Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indianapolis City Council Candidate Hosting D.C. Fundraiser

To "Derek", I'm not posting your com...

2011-07-18T14:16:45.363-05:00

To "Derek", I'm not posting your comment trying to out Republican lawmakers by name or accusing others of unproven sexual misconduct. Referring to a young urban professional man as being "metrosexual" isn't an offensive term.

By the way, remember a while back when I suggested...

2011-07-18T07:54:47.373-05:00

By the way, remember a while back when I suggested that Indy was being run from D.C.?

Indy government is a huge organized crime endeavor. The money comes in the front door as tax revenue and goes out the back as publicly financed projects.

They couldn't do this in smarter cities, but I suspect that they have a roster of cities that run similarly to Indy.

Get a gun, and try to rob one million people. It's hard. Get a government to do the robbing for you, and you walk off with the cash after paying some tip money to the street crew. Indy people are raised to obey authority, so they can run this scam, over in over, in broad daylight.

They just have to make sure that the right boys stay on the Council and in the Mayor's Office.

What is going on? A Washington DC fundraiser for c...

2011-07-17T12:44:08.612-05:00

What is going on? A Washington DC fundraiser for city council! Watch out for this one.

I will stick with Scales!

If government and marketing firms vanished, what w...

2011-07-16T07:34:38.010-05:00

If government and marketing firms vanished, what would Democrats do for work?

I don't see these people being able to run a press brake.

Robert Raben is hosting the fundraiser in his home...

2011-07-15T18:48:51.251-05:00

Robert Raben is hosting the fundraiser in his home. "Robert Raben helps his clients identify and achieve complex public policy objectives. He brings a nuanced understanding of the intersection of law, policy, politics and media to his work." Raben formerly worked as Barney Frank's counsel. Yeah, I understand now why Kostas used to spend so much time hanging out at the Metro on Mass Avenune.

Other co-hosts for the K Street fundraiser include...

2011-07-15T18:46:17.426-05:00

Other co-hosts for the K Street fundraiser include former congressmen turned lobbyists Baron Hill and David Evans, D.C. lobbyists Brad Queisser, John Pappas, Stefan Bailey, Daniel Trope and Ryan Guthrie, PR flacks/hacks Alan Hogan and Jennifer Wagner.

I think "metrosexual" is the word you...

2011-07-15T16:59:09.891-05:00

I think "metrosexual" is the word you're looking for, Cato.

Kostas looks like a guy who could have been Sean P...

2011-07-15T13:11:21.878-05:00

Kostas looks like a guy who could have been Sean Penn's stand-in in "Milk."

He always has this carefully rumpled, informal-but-not, engrossed and harried look to him, like he's heading from a congressman's office, fresh papers in hand, fast-marching down the corridor to make a delivery to his congressman for the start of the latest Watergate hearing. All the while deluding himself into thinking that he's doing something real, productive and helpful.

He'd have been in high cotton in 1974.

I put it at short odds that he fantasizes about being on Bill Maher's panel.

Only those living in Never Never Land would be sur...

2011-07-15T11:26:27.907-05:00

Only those living in Never Never Land would be surprised at any of this.
We already know how low democrats have sunk over the years.
The republicans seem to be doing all they can do to catch up with them.
It seems as though no one's word is good, anymore. And since there is no organization (such as the Indy Red Star Rag) to keep them in check, both parties have free reign to do whatever they want.

Former Republican Congressman Ed Pease is holding ...

2011-07-15T11:01:33.876-05:00

Former Republican Congressman Ed Pease is holding a fundraiser for a Democratic council candidate? I can understand Carson, but Pease?

This is unfortunate. Christine Scales is the most thoughtful, open-minded councilor in the Republican caucus. She votes for her constituents and refuses to be a rubber stamp. Unfortunately her district is one of the three R districts that the D's have a majority in and are targeting to take.