tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post115629377995230228..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1156377059919914082006-08-23T18:50:00.000-05:002006-08-23T18:50:00.000-05:00This issue sure started with a lot of bluster, and ended with a whimper.<BR/><BR/>When the original announcement was made,I was concerned that the fines and jail time faced by the vendors was too much. There are very few vendors, and especially if it would later be found that the vendors were innocent, all vendors might look at Indiana as a state too hostile to do business in. Then what would we do for an election?<BR/><BR/>But, to wind up like this sure looks like a lot of grandstanding on the front end, and a lot of sweeping under the rug at the back end. Somebody's trying to save face here, eh?Legacy Userhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08642308202874030326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1156347146232238042006-08-23T10:32:00.000-05:002006-08-23T10:32:00.000-05:00Sounds like a cozy deal to me.<BR/><BR/>Has anyone researched the vendor's political contributions in Indiana?<BR/><BR/>The minimum fine should've been 1.5 times the outstanding balance due them. Otherwise, isn't it just transferring money from one invoice to another?<BR/><BR/>By my math, the vendor is ahead a quarter million or so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1156337511029353852006-08-23T07:51:00.000-05:002006-08-23T07:51:00.000-05:00I should point out that Rokita was witholding from the counties over $1 million in federal funds which was needed by the counties to pay outstanding bills owed to ES&S for their problem software. So ES&S will have $245,000 in hand from those payments to hand over to the state for the special fund. The balance owed to the counties, however, is in the form of services and not cash payments. I would question whether the value of those services is actually as high as it has been pegged by the Secretary of State in this settlement.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1156333705898584342006-08-23T06:48:00.000-05:002006-08-23T06:48:00.000-05:00Todd is on the ballot this fall.<BR/><BR/>He deserves to be turned away. This is disgraceful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1156302108308595502006-08-22T22:01:00.000-05:002006-08-22T22:01:00.000-05:00<I>"The corrupt insiders are masters at the game of smear. Eric Dickerson is just the latest in a long list of victims on that score. If only there were real reporters who still investigated public corruption and avoided the lure of these useless sideshows the corrupt insiders feed them for easy consumption, more good people might enter politics. But as long as the mainstream media continues to reward corrupt insiders while shredding newcomers on a whim, that's not going to happen."</I><BR/><BR/>Amen, Gary! What a perfect description of the collusion between corrupt insiders and their lazy media enablers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com