tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post5104627254725016540..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-81063094702163332132007-12-29T12:29:00.000-05:002007-12-29T12:29:00.000-05:00anon 12:25, For that matter, former Rep. Andy Jacobs was classified as a disabled veteran. You can't fault a person for suffering an injury while in service of their country. What it points up, though, is the inherent unfairness with the property tax. Let's just dump the system and move to fairer forms of taxation.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1845915425403172872007-12-29T12:25:00.000-05:002007-12-29T12:25:00.000-05:00As numerous people have pointed out on AM - the exemption explanation doesn't hold water; there should still be figures there, not all zeros.<BR/><BR/>And take a look at the exemptions: a disability exemption, a "miscellaneous exemption" - how do I get one of those? And is Williams on disability?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-83420797158938805692007-12-29T08:57:00.000-05:002007-12-29T08:57:00.000-05:00Knock off the Kent Smith stories unless you have some proof to back them up.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-83598931451694159652007-12-29T03:43:00.000-05:002007-12-29T03:43:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-82584849452431963592007-12-29T00:19:00.000-05:002007-12-29T00:19:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1575643675912921782007-12-28T19:17:00.000-05:002007-12-28T19:17:00.000-05:00Please remove that quite unnecessary and undocumented slur just posted above. Nasty cracks from anonymous nobodies just clutter up civilized political discourse...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-9953965559107432802007-12-28T19:10:00.000-05:002007-12-28T19:10:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-90583461896799220762007-12-28T13:11:00.000-05:002007-12-28T13:11:00.000-05:0012:37, Sorry but Brizzi and Ballard are both feeding at the same trough now. The corruption will continue. Business as usual.<BR/>Want to lay money down on when Ballard will put the the black illegal numbers racket out of business? He won't. That's partly why Olgen Williams was given his position.<BR/>Wait until Ballard takes control of of the cops then the word corruption will take on a whole new meaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-66348680905552603022007-12-28T12:37:00.000-05:002007-12-28T12:37:00.000-05:00It is a good thing that Brizzi is incompetent or most of this cast of thieves, tax cheats, liars, and ex druggies would be under indictment about a year into the Ballard administration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-12108439589422225442007-12-28T12:00:00.000-05:002007-12-28T12:00:00.000-05:00Olgen is a fairly nice guy. And he has turned his life around. <BR/><BR/>But he was part of this shake-down, and that's exactly what it was. Those "youth programs" would've filtered through some of those folks in the photo. <BR/><BR/>It put the Mayor and many others in a very bad position. There wasn't any extra money even if tey'd agreed to give it away. THe ministers knew that. They insisted on their 15 minutnes of fame, anyway.<BR/><BR/><BR/>And anything Monroe Gray had to say about the situation then, or now, is not pertinent. He is yesterday's news, thank God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-9793061270510912312007-12-28T09:43:00.000-05:002007-12-28T09:43:00.000-05:00Notice the head in the back of the picture just to the right of Olgen Williams?<BR/><BR/>None other than Kent Smith, newly elected At-Large Councilman and City-County Council vice president.<BR/><BR/>I noticed that too 11:56. Wasn't he the only county-wide candidate who was given any attention and marketing by the local GOP? More so than Ballard, even? Shameless pandering for black votes, but hey! it worked -at least among the congregations of the crew shown in the pictureAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-76977904143836157302007-12-28T09:29:00.000-05:002007-12-28T09:29:00.000-05:00Abdul "The Song and Dance Man of the Marion County GOP".<BR/>More truer words were ever spoken.<BR/>LMAO!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-33881106037757399612007-12-28T09:06:00.000-05:002007-12-28T09:06:00.000-05:00If that previous "song and dance" comment had been said about anybody "blue", Wilson would have been calling for a Federal Hate Crime investigation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-77339800319425863002007-12-28T09:01:00.000-05:002007-12-28T09:01:00.000-05:00Abdul is the Court Jester of the Marion County GOP. <BR/>Two hundred years after Reconstruction and Abdul still can't do anything with his career other than be a song and dance man.<BR/>Don't kid yourself Abdul, they may joke and laugh with and let you buy a few drinks for them but you are what you are to them, their annointed Court Jester. A complete joke.<BR/>Think you have it all figured out don't you Abdul? Think again. They'll invite you to the party but they sure as hell won't ever let you dance and dancing is what you're good at.<BR/>Abdul Hakim-Shabazz (if that's your real name)forever the song and dance man and completely delusional.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-76649806413709381272007-12-28T08:38:00.000-05:002007-12-28T08:38:00.000-05:00<I>I'm confused is Abdul on the inside of the Ballard Administration?</I><BR/>Abdul is on the side that he thinks will net him the most media coverage outside his own show!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58538455634544006142007-12-28T08:31:00.000-05:002007-12-28T08:31:00.000-05:00Wow,<BR/><BR/>"Actually I just picked up the phone and called Olgen and asked him what was up? Amazing what you can do with a cell phone these days. If the next four years are going to be like this, I'm going to have a blast in this town. God Bless America!"<BR/><BR/><BR/>Wow. Let's see if it is that easy for us to get hold of the Deputy Mayor of Neighborhoods later on.....since it is as easy as picking up a cell phone! I'll have to remember this post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-79541852409860272402007-12-28T06:19:00.000-05:002007-12-28T06:19:00.000-05:00Wow. I sure hope that "Official Apologist of the Ballard Administration" pays well, Abdul. How'd you get pigeon-holed as that anyway?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-52733722731023829212007-12-28T05:06:00.000-05:002007-12-28T05:06:00.000-05:00What kind of City take-home vehicle does he get as part of his new job? He'll have to tour the<BR/>neighborhoods and driving a City<BR/>owned 5 years old Dodge Neon wouldn't help the image of a Deputy Mayor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58486072582180321362007-12-28T05:00:00.000-05:002007-12-28T05:00:00.000-05:00Wow,<BR/><BR/>Actually I just picked up the phone and called Olgen and asked him what was up? Amazing what you can do with a cell phone these days. If the next four years are going to be like this, I'm going to have a blast in this town. God Bless America!The Amazing Abdulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00532303914362984844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-16499110095040605282007-12-28T01:44:00.000-05:002007-12-28T01:44:00.000-05:00"IndyErnie, I'm just keeping Greg honest. That's what he said he liked about me. No, I didn't apply for a position in his administration. I was not invited to participate in his transition team, and it was obvious my services were not desired by the people he did choose to work on his transition. I'm glad the team was able to find a convicted felon and ex-drug addict they can trust to do the job."<BR/><BR/>RESPONSE: <BR/><BR/>What a circus this is!!!<BR/><BR/>It demonstrates "mental and emotional" cruelty to the inner-spirit of every black family in Indianapolis, and perhaps the entire State of Indiana. <BR/><BR/>This type of behavior has also stimulated resentment and has encouraged needless racism and ultimately reverse racism in ouro city, such as in the John Linehand vs. Marion County Coroner success story and the Sheriff's Dept fiasco. <BR/><BR/>We must stop encouraging blacks to hate blacks and whites to hate black and blacks to hate whites. (You noticed I did not mention encouraging "whites to hate whites"? Compare the "white" deputy mayor that will be appointed against Olgin...are they equally competent?) <BR/><BR/>Why NOT!!!! <BR/><BR/>They should be!<BR/><BR/>There are MANY blacks in Indianapolis who are equally competent if not superior to "any" competent deputy mayor, of any race. <BR/><BR/>ALL of us, blacks and whites, need to start paying attention to the dynamics of race relations management/techniques that has been employed in Marion County while selecting black leadership. Management techniques that have spawned the likes of Monroe Gray, Aaron Haith, Lacy Johnson, Frank Anderson, 300 East, Tony Duncan, Carson [and] the lucrative peashake house industry that is maintained by our city and law enforcement.<BR/><BR/>Play very close attention to this. "Why do we end up with the Carsons, Grays, Drummers, Olgen "quality" most of the time? Because that's all we are allowed to have!" "CRAP"<BR/><BR/>Finally, most of us DON'T live in Haughville, and Olgen can't navigate past Haughville. So he will only represent Olgen, the Christamore House, the shakedown preachers and his small, run-down community through "more grant money" and other "handouts". <BR/><BR/>What a role model, he should be encouraging his son, who he constantly attempts to "force" people to listen to anytime you're "trapped" in the christamore house building--its more painful than Olgen's speech because he's so young and its almost inexcusable. <BR/><BR/>This "broad guesture", the very FIRST Mayoral appointment, set apart from the other appointments due for release tomorrow--Along with it being the first "black" appoinment, MARKETS our city as "one that has maintained and reinforced the Willie Lynch principles--thereby assuring plenty of stupid, weak, subservient losers to exploit". Of course they ignore the strong and intellectually alert--they usually kill us during the training or leave us on the battlefield after the victory. <BR/><BR/>So Gary and IndyErnie, my friends YOU are supposed to accept this "Appointment" as one of the BEST negroes Indianapolis has to offer. (I'm sure university professors all over Indiana are shaking their heads about now) but don't pay any attention to them, what do they know? THIS is the standard to "judge" blacks in Indianapolis. It doesn't matter that he will only represent less than 20% of the population and instead of getting %20K of our tax dollars, he gets $95,000. I must mention that with his 20% he is barely understandable 50% of the time, so I say he's really worth only about $10,000.00. <BR/><BR/>Yes, we deserve better, but when we get better we "still" complain. <BR/><BR/>Go figure? <BR/><BR/>It's very difficult to evaluate and select "black leaders", even for most blacks-- who have been very ill-informed until more recently. <BR/><BR/>We must be careful that we don't kill our black teammates who'd pull us aboard after their safe arrival. The enemy sure isn't going to pull you aboard safely and any sign of dissention within our ranks gives them an opening to begin their attack. They attacked, consquences were felt.<BR/><BR/>Maybe Olgen will be a team player with the People, not the system. <BR/> <BR/>Of course, we must not leave our soldiers on the battlefield while we SwELL with victory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-71908314444012401462007-12-27T23:56:00.000-05:002007-12-27T23:56:00.000-05:00Notice the head in the back of the picture just to the right of Olgen Williams?<BR/><BR/>None other than Kent Smith, newly elected At-Large Councilman and City-County Council vice president.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-90658427530612263102007-12-27T23:54:00.000-05:002007-12-27T23:54:00.000-05:00"Ahh Tom John<BR/><BR/>What this city needs is a psuedo organizational chart that lists who is in bed with who ...you know...the fancy kind with pictures, names, arrows, etc.<BR/><BR/>9:38 PM EST"<BR/><BR/>Do you mean the same Tom John who plays both sides of the political fence? The one who is making fat cash up in East Chicago and Gary with big city contracts! <BR/><BR/>Republicans don't get contracts like those up there, much less the Marion County Republican Chairman! Hmmm...Something smells here! If my memory is correct,Bart Peterson made quite a large amount of cash up there from a sweetheart real-estate deal that the Lake County politicos held there noses to so he could finance his first campaign for mayor. (There was a huge payoff for that deal. Ask Earline Rogers or Rudy Clay.) <BR/><BR/>Ahh, Lake County, the last bastion of a truly corrupt Democratic political machine in this country!<BR/><BR/>Funny thing is, the same folks running the machine now were running it then, and Tom John is right in the middle of it! (Not to mention he is Ballards friend now!) Kind of makes you go HMMMMMM!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-33901547148416611912007-12-27T22:38:00.000-05:002007-12-27T22:38:00.000-05:00<I>As for Abdul's comment that they asked for "help in raising money" my recollection is that they asked for the city to give them money. Our money, the money from us, the taxpayers (the ones who pay).</I><BR/><BR/>Uhm, that's not quite how I recall it going down. T. Garrott Benjamin gave Bart Peterson an ultimatum: Give the black ministers the money or they would force a shutdown on constuction at Lucas Oil Stadium. <BR/><BR/>That was not only a weakly veiled threat (which had no teeth to begin with, as those folks couldn't shutdown a pea shake joint if it was located across the street from their places of worship), but it came off as a shakedown. Bart, a Democrat, was right to ignore this request from a group of mostly Black GOP ministers.<BR/><BR/>Church ministries thrive based on the collections taken from the congregants. If your church membership supports your ministry, there is no need to supplement a faith-based initiative with government subsidies at taxpayer expense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-22737984130072636032007-12-27T21:59:00.000-05:002007-12-27T21:59:00.000-05:00On Bush's pardon of Olgen Williams:<BR/><BR/>"The former postal worker, Olgen Williams of Indianapolis, said he stole the money to support a drug habit. He spent one year in jail. <BR/><BR/>After his release, Mr. Williams became a born-again Christian, earned three college degrees and became executive director of Christamore House, an Indianapolis community center. <BR/><BR/>Mr. Williams first applied for a pardon about two years ago, filling out a lengthy application and providing letters of reference from friends and co-workers. <BR/><BR/>''It's one of those things, a validation, that a person in my situation wanted to have,'' Mr. Williams said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-48413248293257766712007-12-27T21:42:00.000-05:002007-12-27T21:42:00.000-05:00I work my ass off to pay my taxes so this lout can get a $95,000 a year job with the city and pays no taxes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com