tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post1520103486295623373..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-36111419101127971262016-03-01T08:38:32.401-05:002016-03-01T08:38:32.401-05:00<br />Mr. Pence’s choice of Ellspermann was from the outset a reason to doubt the faux conservative Republican’s critical thought abilities. Pence’s elevation of the ultimate crony insider rent-a-civic-mouthpiece Eric Holcomb sealed it for those of us who appropriately comprehend Holcomb for who and what he is actually all about. We also see again what the wooden and ineffective Mike Pence is all about and that is very little of substance. Think Rick Hite.<br /><br />Pence Must Go. His BFF JC should walk alongside in that departure.<br /><br />All these local and state GOP insider deals moving political chits from one chess square to another, most with overpaid job positions and associated benefits the taxpayers footing the bills will never in their lifetimes be able to achieve, must end.<br /><br />But the icing on the cake for me in this Advance Indiana report is the apt description of the uber-corrupt, nepotist RINO Greg Ballard as he casts about for a high paying, visible, prominent job allowing him to remain in the political loop. No doubt about it! <i>Ballard is interested in a job “he is completely unqualified to fill”</i>. That <i>“Ballard taught business classes at a five-and-dime business school for a short period following his retirement from the Marines”</i> made me laugh out loud. Standing before students at a “five-and-dime business school” explains all the financial and legal trouble Greg Ballard rained down on this city with his multiple crony, often law-breaking deals.<br /><br />I do not support Ellspermann being named Ivy Tech’s new president simply because Mike Pence wants that outcome to make his disposal easier for the public to swallow, but I also would be horrified if the Ivy Tech board was so brain dead as to select numbskull Greg Ballard as the new president of a community college working hard to improve its public image as an institution of real learning.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com