IS IT TRUE APRIL 13, 2018

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We hope that today’s “Readers Forum” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

IS IT TRUE that the appointed 3rd Ward Evansville City Councilman John Hayden, CPA let it be known at the last meeting of the Evansville City Council that he was comfortable releasing approximately $500,000 to Echo Housing that is the subject of a police investigation and forensic audit due to having allegedly been the victim of the crime of theft?…an ongoing investigation by the Evansville Police Department about just how much theft may have occurred in addition to the small amount of money that former Executive Director Stephanie Tenbarge is accused of stealing?…the City Council wisely voted to tabled the issue in order tio give to give the EPD and the Forensic auditors sufficient time to complete the investigation?…the investigation could take many twists and turns and it is possible that the losses due to theft and deceptive practices may reach into six figures?…one would think that anyone who knew anything at all about accounting and fraud would understand the importance of completing the investigation, reaching a conclusion, and insisting on the installation of a competent board of directors with policies and procedures in place to prevent ECHO Housing from being the victim of another round of crimes?

IS IT TRUE that Councilman Hayden’s LinkedIn page list two certifications that should qualify him to be the financial watchdog of the Evansville City Council?…Hayden’s Linkedin page lists both a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner) as his earned certifications?…if Councilman Hayden would had been anything but a CPA or CFE it would be expected that his level of financial sophistication would have been insufficient to make a judgment on whether or not to release the $500,000 to an agency under investigation for failing to exercise fiduciary responsibility over taxpayer dollars?…it is mind numbing to think that any competent CPA and especially a CFE would go along with handing federal tax dollars to an entity like Echo Housing that has allegedly been victimized while its board of directors failed to monitor the financial activities of the former Executive Director?  …City-County Observer wonders how is it possible for such an educationally decorated person in the professional financial world would ever get taken in by the simpletons who want to front Echo Housing any tax dollars prior to finishing the police investigation and the Forensic audit and correcting for the negligent state of the management?

IS IT TRUE yesterday a local TV station ran a story on the 8th District Congressional candidate Dr. Richard Moss campaign volunteer?  …this story exposed a volunteer campaign worker for Dr. Richard Moss Congressional campaign who joined a White Nationalist organization in his youth?…Mole #9 tells us that while this is true and after learning what the organization was all about that Dr. Moss 19-year-old volunteer worker resigned within two weeks of joining? … it’s obvious that this young man made a serious youthful mistake but quickly corrected it?  …the age of the campaign worker is now around 27 years old?

IS IT TRUE we hope in the future that members of the local media will question both Congressional candidates on what they thinks about the real issues that concern the people of the 8th Congressional District like a border wall, immigration policy, trade deals, Syria, or tax reform? …we also hope that our local luminaries who make their living feeding pablum to the masses will be calling on Congressman Bucshon to agree to debate Dr. Moss so their positions on the real issues of the campaign would be available to the voters?…the City-County Observer thinks that a debate would be a fantastic idea?

IS IT TRUE that the 8th District Congressional candidate, Dr. Richard Moss said this about his volunteer worker of several months being accused of being a White Nationalist?  …that Dr. Moss said; “Caleb Shumaker has been a volunteer for my campaign for several months and I have appreciated his help along the way. I can say from our interactions these salacious allegations that he is a White Nationalist is false. Caleb is a strong young conservative and devout in his faith.  Caleb is the father of a multi-ethnic family, is volunteering for a Jewish candidate for Congress, and is himself a strong supporter of Israel. This fake news was planted by Congressman Bucshon’s desperate re-election campaign committee. Let me be clear, there is no place for racism and White Nationalism in the Republican party or my campaign.  I would encourage Congressman Bucshon to stop playing racial politics and own up to his own struggles by demonstrating he is not afraid to debate. If he doesn’t agree to debate me I believe that  Republican voters will hold him accountable at the ballot box.”

IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Public Board of Works gave final approval for TED, Trolley of Evansville to begin to provide transportation to area Restaurants and Bars in order to create more economic development among area Restaurants and Bar throughout the City? …we congratulate Amy Word-Smith and her committee for a job well done?

 IS IT TRUE that the Vanderburgh County Property Tax Bills were mailed on April 9th, 2018?  …the deadline to pay your taxes is May 10th, 2018?  …don’t be surprised to find out that your 2019 property taxes have been raised around 15 percent?
IS IT TRUE a CCO reader sent this to us which we found interesting? …I  talked to a to a homeless man recently and asked him how he ended up this way? He said, “Up until last week, I still had it all.  I had plenty to eat, my clothes were washed and pressed, I had a roof over my head, I had HDTV and Internet, and I went to the gym, the pool, and the library?” …he also added that “I was working on my MBA online.  I had no bills and no debt. I even had full medical coverage?” …I felt sorry for him, so I asked, “What happened?  Drugs?  Alcohol?  Divorce?”  …he said “Oh no, nothing like that,” he said.  “No, no… I was just paroled?”
Todays “Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that Congressman Larry Buschon should debate his opponent, Dr. Richard Moss?
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  1. Now, instead of effective enhanced security by police trained volunteer teachers with access to gun safes at schools, we have the useless liberal concept of “symbolically” arming teachers with tiny souvenir baseball bats that are “a symbolic reminder of the district’s change in its current response from shelter in place (hide) to now include the options of running and/or fighting back”. What a pile of left wing crapola. The EVSC will likely debate some similar “symbolic” reminder of school district change, rather than adopt the most effective enhanced security for students and staff: police trained volunteer teachers with access to gun safes in an active shooter event:
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    (CNN)After the shooting in Parkland, Florida, a school district in suburban Erie, Pennsylvania, began formulating a school safety plan. Among its measures: handing out miniature wooden baseball bats to all 500 of its teachers.

    In an online message, Millcreek Township School District Superintendent William Hall said the bats “could be used as a tool against an active shooter just like any other item in the immediate room,” adding that they will remain locked in the classroom and “are only to be used/available in a hard lockdown situation.”…

    “After a flurry of media coverage, Hall posted an updated message Thursday in which he explained the bats were mostly intended to be symbolic — a reminder that in the event of a shooting, teachers might have to fight.

    “They were distributed to our teaching staff as a symbolic reminder of the district’s change in its current response from shelter in place (hide) to now include the options of running and/or fighting back,” he said.

    “It is not the primary deterrent, but rather it is something that may be used in an emergency situation, and symbolizes our intent to take an active approach to defending our students and staff under threat.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/baseball-bats-pennsylvania-schools-trnd/index.html

    • Joe. There are no words to describe the insanity of this. Kind of like the Indianapolis teacher who said on TV (saw it myself) she would not use a gun to protect her or her students because it would just make the NRA look good. Insane.

      • even a blind squirrel like dann coulter finds a nut every once in a while!!

        thank you for pointing it out dann, the key word here is insanity:
        it is insane to arm teachers in school and introduce ready made weapons for students to take from their teachers and kill all of their classmates

        and another insane thing that would happen if EVSC or any Indiana school decided to arm teachers, and janitors and english teacher’s aides with weapons in the school? indiana test scores will drop, sink, plunge and plummet

        go find more nuts joebiden and dann. arming teachers is an insane idea from guess who: gun nuts.

        • What do you have against teachers? Do you think none have the ability to handle a firearm? Or no teacher would want to try to defend themselves and their students against a shooter? Test scores would plummet? Laughable.
          And what wife of a cop would advocate sending her husband to an active shooter scene armed only with———- a miniature baseball bat?

        • wife of a cop

          Bravo, very well stated

          The first and foremost idiocy of having teachers with a firearm is simple, but NRAsuckers like Dann and JoeBlow cannot see the simplicity of having common sense (which they have none of)

          Law enforcement officers heading into an active shooter situation do NOT have the means to tell the difference between a “good teacher and a gun” and the madman who is responsible for the shooting.

          Furthermore, how will law enforcement officers be able to know if the person holding a weapon in a school is a student who was able to grab a weapon to defend themselves and others in the split-seconds it will take for the officer to shoot them, or if the student with the weapon is the actual and intended target?

          It is BEYOND asinine to think that weapons in a school will do ANYTHING to help. All it will do is provide active targets for responding officers, officers who have only milliseconds to determine who to shoot.

          But of course, JoeBlow and Danny do not care about those pesky facts

          • No worries. When EVSC officials read crap like Dann Coulter wrote here, they KNOW he is NUTS.

          • Hey genius the killing is done by the time thd cops arrive. Great at slamming a idea but none of your own. Someone armed at Parkland would have gave them a chance.

    • Dann

      D stands for ‘District.” As we understand it that majority of the money raised for “TED” was from private donations. However, around $25,000 was donated by the State of Indiana via a matching grant.

      Editor

      • Thanks, Editor. If tavern owners want to provide customers transportation to their establishments where they can consume adult beverages, fine.
        What’s not fine is subsidizing those rides with tax money, matching grant or otherwise.

    • Trolley of Evansville Districts
      Fundraising by GAGE AND FRANKLIN STREET EVENTS ASSOCIATION,something to do with nonprofit
      my guess taxpayers will still get the tab to a degree,taverns will get the business

      • Thanks, Etp. Wonder if they will eventually provide bicycles so customers can access the many restaurants and taverns on the bustling, busy, North Main_ _ _ _ _.

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