tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post3904125577036937782..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-63632512912866223942012-09-21T10:42:26.514-05:002012-09-21T10:42:26.514-05:00If a Democratic Mayor were doing what Ballard does, Republican Councilors would be screaming at the top of their lungs. Yet we give him a pass because he has a jersey with an &quot;R&quot; on it. At some point parties have to stand for priniciple or they&#39;re pointless.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-44163855560477074882012-09-21T10:02:59.904-05:002012-09-21T10:02:59.904-05:00Can you imagine how much trouble former Mayor Bart Peterson would have been if he&#39;d done as many overseas junkets as Ballard?<br /><br />Remember the Elkhart mayor who was pilloried by the press for visiting his town&#39;s Sister City?<br /><br />Now we have Ballard flying in the vapor trails of LA&#39;s late Mayor Sam Yorty and amassing both overseas travels and Sister Cities by the dozen.<br /><br />And, to what effect? The population of Australia is just over 22 million (Indy is a million). What sorts of business opportunities can he cadge for Indy in a country so small?Hoosier in the Heartlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07049824713120857184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-20645765296729498382012-09-21T05:42:03.152-05:002012-09-21T05:42:03.152-05:00Taking a junket to Australia shows that the Mayor is as out-of-touch as his North District Police <i>Commander</i>!<br /><br />We have home invasions here, a crazed NUT shooting at OUR neighborhood policemen in Geist, the smallest police force in modern history, no accounting of the &quot;Straubification&quot; of the Public Safety Budget, our Mayor said he cannot afford to hire more police (so our police force will dwindle away), neighborhoods in <b>fear</b>are hiring off-duty police to patrol what had been a government service (until our Mayor took the police away so he can go on these junkets). <br /><br />OUT OF TOUCH - Mr. Mayor. You and your Police Commander!CircleCityScribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12691157547732269477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-52923340920474005322012-09-20T20:07:19.517-05:002012-09-20T20:07:19.517-05:00Maybe Ballard gets his ideas from Michelle Obama, world traveler.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14063261900488027828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-54546532947843911332012-09-20T19:48:30.070-05:002012-09-20T19:48:30.070-05:00How much do we need to raise taxes so he stays there?Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09490253182039581408noreply@blogger.com