IS IT TRUE? April 10, 2011

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IS IT TRUE? April 10, 2011

IS IT TRUE that in his recent TV commercial in his effort to seek the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Evansville, Troy Tornatta has stated that “starting over” is not needed in Evansville’s search for jobs?…that Mr. Tornatta states that what is needed is for the current Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s “JOBS PLAN” to be continued?…that the City County Observer is neither aware of nor can we find anyone who is aware of any written “JOBS PLAN” or even an unwritten strategy that has been practiced by the Weinzapfel Administration?…that we offer to publish any written “JOBS PLAN” that has its origin in Mayor Weinzapfel’s office that is a public document in existence or has ever existed with respect to a JOBS STRATEGY?…that we challenge Mr. Tornatta to put some meat on the table and share some of the details of this plan that he refers to in his commercial?

IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer extends the same offer to all of the other candidates for their party’s nominations for Mayor of Evansville?…that the last downtown development plan for the City of Evansville was developed during the Lloyd Administration and has a baseball stadium where the District is and shows no Downtown Evansville Arena at all?…that one of the hallmarks of the reign of the Weinzapfel Administration has been a failure to plan in a tangible, meaningful, or transparent way?…that the planning that we have all been painfully aware of are the secret meetings to take away the Homestead Tax Credit, the GAGE-Barnett supplemental salary arrangement, Front Door Pride, a Green Brick Alley, the Executive Inn Dilemma, the McCurdy Debacle, and of course removing the booth at the Fall Festival?…that none of these plans were written or transparent either?

IS IT TRUE that we are scratching our heads in disbelief that Team Troy has chosen a “SECOND COMING OF WEINZAPFEL” strategy to seek his party’s nomination?…that if this is what kind of advice he is paying his political consultants to provide him with that he will be applying for a refund in the first week of May?…that we are curious as to whether or not the Weinzapfel for Mayor committee has contributed to Team Troy’s campaign since the commercial offers more praise for Mayor Weinzapfel than ideas from Tornatta?

IS IT TRUE that publishing the EPD Activity Reports has been very favorably accepted by the readers of the City County Observer?…that we are working with Vanderburgh County Sheriff Eric Williams right now to come up with a similar publishing service to inform the citizens of Vanderburgh County about the professional activities and benefits that all of the law enforcement bodies in the county provide?

IS IT TRUE that the Indiana legislature has failed in a lifeless attempt to craft a statewide smokefree workplace ordinance?…that the legislators amended and excepted group after group to the extent that even cancer prevention groups rejected the toothless pile of paper that the Indiana Senate produced?…that one of the biggest reasons to exempt casinos was “loss of state revenue”?…that casinos and lotteries were sold to the citizens of Indiana and nearly everywhere else as the “Sugar Daddy” that will save our schools?…that was either a colossal mistake or just a bunch of darn lies?…that bars cry that if casinos are exempted that they need to have smoking to level the playing field?…that bars do not have one-armed bandits and video poker but casinos do?…that gamblers cannot feed their addiction at a bar so the level playing field argument doesn’t hold much water?…that if the bars really want a level playing field that what they should be asking for is deregulation of gambling?…that if you really want to rev up the profits in a bar just put in a bank of one-armed bandits and video poker machines?…that maybe even some card tables and pull tabs would really level the playing field?

IS IT TRUE that our government needs to find some way other than feeding on the weaknesses and addictions of the citizens of our state to keep its coffers filled enough to provide the services that we expect to receive?…that the way the State of Indiana and others have embraced smoking and gambling that it won’t be long before we are treated to drug sales and prostitution as ways to “help our kids win too” as a financial windfall to fund education?

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  2. Big money will start flowing after April 15 from the Mayors huge campaign coffers to elect Mr. Tornatta to keep the Wienzapfel “JOBS PLAN” in place, which is code for everyone in the Weinzapfel administration will keep their jobs if Tornatta is elected.

    • Well yes, Troy’s commercial is a solid endorsement for the Weinzapfel regime’s time in power. Weinzapfel should be paying for Troy’s commercial because it is mostly about him and of course Rick Davis who Troy flat out quotes as saying Evansville needs to hit the reset button.

      Troy says nothing at all about creating any job other than it needs to be done. He is about as aware in that commercial about how to actually do something as a deer in the headlights. Jobs plan??? If you work for Weinzapfel and vote for Troy you get to keep your job!

      Have any of the candidates for Mayor ever actually created even one good private sector job?

      • “Have any of the candidates for Mayor ever actually created even one good private sector job?”

        Bing-freakin’-O!!!

        • Just what I thought. Of the four candidates for Mayor of Evansville, there has never been so much as one decent job created by all of them combined in their entire lives. What an indecent situation to have to deal with.

          This reminds me of Weinzapfel’s statement about what he liked about being Mayor when he said it was learning to manage because he had never managed anything before.

          What the heck will it take to get people who really have a clue about business interested in being the Mayor of Evansville? Heck, look at the City Council. Connie Robinson and Curt John are the only two that have any real world experience with business and Curt’s is with Show-Me’s.

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