Comments on Advance Indiana™: Sun-Times Continues To Report On Extravagant Salaries Paid To Chicago Tourism Officials While Indy Media Is Mum On Visit Indy's Outrageous Executive Salaries

I mostly agree with Flogger. In actuality, there i...

2015-06-30T06:48:17.083-05:00

I mostly agree with Flogger. In actuality, there is but One Party that has an arm that works the left side of the aisle and an arm that works the right side of the aisle. Left liberal Democrats and Establishment RINO Republicans are indistinguishable.

However, most career politicians' interests consist far more in the arena of personal gain than in gains for corporatists- think Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Politicians have the ability to shake down corporations more so than corporatists shake down career politicos. I think it's more often the case that the politicians buy off the corporations- and the shameless corporatists are more than willing to go along.

Anyone who truly researches and reads how our corrupt career Democrat and Republican politicians fund-raise non-stop off every and any issue small or large knows Democrats and Republicans are essentially money-machines whose sustenance is also the growth of its power and influence to create more wealth for themselves, damn the Republic. And the Constitutional Republic, which has been dead for decades, probably will never again exist in our lifetimes.

What is it these people actually do? Sounds like a...

2015-06-28T17:22:55.989-05:00

What is it these people actually do? Sounds like a lot of dough to book conventions. fancy dinners, lavish trips, event tickets, and outright bribes paid by these "leaders" to influence the convention organizers of the world - do they use a plush expense account, or is that supposed to be covered by their massive salaries?

Why so many board members for visit Indy?

2015-06-28T17:18:09.457-05:00

Why so many board members for visit Indy?

Privatization via Non-Profits, keeps the secrets u...

2015-06-28T12:44:52.133-05:00

Privatization via Non-Profits, keeps the secrets under wraps.

The Star has long been in-thrall of the Movers and Shakers as it used to call the high and mighty. These unelected people were treated by the Star as all knowing beings who knew best what we "proles" needed: stadiums, and subsidies for downtown. When they (Movers and Shakers) urged the spread of the candy of Corporate Welfare dollars the Star was always and is still there to provide their sanction and cover story for these dubious ventures.

The two political parties are in fact the Corporate Party. Gold$mith, Peterson, Ballard, Brewer and Hogsett are just the superficial face of the Corporate Party. The Corporate Party could care less about the 99%.

There is absolutely no sane reason on earth for th...

2015-06-28T10:39:18.434-05:00

There is absolutely no sane reason on earth for those salaries to be so darn high. No sane reason at all. IMHO those jobs and those salaries are political payoffs. I am not saying the individuals listed do not "work" I am saying there have to be enough credential individuals out there who would be grateful to have a job and would work for less but just as effectively.

Visit Indy's money is doled out by the Capital...

2015-06-28T07:18:13.608-05:00

Visit Indy's money is doled out by the Capital Improvement Board. It was getting over $9 million a year in 2013. That funding is now up to $11 million in the current budget.

What cookie jar funding are these robbers sticking...

2015-06-28T05:11:58.921-05:00

What cookie jar funding are these robbers sticking their hands into?

Had the pleasure of living all over the country an...

2015-06-27T20:37:54.000-05:00

Had the pleasure of living all over the country and no place (and by that I mean NO PLACE) is comprised of so many ignorant conformists as Indianapolis. That's ultimately why this little game works so well here...because nobody questions anything they are told by a person in a position of authority.

I'm not sure who to blame for that. I'd like to blame TPTB but God above gave each and every one of us a brain and it's not really their fault that the average Hoosierbot chooses not to use his or hers. Children of the Corn indeed. I've had enough. Life is too good to be spent living with 40 year olds who still worry about what the cool kids are thinking, doing and tweeting. Time to move on. The average Hoosierbot deserves the leadership he/she/it has chosen. Go Colts!

Warren Wilkinson actually used to work for Indy, V...

2015-06-27T18:34:30.480-05:00

Warren Wilkinson actually used to work for Indy, Visitors & Convention B, and went up to Chicago. I thought he left Chicago and came back to Indy.....not sure about that.

The so called media in Indy won't ever report ...

2015-06-27T17:52:47.926-05:00

The so called media in Indy won't ever report any negative comments about the power brokers in this town it might cause a decline in ad revenue.

Indianapolis is run by a coterie of the most corru...

2015-06-27T13:51:13.337-05:00

Indianapolis is run by a coterie of the most corrupt, dirty, and deceptive Democrats and Republicans allied to bilaterally chug wildly at the hog trough of taxpayer funded high salaries, honoraria, and benefits the ordinary woman or man on the street footing the bills will never, ever see in her or his lifetime.

Look at the names Welsh lists... the names of the most ingrained ass-kissers, "go-fors' and "do anything you say-fors", and the most pathetic of political prostitutes willing to push any agenda if the salary and position can be stepping stones to more graft and oorruption.

It does not take a rocket scientist to predict this list will perpetuate itself under either Hogsett or that out of towner named Chuck Brewer.