IS IT TRUE? June 10, 2011
IS IT TRUE that the “Last Tango in Evansville†for the Vanderburgh County Commissioners and the Evansville City Council to put a spit shine on the document known as the consolidation proposal concluded last night with little possibility that any tangible financial benefit will be a part of whatever box full of words that they agree on?…that now there will be one last opportunity for the citizens to stand at the lectern and have their say but that with the sacred cows that have been sequestered away from the hand of economic improvement sitting idly by there is not really much that any citizen could say that will be capable of getting this consolidation proposal into shape to show everyone a real identified benefit?…that it will all come down to how well the forthcoming spin machine called marketing the theory of consolidation will work?…that if the people of Evansville and Vanderburgh County are receptive to having the wool pulled over their eyes in 2012 the forthcoming proposal may pass by a narrow margin?…that if the people of Evansville and Vanderburgh County have their Tom Terrific thinking caps on that this will fail by a wide margin?…that the theory of consolidation is sound but that the forthcoming rendition is will not be?
IS IT TRUE that at least there will be a referendum to make this choice?…that the referendum will be flawed and that if it happens to pass in either the City of Evansville or Vanderburgh County and fail in the other yet pass overall that there will be legal challenges and open revolt?…that having a consolidated vote was the first malignant mistake that this whole process made?…that not allowing the consent of the governed poisoned the waters for acceptance from the first day that choice was made?
IS IT TRUE that this whole effort should be aborted right now and a new pre-consolidation committee should be formed to merge the city and county budgets and then to compare our spending patterns service by service to identify tangible value that can come from consolidation?…that we are certain that if our spending is limited to even 110% of some of the best managed peer cities in America that there will be at least $100 Million that can be saved?…that Rule #1 is that there are no sacred cows?
IS IT TRUE that Councilwoman Missy Mosby went on record last night as accepting the theory that the voters can decide term limits whenever they like in general elections?…that theory is well understood but that there are two major flaws with believing this will actually work?…that those two major flaws are the Democratic Central Committee and the Republican Central Committee?…that so often in a small market like Evansville that the candidates are chosen by caucus or that the only candidate in the primary is the handpicked choice of the party central committee?…that it is the limited choices that are often available to the people that begs for codified term limits?…that fresh ideas and people who have not gotten the puppet strings attached to them are needed in local governance?…that the only way to assure enough turnover to keep fresh and puppets from running the town is to have term limits?…that unfortunately some good officials will need to be cycled out to keep complacency from becoming a way of life?…that many of Evansville’s problems can be at least partially attributed to having career politicians in control for too long?
IS IT TRUE that the Mayor’s office in particular is as guilty of recycling old ideas as a West Virginia joke?…that “13 administrations, 52 years, and only 4 last names†is an accurate description of the office of the Mayor of Evansville during most of our lifetimes?…that Evansville could almost be confused for the town of Rock Ridge in the movie Blazing Saddles where everyone who owned a business had the last name of Johnson?…that we wonder where Mongo is when he is needed to shake things up?
Missy Mosbey is a good reason for term limits. She is a schill for Weinzapfel and the local democratic party. Missy Mosbey needs to be voted out of office by the citizens of Evansville. Lets start term limits with her as an example of whats wrong with local politics. New blood and ideas are needed badly in Evansville!!!!!!
What a great comment!!!
I liked your comment. Do you need a yard sign for this fall?
Lon Walters ALL THE WAY!!!!
What an uninformed comment
We already have term limits, its called the ballot box.
RK812, Missy Mosby was elected in Nov of 2007. She is still on her first term. She is our nominee for the fall, and I support her.
johnpaul
Three of the six wards for the city council are running with no opposition. Two of those are incumbents. Missy had opposition in the primary and will in the general. That is how it is supposed to be. It is the problem of having no choice that cries out for term limits.
The problem with the ballot box theory is when there is no viable opponent. When one party CAN’T or WON’T find someone with the credentials, who is willing to run, we are left with no choice. Has anyone checked the “under-vote” numbers, where people just didn’t vote for anyone in races? You have to tell the voting computers more than once that you don’t want to vote for any candidate in a race before it will accept your ballot, but you can do it.
The most recent examples were the Weinzapfel vs. Nixon mayoral “race”, which Weinzapfel claims to have won by a “landslide” and the last two school board races where few chose to run against the incumbents, either because they didn’t know what they would be getting into, or because they DID and wanted to make changes.
With term limitations office holders would work harder to get their agendas completed. We need to end the dynasty concept and term limitations could do that.
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