$2.8 Million Grant For Skyline Project Awarded Courtesy Of Pence's Regional Cities Initiaitve

Gov. Mike Pence's Regional Cities Initiative is nothing but pork barrel politics at its worst. Public dollars are being passed out to bolster Pence's re-election without any regard for the public benefit those dollars provide. The best example of this is the $2.8 million that has been awarded to Fort Wayne's Skyline project by the Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority from Pence's original $42 million Regional Cities Initiative, which got doubled during this year's legislative session.

The City of Fort Wayne had already approved the $98 million Skyline downtown project and kicked in $39 million in local money for the project, So why is nearly $3 million of our state tax dollars being handed out to a private developer for a project already under construction? So much for Mike Pence being a fiscal conservative. He's a tax-and-spend pork barrel politician who thinks our public tax dollars are fungible when it comes to running his re-election campaign. The Pence-controlled IEDC still has to sign off on the awarding of the grant, but that decision is already a foregone conclusion.