IS IT TRUE MARCH 4, 2016

1. The taxpayers paid $65,000 for that mural??? Are you kidding me?

   • I do not think it was that much unless you include the administrative cost. It was less than $64,999 for the actual “art”. Art is not cheap and in the eye of some beholders this work is a masterpiece. Remember, HUD does not care what you pay just so there is a “pay off” in the end.

     • Mural mural on the wall
       Putting you up took some gall

       Evansville is known, for its part
       To fund very ugly public art

       Lucky for you the city is flush
       Has no problem paying the brush

       Is Local P on the loose
       Tagging walls and the red caboose?

       Spray can in hand flitting around
       Censoring George, cleaning up the town

       Bike on down, view what he wrought
       With the Egg McMuffin, see what else you bought

       • …that’s pretty good. Better poet than poster (I’m kidding.)

       • Bravo! You are as great a master of poetry as James MacLeod is of drawing!

         J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
         Maximum co-coordinator
         Organizing for Idiocy
         Evansville Cell

2. New owners don’t own the courier yet.

   • The heck you say? I thought it was purchased long ago by John Krull, Brian Howey, and James MacLeod.

     • MacLeod has to be an owner to get his left-wing cartoons published. His work would get a C+ in third grade art class

     • It is unclear who the principals are behind the Courier’s new owner, Liberal, Snivel, Drivel & Whine, LLC, but it is indeed rumored that some of our leading Indiana progressives are behind it.

       J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
       Maximum co-coordinator
       Organizing for Idiocy
       Evansville Cell

       • Evansville Courier Company, Inc.

         Principals(name, address, city, state, zip – when provided)
         Jack D. Pate
         President
         300 E. Walnut Street
         EVANSVILLE , IN 47713

         Timothy E Stautberg
         Vice President
         312 Walnut St, Ste 2800
         Cincinnati , OH 45202

         William Appleton
         Vice President
         312 Walnut St, Ste 2800
         Cincinnati , OH 45202

         JULIE MCGEHEE
         Secretary
         312 WALNUT ST STE 2800
         CINCINNATI , OH 45202

         • JOURNAL MEDIA GROUP was bought by Gannett (Oct. 2015). Gannett’s flagship is USA Today. The Indiana newspapers they now own are: the Indianapolis Star, the Evansville Courier&Press, the Journal and Courier (Lafayette), the Star Press (Muncie), the Palladium-Item (Richmond).

           Think you might to be able to swing the vote in Indiana if you controlled the newspapers in the above listed cities? The daily drumbeat of propaganda.

           * * * * * *

           “The public relations industry, which essentially runs the elections, is applying certain principles to undermine democracy which are the same as the principles that applies to undermine markets.” (Noam Chomsky)

3. I’m glad we heard from John Friend. It’s a shame that Anna Hargis,another CPA who is now on City Council, doesn’t see fit to do some of the due diligence in budgetary matters that John Friend did. In the meantime, I hope he continues to keep an eye on things.

   • The only reason Hargis is on the council is she was a hand picked lackey. Do you really think she would even consider crossing Winnecke? Of course not.

     • She must not be very smart. She keeps asking questions at City Council meetings because she is new and doesn’t know how things work. She says she is 100% in Winnecke’s corner, so she doesn’t care about the public.

       • She should have paid attention last year when she was sitting on the front row at every meeting. She was texting all the time though.

   • Mr. Friend smiled and nodded for how many years while Weinzapfel set the stage for massive budgetary problems? Smiled and nodded when the powers-that-be were going to close fire stations to buttress city funding for the Ford Center? He only found his voice once he had decided he wasn’t running for council again and didn’t need to placate the kingmakers. He’s a fraud, plain and simple. If you are counting on him ‘to keep an eye on things’, that’s a crying shame!

     • Then that may be justice for honest taxpayers
       Kinda like one rattlesnake going around biting other rattlers in the den
       Whatever it takes to get em

       • Superb inroimatfon here, ol’e chap; keep burning the midnight oil.

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     • Now, don’t you go attacking John Friend, CPA. It is true that John Friend, CPA, was a complete enabler of Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel and his wondrously wasteful and reckless spending, which flowed like a mighty river into the pockets of our well-connected loyal Democratic establishment, both here and in Indianapolis. John Friend, CPA, knew that he would look like a complete phony and hypocrite if he suddenly became a born-again budget-balancer and would expose himself to completely justified criticism from conservative ankle-biters like you. It is a measure of the dedication of John Friend, CPA, to Mayor Weinzapfel and the Democratic Party that he was willing to do so. You should sign up for one of his seminars on latter-day, retrospective fiscal responsibility, conducted on his yacht, the SS Tipsy.

       J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
       Maximum co-coordinator
       Organizing for Idiocy
       Evansville Cell

4. Dear CCO,
   Could you post a little more about the budget request? Do you have a link to it? What do they want the money for and where is it coming from?

   • a) If the proper officers of a political subdivision desire to appropriate more money for a particular year than the amount prescribed in the budget for that year as finally determined under this article, they shall give notice of their proposed additional appropriation. The notice shall state the time and place at which a public hearing will be held on the proposal. The notice shall be given once in accordance with IC 5-3-1-2(b).
     (b) If the additional appropriation by the political subdivision is made from a fund that receives:
     (1) distributions from the motor vehicle highway account established under IC 8-14-1-1 or the local road and street account established under IC 8-14-2-4; or
     (2) revenue from property taxes levied under IC 6-1.1;
     the political subdivision must report the additional appropriation to the department of local government finance. If the additional appropriation is made from a fund described under this subsection, subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) apply to the political subdivision.
     (c) However, if the additional appropriation is not made from a fund described under subsection (b), subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) do not apply to the political subdivision. Subsections (f), (g), (h), and (i) do not apply to an additional appropriation made from the cumulative bridge fund if the appropriation meets the requirements under IC 8-16-3-3(c).
     (d) A political subdivision may make an additional appropriation without approval of the department of local government finance if the additional appropriation is made from a fund that is not described under subsection (b). However, the fiscal officer of the political subdivision shall report the additional appropriation to the department of local government finance.
     (e) After the public hearing, the proper officers of the political subdivision shall file a certified copy of their final proposal and any other relevant information to the department of local government finance.
     (f) When the department of local government finance receives a certified copy of a proposal for an additional appropriation under subsection (e), the department shall determine whether sufficient funds are available or will be available for the proposal. The determination shall be made in writing and sent to the political subdivision not more than fifteen (15) days after the department of local government finance receives the proposal.
     (g) In making the determination under subsection (f), the department of local government finance shall limit the amount of the additional appropriation to revenues available, or to be made available, which have not been previously appropriated.
     (h) If the department of local government finance disapproves an additional appropriation under subsection (f), the department shall specify the reason for its disapproval on the determination sent to the political subdivision.
     (i) A political subdivision may request a reconsideration of a

     determination of the department of local government finance under this section by filing a written request for reconsideration. A request for reconsideration must:
     (1) be filed with the department of local government finance within fifteen (15) days of the receipt of the determination by the political subdivision; and
     (2) state with reasonable specificity the reason for the request.
     The department of local government finance must act on a request for reconsideration within fifteen (15) days of receiving the request.

5. I saw that EPD parked the Guardian at the grocery at Main and Franklin. I hope it doesn’t get anything stolen off of it, but it could happen. That’s a rough neighborhood.

   • They need to push the crime, etc. to other parts of the city for the new grocery/retail (private investment that required the 18mill tax funded rehab of the street in the name of a bike path) that has yet to be announced. Big plans for the area – tax payer investment will pay off it they don’t give everything away with tax abatement. The little guy will get pushed out but the big money investors will make a killing. Just like the car lot – and Haneys corner all the Community development dollars will soon be going to the next special interest.

   • That will be the “Guardians” permanent location on N. Main to make sure no one steals the $18 million bike path project

   • ….or they may steal the Guardian. That’s a rough neighborhood.

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