Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard Auctioned Off Nearly 100 Seats On Biggest Overseas Junket To Date

"A real Newspaper or TV Media would look at t...

2013-11-03T22:13:05.017-05:00

"A real Newspaper or TV Media would look at this list and connect the dots, between Campaign Contributions, contracts the City has with them. Is the City funding these non-profits in any way???"

Such as Reprographix? They have ties to several of this businesses, were handed the printing contract for DPW improvements (not to mention other "improvements" such as the 400 block parking garage and CityWay) and seemingly handed the contracts for major construction projects like Lucas Oil and Eskenazi hospital. No competition, just "awarded". I'd like to know what kinds of contributions are coming out of businesses like Reprographix and shutting the rest of us out!

A real Newspaper or TV Media would look at this li...

2013-09-14T08:27:23.777-05:00

A real Newspaper or TV Media would look at this list and connect the dots, between Campaign Contributions, contracts the City has with them. Is the City funding these non-profits in any way???

Good news for the Crony-Capitalists and their fellow travelers we do not have a Fourth Estate here in Indy. We have an embedded Media.

Who is paying for the library CEO?

2013-09-14T06:23:01.553-05:00

Who is paying for the library CEO?

where is all that money going? General budget? I...

2013-09-13T15:44:11.572-05:00

where is all that money going? General budget? IMPD to hire more officers? Ryan Vaughn's diaper bag? Mason jars in Ballards back yard?

Thanks for the correction, anon.

2013-09-13T14:00:10.110-05:00

Thanks for the correction, anon.

Murray did tweet the story once, yesterday afterno...

2013-09-13T12:41:50.719-05:00

Murray did tweet the story once, yesterday afternoon:

https://twitter.com/indyJonMurray/status/378212386953383936

Perhaps His Honor is playing the politician's ...

2013-09-13T11:45:19.796-05:00

Perhaps His Honor is playing the politician's version of Where's Waldo.

One aspect missing...such trips don't generall...

2013-09-13T07:28:38.798-05:00

One aspect missing...such trips don't generally count against one's company's vacation time. Its like taking a vacation, but without taking time off.

These trips that reap no real benefit demonstrate ...

2013-09-13T01:04:23.747-05:00

These trips that reap no real benefit demonstrate how aimless this guy and his administration are. Their justifications for these trips are less than weak and have been weak from the outset. Incredible that they continue. The bottom line is that the 25th floor is full of bottom-of-the-barrel hacks and cowards who are incapable of confronting the real problems here on the ground in Indy. The best they can come up with are frivolous trips in order to flatter the Mayor and build an impression that the Mayor's office is integral to all business in the county. You're supposed to be public servants, not our masters, and if you weren't such cut-rate hacks with a embarrassingly short-sighted and self-serving aims, you'd get it. As his administration crumbles (and it is) he just needs to increase the size of his jet-setting entourage in order to combat the increasingly more evident reality that this administration has no legs, no spine, no brains, and no right to represent Marion county interests locally or anywhere else. What an embarrassment. Are we truly supposed to point to these people and tell our children that these men and women are the best we can come up with to govern ourselves with?

It'll be kinda interesting to see what coverag...

2013-09-12T23:20:08.674-05:00

It'll be kinda interesting to see what coverage is in the Recorder after they return.

I notice a couple of funny things about Ballard...

2013-09-12T18:30:54.610-05:00

I notice a couple of funny things about Ballard's party tour (this trip). The group arrives in the midst of Oktoberfest, basically a giant ongoing beer party. The list includes at least 10 spouses.

Gov. Pence ended up in a group of 40 or so to go to Japan to solicit business from Honda, Toyota and Subaru in terms of new or expanded Indiana plants. This list seemed to include people actually working to bring business to the state.

I really think Ballard is an idiot.

Ranks at the same level as the IRS junkets.

2013-09-12T18:12:05.925-05:00

Ranks at the same level as the IRS junkets.