Jim Irsay wonders why he got bad PR. Hey Jimmy, re-hire Myra.

You’re missing the point on Ballard’s CIB Skyline meeting, Abdul. I am all for his trying any alternative, and listening to ideas. But this group of fatcats has full access to his office 24/7. And he broadcast his meeting on Twitter and by other means. Stupid.

Greg, you’re wrong abut Bowes. e has handled a very difficult assessor’s job with tremendous ability. You should count your lucky stars that there isn’t a township Dem hack in that position during this transition. Imagine the possibilities for nonsense.

Woody Myers impressed me during his Congressional run. He’s smart and capable. But residency requirements are what they are. If he has any signed documents, like federal campaign declarations or report,s that are linked to other addresses outside the city, during the eligibility period, he’s toast for mayor in 2011.

It shouldn’t be difficult to assertain, whichever way it goes.

But then…rich hotshots drive around town with Fla. plates all the time. Some folks don’t get the residency thing.

I say again Greg cannot win slating if Linda decides to make a run. Just compare the qualifications. No contest.

Now we just need a competent Marion County Treasurer that can get the property tax bills out on time.

Mike Rodman needs to be replaced.

An addendum:

Jim Irsay doesn’t know why the Colts have been getting bad publicity over the CIB bailout? Is his PR skills really that bad? If so, he needs to hire someone who better understands PR.
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As far as the Irsay meeting, the desicription that they were “informational and productive” sounds like nothing more than spin. Pray tell, what new information Mayor Ballard had to bring to the table to justify using taxpayer money to bail out the CIB? Haven’t we heard it all? Is there something new other than his tall tales that this has nothing to do with the Colts and Pacers but is about the convention business and those falling dominos?
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Unless someone comes forward and tells me what new information Ballard had to present at the meeting, I’m much more inclined to believe the account posted by Terry Burns over at Indianapolis Times than that the meeting was actually “informational and productive.”

PCs who are not elected and who do not pledge to vote the “right way” can be replaced by the county chairman. It happens all the time. I’ve had it happen to me.
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No, not all the slots were filled during the last reorganization. Tom John was filling PC slots just a month or two before the county convention out of concern he would have an opponent.
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There are always tons of vacancies in the organization. It’s tough to get people to be a precinct committeemen. There has probably never been a time in the last several decades that all the PC slots in Marion County have been filled at one time with actual working PCs. They only get filled when there is a slating contest of some sort coming up, or in this case a vacancy election. The term is “mummy dummy” – indiividuals who are appointed to just go to a slating contest to vote a certain way.
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I’ve been invovled in Marion County GOP organization since 1986. I’ve been a precinct committeeman, vice ward chairman, ward chairman, President of the Pike Twp GOP and a candidate. Trust me, I’ve seen all the games that are played when it comes to filling PC vacancies to throw slatings/elections certain ways. The only way Ryan Vaughn can win this is to have it rigged in his favor by party leaders. That may well be what happens.

Also, Tom John filled the PC slots with his lackeys before the last county convention.

Wait until some of those appointed PCs go to the caucus to select her replacement and find that Tom John has replaced them because word leaked out that they were not supporting JOhn’s candidate, Ryan Vaughn….the only way Ryan Vaughn can win is through tricks used by Tom John.

Nick, kindly refer to the Indiana Constitution and statutes for the county treasurer’s job description. You clearly have your head…well, somewhere besides where it needs to be.

The Treasurer can only send out the bills that are calculated by another office’s machinations. Rodman needed time to run the new calculations through a computer, or the bills would’ve been even worse.

And for all of you who think he did a bad job, I have two words for you: Monty Combes. That’s who the GOP wanted originally for treasurer, when Rodman won the first time.

Monty Combes=train wreck in any reasonable language.

lol @ Irsay. He bent the city over and will do so again but the really funny thing is he’s right: A Deal is a deal (regardless of surrounding municipal and national economic conditions…lol) and he’s right.
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Melina Kennedy. This is tough to say as I’ve met her and hubby but damn! If the democrats put her up she’ll get the same drumming she took when she ran for prosecutor. WTF is she thinking?

Daw-g, Melina lost by less than two points to an incumbent prosecutor. That’s a “drumming” ? (I think you meant “drubbing”)

I’m no Melina fan, but she did real well. COnsidering she had no prosecutorial experience and probably shouldn’t have been the nominee in the first place. And considering the party bigwigs elbowed out two other candidates with deep prosecutorial experience.

She may have “only” lost by 2 points but every other Dem on the ticket won big…..she was the sole loser and the drag on the ticket.

Now, Nick, if you or anyone else truly wants to be mad at Rodman, here’s a role he performs which has left many bewildered:

One county treasurer in Indiana is also a member of the Board of County Commissioners: Rodman. Because we have no County Commissioners elected separately, owing ot Unigov.

As a commissioner, he and his cohorts have made some appointments to boards and commissions, like the CIB.

There’s an issue you can sink your teeth into. You’re getting no traction whining about his performance as treasurer, cause there’s nothing there to whine about.

Looks like Councilor Coleman beat me to commenting that, indeed, he has been diligent in vetting some various proposal ideas and those are getting lined up to be introduced.
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In the meantime, this talk about the “Pit Bull Ban” is ridiculous. The problem is not the dogs, the problem is people who think it is cool to have a “mean” or “tough” dog and train whatever breed they have to be that way. You would be better served banning “morons”.
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I’ll also go out on a limb and suggest that from some of the council interactions I’ve seen, Jackie Nytes would indeed be a good candidate from her party for auditor.

I probably won’t vote for her, Daw-g, but you need to use a dictionary and look up “drubbing.”

She did real well considering her shortcomings, i.e., no prosecution record, strong incumbent with a heavy warchest, etc. No reasonable analysis can deny that.

I can tell you that she came off snotty to a lot of Demo PC types…and that some resented being “told” yet again for whom they should vote. Without being asked first.

It does make a difference.

OK, one more time, for Greg AND Daw-g, I looked up “drubbing,” and it indicates “sound and thrashing defeat,” which 2.8 points is not, by any reasonable definition.

She was well-financed, but her opponent raised an equal or larger sum, and was the incumbent. She had zippo trial experience, which her handlers and sponsors should’ve known the Republicans would use against her. Hell, I’d have used it against them if they’d had the brains to run a non-trial-experienced attorney.

Her loss was close; her candidacy was stupid…Mike O’Connor self–indulgence and hubris run amuck. It was always going to be the most-competitive race: 99% of the county couldn’t even name the other county offices or candidates. Her loss was not a drubbing. Can we end that debate please? Unless you want to rewrite the dictionary and common sense.

Who were the two candidates with deep prosecutorial experience pushed aside for Kennedy?

Another fact to remember – Even though she lost the prosecutor’s race (by a very slim margin as has been discussed), she still received around 30,000 more votes than Greg Ballard received in 2007. That’s right – about 30,000 more people have circled her name than have circled Greg’s. The baseline is leaning D and she is very qualified. There won’t be an opportunity for the mean spirited commercials doubting her experience and I agree, Ballard would be smart to leave teh CIB discussion out of the mix. His fingerprints are all over the problem now and for the record, Melina wasn’t that involved in the Colts negotiation.

I think that if the Melina Kennedy had run as a paper candidate, raising loads of money and never saying anything, she would have ridden the wave of Democrats being elected. Was there any other Marion County Democrat who lost in 2006 in a county-wide race?

I agree- not a drubbing. An embarrassing loss of what should have been an easy win, but hardly a drubbing.