, to get spending under control.

A few things I see as probable…