Comments on Advance Indiana™: Angie's List Uses RFRA As Excuse For Canceling Plan For Taxpayer-Financed Expansion

Anon 2:05, does your attendant know you are on the...

2015-03-29T19:12:20.082-05:00

Anon 2:05, does your attendant know you are on the internet? -You truly need to get inpatient treatment for your mental illness. Your sick diatribe of hate is so inappropriate, I think it is worthy of moderation by the blog author.

Now that's novel. A company that has not turn...

2015-03-29T19:08:30.024-05:00

Now that's novel. A company that has not turned a profit, and with no indication it will, that is being sued for a corrupt business model at this time announced it won't request our TAX money to pay for an expansion...

I wonder if they could find a bank to give them a loan with their current financial status???

Now they want to blame their own issues on a law. Just laughable and disingenuous.

How magnanimous of them. All sorts of good things ...

2015-03-29T15:36:58.743-05:00

How magnanimous of them. All sorts of good things are going to come from this legislation.

The Mendenhall family is not valid of any complain...

2015-03-29T14:14:45.539-05:00

The Mendenhall family is not valid of any complaints. Dig deeper.

Talk to the Mendenhall family about what a vile, p...

2015-03-29T13:47:02.511-05:00

Talk to the Mendenhall family about what a vile, poor excuse for a human being Ed DeLaney is.

Ed DeLaney cares more than Ballard, the Council, G...

2015-03-29T13:01:16.794-05:00

Ed DeLaney cares more than Ballard, the Council, Gov, lobbyists and more.

You think the Governor did well on national tv? id...

2015-03-29T11:58:28.897-05:00

You think the Governor did well on national tv? id hate to see what a bad performance looks like.

It's nothing but one big freaking circus act. ...

2015-03-29T08:45:10.870-05:00

It's nothing but one big freaking circus act. Ed DeLaney could give a shit less whether you live or die. The American people are the most easily fooled population of people known to mankind. This entire ordeal has been orchestrated by people who could care less about the well-being of mankind. The rest of the world looks upon us in disbelief as they watch every aspect of our government and culture scripted in Hollywood and the masses getting drunk on Kool-Aid unable to see what is happening in plain sight.

Bill Bill Oesterle is nothing but a pimp for "...

2015-03-29T08:28:50.367-05:00

Bill Bill Oesterle is nothing but a pimp for "free" money from the public trough.

A company that has NEVER NEVER NEVER made a profit, and keeps "downsizing employees" now wants $18MILLION tax dollars to "hire" 1000 new employees!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess they think we're pretty stupid.

Ed DeLaney was spot on and a bright presence at th...

2015-03-29T08:28:35.495-05:00

Ed DeLaney was spot on and a bright presence at the rally.

It was quite fitting that the RFRA folks featured ...

2015-03-29T08:18:22.462-05:00

It was quite fitting that the RFRA folks featured Ed DeLaney as a speaker at its rally. The uninformed are clueless about his past work for the CIA in Russia.

A bunch of shrieking shrill nitwits spewing lies i...

2015-03-29T08:18:18.305-05:00

A bunch of shrieking shrill nitwits spewing lies is not "blowing up in Pence's face."

I don't think Indiana will be disserved by Mitch's carpetbaggers heading back to from whence he grabbed them.

The Mitch era was a low point in Indiana's history.

As a born native of Indiana, I am honestly glad to...

2015-03-28T22:56:08.515-05:00

As a born native of Indiana, I am honestly glad to see this blow up in Mike Pence's face. I used to (not anymore) work for the State of Indiana Government for one of the Departments. I was there from 2007-2014, so I was able to see both the Daniels and Pence administration.

I have a lot of respect for Daniels, and while he did not always make the most popular decisions, I respected his fiscal conservative approach towards keeping the state on solid footing, esp during the most recent recession.

When Mike Pence won the election, he put all his new people at the Department heads as Commissioners. It was blatantly obvious that all the new "changes" being implemented were self-serving for himself politically.

Statistics and data coming from the Department were mostly garbage orchestrated from his key people to have "meat to put on the table" politically to point to in the event of a presidential run. Disappointing to say the least, and it was incredibly selfish and not for the best interest of Hoosiers.

I have to say Mike Pence was a big reason (among many like high poverty rate, low paying jobs, lousy weather, etc.) that I moved out of the State.

I'm delighted that at least this keeps Mike Pence away from the presidential primaries, and possibly re-election for Governor.

As Dana Carvey's "The Church Lady" w...

2015-03-28T22:07:23.735-05:00

As Dana Carvey's "The Church Lady" would say "How Con-VEEEEN-Yent!!"

Using RFRA to as an excuse when in fact the whole curtain is about to be brought down on the scam known as Angie's List is laughable.

Anon 2:17 - spot on. I am so tired about the "...

2015-03-28T18:32:49.643-05:00

Anon 2:17 - spot on. I am so tired about the "ooppressed" spewing their hate at every opportunity.

Angie's List is the only employer I've eve...

2015-03-28T18:01:24.150-05:00

Angie's List is the only employer I've ever heard of besides a nightclub that allows its employees to drink while on the job. A friend of mine who worked there got a DUI on the way home from work there.

The media shills are describing an anti-RFRA rally...

2015-03-28T17:51:07.489-05:00

The media shills are describing an anti-RFRA rally crowd of about 500 as several thousand. Total BS.

Anon 205, is that you Mr. Osterle??

2015-03-28T17:47:47.882-05:00

Anon 205, is that you Mr. Osterle??

Live by the state, die by the state. Live on gove...

2015-03-28T17:42:13.239-05:00

Live by the state, die by the state. Live on government handouts, die by RICO for Angie's. Live by anti-discrimination laws to benefit your group now, you may end dying by them when that same entity to which you ascribed so much faith completely reverses itself and passes new Jim Crow-type laws.

Hate the State and you can help end much of this nonsense. A law to reverse a law to amend a bad law, etc. Don't let the state do your dirty work and people may think you have cleaner hands and want to do business with you.

May be time for a rebrand- Angie's Pissed

2015-03-28T17:10:45.265-05:00

May be time for a rebrand- Angie's Pissed

2:05, It seems you're on to something. Evident...

2015-03-28T15:14:46.787-05:00

2:05, It seems you're on to something. Evidently, Indiana has been given the word it will never host another Super Bowl.

Anyway, if this law keeps us from suffering under another money-losing Super Bowl, good for Pence.

If even a little bit of that lawsuit is true, Angi...

2015-03-28T15:12:12.318-05:00

If even a little bit of that lawsuit is true, Angie and Oesterle can be looking at serious federal jail time for interstate wire fraud.

anyone think this is just a stunt to get their com...

2015-03-28T15:10:34.975-05:00

anyone think this is just a stunt to get their company's name in the spotlight with other recognizable companies speaking out public ally against the law? Interesting that CNN Money has Angie's decision as front page financial news today. Quotes from Osterlie elsewhere state the HQ plans are simply on hold. They will be back at the public $$$ trough before we know it. Gotta iron out those pesky lawsuits first.

What a load of crap. Angie's List started as a...

2015-03-28T15:09:11.789-05:00

What a load of crap. Angie's List started as a review site for fundamentalist Christians. Since Christians couldn't trust the secular world, Angie's List would give them a service provider who shared their values.

Even today, Angie's List subtly plays up the Christian affinity angle.

This is an incredibly feeble excuse.

There's a documentary being made about Yelp. Evidently, these review sites suck and are untrustworthy.

Anon 2:05, Arizona already had an RFRA in place. ...

2015-03-28T15:08:03.950-05:00

Anon 2:05,

Arizona already had an RFRA in place. As far "everyone knows its purpose is to support the legal defense of Christians who want to discriminate" how exactly would that work? Courts have consistently found a compelling interest in anti-discrimination laws and rejected every RFRA challenge. Most RFRA cases have nothing to do with anti-discrimination laws. If groups like Freedom Indiana actually wanted to help the LGBT community, maybe it might get behind an anti-discrimination law that includes sexual orientation instead of beating up on the strawman, the RFRA.