Comments on Advance Indiana™: Osili On TIF Vote: "I Ain't Got A Nickel In That Dime"

Maggie Lewis and her husband are both dependent on...

2012-08-29T23:12:10.133-05:00

Maggie Lewis and her husband are both dependent on the downtown mafia for their jobs. She's powerless to act independently. They will crush her like a bug if she crosses them.

Adams and Osili should be ashamed and if Maggie Le...

2012-08-29T22:56:27.268-05:00

Adams and Osili should be ashamed and if Maggie Lewis as president of the council does not address the issue with them privately or publicly then she is powerless for the remainder of their terms. I hope she has the strength to do it but I am afraid that she will surrender to the big money interests.

Osili boasted that he was able to get the Ballard ...

2012-08-29T21:28:41.143-05:00

Osili boasted that he was able to get the Ballard administration to agree to provide $2 million for a microloan program for small businesses and another $1.5 million for job training. First of all, how many businesses could possibly benefit from a loan program that small? The only people who would apply for these loans are people who aren't credit worthy, have no intention of repaying the loans, probably won't even use the money for the intended purpose and will simply walk away without repaying a dime or creating a single job. On the job training, the federal and state government are already spending a fortune on job training through the Dept. of Workforce Development, Ivy Tech, etc. How does he possibly believe that you can set up a small independent program that would have any meaningful impact. Again, it's just going to be money pissed away on somebody that's gaming the system to get ahold of government grant dollars to spend on some useless program. He says he got another $10 million set aside for affordable housing. Hell, these CDCs have money falling out of their asses to spend on affordable housing programs. The guy is clueless when it comes to economics. He only knows how to game government to force you and I to fund programs that may guys like him rich.

It's a silly defense by Osili that he doesn...

2012-08-29T20:28:00.621-05:00

It's a silly defense by Osili that he doesn't have a financial interest in this particular project. We know how developers trade off on projects and how they support each other when it becomes their time to get a publicly subsidized project.
Taking turns feeding at the public trough doesn't mean you're not next in line to get your turn.

I didn't know Vop Osili much until he got to the Council and what I've seen thus far he is far from impressive.

Technically, you're suppose to have a motion a...

2012-08-29T18:11:48.407-05:00

Technically, you're suppose to have a motion and second to adjourn approved by the majority to adjourn. I've seen committee meetings gaveled adjourned without formality and without objection. Osili had decided he was going to spring this on Talley before he adjourned, knowing that Talley had left it off the hearing agenda because he did not plan to hear it at the meeting. Talley beat Osili to the punch, and then Mary Adams, who between her and her husband are drawing three paychecks from the city-county government, seconded his motion to hear his resolution after Talley had already left the committee room.

If the meeting was gaveled closed, how could any p...

2012-08-29T17:48:51.250-05:00

If the meeting was gaveled closed, how could any public business be conducted, LEGALLY?