IS IT TRUE APRIL 19, 2018

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” 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 Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau has found a new leader and the name of this 63-year-old spring chicken is Joe Taylor?…Mr. Taylor is coming to Evansville from the Quad Cities area that includes Northwest Illinois and Southeast Iowa?…that is the same general area that outgoing CEO Bob Warren came to Evansville from 8 years ago to close out his career?…Mr. Taylor was scheduled to close out his own career with a retirement that was to occur on December 31, 2018, as verified by his own board of directors?…Taylor may be running double duty in Evansville as he was also responsible for bringing sporting contests to the Quad Cities during his time there?…the City-County Observer welcomes Joe Taylor to Evansville and wishes him much success?…for the first time in perhaps 50 years there is some momentum in downtown Evansville that may succeed in drawing something of substance that exceeds the Lady Quilters of Indiana and the Big Bass Fishermen who occasionally hook one of the Ohio River piranhas with their jitterbugs?

IS IT TRUE we are still complexed why did the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Commissioners decide to hire a new Executive Director from the outside?  …it was clearly obvious that the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau had an extremely qualified individual in their current employment that could have done well in this position

IS IT TRUE some influential people in Evansville must have a desire to become Quad Cities south because the stream of retired or nearly retired talent coming in from that region keeps multiplying?…in addition to former CVB CEO Warren and the new guy Taylor, the recently hired CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of Southwest Indiana was hired  from a similar position in the Quad Cities?…it is highly probable that these people all have known each other for a long time and may even have a working relationship?…while familiarity may be positive, the Quad Cities are not exactly showing up on the lists of great places to live, work, or visit?…it could be a step up for River City though?

IS IT TRUE that the Kunkel Group has raised its pen and filed a tort claim against the City of Evansville for the excessive charges for water and sewer service at the McCurdy Hotel building that is now Kunkel owned apartments?…among the allegations made by Kunkel are that the City of Evansville has made false statements that have disrupted their operation of an honest business in downtown Evansville?…the Kunkel suit was after the City of Evansville placed a $1.5 million lien on the McCurdy for water use for the first year after the apartments were offered to the public?…one thing that the City County Observer knows for sure is that a building with only 93 apartments can not afford to pay a water bill of over $100,000 per month?

IS IT TRUE that the McCurdy water bill per apartment amounts to roughly $1,300 and that is not something that is consistent with this property having a fighting chance at prospering from their large investment?…by the time all of the expenses of operating this building are considered the Kunkel Group will need to net roughly $2,500 per apartment per month at 100% occupancy all of the time?…that means that a base rent will need to be close to $3,000 for this property to perform well financially?

IS IT TRUE that the new GRAVIS POLL finds that former State Representative Mike Braum is leading the recent political poll?  …this poll shows that Mr. Braun is leading the pack against career politicians Luke Messer and Todd Rokita?  …the poll shows Mr. Braun leading this poll with 26%?  …that Todd Rokita has 16% and Luck Messer has 13% of the vote?  …that around 45% of the voters don’t know who they are voting for in this coming U S Senate Republican primary?

IS IT TRUE if the Veterans Memorial Coliseum is forced to stop providing Friday night BINGO it could cause this historical landmark to close their doors forever?  …that Friday night BINGO is the main source of income for this historical landmark?

IS IT TRUE that we are impressed with Abby Maravich, the Member Engagement Manager for the Southwest Indiana Chamber?  …Abby is very personable and is a very good public relations person?  …the Southwest Indiana Chamber is fortunate to have someone with the qualifications and dedication of Abby Maravich?

IS IT TRUE that Vanderburgh County Attorney Joe Harrison, Jr. is really doing a bang-up job serving the citizens of this community?

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22 COMMENTS

  2. Is it True the Rokita’s are in hot water with the Trumps over use of their image without permission? Oops. Go Joe!

  3. Dr. Gorka’s excellent explanation of why the border wall is necessary for real Americans:

    ““He’s building the wall why? Not because he hates anybody,” said Dr. Gorka who swore that Donald Trump “doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. He doesn’t even have a racist molecule in his body.”

    “He’s building a wall for the same reason that you lock your front door at night,” explained Dr. Gorka. “Not because you hate your neighbors, but because you love that which is inside your home and you wish to protect it. Our border is our national home’s front door. The President is securing our collective home.””

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/19/protester-screams-at-gorka-who-says-their-fuel-is-hatred/

    • Gorka is a known liar and a whack job. It only figures JoeBlow would think he has something to offer

      More Breitfart nonsense

      • So Mickard, are you saying you DON’T lock your door at night? Brilliant.
        Thinking citizens demand a secure border and a sovereign nation. Gruber goober dems don’t think.

        • I doubt Mikard locks his door at night. As with most liberals they come into Evansville preach diversity and love thy neighbor then drive to Newburgh to their home in a gated community. If they,” Lived on my Street” they would lock their doors.

        • Annie, you never fail to show your ignorance in grabbing cheap GOP talking point BS

          The usual ignorance of equating that if liberals are against building a wall with Mexico, they should leave their doors unlocked? This has to be the silliest, most twisted logic you can make, but is the usual silly ignorance from you.

          So if liberals oppose building walls along border regions they must have an “open-door” policy. To compare this to leaving your front door open all the time is nothing short of puerile and asinine

          Your ignorant stance is that if people are opposed to something extreme (which Trump’s immigration policies are) they must believe in the opposite extreme. This is just childish and ignorant. More importantly, wanting to have an open-immigration policy that doesn’t involve walls and mass deportations doesn’t mean you’re in favor of letting illegals in willy-nilly.

          Liberals don’t support the wall because they aren’t in the habit of supporting policies that don’t have a hope in hell of preventing illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has persisted for the past 50 years despite the fact that the number of agents that actively patrol the border and handle customs and immigration has grown exponentially. People are still coming across and find all manner of ways to avoid checkpoints, sneak past walls, tunnel under walls, or circumvent them entirely.

          You and the rest of the Trumpsuckers and your “let’s build a wall” are simply repeating a dumb idea. It’s already been attempted by George W and it failed for a number of reasons. It doesn’t address the reasons for illegal immigration, it doesn’t deal with the illegals already in the US, any design submitted so far is unlikely to stem illegals, and the cost of building it is prohibitive. So why waste the money?

          Plenty of Americans support dealing with illegal immigration, they just prefer to do it in ways that aren’t thoughtless and based on cheap bigotry and lies. For instance, there’s the claim that the 11 million illegal Mexicans are a drain on the system and cost taxpayers upwards of $100 billion a year. But those estimates are based on assumptions and unreliable data. And illegals have been shown to generate more revenue in tax and social security payments and economic spending than they cost through services.

          The Congressional Budget Office found that between 50-75% of illegals pay local, state and federal taxes. Meanwhile, illegals are not eligible for the state and federal services they are claimed to be using freely. Between 2007 and 2010, illegals paid $7-$13 BILLION into the retirement trust fund annually, and only got about $1 billion back in benefits. And in Texas alone, the 1.4 million illegal immigrants that live there added almost $18 BILLION in payments to the state’s budget. In short, their annual contribution to revenue and GDP is far greater than what they cost the US.

          People with a brain (you are not in that category, we know) recognize that illegal immigrants are only a drain on government services if they are incapable of paying taxes. This is the result of restrictive federal policies that require proof of citizenship. If we were willing to pass “guest-worker” programs and offer illegals a path to citizenship and documentation, instead of constantly cracking down on them, illegals would be paying far more into the system.

          But worse of all is the fact that this is well-known in political circles. All talk of sealing the border and deporting people are bullshit political talking points that politicians use to score points with voters, nothing more. The border has been kept deliberately porous for decades because US agribusiness, the meat industry and the domestic servant industry all depend on the influx of cheap labor that may (or may not) be illegal. And since these are jobs “regular Americans” aren’t willing to do, the complaints about job stealing are also complete bullshit.

          So perhaps instead of asking ridiculous questions comparing opposition to border walls with leaving the door open, perhaps you should educate yourself on what liberals actually think. And perhaps you should educate yourself on how illegal immigration actually benefits America and how closed borders and crackdowns don’t accomplish anything.

    • Joe. I think the truth of that statement by Dr. Gorka is obvious to any thinking person. How then to explain the hateful actions of Gruber goober dems? Ignorance?

      • Breitbart lost 1/2 if it’s reading audience since Bannon left, the 1/2 that could read.
        The rest just log on and look at the pictures.

    • Have you guys not figured out the stories that JoeBiden smokes dope at Mesker Park Amphitheater are correct?
      Trump signed the Budget that cut out funding for the Wall.
      There isn’t gonna be and Trump Wall.
      Joe is high.

  4. “94% of immigrants in US federal prisons — over 35,000 individuals — are criminal illegal aliens.
    They’ve been arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, child sex assaults and drug trafficking.”
    Trump was right, again. Only an empty headed, hateful ,Gruber goober dem could be in favor of open borders.

    • Coulter, you’re nuts, right?
      Trump signed the Budget that killed and cut out funding for the Wall to protect the Border.
      Trump signed it.
      You’re nuts!!

    • Annie, stealing a quote from Gateway Pundit, which is run by the “Stupidest Man On The Internet” Jim Hoff, puts you in the same category

  5. Wow!
    The Russian Dossier is true!
    President Trump’s lawyer just dropped all of the defamation lawsuits that claimed the Russian Dossier was slander.

  6. “IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau has found a new leader and the name of this 63-year-old spring chicken is Joe Taylor?…”
    Why are the taxpayers paying for an ECVB?! What good service has it done us that other groups could successfully perform? Seems like the ECVB is about as useless as the National Endowment for the Arts. Seems like the administrators of the ECVB country club are as competent as a bunch of monkeys with a football.
    As far as a new leader goes? “Meet the new boss…Same as the old boss…” -Roger Daltrey

    • Mr Sharpie, you’re such a sad man. Trump is the swamp, you’re not reading the tax law just passed.

      • I don’t need to read it. My tax refund speaks for itself. I expected to have to pay additional as usual. I got a nice little refund, a double gift, didn’t pay but received. Now do tell, exactly what am I missing? I don’t have that class envy thing and don’t play woulda, coulda, shoulda, I’m the captain of my ship. Arthur Fletcher, a man I admire and respect put Class Envy=Social Justice thing in perspective. He said” Social Justice is nice but with what I have in my rear pocket I can buy all the social justice I need. My favorite coming from Mr. Fletcher was a phase he made famous when he was referring to liberals, “A brain is a terrible thing to waste”.

  8. (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday said Jeff Sessions, Drumpf, and the Justice Department cannot deny public safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration

    (And before Annie and JoeBlow get all grumpy, all three judges on the Seventh Circuit panel were nominated by Republican presidents)

    And this decision means the injunction will apply nationally while the lawsuit proceeds in federal court

    The case is one of a number of battles between Republican Donald Drumpf’s administration and state and local leaders over immigration, health care, the environment and other issues

    The decision in this case was from a lawsuit from last year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he would cut off cities from certain Justice Department grants unless they allowed federal immigration authorities unlimited access to local jails and provided 48 hours notice before releasing anyone wanted for immigration violations.

    The lawsuit contended that Sessions exceeded his authority by imposing new conditions beyond those Congress prescribed when it established the grant program.

    In its ruling on Thursday, a three-judge Seventh Circuit panel said its role is to protect the separation of powers between the branches of the federal government.

    “The Attorney General in this case used the sword of federal funding to conscript state and local authorities to aid in federal civil immigration enforcement, but the power of the purse rests with Congress”

    Police agencies in so-called ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions, like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, have generally barred their officers from routinely checking individuals’ immigration status, and from keeping anyone locked up longer than otherwise warranted at the request of immigration agents.

    Yep, sucks to be wrong again, folks

    • Does this mean we should abandon all legal immigration efforts and open up the USA to all who can make it into the country? Is there a limit to where we say enough is enough? I personally believe it’s beyond control and the fringies are going to win. Fringies will keep up the battle til we no longer have the resources or the will to build bigger jails and prison. Since the great transformation of America started in 1968 and the liberal efforts to break the American bank the consequences have been obvious. We had a jail built in 1890 that was sufficient until 1972, the jail in 1972 lasted until 2005 and we are now in need of a new jail. I think our criminal justice system is doing a good of triaging who needs to be in jail and who can be released. Our city has a lot of financial woes that are going to come home to roost, so maybe our bank is near broke.

  9. “… we are still complexed why did the Evansville Convention and Visitors Bureau…”

    To quote Yoda, “complexed” are you?
    Are you sure you’re not just confused?

  10. 2 people shot by Evansville Police for pointing a replica firearm ‘toward’ a police officer in approximately 2 months? How many times has that happened in all of the years of the history of the Evansville?

    I’m wondering if each officer is issued a replica firearm to plant at the scene just make sure the EPD has an excuse for killing someone. The last video looked a little sketchy to me.

    The weird thing is Michael Foster got 1 year for child molesting once and then a few years later go 2 years in a separate incident and got more for receiving stolen property, possession of marijuana/hashish than he did child molesting.

    This paragraph was deleted because the content was insulting and personal.

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