Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard Still Not Talking About CIB Woes

Melly I miss talking to you. You can call me anyt...

2009-02-06T22:11:00.000-05:00

Melly I miss talking to you. You can call me anytime. I am in the phone book. I am recovering from Cancer and doing a lot better. I dropped to 123 pounds at the worst of it but am back up to 155 now. Things are looking great everywhere for me except my concerns for our city, state and nation. Leadership is in such short supply.

Timmy...glad to hear you voted for Ballard. You w...

2009-02-06T04:54:00.000-05:00

Timmy...glad to hear you voted for Ballard. You were my first political educator, you know, back at the publishing company.

The People need to penetrate the slime around our Mayor and free him from it.

As a democrat that voted for Ballard and met him a...

2009-02-05T20:14:00.000-05:00

As a democrat that voted for Ballard and met him and talked with him for about an hour prior to the election I am most surprised that he is same old politics as usual. But, then again, power corrupts and while he may have been a great Marine, when confronted in a new environment he listed to the big time lobbyist lawyers tell him what he had to do and fell hook line and sinker for it all. Good riddence to him after the next election. He won't change his stripes between now and then. AI you are most correct one termer.

This is the same crap Peterson did. You never real...

2009-02-05T15:06:00.000-05:00

This is the same crap Peterson did.

You never really hear Wagner criticize Democrats. She's clearly partisan, and in my opinion, lacks class. People like her are a big part of the problem.

Terrific post, Straight Up. i especially love:"Th...

2009-02-05T12:17:00.000-05:00

Terrific post, Straight Up. i especially love:

"The only way we as a party are going to grow here in Marion County is for honest, merited criticism of our elected officials."

Bingo. You are exactly correct.

I'm thinking about putting a link to Jen's new website on my blog. I know she's a partisan hack and she's fallen for the Adul nonsense that Republican critics of the Mayor who point out obvious conflicts of interest believe in "conspiracies." Still she is very articulate, her blog well-written and topical and on the issues, and she is occasionally right. That makes her link-worthy.

I would think of all people, holding a commission ...

2009-02-05T09:39:00.000-05:00

I would think of all people, holding a commission in the military that our Mayor would understand, if not live the concept of "delegating authority but NOT responsibility"

Of course, WIBC and the other channel he is on, always throw him softball questions, they never hit him with those that REALLY need to be addressed, such as the CIB .

Although I dont care for her consistently snarky, left leaning prose, I do believe that Jen Wagner is spot on with her criticism of this man. Her new blogspot is one you might want to put on here as a link, Mr. Welsh. The only way we as a party are going to grow here in Marion County is for honest, merited criticism of our elected officials.