Comments on: What I’m Watching

By: melyssa

melyssa — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:39:28 +0000

Abdul, Thanks for the answer. I can't help but think if they use these shenanigans to slate their candidates, that their candidates would employ the same backroom dealings if elected. People should pay close attention to how these political parties operate.

You are right, political parties are not democracies. But rather they can choose how they want to conduct their affairs. Their choices give us plenty of information about who they really are when it comes to action as opposed to their phony public rhetoric.

The Marion County GOP has shown itself to be sneaky and backdoor dealing...a complete and utter face slap to all the good people that worked to give them the mayor's office and the council majority.

We trusted them. And their word is no good.

By: Indiana_Barrister

Indiana_Barrister — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:23:11 +0000

Melissa,

I did look into that. The meeting of the two candidates was the Center Township Republican group. The two who were invited were the two the ward chairmen all agreed on. A candidate may not like, but that's how it is. The danger is that it alienates pcs and may push people towards a candidate who were otherwise open-minded or agnostic on others.

As far as David serving, it's not my party so I don't care.

Political parties are not democracies. They can do whatever they want, but like everything else in life, there are consequences to those actions.

By: Matthew Stone

Matthew Stone — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:37:27 +0000

TA, while everyone deserves a presumption of innocence before convicted in a court of law, that only applies when they are actually facing criminal or civil charges. The principal was acting as if it's an actual possibility that there was no bullying occurring at all. They don't suspend kids for no reason, so they KNOW something did happen. What no one knows is if it can transfer into a criminal charge.

By: Melyssa

Melyssa — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:13:05 +0000

Abdul, I'm curious what your take is regarding the Marion County GOP allowing just two of the nine candidates for the at-large city council seat address the PC's who are responsible to choose Kent Smith's replacement for his seat.

I'm also curious what your take is on the fact that David Brooks, who is a Hamilton County resident, is playing a leadership role in the Marion County GOP when he doesn't live here.

By: Think Again

Think Again — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:17:12 +0000

Pascal, it might surpriser you, but I'm with Rico on this one.

However, everyone deserves the presumption of innocence, and a thorough impartial investigation. I'm guessing the investigation is difficult because of the many moving parts of this story. We don't know all the facts. But we do know this:

More than once incident is involved. The bus incident was on one of those "short" buses, and any adults on that bus should've been able to hear a gnat fart at the back of the bus. FOur seniors have been dismissed form the team, for the critical week before and including the sectional tourney.

In Indiana, that's huge. So there must be a lot of fire where there's a lot of smoke. Sports mean more to Carmelites than they should...so this has to be huge.

And my overwhelming thoughts keep going back to the allegedly assaulted students. I hope they're OK, and that they're getting the help they need.

"Something to do with Washington Township." I'm not sure what that means, Pascal. Did a similar incident happen there?

By: Hector

Hector — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:47:41 +0000

..but this is Carmel and the rules that apply to the rest of us, do not always them to people from Carmel…..

By: pascal

pascal — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:14:31 +0000

Rico, listen up! Government schools have had decades of experience in avoiding responsibilties of every kind, shape, type or manner. If you think about it, “Government” should be the noun since not much occurs in schools. Government has decades of experience in avoiding responsibilities. Clear? Given the silence, I'm thinking that TA might have had something to do with Washington Township.

By: Rico

Rico — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:33:16 +0000

First of all, let's call it an assault, not a 'hazing incident'. Second, if the coaches were on the bus, then they are liable. No DCS investigation should be necessary. If this happened to students in their charge, they're responsible–period!

By: pascal

pascal — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:29:55 +0000

http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-laws... One might ask that if your ears are up and catch anything at all about this?