Comments on Advance Indiana™: Miller's Self-Dealing At Advance America Escalates

If Jesus were here, he'd toss Eric the Money Chang...

2007-04-08T20:11:00.000-05:00

If Jesus were here, he'd toss Eric the Money Changer out of the Temple.

Not so sure. If you just did a nice big pie chart...

2007-04-08T08:42:00.000-05:00

Not so sure. If you just did a nice big pie chart with lots of pretty colors that says "Where do your dollars go" and they see that Eric is eating chunks out of that pie like Eric Cartman, that might open some eyes.

LOL. Wonder if Eric Miller has ever been compared to Eric Cartman? I can see him now : "You *will* respect my authoritay!"

Nice thought, Paula. It's a definite possibility....

2007-04-08T05:47:00.000-05:00

Nice thought, Paula. It's a definite possibility.

But the thought process at many of those churches is only skin-deep anyway. Unless you send along a primer on tax policies, they'd liukely view it as an attack on St. Eric.

It's a herd mentality, unfortunately.

Perhaps we are working the wrong angle? Has anyon...

2007-04-07T20:45:00.000-05:00

Perhaps we are working the wrong angle? Has anyone tried sending this information to the various pastors of the churches? I don't think the sheeple much like being played for a fool. Once they know that the money they send mostly goes directly to Mr. Miller, they might be a bit upset.

Or maybe they think the ends justify the means. That wouldn't surprise me.

on to of this power, he is clearly protecting a so...

2007-04-07T15:16:00.000-05:00

on to of this power, he is clearly protecting a solid income stream.

And hell hath no fury like a zealot protecting his young or his wallet.

The IRS route is the best way. Everyone shoudl do it--'tis the season anyway! Apr. 15 looms! I'll bet his return is a fantastic work of fiction.

AI writes:Some of the people in the MSM, believe i...

2007-04-07T11:00:00.000-05:00

AI writes:

Some of the people in the MSM, believe it or not, dismiss the reach of his power. They think folks like you and I are giving him more credit than he is due.

I do believe it, but they couldn't be more wrong. The man has orchestrated two proposed CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS in as many years for crissakes, both of which are still alive (the recent committee defeat of the marriage amendment notwithstanding, that one WILL be back with a vengeance).

He engineered the defeat of a Hate Crimes law that only five states don't have, he organized an 11th hour derailment of a Human Rights Ordinance that was supposed to quietly pass without fanfare, and he is responsible for God being slapped on the back of tens of thousands of Hoosier automobiles. There's much more but you get the picture.

On top of that, he ran a credible and fairly well-funded campaign for governor in 2004.

If this is not political power, then what is?

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/...

2007-04-07T10:38:00.000-05:00

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/
article/0,,id=106778,00.html

take out the space, I don't know how to do the short link thing!

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/...

2007-04-07T10:36:00.000-05:00

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/enforcement/article/0,,id=106778,00.html

"I would encourage people to file complaints with ...

2007-04-07T10:11:00.000-05:00

"I would encourage people to file complaints with the IRS."

How?

I would encourage people to file complaints with t...

2007-04-07T09:38:00.000-05:00

I would encourage people to file complaints with the IRS. Others have done so in the past. I can tell you that about a year ago someone from www.irs.gov was logged on to this site, searching the archives of all the Advance America postings specifically. Jeff, the Star situation is simply inexplicable. I don't know how many times someone would tell me the Star was going to do a big expose on Miller, only to be disappointed. Some of the people in the MSM, believe it or not, dismiss the reach of his power. They think folks like you and I are giving him more credit than he is due.

"Churches and pastors will be forced to [fill in t...

2007-04-07T09:20:00.000-05:00

"Churches and pastors will be forced to [fill in the blank]" is the same tired tactic he uses for all of his anti-GLBT stuff (churches will be forced to marry gays, pastors will be jailed for hate speech, and so on).

The man's not stupid, he knows it's not true, that's not the point. He only sends that crap one way, which is to the sheeple who don't know any better. He doesn't make these kinds of ridiculous arguments to the legislators themselves, he knows better.

In other words he doesn't try to club the legislators with over-the-top lies, but rather he clubs them with the people who have been stirred up by the lies. It's politcal power games at its most cynical.

Either way, Eric Miller is one of the most powerful people in the state of Indiana. If you don't believe it, go down to the State House and watch him parade around the Chambers like he owns the place. It's truly frightening.

So what about all of this makes the mainstream media and the authorities so afraid of him I wonder? Gary Welsh doesn't have any special connections to get the proof to make what seem to me to be pretty explosive allegations about one of Indiana's most powerful political figures. He just goes through public records the same way any reporter or state investigator can do.

Why did the Indy Star's Brendan O'Shaughnessy do all of the research, obtain a smoking gun tape recorded interview with Miller himself, and then suddenly drop the story? And the tape? The Star says it's gone forever!

I'm not one of those conspiracy-theory types, but to me the lack of interest by the mainstream media, the Star and O'Shaughnessy's inexplicable dropping of a hot story for which most of the work was done, and the lack of action by the Lobby Registration Commission and other government authorities suggests that Miller's power and control reaches well beyond the State House.

Is the IRS obligated to investigate (multiple) cit...

2007-04-07T09:06:00.000-05:00

Is the IRS obligated to investigate (multiple) citizen complaints?

Does it help if we complain to our senators and Congresspersons?

I'm serious--if it helps, let's start flooding the place.

This goon's tax-exempt status has the unintended consequence (familiar phrase) of raising our taxes to make up for what he doesn't pay.

Let alone the hugely improper method by which this man collects his substantial paychecks.

Subsidized, frankly, by all of us.

Ernst Roehm was.

2007-04-07T08:49:00.000-05:00

Ernst Roehm was.

The Bush administration and the Justice Dept. cons...

2007-04-07T07:17:00.000-05:00

The Bush administration and the Justice Dept. conspired to eliminate U.S. Attorneys who did not meet their ideological standards. Our Governor has recently demonstrated that he doesn't have the backbone to stand up to Miller. In this environment, do you really think that Susan Brooks, the USA for the Southern District, will investigate Miller for tax improprieties? The only way Miller is going to be brought down is by being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead woman. D.C. Stephens was brought down by the latter, will Miller be brought down by the former?

Please do not stop this excellent coverage of this...

2007-04-07T05:42:00.000-05:00

Please do not stop this excellent coverage of this zealot's finances.

Thank you, a thousand times.

Maybe now someone in government will listen, or has he bought off enough supporters?