Loading ...WAS THERE SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF “DEM”MARK?
It looks like City-County Council Minority Leader Joanne Sanders is going to keep her title, for now. As I told you a few weeks ago, some of her fellow Councilors were not happy with her support of David Orenlichter in the May primary so a move was a foot to get rid of her and replace her with Mary Moriarty Adams. However as the saying goes, “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”
Apparently the co-conspirators did not count on the media to get wind of this. Between the news posted here and over at Bilerico - Indiana, the plot to take out Sanders was exposed to the light of day. It’s still unclear who was exactly the mastermind behind all this. Some evidence points to Vernon Brown and Monroe Gray (revenge) and some points to the Maherns, Brian and Dane (blatant power grab). It’s not enough to condemn, but it certainly is enough to make you go “hmmm”.
What has been the saddest note in this entire fiasco is that the pretext for all this was that Sanders did not back the slate. My Democrat friends picked a heck of a time to find religion. So many other Democrats had strayed and gone against the party line (Mahern’s vote against former Mayor Peterson’s 65-percent county income tax increase, for example) and there were no consequences for their actions, so it seemed odd that Sanders would finally be standing on the block when it was time for the axe to fall.
The even bigger irony in all this is that had the story not been written, the plot would have gone forward, Sanders would have been out of job, Democrats would have their fifth Council leader in four years, divisions would have continue to grow, and the local party would have continued to spiral into disarray engaged in internal bickering instead of offering an alternate vision to Mayor Greg Ballard and the Republicans.
Oh well, there’s always next month.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:02 am
If the Dems let any Mahern near power anywhere they have only themselves to blame.
Joanne will survive this tempest in a teapot. It fell apart because of the light of day–true enough. That, and the mental magic that is Vernon Brown.
I doubt Monroe was anywhere near this little power grab attempt. His stock is so low in most circles that he’s a cellar-dweller.
May 29th, 2008 at 7:05 am
The Democrats have always used intimidation and harassment to control the outcome of its slating process. Insiders know this to be a fact. Ask several of their current and former officeholders. State Rep. Bill Crawford, Councillor Rozelle Boyd, Judge Kim Brown, just to name a few.
If you are not a member of the Ghetto Mafia, you are punished.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Gray may have been involved after all Vern and Monroe are BFFLs, just ask Vern he’ll tell you. If you ask Monroe will just say… huh?
May 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
speaking of sweet pea, what’s going on with his ethics violations investigation?
May 29th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Mahern wasn’t punished? Umm…. Stacking the deck against him at slating to take over his Dad’s old seat wasn’t punishment?
Keep up, Abdul.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Keep up the good work Abdul.
We all need to keep an eye on the CCC crooks.
They have proven time after time they can’t be trusted.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Abbie,
You haven’t been around long enough. This reminds me of the days of Jack Cottey, Schneider, Bill Dowden, Beurt SerVass, Goldsmith and company. Now they ran a machine (well oiled). Ain’t nothing new, just a different party.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Dane has said Mayor P campaigned against him (calling PC’s from Boston) in his attempt to be slated for House District 97 because he the voted against 65% COIT increase.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Dane Mahern can SAY anything he wants–I happen to know Bart Peterson didn’t call anyone from Boston to retalliate regarding the COIT vote. He did take some phone calls, from loyalists who asked that question, and to more than one, he replied: “I don’t care.” He’s just not that bitter. It’s not the way he operates. Frankly, if he’d kept better score during his second term, of his enemies and friends, and rewarded his friends as well as he rewarded the goofballs, he might still be mayor. Strike that. He WOULD still be mayor.
PP, darlin, Mahern did it to himself. It was karma. LOTS of knives out there waiting to stab him. He had many stiffs there himself. Brothers, cousins, spouses…try to pay attention, huh? The little worm got what he deserved, and we got a better legislative candidate. And since the Dems lost the council, we don’t have to watch those agonizing Ch. 16 committee hearings he used to chair. That, dear friends, was mental torture.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Peterson wrote an endorsement letter prior to slating endorsing Dane Mahern’s opponent.
The Maherns have worn out their welcome in this town. Think again has it right - dead on.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Melyssa,
Thanks for non support from all of you, I see the ethics violations investigation has died once again. Go watch it on the channle 16 web site. I forced a meeting by sending a complaint to the full counslor on this a couple of months ago. There was three hearings were held. The last one the committee decided that there was no public interested. So I do not look for a future hearing to be held. Its a shame after the election that citizens let this fall once again to the way side after all the attention it got before the election.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:09 am
If you want to read the whole report on the last meeting, I posted it to http://indianapolsnewgoverment2008.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-on-investigation-of-monroe-gray.html
May 30th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Mr. Myers: Thanks for your efforts & sorry I didn’t make it. I can only suggest same thing I asked Abdul: If there’s a hearing, meeting, rally or whatever that’s in the ideological ballpark of the collective disgust felt this past summer, please let us know (I suggest this blog). It doesn’t guarantee participation & some are understandably jaded, but it beats not knowing about it. If you did this and I missed it, pardon again.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
David, Do you realize my activism cost me about $30,000 in lost commissions last year due to the time I gave it? You have nerve saying I wasn’t active. I gave up plenty of my life to help my city, but I am not going to sacrifice my job and my significant other to the activism and it was headed that way.
May 30th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
By the way, I am not a cable subscriber therefore I do not get Channel 16. I do understand that in the future we will possibly have government access TV for free via a digital channel. I think citizens should not have to pay to get government access TV. It should be funded by our tax dollars.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
That’s what PEGs are for - talk to Comcast.
It is better to run them privately as the company is responsible for the content and not the city.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Here’s something rotten, from the prosecutor who placed Charles Manson behind bars:
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http://www.prosecutionofbush.com/