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IS IT TRUE that it’s time for our elected officials to start managing River City like a business instead of spending our hard-earned tax dollars like a trust fund set up for only fun and games projects?
IS IT TRUE that HOWEY DAILY WIRE recently published the following comment that we found extremely interesting? …the comment posted was that $500M in regional grants awarded as Holcomb hits back at GOP critics: Regional groups covering all 92 counties will share $500 million in state development grants although none will get close to the planned maximum of 75 million dollars.? …that Gov. Eric Holcomb responded sharply to criticism from some current Republican office holders and candidates that his administration is imposing a “TOP DOWN” approach” to capital development efforts around the state? …that we are told that this is a developing story in the upcoming story?
IS IT TRUE that free government money always comes with strings attached? …what government giveth they can also taketh away?
IS IT TRUE that we are told that the working-class people of Evansville want to see more of their tax dollars spent on repairing and repaving City streets, sprucing up our city parks, and improving the blighted areas of Evansville instead of on multi-million dollar downtown projects?
IS IT TRUE that we are told that our elected city officials donated 9 million dollars to help subsidize the building of an underground parking garage at the Downtown 420 Main Street location? …if you don’t believe us please go to the site and see for yourself? …that we are told that many Evansville taxpayers feel that the underground parking garage should be the financial responsibility of the developer and not the Evansville taxpayers?
IS IT TRUE that history has taught us well? …that when politicians build expensive capital projects they forget to put enough money in the construction budget to take care of the long-term maintenance expenses?
IS IT TRUE that citizens expect their government employees to be good stewards of taxpayer money? …that certain Evansville City and Vanderburgh County elected officials have forgotten that expectation?
IS IT TRUE if our elected City officials can find 9 million dollars to subsidize building a downtown parking garage at 429 Main then why can’t they find the money to repair and repave our sidewalks and streets and upgrade our city parks?
IS IT TRUE that several of our financially astute readers would like to know if any concerts and/or sporting events received any rental discount and/or total forgiveness of event rental fees at the FORD CENTER during the last several years?
IS IT TRUE that we are told that it is estimated that the Evansville Water and Sewer Department’s current debt load for the massive Sewer and Water capital projects is almost $850 million and increasing every day? …that we are also told that the current outstanding debt for the City of Evansville is around $400 million and increasing daily?
IS IT TRUE we have been told that our newly appointed Chief Of Police, Phil Smith is doing a credible job?
IS IT TRUE when the people fear the Government we have Tyranny and when the government fears the people we have Liberty!
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Mr. Messmer has indeed co-sponsored the bills referenced, but on his campaign ads he yells “Deport them!”. One wonders how he balances one thing with the opposite statement. The co-sponsoring is provable, the other is not.
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