tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8805657266839275510..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58804326352699667022009-02-28T08:29:00.000-05:002009-02-28T08:29:00.000-05:00What has happened to representative government? I've followed your stories on the enormous mis-management of large capital projects like Lucas Oil, Circle Center Mall, Conseco Fieldhouse. I always thought to myself, "That's Indianapolis/Marion County leadership." <BR/><BR/>Reading today about how the Mayor of Carmel apparently mislead the Carmel City Counsel on the Keystone rebuilding project.<BR/><BR/>All I can think is that the contagion that infects Indianapolis Mayors, every incarnation of the City-County Counsel and the entrenched bureaucracy supporting has appeared in Hamilton County.<BR/><BR/>My questions to you both are, "Will the voters cut out the cancerous and apply copious amounts of treatment in the form spending limits, enhanced taxpayer controls, like referendums on big capital expenditures?" Or, will the voters just say, "Look, we got sports teams, sports palaces and really pretty road" and keep oinking for more?<BR/><BR/>I think it is way past time for another taxpayer uprising to keep our elected officials aware they are spending our money.Hamilton County GOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14647643514996042040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-78812418381189284552009-02-26T21:35:00.000-05:002009-02-26T21:35:00.000-05:00Thanks for the encouragement, Hamilton County.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-54505624368082764782009-02-26T20:48:00.000-05:002009-02-26T20:48:00.000-05:00Paul, Gary,<BR/><BR/>I don't care what entrenched politicos say about you both, I am most grateful you are shining the garish light of truth on underhanded, taxpayer cheating, ruling elite that is driving Marion beyond the brink of bankruptcy. <BR/><BR/>We have something of the same problem here; however, at least our entrenched political ruling still have some amount of fiscal responsibility. Hopefully, they will not take a page out of the Marion County playbook.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the great reporting!Hamilton County GOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14647643514996042040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-50151889302608674892009-02-26T17:54:00.000-05:002009-02-26T17:54:00.000-05:00Bosma wants us to have his back, yet did he ever have ours?M Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892309818226431745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-51588232626484922382009-02-26T11:49:00.000-05:002009-02-26T11:49:00.000-05:00The same article has the comment from Bosma:<BR/>"THERE SHOULD BE A TAXPAYER REVOLT OVER THIS. PEOPLE SHOULD BE FURIOUS. ..UNFRIENDLY PROPERTY TAXPAYER VOTE."<BR/><BR/>Why are our representatives so quick to sell out the laws they created last year. Did reform mean that little to them? Does the safeguard for voters to have a referendum mean so little that they hi-jack the voice of the people by stomping on the people who sent them there? <BR/>Whores sell themselves and we now know where 52 of them reside.Patriot Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03986604576219564749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40172664434556525292009-02-26T10:45:00.000-05:002009-02-26T10:45:00.000-05:00There is good reason the ISTA is across the street from the state house and connected to our legislators by a tunnel.M Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892309818226431745noreply@blogger.com