Comments on Advance Indiana™: Retired Barnes & Thornburg Partner Unloads On Indy Eleven Soccer Stadium Deal And Former Colleagues

If these guys(Ballard et al) wore track suits and ...

2015-02-26T20:31:32.351-05:00

If these guys(Ballard et al) wore track suits and drove Cadillacs, we'd call them the Mob and demand the Feds step in.

Impressive!

2015-02-26T11:10:58.083-05:00

Impressive!

I forwarded the original to a relation that is a p...

2015-02-26T10:48:47.786-05:00

I forwarded the original to a relation that is a partner at B&T, but not this version knowing I couldn't pass up chance to comment! Of course her/his spouse has also worked for all the power brokers as well. Any hits from B&T servers today Gary?

Anon @123 may be onto something considering another article Gary wrote about Hutson connects him to Nixon's mass spying. Is Hutson playing the patsy-type here? I can't come up with the correct spy craft double agent role.

Two thoughts -- I've been around the General A...

2015-02-26T10:04:23.342-05:00

Two thoughts -- I've been around the General Assembly for about 35 years now and this is about the odious issue I can remember. It is just appalling how the fiscal assumptions -- which we all now are totally bogus -- are not being questioned by legislators. This is a bad deal for the taxpayers and should be scuttled --

Secondly, I have said it before, but Todd Huston is nicely picking up the ethical void left by Eric Turner....His career provides one more example of the abject need for a county prosecutor or US Attorney with the gumption to take on these public corruption cases...Huston's past shenanigans with the DOE and his purchase of that AV equipment that benefitted his employer is one example. There are others

If America's to remain a nation of laws or a c...

2015-02-26T09:55:04.278-05:00

If America's to remain a nation of laws or a constitutional republic; many more people like Mr. Huston will need to speak out.

Big law, has seen morbid & steroidal growth; in direct proportion to its role as auctioneer of the public treasury, as a conduit for the conflicted & blind ambitions of participating "clients." Ambition is a charitable description for what is really greed.

Sure, the Indy 11 scarves are cool. So, why not sell merchandise & tickets & business your way, to needed capital; rather than hench-lobby the capitol into strangling taxpayers for the fruits of their labor, with what was originally a marketable scarf & identity? Why the rush to raid the public treasury?

The half-pregnant illogic of public / private partnerships is a collusion to collision course of narrow interest ambitions & public interest.

Soccer's a great sport, which the free market will support at an organic level; without the cool-kid syndromic or inorganic intrusion by government on behalf of played favorites. Is history somehow inadequate, to tell us how these misadventures end?

Keep talking Mr. Huston & encourage your peers to do the same. You might just help us save the country- from ourselves; with that which is better within us...

Pockets of Oxdemir date back prior to 9/11 and his...

2015-02-26T01:23:54.750-05:00

Pockets of Oxdemir date back prior to 9/11 and his country's involvement with Indy and buying folks out...Follow the money..

Question, is there any politician not in the pocke...

2015-02-25T23:59:28.202-05:00

Question, is there any politician not in the pocket of Ozdemir?

Giving our tax money to a Turkish national for an ...

2015-02-25T23:56:18.097-05:00

Giving our tax money to a Turkish national for an idea that is just a prima-facie failure is wrong. Our legislators are supposed to be good stewards of our tax money.

HB 1273 appears to be a betrayal of the trust placed in our legislators as good stewards of our tax money.