Comments on Advance Indiana™: City Ensured Stink-Free Super Bowl, Tells Southside Neighbors To Drop Dead Any Other Day Of The Week

My pleasure. Thanks for your blog bringing it to l...

2015-03-10T08:26:40.260-05:00

My pleasure. Thanks for your blog bringing it to light as well. It has gone on long enough and needs to stop.

Thanks for sharing, Jeff.

2015-03-10T08:06:52.463-05:00

Thanks for sharing, Jeff.

We are doing everything we can to bring this issue...

2015-03-10T07:52:36.576-05:00

We are doing everything we can to bring this issue to resolution. The recent news stories are only happening due to the public meeting that local government requested by IDEM: http://www.in.gov/activecalendar/EventList.aspx?view=EventDetails&eventidn=203756&information_id=210300. If not for that meeting, no one would even be talking about this. Hoping IDEM does it's job and addresses this once and for all. We will all be watching.

12:43, I fully believe Daniels was the real sleaz...

2015-03-09T15:33:47.937-05:00

12:43,

I fully believe Daniels was the real sleaze behind this deal. Ballard took orders from Daniels, and nobody at the State would dare cross Mitch.

It's obvious the politicos representing the re...

2015-03-09T12:43:46.129-05:00

It's obvious the politicos representing the residents of the affected area have nothing but contempt for them. I'm sure the politicos feel the residents are nothing but a nuisance and the only "constituent" that genuinely matters is the lubricant factory.

I'm sure the company received "something" for their cooperation. Perhaps they received invitations to one of those exclusive Super Bowl parties attended by "out of state talent"?

I wouldn't doubt that puny and runt of a man,Mitch "Napoleon" Daniels had a hand in this. Guys like Rick Powers and state IDEM Commissioner Tom Easterly are simply lackeys/toadies. If Daniels told them to arrive at his office wearing women's apparel,lipstick,thigh-high stockings,heels and for the two of them to get down on their knees and summarily kiss the ring on Daniel's finger they would do so enthusiastically.

Look into Rick Powers and Jessica Tucker, with Ric...

2015-03-08T21:35:19.471-05:00

Look into Rick Powers and Jessica Tucker, with Rick getting Jessica a better job at the City.

Not sure where Jessica is, these days. I saw Sen. Donnelly has a Jessica Tucker on his staff.

By the way, have you noticed all the turmoil up at Purdue? The Provost just quit. Is Mitch turning Purdue into a Reich training academy? There's always a dark cloud of militaristic obedience hanging over Purdue, but the iron curtain seems to have descended up there.

Rick Powers wasn't even a resident of the City...

2015-03-08T21:15:28.441-05:00

Rick Powers wasn't even a resident of the City of Indianapolis while he was serving as Director of Code Enforcement. He and his wife live in the Chicago suburbs. Now he's got a job working at INDOT up in Northwest Indiana so he doesn't have to commute as far to work.

Rick Powers has a reputation as "kind of a do...

2015-03-08T21:06:54.596-05:00

Rick Powers has a reputation as "kind of a douche" who will smile to your face, then stab you in the back.

He's also, I believe, a former Marine, in keeping with the military junta that runs Indianapolis. He was happy to see Ballard get elected.

Paul O at 6:42- You've nailed Jeff Miller perf...

2015-03-08T19:35:20.535-05:00

Paul O at 6:42- You've nailed Jeff Miller perfectly. I remember pre-City Council Jeff Miller at the old CC Downtown GOP meetings where Miller was an absolute nobody yet ubiquitous at everyone's elbows and tables... working so hard to be in anyone's inner circle.. the only reason the RINO establishment cronies listen to Jeff now is because Miller will gladly tow the establishment Marion County GOP sell-out crowd. A former CC Councilor who is now employed tangentially by his good friend RINO R Governor whom we are cursed with was a council "voting model" for Jeff Miller.

Yes, Miller moans and sighs about "fairness" and his constituents "getting their voices heard" but the expert fence-straddler consistently sells out to the special interests time and time again.

IDEM was the only other party to the agreement, an...

2015-03-08T18:58:20.678-05:00

IDEM was the only other party to the agreement, and the City says it didn't pay them anything. The only reason IDEM would have become involved was because of its pending enforcement action over the 2010 spill. Was a $30,000 fine the appropriate fine for the oil spill? The company claims its economic loss was about $1 million for the shutdown, which sounds a bit high.

Cut Jeff Miller some.slack. He works hard promotin...

2015-03-08T18:42:22.297-05:00

Cut Jeff Miller some.slack. He works hard promoting the pay to play crowd, feighning that it's alway for the best interests of his constituents.

I few days ago in a comment I wondered about the ...

2015-03-08T17:23:35.994-05:00

I few days ago in a comment I wondered about the source of the Down Town Stank when I drive there. I thought it had something to do with the State House. Turns out I was partially right, it was indeed Political but we now know in addition to the State House we have secondary source of Stank from the City Of Indianapolis.

It seems that some Environmental Activists are correct - In Indiana the Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies exist to shield Businesses.

I found this statement interesting:
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The Star says the company's president signed a "voluntary agreement" with former Code Enforcement Director Rick Powers and state IDEM Commissioner Tom Easterly on January 23, 2012 under which the company agreed to shut down its operations from January 30 to February 6.
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If there was in fact a statement that was signed maybe it is obtainable via FOIA. Then again it probably disappeared with some the ROC Documents.

I am wondering if that part of the deal involved t...

2015-03-08T17:11:58.752-05:00

I am wondering if that part of the deal involved the workers receiving one week's unemployment benefits during the shutdown period....this kind of thing has long happened in the auto industry where its workers get UI benefits during periods where the plants are retooling, even though the workers have not lost their jobs.......that obviously does not benefit the company (I am sure that some favors to the owners were extended - we just need to find out what) Note that the IDEM statements says that "no IDEM assistance was extended".....well what about DWD assistance.....even if no such aid was extended to the workers, this whole deal stinks....

This story reminds me of the '08 Beijing Olymp...

2015-03-08T15:28:51.363-05:00

This story reminds me of the '08 Beijing Olympics - the Chinese government temporarily limiting use of cars in attempt to temporarily dissipate their filthy smog-ridden air from view while they were front and center on the world stage.

What's the excuse of Jeff Miller, the city cou...

2015-03-08T14:22:52.544-05:00

What's the excuse of Jeff Miller, the city council member for this district not fighting for his constituents?

Anon 1250: you are correct, though sadly this jun...

2015-03-08T13:53:16.365-05:00

Anon 1250: you are correct, though sadly this junk is taking over this whole corrupt country. The other place I pay taxes, a ski resort in Colorado, where the only stench is from the natural hot springs and the only blight is from developers making bad bets in the Federal Reserve-induced real estate bubble in 2000s, is following the primrose path of Detroit, Chicago, and Indy/Carmel. I was even an up-and-coming member of the insider class in Steamboat but over the years from websites like Gary's and others have learned boomerism is just plain-ol' corruption. I am trying my best there but it won't work. Not until the dollar collapses and gold becomes currency again.

http://m.steamboattoday.com/news/2015/mar/07/our-view-more-bang-uras-bucks/#comments

That the Gannett-owned and ruined Indianapolis Sta...

2015-03-08T12:50:48.527-05:00

That the Gannett-owned and ruined Indianapolis Star is years late to just about any real news story, that city politicians and officials will go to any lengths to protect their agendas, and that working Marion County residents are out of the loop of services and a voice and a seat at the table when it comes to the so-called “elites” is nothing new.

That Super Bowl XLVI was a huge opportunity for political Marion County cronies to earn money at the expense of the Marion County tax payers is not news. What role did Bob Grand play on SB 2012 and was that a private legally created entity or was it a public entity? Who were the members? And where is the money generated/earned by participants in the SB 2012? Were there "favors" doled out by SB 2012 and did Bob Grand regulate who got what?

We hoped supporting people like ZA would bring in a fresh change but he’s proved to be the same stale air of insider politics hallmarked by personal enrichment. We hoped almost eight years ago that GB would improve the City but he too is an accomplished chameleon who broke every promise he made and increased every City fee he could lay his porculent corrupt hands on. Of State Republican Legislator attorney Brian Bosma, we who voted for him (never again, however!) learn that he is bought and paid for by Ersal Ozdemir. What else is “not new”?

One thing not new is that the establishment Democrats and Republicans have perverted the political system and a wholesale change is needed. Considering how chained down the entrenched Democrats and Republicans have kept and continue to keep the system nailed tight to prevent fresh air and non-depraved participants from entry… nothing will be new.