Comments on Advance Indiana™: Republican Council Members Continue To Aid Ballard Administration Stonewalling In ROC Investigation

You wrote-- It's time for professional prosecu...

2014-02-11T11:51:30.554-05:00

You wrote-- It's time for professional prosecutors in this town to step up and do what they should have done months ago and start hauling these stone-walling public officials before a grand jury where they will have to testify under penalties of perjury. -- It's time for Washington's Integrity Division and DOJ to do this and other matters. How does this differ from the DCS Call Centers with pay-to-players. Agenda's in this town go back as soon as Gov.O'Bannon passed. The players had plans for a long time.

I maybe wrong, but I suspect the Democrats will no...

2014-02-11T10:32:41.064-05:00

I maybe wrong, but I suspect the Democrats will not want to push the issue. Tearing the curtain down and exposing this "Deal" to the light of day could reveal that certain Democrats and/or their friends or relatives benefited from it or at that very least were incompetent in their oversight.

I further do not see Smoking Joe Hogsett or Curry moving on this. The Organs of State Security are more concerned with the preservation of privilege, that is Crony-Capitalism.

The only hope is a local whistle blower will come forward.

Is Ballard, is Romney. The national party had bet...

2014-02-11T10:20:45.174-05:00

Is Ballard, is Romney.

The national party had better say the word and let the US Attorney throw these slimeballs in Terre Haute before they utterly kill the national party.

All it takes is one word from the RNC to Obama, and Indy can be free of Ballard and Barnes and Thornburg.

It's well past time for Tammany Hall to end in Indianapolis.

Couple small notes: 1. The Eastgate property got ...

2014-02-11T10:03:08.005-05:00

Couple small notes:

1. The Eastgate property got a property tax abatement from the city.

2. Alex Carroll is a d*ckhead.

Thanks, Pat. I'm aware of Carroll's commen...

2014-02-11T09:42:41.878-05:00

Thanks, Pat. I'm aware of Carroll's comments to the reporter. No documents have been produced to date to corroborate that, assuming there wasn't a miscommunication about the deal in that interview. And yes, it was sort of like the Center Township lease agreement for 300 East where the tenant was in possession and making improvements to the property before a lease had been executed or the proper zoning approvals had been obtained. Carl Brizzi refused to investigate that case even after Carl Drummer was on record admitting that Indiana law was not followed for entering into a lease for government-owned property. Who worked for Brizzi's grand jury? Yeah, Aaron Freeman.

Thanks for the linear history here, Gary. I would...

2014-02-11T09:09:51.468-05:00

Thanks for the linear history here, Gary. I would only add two things - Carroll told a reporter of a secret deal of some substantial monetary nature with the administration prior to the contract. In addition, during the Council committee's first meeting on the contract, it was disclosed that renovations of the ROC facility were already underway.

Is this the same Republican City Councilor Ben Hun...

2014-02-11T08:24:45.182-05:00

Is this the same Republican City Councilor Ben Hunter involved in the smoke detector kick-back scheme you reported on a few days ago?

Republicans in this city are a joke. They no longe...

2014-02-11T08:19:07.441-05:00

Republicans in this city are a joke. They no longer represent republican viewpoints and values. They are only concerned with their own re-elections and the benefits they receive at the public trough and from the high rollers in this city.
Ben Hunter has his eye on the big building at the end of West Market Street.

It's time for a request to the Department of J...

2014-02-11T06:17:35.822-05:00

It's time for a request to the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section (PIN) in Washington to ask them to do what Joe Hogsett can't do....investigate the corruption.

The Public Integrity Section (PIN) oversees the federal effort to combat corruption through the prosecution of elected and appointed public officials at all levels of government.

Section attorneys prosecute selected cases against federal, state, and local officials.

Public Integrity Section Direct Line (202) 514-1412

A criminal investigation is warranted and, it would appear, a request to Washington is the only way it will happen. The taxpayers of Indianapolis are out several million dollars and justice needs to be served!