Comments on Advance Indiana™: Mayor's Crime Prevention Grants Yielding Great Results, NOT

Setting up a non-profit is one of the easier ways ...

2009-11-12T23:15:13.770-05:00

Setting up a non-profit is one of the easier ways to steal money from taxpayers by people who otherwise are unemployable or not worthy of the salary they pay themselves. It is one of the biggest scams going.

Sean, Sadly, these crime prevention grants are not...

2009-11-12T14:56:11.121-05:00

Sean, Sadly, these crime prevention grants are nothing more than payoffs to a group of black ministers who falsely claim they are responsible for the election of Greg Ballard. Their claim is that they encouraged all of their church members to stay home on election day in 2007 and caused Peterson to lose the election. It's a tall tale that was quickly promoted by Abdul on his blog at the time. It's why Ballard named Olgen Williams, who did nothing for his election, as a deputy mayor and it's why he has devoted so much energy to kissing up to this constituency that never voted for him and never will. While passing out jobs, contracts and grants to "Friends of Olgen", Ballard never misses an opportunity to deliver the middle finger to the grassroots people who actually are responsible for his election. Just another reason why Ballard shouldn't even waste time running for re-election.

I take exception to this money ($5 million) being ...

2009-11-12T14:33:34.236-05:00

I take exception to this money ($5 million) being doled out to private organizations (plus $1 million for the arts) when just weeks later they then have to vote to raise taxes to collect an extra few million (around $4 million??) in revenue.

The perception is that the crime prevention grants are political 'buy offs' to community organizations, local churches and other private entities.

It's also worth noting that there is decision point that says you can further reduce Bart Peterson's massive tax increase (.62 of that .65 is still left) by another .03 percent (dropping the Marion County rate from 1.62 to 1.59%) if they stop doling that money out to private entities.

2009-11-12T11:38:55.475-05:00

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