Is any helium involved with item # 4 ?

… now item # 5

Regarding #5, couldn't the problem be Vaughn's lack of experience and the fact he's a sell out who couldn't care less about taxpayers?

Ryan Vaughn has so many conflicts of interest that it would be unhealthy to have him serve in the legislature…..it is bad enough that he is on the city council voting on contracts for his employers.

In item #4, I didn't realize that a city councilor could let a criminal defendant off the hook………

Abdul, There are a lot of people that aren't crazy about Ryan Vaughn to represent district 30. I think your buddy Tom John and Bob Grand are all for it though. People I talk to in my neighborhood (District 30) want someone of principle in that office. Not another hired gun for the boys.

Putting union ahead of taxpayers sounds like Ms. Sanders will become a new Ballard convert. If she went the taxpayer way, I'd donate and put a sign in my yard if she'd run against Burton. Hold me to it.
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No way in heck any flavor of counselor that give's a rat's ass about the taxpayer should approve more CIB funding without a thorough independent audit of the CIB.
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Look for some City-Counselors to get rejuvinated campaign funding, excellent Colts and Pacers' seating, and the rest of us coming up behind the rats.
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I'm trying, t r y i n g, to look at the big, populist picture for Mayor Ballard. If there's not audit, it's getting tougher.

Hey Greg,
What happened to transparency in government. One of your campaign promises? I would go for the bailout if there was an independent audit by an out of state non political firm and some heads roll at the CIB.
It wouldn't hurt if Irsay and the Simon boys put up a few million to help.
Flipper

I've contacted a couple councilors to tell them that if they vote against tax increases for the CIB there will be quite a bit of political cover for them from the taxpayers. Conversely if they vote to increase our tax without first conducting an exhaustive forensic audit, there will be dire consequences for councilors that will make the 2007 COIT vote look minor. It is time the schemes of the millionaires and billionaires that are controlling things behinds the scenes came to a halt.

http://hoosiersforfairtaxation.blogspot.com/200...

Puzzled, you seem ot be confused.

The Legislature is the body that governs its lobbyists. With commission appointed by the legislature itself. There are more conflicts waling the Statehouse halls than cats at a mouse fight.

It could be numbers. Only 29 council members–150 legislators.

Still that unhealthy obsession thing is a tad creepy. Who's ahead in that race? Anyone know?

“…there will be dire consequences for councilors…”

Melyssa, as much as I luv ya, exactly what 'dire consequences' are awaiting these elected reprobates?

Is losing an election considered a 'dire consequence'? To me, losing my liberty or life would be a 'dire consequence'.

People really need to wonder at the mindset of people who aspire to be politicians. What are their real motivations?

I do not trust anyone who wants power over me and mine. Indeed, I would not trust ANYONE who wanted to be a politician, lawyer or judge who was not subjected to a rigorous interrogation while wired to a polygraph.

Until these politicians REALLY have to face 'dire consequences' (public caning, public gibbeting, stiff criminal penalties, etc), then simply losing an election should not qualify as a 'dire consequence'.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”– C.S. Lewis

Honey, how many councilors lost their job in 2007? If you are a public official, do you really want citizens targeting you for removal 24/7 for two years? Dire = job loss. Unfortunately the public caning will have to remain a frequent fantasy.

Sweetums (smile), not nearly enough lost their jobs. If we were really the 'masters', we would not need to wait for years to fire these reprobates.

The below statement of law is nothing but a fantasy.

“A fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of representative government is that government is the servant of the people and not their master.” — IC-5-14-3-1

Sweetums (smile), not nearly enough lost their jobs. If we were really the 'masters', we would not need to wait for years to fire these reprobates.

The below statement of law is nothing but a fantasy.

“A fundamental philosophy of the American constitutional form of representative government is that government is the servant of the people and not their master.” — IC-5-14-3-1