WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS ENEMAS?
Just when I think I’ve seen it all, something comes along that takes me completely by surprise and after I spend some time thinking about it, I remember I really shouldn’t. In case you’re wondering, I am referring the $15 million screw job Marion County House Democrats (MCHDs) put to fellow Democrat, Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson yesterday.
State Representative Bill Crawford, and his co-conspirators, squashed efforts to reform government in Marion County by opposing consolidation. There were opposed to the elimination of Township Trustees. And I’ve said before, it’s bizarre that they were all for consolidating the trustees two years ago, but now that Democrats have six of the nine townships in Marion County, they are opposed to it. Crawford and the Democrats remind me of the pigs in “Animal Farm” where they advocated for revolution and once they got in power emulated the behavior of their human oppressors. I think at one point I saw Crawford’s face morph in Republican State Senator Mike Young.
What makes this even more of an embarrassment is that the MCHDs have also opposed charter schools, something the Mayor is a big advocate. Their reasons for opposing schools are ridiculous at best and almost criminal to say the least. Democrat Greg Porter, who sends his kids to private schools by the way, opposed choice and charter schools because he’s afraid poor black children may end up acting “white” if they don’t go to an IPS School. I guess acting white must mean not speaking English like it’s a second language and not using “be” in its infinitive form.
If I was Bart Peterson, I would be furious right now. I would be livid that the people who have ridden my coattails for the past eight years only turn around to not only stab me in the back, but carve their initials in it using Old English font. Mr. Mayor, I feel your pain. And I know we’ve had some philosophical differences in the past, but allow me to make a suggestion, because I’ve always agreed with you in principle on consolidation.
Obviously, these guys don’t respect you and have shown their true colors. They are more concerned about protecting their friends than advocating good government. If that’s the case then let them. Don’t run for re-election. Take your $3 million in the bank, your fund-raising ability and all-around good personality and tell the Black Marion County Democrats to go to hell. These people will be lost without you. Go back to being a developer and build along the border of Marion and the donut counties. You will become even more of a millionaire than you are now, because with these clowns in charge, who will want to stay here.
It’s now obvious what they think of you based on their behavior this session. I say return the favor. Of course I will say if you were Black, I doubt you would get this treatment. So if consolidation doesn’t pass in the next 12 hours, you know who to blame. This County definitely needs an enema because we now know what part of the political establishment is full of.
