Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard On Being A Whore For The Billionaire Sports Team Owners

There is a lot higher rate of AWOL and desertions ...

2010-06-24T18:50:12.501-05:00

There is a lot higher rate of AWOL and desertions in the Marine Corps than the public realizes. According to the government statistics graphed in SOLDIERS IN REVOLT, by David Cortwright, from the years 1966-1973, compared to the Army, Navy, and Air Force, it had the highest rates of both. Oh well, maybe Ballard will change, for the better. Miracles can happen, eh.

In other news, sorry I can't remember the sour...

2010-06-24T16:53:52.390-05:00

In other news, sorry I can't remember the source, the estimated financial impact of the Super Bowl in Indianapolis is guesstimated at about 112 million dollars. Wasn't the number quoted by the NFL and others somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 million?

No, I didn't Marycatherine. It is the greatest...

2010-06-24T15:49:17.186-05:00

No, I didn't Marycatherine. It is the greatest disappointment since I began participating in the political process back in the 1980s. I've never witnessed a politician change his stripes so dramatically after taking office, and so quickly for that matter. He had a blank slate and you took him at his work. As several disappointed former Marines who supported Ballard have told me, Semper Fi is not taken very seriously by Ballard.

Wow, Gary. When campaigning for his lowness, did ...

2010-06-24T15:30:18.107-05:00

Wow, Gary. When campaigning for his lowness, did it even cross your mind that three years later, you would be writing such an insulting headline about him? ?
Not that you do (or should) care, but whatever must Ballard think about this turn of events, lol?

I saw that, Jon. There is no attempt on the part o...

2010-06-24T11:13:53.470-05:00

I saw that, Jon. There is no attempt on the part of the Star to allow any balance in the discussion of this issue on its editorial pages. That's about the fifth time in the past several weeks that it has printed a featured column by people promoting more subsidies for the Pacers; not a single similar column has been permitted for the people who oppose it. I don't understand why anyone would want to join the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce when that Roland Dorson advocates tax after tax to fund downtown-related activities. He is the most anti-business advocate in the City as far as I'm concerned. He continually advocates for public policies that harm most businesses in this city.

And in the Star today on the editorial page under ...

2010-06-24T10:27:35.944-05:00

And in the Star today on the editorial page under My View yet another puff piece about why we can't afford to lose the Pacers. Hell, we can't afford to keep them!

The guy is unbelievable. I remember Ballard talki...

2010-06-24T09:37:33.126-05:00

The guy is unbelievable. I remember Ballard talking about our overemphasis on sports and criticizing subsidies. And now here how he's talking. I'd love to get a tape of Candidate Ballard criticizing the sports subsidies.

He is truly and embarassment.

That's because we're now the professional ...

2010-06-24T07:26:23.593-05:00

That's because we're now the professional sports capital of the world.

It wasn't too many years ago that Indy used to...

2010-06-24T06:34:42.875-05:00

It wasn't too many years ago that Indy used to crow about being the "amateur sports capital of the world."

Indy stopped using that term, almost at once, and I haven't heard it, in years.