tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post115987703631622187..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159937192855561012006-10-03T23:46:00.000-05:002006-10-03T23:46:00.000-05:00Response to Wilson:<BR/><BR/>My comments have my name on them!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159927279143540132006-10-03T21:01:00.000-05:002006-10-03T21:01:00.000-05:00<I>"been unconcious or <B>biting a pillow</B>,"</I><BR/><BR/>is that you again Jocelyn with your hateful GOP homophobia again?<BR/><BR/>Dickerson doesnt play that game, homie...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159927019528124052006-10-03T20:56:00.000-05:002006-10-03T20:56:00.000-05:00as the Township Clerk from 1991 to 2004 with a duty of working with the Township Board, I know for a certainty the adjective "Advisory" was deleted by the Legislature before 1990 - that deletion was quite noted by the Board and Trustee. <BR/><BR/>The dead hand of history often weighs heavily on the present - oldtimers sometimes still call it the Advisory Board - incorrectly.Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159916275933531422006-10-03T17:57:00.000-05:002006-10-03T17:57:00.000-05:00Carl Drummer is the biggest wannabe of the lot. We Center Township taxpayers pay for him to ride around in a Crown Vic tricked out as an unmarked police car. He carries a Deputy Constable badge...there's anotehr office that needs to go the way of the horse 'n buggy.<BR/><BR/>Can't wait to hear Trustee Drummer's defense tomorrw morning on Abdul's radio show. This oughta be good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159905105058439022006-10-03T14:51:00.000-05:002006-10-03T14:51:00.000-05:008:58 is so right. We need to do away with township trustee offices.<BR/><BR/>Mayor Peterson has been trying to get that done.<BR/><BR/>It's tough.<BR/><BR/>Like 8:58 points out, the 'police wannabe's' are a tough nut to crack.<BR/><BR/>This is an issue that ought to be spread around on the blogs. Maybe it can get some traction in the mainstream media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159895258516551412006-10-03T12:07:00.000-05:002006-10-03T12:07:00.000-05:00"<I>... so the GOP is now against grandmothers as well as against House pages?</I>"<BR/><BR/>Wilson you really *ARE* stupid. In case you've been unconcious or biting a pillow, <B>Granma</B> is the name of the state run propaganda newspaper run by Cuba's Fidel Castro.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159895050244245082006-10-03T12:04:00.000-05:002006-10-03T12:04:00.000-05:00Thank you for the lease/sale clarification, AI.<BR/><BR/>If Drummer indeed ignored the law, are the violations criminal?<BR/><BR/>If so, why isn't our erstwhile prosecutor prosecuting?<BR/><BR/>I'm told the good Mr. Drummer will be on Abdul's radio show tomorrow. What a hoot that oughta be. Trying to make a silk purse outta sow's ear.<BR/><BR/>And Wilson, the "Advisory" only went away in 1996 or 1998. The township board's budgetary role is a real one--if they don't approve a budgetary expense, it cannot be made. Still waitin' to hear who paid for the Ice Miller rezoning work. HmmmmmmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159893321088900412006-10-03T11:35:00.000-05:002006-10-03T11:35:00.000-05:00Did he wear makeup to his police photo shoot?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159892956573328892006-10-03T11:29:00.000-05:002006-10-03T11:29:00.000-05:00There are specific statutory procedures for both sales and leases (i.e, publishing notice, obtaining appraisals, fiscal body approval, if more than $25,000, etc.) Drummer ignored this law.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159888141185332792006-10-03T10:09:00.000-05:002006-10-03T10:09:00.000-05:00That may be the best mug shot I've ever seen. Glamourshots, maybe?<BR/><BR/>Refusal to take a test, huh? He's got a top-=dollar defense atorney...wonder if he'll try to beat the rap? He was clocked speeding and DUI on Michigan Road, which is, by the way, a Speedway 24/7...<BR/><BR/>Is dad embarrassed? He SHOULD be.<BR/>The bar owner will have to be chaueffered to work at Carson Center. For a year.<BR/><BR/>Oh what a tangled web they weave, when first they practice to deceive...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159888079430990642006-10-03T10:07:00.000-05:002006-10-03T10:07:00.000-05:00Do I have this right … A group of investors has dumped $500,000 into a renovation project of a government owned property -- an investment made which may now never see a penny’s return because specific lease procedures mAy not have been nailed down. <BR/><BR/>Seems to me that regardless of how this plays out it will be the residents of Center Township who stand everything to gain and nothing to lose. On the one hand, they could benefit from the opening of a new upscale business that will pay rent, hire employees, create commerce, pay taxes, etc. On the other, they are now the proud owners of a fabulous building makeover! <BR/><BR/>(In the interest of shameless self-promotion … if there are anymore like investors out there, we’d like to welcome you to makeover our home/property – no strings attached – anytime!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159882407344821462006-10-03T08:33:00.000-05:002006-10-03T08:33:00.000-05:00... so the GOP is now against grandmothers as well as against House pages?<BR/><BR/>but seriously, the Legislature removed the adjective "Advisory" from the Township Boards back in the 1980s. In this century, the Board has purely a budgetary role...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159880309997584252006-10-03T07:58:00.000-05:002006-10-03T07:58:00.000-05:00I have no hope for The Star any more. Thank God for AI, and the other blogs, who put information out there. <BR/><BR/>AI, is the "lease" portion of the disposal of public property, the same as "sale" ? I think the trustee believes he has to consult no one on a lease, only a sale. <BR/><BR/>This sorry episode is one more reason the township government system, a lame political fiefdom that sucks up money faster than a Hoover, should be exploded.<BR/><BR/>When you see bedfellows supporting township government, like Paul Ricketts and Carl Drummer, you know something's amiss. They're both making more money from the public than they ever could in the private sector. They drive township-provided cars (Drummer's is a Police Interceptor special, darkened windows, lights, siren, radio, the whole works...a police wannabe?) And they're jealously guarding their fiefdoms.<BR/><BR/>The township board up in Washington tried to cut the trustee's salary proportionately for 2007, because the trustee's main function, oversight of the Fire Dept. is gone after 1-1-07 (absorbed into IFD). The trustee there wouldn't hear of it.<BR/><BR/>Wake up, Indianapolis. We're throwing good moeny down a rat hole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1159879855671529612006-10-03T07:50:00.000-05:002006-10-03T07:50:00.000-05:00Did you expect any different from the Granma? Late and incomplete reporting. Yep that's the Granma these days.<BR/><BR/>Onward to November.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com