IS IT TRUE that registered voters of Vanderburgh County have cast the following votes as May 1, 2014 for the upcoming primary election? …here are those totals-Mailed ballots = 206, Walk-in ballots = 274 and Travel board ballots is 274 adds up to 754 total votes cast in the May 6, 2014 primary election?
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IS IT TRUE the public endorsement of Marsha Abell for County Commissioner by the Mayor and GOP party Chairmen Wayne Parke has caused a major split in the Republican party?… we hear if John Montrastelle and Bruce Ungethiem win a group of party faithful will publicly ask Mr. Parke to resign his position with the local GOP?…if the Mayor has future plans to run for state office he better not expect big support from the rural voters of Vanderburgh County because of his public support of Marsha Abell?
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IS IT TRUE that Marsha Abell states in her political mail out that she is “The True Republican For County Commissioner”?… here is a list of a few political donations from not so friendly supporters of the Republication party?  …this is a breakdown of interesting financial supporters listed in Marsha Abell’s January, 2014 financial report filed with the Vanderburgh County Clerks office?…Iron Workers 103 gave $1,500, Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 136 gave $300, PBGP Political Action group from Indy gave $2,000, and IBEW PAC 16 gave $200  to Marsha Abell’s campaign?…Marsha Abell April, 2014 is even more interesting?
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IS IT TRUE were wonder why a law firm from INDY would give Marsha Abell an impressive political donation?…that Barnes and Thomburg, LLP  from Indy gave her a whopping $10,000 political donation so far towards her re-election bid?
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IS IT TRUE that the local GOP Central Committee lead by Wayne Parke gave Marsha Abell a whooping $10,000 so far in her re-election campaign?  …the local GOP Central Committee gave Bruce Ungethiem the same amount of money we charge people to read the CCO?…the amount is zero?
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IS IT TRUE if Marsha Abells political mailer is correct that she is the only “True Republican” in the race for County Commissioner why did GOP  Party Chairman Wayne Parke sign an official document on January 4, 2014 that certified Bruce Ungethiem was in good standing to run in the May 6, 2014 Republican primary?
IS IT TRUE a CCO reader who happens to be a Burdette Park supporter has told us that the Vanderburgh County Commissioners have plans to turn management of the park over to SMG at the first chance to do so?…the opportunity to do so will happen when Steve Craig, who has done a good job, is retired?… we hope it doesn’t mean a great public facility will go the way of Mesker Ampitheatre.
IS IT TRUE Â the Wall Street Journal reports today that Americans gained jobs at the fastest pace in more than two years last month and the jobless rate plunged, a sign the economy has rebounded from a winter rut?…Nonfarm employment grew a seasonally adjusted 288,000 last month?…according to the Labor Departement this marked the best month of job creation since January 2012 and the second-best month since the economy emerged from recession in mid-2009?..the “official” jobless rate fell to 6.3% from 6.7%, hitting the lowest level since September 2008?…statistically speaking on would think happy days are just over the horizon?…the “official” jobless rate has been exposed many times for excluding the long term unemployed, those who have given up, and even those who have decided to drop out of the workforce?…this amounts to another 6% of the workforce making the reality based unemployment rate 12.3% which is no reason to cheer but is indeed much better than the depths of the recession when that number was approaching 20%?
IS IT TRUE the other reality is that there are millions of people who have left the workforce and have found ways to survive without a traditional job?…many of these people are living in an off the grid manner by doing work for cash or in-kind payments?…coaxing these people back into the “official” work force will not be easy as life off the government’s radar screen has its appeal to many people?…in past recessions when prosperity returns the shortage of skilled workers has driven wages up and in some professions and locations that is happening now?…engineering and computer science graduates are writing their own tickets in the technology based cities like San Jose, Austin, Boston, and Boulder?…new graduates (yes that would be 23 year olds) are routinely commanding starting salaries well above $100,000 with experienced technical performers garnering $250,000 as non-management engineering professionals?…the same thing will happen naturally for people who have high demand skills where shortages exist in the available workforce?
Wayne brought it all on himself. His chairmanship would seem a little linked to Marsha Abell having electoral success at this point. It can’t be denied that he has a strong bench. There is A Phoenix sitting on that pine, waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and sent in.
Marsha might be trying to sell herself as ‘The True Republican For County Commissioner’ but I like to think of her as the Taxpayer’s Watchdog. Arf.
Arf..watchdogs.. “spot” on.
I think you summed up the situation Wayne finds himself in very well. He’s an angry man with a watchdog and a large mythical bird for back-up.
CCO: Your list of campaign donations information is what’s on paper right?
For an area the economic size of your county those seem relatively low amounts to run an focus affect political module with.
Your take on the employment forecast for science and engineering tech is close on the nationally based projections. Of course in those more effective regions as listed, also.
Geography does place Vanderburgh on some maps for basic start point distribution, however the present fractioned and divided focuses on your base logistic availability’s can set cast the ominous on new Strata locations nearby.
This was observed by some corporate strategy planners early in our own quest for start-up.
I happen to know their what is normally called PAC availability is not to bad for an industry as such.
I’ll speak with them after this primary about some support from their Cores Enlightenment Foundation. Called (CEF) acronym wise. This is listed in Euros or Dollars according to my information its available balance is {$19,268,427.41.} Straight up sent that sum as a point to us.
The people express strong support in a conceptualized project we’ve worked up with them.
I’ll see what we can muster up. They are on the hunt for a sustainable location in the region.
Another thing I personally have discussed with them is your service, they prefer something more mainstream media, however with your level of candid or bias balance. I’ve discussed just what the problems with that balance actually is in Vanderburgh and that metro, they’re global, extremely strategic and completely understanding with the challenges. A company with global market penetration so local politics really are a sideshow item given access to a market capable infrastructure to grow with. Actually a strategist said you should go out to some more visual cognitive with your own site advertising, told me you should solar board some scrolling signage on the travel throughputs for a bit to jump a looksee readership casting. Says its has point affect conditions that stick.
You should talk to some solar mobile providers and snap blend them with your favorite ad agent.
Move the add on a daily for increased contact availability.
Is it true the unemployment rate in, say, 2004 under Bush was calculated the exact same way? Is it true republicans want to have their cake and eat it too? I just hate how they dismiss numbers favorable to Obama as smoke and mirrors and in the same breath cite the Bush numbers. Obama was handed a depression from the deregulator.
It bothers me too, ghost. I’m amazed that we even get these glimmers of light when you consider the attitude of the Senate Minority Leader, who failed in his quest to make POTUS a one-term president. It appears the goal now is to punish America for re-electing him.
This particular number is smoke and mirrors and yes the algorithm used today was used in 2004. The algorithm became corrupted by ignoring people who are long term unemployed to the point that they have no unemployment benefits. That particular combination has not been this bad since the Great Depression. Notice we did state that the current 12.3% total is better than the near 20% total in the depths of the recession. It is not so much Obama that frustrates us, it is the continued use of an algorithm that has been proven to be inappropriate for the situation in place right now. The only thing we fault Obama for is spouting the 6.3% number as though it is true. Old Mr. Bush did the same thing in the 90’s when he was emphatic that “we are no longer in a recession, the official statistics say so”? Obama is not the first resident of the White House to parrot BS and we are sure he will not be the last. We just wish that a truthful number would be used. That number today is north of 12%.
“The only thing we fault Obama for is spouting the 6.3% number as though it is true.”
Do you have any quotes of the President doing that? I didn’t find any, and the stats have only been out a few hours, so it should be easy to find. I haven’t heard him commenting on it. He’s been pretty busy with Angela Merkel this morning.
In the past, he has repeated the unemployment rate, but usually acknowledges that the reduced number of people in the workforce make it sound better than it is.
Haven’t heard from him today but we will. Here is his MO from January. He takes credit for the drop in unemployment as though it were a real number. In January he followed that up by giving the republicans in congress hell for not extending unemployment benefits for the masses of the unemployed who had used theirs up. He likes (as all politicians like) to take credit for the good and blame his opposition for the bad. He can’t exactly have this both ways. If the real unemployment rate is 6.3% and the economy is expanding there is no need for extended benefits. If however the reality is over 12% which it is then the President is right to support extended benefits.
It’s called confirmation bias and they’re full of it, in more ways than one, including the CCO.
SMH at the burr up it’s backside the CCO has for Obama.
$60 Billion for infrastructure block by R’s because people making over $1M would pay a 1% surcharge.
ZERO coverage by the CCO.
A $447B jobs bill that would have done just some of the following:
1) Cutting and suspending $245 billion worth of payroll taxes for qualifying employers and 160 million medium to low income employees.
2) Spending $62 billion for a Pathways Back to Work Program for expanding opportunities for low-income youth and adults.a) $49 billion – Extending unemployment benefits for up to 6 million long-term beneficiaries.b) $8 billion – Jobs tax credit for the long term unemployed.c) $5 billion – Pathways back to work fund.
3) Spending $50 billion on both new & pre-existing infrastructure projects.
4) Spending $35 billion in additional funding to protect the jobs of teachers, police officers, and firefighters
5) Spending $30 billion to modernize at least 35,000 public schools and community colleges.
6) Spending $15 billion on a program that would hire construction workers to help rehabilitate and refurbishing hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes and businesses.
7) Creating the National Infrastructure Bank (capitalized with $10 billion), originally proposed in 2007, to help fund infrastructure via private and public capital.8) Creating a nationwide, interoperable wireless network for public safety, while expanding accessibility to high-speed wireless services.
9) Prohibiting discrimination in hiring against persons who are unemployed because of their status as unemployed persons..10) Loosening regulations on small businesses that wish to raise capital, including through crowdfunding, while retaining investor protections.
In total the legislation includes $253 billion in tax credits (56.6%) and $194 billion in spending and extension of unemployment benefits (43.4%).
Yesterday the R’s tried to slip in a $310 BILLION annual tax gift to the ultrarich. You read that correctly(never say right). No offsets Just an OUTRIGHT GIFT.
Here masters, here’s a tribute to your greatness. The deficit hawks would have doubled the national debt to appease their masters. Oh but when comes to the unemployed evertything has to be paid for.
VOMIT.
ZERO coverage by the CCO
BTW in his first year Obama passed more small business and entreprenurial tax cuts, incentives and credits in US history.
ZERO coverage by the CCO
NEVER EVER VOTE R, EVER, that includes next week.
I’ll tell you, that dolt drum beat doesn’t go un-noticed by the available growth spenders either!
How many wake up slap facials is it going to take to awaken the sleeping giant?(National citizen base)
In case somebody doesn’t get it, that would be the people who actually must pay into,and support what is, infrastructure wise, becoming more useless every single day.
SMH, as well.
Thank you, BB, for the details. You covered it much better than I could have!
Would this jobs bill have been as effective as the stimulus package of 2009. Do you remember that one? It was close to one trillion dollars and much of it was earmarked for “shovel-ready jobs”. Oh wait…those jobs weren’t so shovel-ready. Ha Ha Ha! At least our president got a good chuckle out of that because nobody else did…or at least those people who know we are taxed enough already.
It worked out great.
Several states were saved from bankruptcy, republican congressmen and governors secretly worked to get the money, 2 million jobs were created or saved, and GDP was increased several pct points.
If the economy is doing so well, why is the number of Americans using food stamps on the rise? In January 2009, there were 133.56 million Americans with jobs and 31.98 million on food stamps. Today, there are 133.76 million Americans with jobs and 46.68 million on food stamps. The employment rolls have thus grown by 0.15 percent and the food stamp rolls have grown by 46 percent, meaning that for every one American who found a job, 75 Americans signed up for food stamps. Yeah, the current administration is doing a bang-up job…of expanding the dependent class and growing the democrat power base.
I know this is not a big deal for rich liberal and high dollar union people, but this weekend is the last weekend for a local icon. After 20 years the giant/super flea market will cease operation. This will probably cause a few hard working people to lose their money source. Shame the local politicians didn’t use tax dollars to prop them up. I’m sure they had a few folks who lost jobs. Will the old Kmart building become one of our new abandoned non tax paying properties? Not much of a loss but every little bit hurts.
How many dollars have been spent to get this litle bit improvement? Money supply growth tracks perfectly with stock market growth.
More likely this is a rebound to fit the new relevant range of production and not driven by lasting sustainable GDP growth especially givenl the 10 bps growth that was just reported. Labor participation rate still shows little improvement.
…CDAD,
I think the Wall Street Journal disagrees with you this morning:
“WASHINGTON—Americans gained jobs at the fastest pace in more than two years last month and the jobless rate plunged, a sign the economy has rebounded from a winter rut.
The report is the strongest sign yet the economy has stabilized since December and January, when the economic recovery slowed considerably amid snowstorms and severe cold.
It also could reassure Federal Reserve officials that the economy is on solid footing as the central bank gradually winds down its bond buying, a program that was launched in 2012 to spur hiring and investment. The Fed cut its monthly purchases by another $10 billion this past week to $45 billion as officials said the economy appears to be strengthening.”
I don’t care what the WSJ says.
Have you checked the labor participation rate? When you start to see that go up, in conjunction with steady, sufficently high GDP growth to move the labor participation needle, then I will believe the WSJ’s conculsion.
Otherwise this is just Kool Aid being served trying to offset 10 bps GDP growth. If anything, using weather as an excuse is a seasonal argument, and is evidence that the type of growth needed, that being sustainable GDP driven by increased demand, is not being achieved.
…cdad…aaaah, what a breath of fresh air.
You said:
“I don’t care what the WSJ says.”
Of course you don’t cdad.
There’s the real world,
and then there’s the living in denial cdad/Tea Party Rancher world…..”The fact is, I just hate Obama, and any good news, good business, growth, profits, more people being hired…damn them all. I don’t care. I hate Obama.”
These are the facts:
1. Business is improving, it has been steadily for 2 years and it is clearly getting stronger. We need that, it’s good for business, profits and for hiring more employees.
2. Obama is NOT going to lose the next election.
He WON TWICE. Obama is President until 2017. Grow up.
The umeployment rate went down due to 806M people leaving the workforce per AP.
I received a mailer from the Marsha Abell campaign stating she was opposed to any further consideration of consolidation.
Really?
I remember Marsha supporting city-county consolidation while Bruce led the charge of the opposition group.
Additionally, I seem to remember her attendance at the secret homestead credit meeting with no mention to the public on her part of the plan to let the credit die through lack of action.
If anyone believes Marsha, well they must believe it’s only a cold-sore….
Marsha, obviously is welded to the hip of Winnecke and will do his bidding. What is so amazing? Well, I thought the Republican Party stood for fiscal responsibility, values, and integrity, etc.etc.etc. So, we have County and City govt in the hands of these so-called republicans. These two [Winnecke/Abell] opposed our Governors efforts concerning the Marriage Amendment to the Indiana Constitution and the elimination of the personal property tax, well the hell with the value thing and damn the fiscal thing as well!!!
S-S-UP:
Is the Gov’s Marriage Amendment good for Indiana business?
Breaking News….Marsha Abell’s stepson was hired as the Vanderburgh County Soil and Conservation Director….is this nepotism or what???
I thought the Republican Party Platform embraced the “Protection of Marriage” not necessarily my embrace, but their’s…the business interest seems to be on the back burner, as least in priority to the value issue…what’s the point…the point is clear, these two individuals are NOT in the mainstream relative to the party platform and this may be the undoing of Marsha at least with respect to the Tea Party aspect of the Republican Party!
Hold the presses…news flash…IS IT TRUE that the State Board of Accounts is holding up the City’s 2012 audited report until after the primary election in the hopes that the report will not adversely effect Winnecke’s endorsement of Marsha? IS IT TRUE that our State Auditor, Suzanne Crouch has been solicited in this process? IS IT TRUE that, historically, the State Board of Accounts has been a-political until NOW? IS IT TRUE that Author Anderson WAS once the 6th largest non-public organization in the country and their lack of integrity in dealing with one client, Enron, brought them DOWN? IS IT TRUE that the City receiving millions of dollars from the Feds and this delayed audit has an impact on future grants? IS IT TRUE that the OMB might be inquiring into the situation. [Office of Management & Budget]
@Liquored Up:
WOW is all I can say. Did you write this before or after the Liquor ?
Just kidding, I can tell you have knowledge of this matter.
My only question: if the State is holding up an Audit report to favor a local candidate, why would OMB (a federal agency) be investigating, instead of the State’s Inspector General’s office ?
My understanding is that the IN Inspector General can only investigate other State Agencies–but if your account is true–and I do belive you–then that means the SBOA is the Agency to be investigatied.
Thank you for the inside info–it explains a lot !
Why would the State Board (or even the Guv) care about a County Commission race in the backwaters of Indtucky ?
Do the State boys really have that much dap for Winnecke that they would pull a stunt like this ?
Incredible if true !!
Especially in light of the fact that Winnecke publicly opposed two measures that were from Gov. Pence.
My Dear Phyllip…
Politics makes strange bed-fellows…you know this…why did Winnecke give some of organized labor’s money to Pence. Pence know that regardless how he may or may not feel about this Mayor, he is still the Mayor of the third largest city in Indiana and will count on him to drum up the vote in a Democrat leaning area and not just the vote, $$$…make no mistake, this Mayor has raised $1.2 million though Dec 31, 2013 and because his cronies are going to get even richer and our less fortunate citizens get to eat cake, the cronies will have pen-in-hand, to write checks and BIG ONES!!!!
+1000
YCBYA that Pence will do everything he can to protect Winnecke
Hey Kid….when millions are given, must will be expected….
Liquored Up, unknown to me there does exist a STATE agency called OMB (same as the feds).
I did not know about that State Agency, so I believe your account.
This will give me something to be mad about all weekend, gee thanks (just kidding) !
In normal circumstances, I’d dismiss what you posted here as “hearsay”. Evansville is in far from “normal circumstances”, and it had occurred to me that the audit information might reflect badly on our “watchdog.”
I would still be skeptical about the Governor’s office caring enough to get involved, but there is a Couch/Abel connection, which might explain things. We do need to bear in mind that Pence does entertain delusions of reaching higher office, and he needs to keep down any kind of scandal concerning Republicans anywhere in Indiana.
If the freshly appointed state auditor Crouch is holding back the 2012 audit for political gain for her lifetime friend Abell, she should be removed from office. Here is how we will know. If the audit is published before next Tuesday at 6 pm then Crouch is doing the right thing. If it comes out afterward she is involved in suppressing material information to influence an election. If she does this it puts her right in the same class as the Obama Administration flunkies who explicitly lied about the Bengazi attack to influence and election.
Really? I guess it figures that somebody who is obsessed with “Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi” would think that its okay to withold the audit from the public until election day. That is, as long as the one witholding the audit is a Republican.
You misunderstand me. I clearly said if Crouse holds it back that makes her just like the Benghazi liars. I think she is a POS if she hold it back for political purposes, just like I think the white house spokesperson is a POS for sending Ms. Rice out to tell lies. I am consistent. Lying politicians who withhold information are POS.
Boehner will now allow Issa to burn the Obama/Benghazi rag doll in effigy while the mob cheers. They’re nuttier than squirell poo.
@ Tater Salad:
” If the audit is published before next Tuesday at 6 pm then Crouch is doing the right thing.”
The above is a direct quote in which you say that so long as Ms. Crouch releases the report a few minutes before the polls close, she’s doing the right thing. See if you can figure out what might be wrong with that thinking!
You know what, you are right. If it isn’t out on Monday she is a POS.
@ Tater Salad:
How about this? She is a POS for witholding it since it should have been posted, and deserves to be prosecuted for it.
OK, OK, you have to at least give us a crumb, Liquored Up.
Is this from a source with personal knowledge ? Is there ANY CONJECTURE here, or is your post completely sourced information ?
p.s. You may want to change your name to ‘Deepthroat’.
It sounds like you are either a politico or someone in the know.
While this is hard to believe, I am jaded–and thus it is at least possible.
Another poster “threw down the gauntlet” re: posting the Audit prior to the end of the primary polling (Tuesday, 6 PM).
I would up the ante, and demand publication prior to the START of primary polling, 6 AM on Tuesday.
If Ungethiem is defeated, he should file a challenge to the vote.
If this post is true, this is the local equivalent of Watergate !
Bravo, Dances…I’ll toast to that…
Just told that John Montrastelle didn’t get a dime from Wayne Parke and his puppet Central Committee. Also heard that Pete Swaim did.
Nothing like splitting the party Mr. Parke. Looks like the line has been drawn in the sand.
Please vote for John Montrastelle and Bruce Ungethiem in the May 6 Republican primary.
Liquored,
I normally don’t shower mid morning . . . but after reading your post I feel compelled !
Surely you jest ? Is your source solid on this ?
Just stay tuned….
The demise of Mesker Amphitheater is an absolute community tragedy. Was is allowed to die so as not to compete with the Ford Center or the Victory? For whatever the reason, a community treasure has been lost with no political accountability for the loss.
Hey Joe,
Keep your eyes on the 2015 budget….LW has 25 million going to the ZOO…oh, yes….nothing for the Amp…
I am amazed at the lack of comments concerning the possibly of SMG being given Burdette Park, With their track record of lack of audits for all the years at Roberts Stadium, why would anyone in their right mind hand the keys to this jewel over to this non-resident company, who defies anyone to question their financial records.
I hope Bruce gets in office before the park ends up like Mesker Amphitheater.
Steve Craig, please do not retire! You have done such a great job, under several administrations, and the park is looking more beautiful every day.
I don’t care what the WSJ says with regard to this data point.
This is just Kool Aid being served to offset 10 bps GDP growth. To even mention weather, a seasonal argument, is evidence that the type of sustainable growth needed is not be achieved.
Have you checked the labor participation rate? When that goes down, in conjunction with sufficiently high and stable GDP growth, driven by consumer spending and investment,then I will buy the WSJ conclusion.
Ultra conservative wsj would have no incentive to falsify information to trump up the economy under a democrat pres.
….Quite true T-J. But CDAD has a bag of cats in his head. He doesn’t realize the WSJ is owned by FoxNews owner, Rupert Murdoch.
…His biggest problem is one he can’t change. He can’t deal with losing the last Presidential election. So, he denies everything.
CDAD’s kind of immature, denial and resentment attitude practically guarantees Hilary Clinton will the the next President of the United States.
I hate to disagree with Amen corner, but if I quoted various WSJ articles critical of the recovery, I doubt the same enthusiasm.
My point was that sustainable GDP growth would drive labor participation up, and that this would be better evidence of improvement then simply one metric. That conclusion is sophomoric and window dressing.
Per the BLS, another 806M people left the labor force last month and we now have 92.6 million in not the labor force which is near record level.
The AP has reported that the primary driver of the drop in U3 unemployment was people working or seeking work fell, which is reflected in the BLS stat.
Adhomein comments don’t refute my argument. Why the WSJ reporter wrote the article without a more critical mindset I do not know, anymore than why when the President goes to Asia, one of the hardest questions from the press corps is how he likes his ice cream.
So Marsha Abell hired her step son as the new Director of Vanderburgh County Soil and Conservation District. Did you know she hired the wife of Ex-Mayor Russ Lloyd Jr to work with her step son.
Looks like we not only have nepotism but political patronage. Nice going Marsha. This is one reason I’m voting for Bruce.
Under the community organizer clown America has just set a record for Americans not in the work force..Only toads…bird brains and deadbeats will see this as good news…….http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Dear Mr. Al Racy/Sharpie SterlaBundy.
What you are seeing are the results of our kind hearted public servants known as the republican parties actions.
Since the GOOPer’s have blocked every last measure by the president to the delight of you and your ilk what you are referring to is result of the glorious uninterrupted free market at work. If people are suffering from long term unemployment and dropping out of the work force and living on food stamps and other government assitance it is the glorious free market that is letting them down.
Government intervention and jobs programs would only lengthen their suffering, at least that’s what you clowns always tell us when we discuss Keynesian economics, the New Deal and the Great Depression.
Oh and of course I love this one, first we would have to take money from the private sector too. How dare Democrats and liberals suggest we take caviar and champagne from the lips of the oligarchs and put it to work rebuilding our infrastructure and handing out contracts to private contractors to hire people and stimulate the economy!!!
I mean Donald Sterling might have to give up his French Maid, Bundy the welfare cowboy might have to make do with something less than his custom made Cadillac, O’Reilly might have to fire one of his obsequious staff members.
And where are the glorious job creators? Every last thing they were whining about that prevented them from hiring has been laid at their feet yet their still on the couch. Why don’t they hire some of these people?
You forgot to add one last point to tell us;
I swallowed a fly the other day, did you know that? Well you do now and you all should considered yourselves blessed by my wisdom and insight.
Where are the job creators? They have left or are leaving the country. Labor unions and welfare have made workers scarce. That’s why we need to open our borders and get people willing to work in this country. The willingness to struggle and make good disappears once an ebt card is issued. Of course you can’t get an ebt card without proper state issued ID.
crazy people!
Vote for BRUCE
My 18-year-old grandson and I voted this afternoon. We actually had to wait a few minutes, but it was nearly closing time.
I’ve observed a half dozen or so “Abell” yard signs appear in my neighborhood just yesterday. I know at least two of the houses are home to Democrats. I think this is going to be a squeaker, and I’m not even certain Mr. U is going to beat her. In a normal town, he should and would win, but this is Evansville.
I’m sure the democrats are going all out with their covert politics to ensure Bruce loses. I’m sure the word is out on Bruce as it was with Rick, “we have a problem Houston” there’s an honest politician running for office. I think the problems in Evansville are so severe and run so deep that even the republicans are helping to cover them up. But there is nothing LW has done to make matters worse, he has not added to the debt load of this city, yet.
pov, are you sure about ‘he has not added to the debt load of this city” ?
1) Johnson Controls (wireless water meters: $ 46 Million + interest;
2) Downtown Hotel: $ 20 Million subsidy, already committed;
Wayne brought it all on himself. His chairmanship would seem a little linked to Marsha Abell having electoral success at this point. It can’t be denied that he has a strong bench. There is A Phoenix sitting on that pine, waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and sent in.
Marsha might be trying to sell herself as ‘The True Republican For County Commissioner’ but I like to think of her as the Taxpayer’s Watchdog. Arf.
Arf..watchdogs.. “spot” on.
I think you summed up the situation Wayne finds himself in very well. He’s an angry man with a watchdog and a large mythical bird for back-up.
CCO: Your list of campaign donations information is what’s on paper right?
For an area the economic size of your county those seem relatively low amounts to run an focus affect political module with.
Your take on the employment forecast for science and engineering tech is close on the nationally based projections. Of course in those more effective regions as listed, also.
Geography does place Vanderburgh on some maps for basic start point distribution, however the present fractioned and divided focuses on your base logistic availability’s can set cast the ominous on new Strata locations nearby.
This was observed by some corporate strategy planners early in our own quest for start-up.
I happen to know their what is normally called PAC availability is not to bad for an industry as such.
I’ll speak with them after this primary about some support from their Cores Enlightenment Foundation. Called (CEF) acronym wise. This is listed in Euros or Dollars according to my information its available balance is {$19,268,427.41.} Straight up sent that sum as a point to us.
The people express strong support in a conceptualized project we’ve worked up with them.
I’ll see what we can muster up. They are on the hunt for a sustainable location in the region.
Another thing I personally have discussed with them is your service, they prefer something more mainstream media, however with your level of candid or bias balance. I’ve discussed just what the problems with that balance actually is in Vanderburgh and that metro, they’re global, extremely strategic and completely understanding with the challenges. A company with global market penetration so local politics really are a sideshow item given access to a market capable infrastructure to grow with. Actually a strategist said you should go out to some more visual cognitive with your own site advertising, told me you should solar board some scrolling signage on the travel throughputs for a bit to jump a looksee readership casting. Says its has point affect conditions that stick.
You should talk to some solar mobile providers and snap blend them with your favorite ad agent.
Move the add on a daily for increased contact availability.
Is it true the unemployment rate in, say, 2004 under Bush was calculated the exact same way? Is it true republicans want to have their cake and eat it too? I just hate how they dismiss numbers favorable to Obama as smoke and mirrors and in the same breath cite the Bush numbers. Obama was handed a depression from the deregulator.
It bothers me too, ghost. I’m amazed that we even get these glimmers of light when you consider the attitude of the Senate Minority Leader, who failed in his quest to make POTUS a one-term president. It appears the goal now is to punish America for re-electing him.
This particular number is smoke and mirrors and yes the algorithm used today was used in 2004. The algorithm became corrupted by ignoring people who are long term unemployed to the point that they have no unemployment benefits. That particular combination has not been this bad since the Great Depression. Notice we did state that the current 12.3% total is better than the near 20% total in the depths of the recession. It is not so much Obama that frustrates us, it is the continued use of an algorithm that has been proven to be inappropriate for the situation in place right now. The only thing we fault Obama for is spouting the 6.3% number as though it is true. Old Mr. Bush did the same thing in the 90’s when he was emphatic that “we are no longer in a recession, the official statistics say so”? Obama is not the first resident of the White House to parrot BS and we are sure he will not be the last. We just wish that a truthful number would be used. That number today is north of 12%.
“The only thing we fault Obama for is spouting the 6.3% number as though it is true.”
Do you have any quotes of the President doing that? I didn’t find any, and the stats have only been out a few hours, so it should be easy to find. I haven’t heard him commenting on it. He’s been pretty busy with Angela Merkel this morning.
In the past, he has repeated the unemployment rate, but usually acknowledges that the reduced number of people in the workforce make it sound better than it is.
Haven’t heard from him today but we will. Here is his MO from January. He takes credit for the drop in unemployment as though it were a real number. In January he followed that up by giving the republicans in congress hell for not extending unemployment benefits for the masses of the unemployed who had used theirs up. He likes (as all politicians like) to take credit for the good and blame his opposition for the bad. He can’t exactly have this both ways. If the real unemployment rate is 6.3% and the economy is expanding there is no need for extended benefits. If however the reality is over 12% which it is then the President is right to support extended benefits.
It’s called confirmation bias and they’re full of it, in more ways than one, including the CCO.
SMH at the burr up it’s backside the CCO has for Obama.
$60 Billion for infrastructure block by R’s because people making over $1M would pay a 1% surcharge.
ZERO coverage by the CCO.
A $447B jobs bill that would have done just some of the following:
1) Cutting and suspending $245 billion worth of payroll taxes for qualifying employers and 160 million medium to low income employees.
2) Spending $62 billion for a Pathways Back to Work Program for expanding opportunities for low-income youth and adults.a) $49 billion – Extending unemployment benefits for up to 6 million long-term beneficiaries.b) $8 billion – Jobs tax credit for the long term unemployed.c) $5 billion – Pathways back to work fund.
3) Spending $50 billion on both new & pre-existing infrastructure projects.
4) Spending $35 billion in additional funding to protect the jobs of teachers, police officers, and firefighters
5) Spending $30 billion to modernize at least 35,000 public schools and community colleges.
6) Spending $15 billion on a program that would hire construction workers to help rehabilitate and refurbishing hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes and businesses.
7) Creating the National Infrastructure Bank (capitalized with $10 billion), originally proposed in 2007, to help fund infrastructure via private and public capital.8) Creating a nationwide, interoperable wireless network for public safety, while expanding accessibility to high-speed wireless services.
9) Prohibiting discrimination in hiring against persons who are unemployed because of their status as unemployed persons..10) Loosening regulations on small businesses that wish to raise capital, including through crowdfunding, while retaining investor protections.
In total the legislation includes $253 billion in tax credits (56.6%) and $194 billion in spending and extension of unemployment benefits (43.4%).
Yesterday the R’s tried to slip in a $310 BILLION annual tax gift to the ultrarich. You read that correctly(never say right). No offsets Just an OUTRIGHT GIFT.
Here masters, here’s a tribute to your greatness. The deficit hawks would have doubled the national debt to appease their masters. Oh but when comes to the unemployed evertything has to be paid for.
VOMIT.
ZERO coverage by the CCO
BTW in his first year Obama passed more small business and entreprenurial tax cuts, incentives and credits in US history.
ZERO coverage by the CCO
NEVER EVER VOTE R, EVER, that includes next week.
I’ll tell you, that dolt drum beat doesn’t go un-noticed by the available growth spenders either!
How many wake up slap facials is it going to take to awaken the sleeping giant?(National citizen base)
In case somebody doesn’t get it, that would be the people who actually must pay into,and support what is, infrastructure wise, becoming more useless every single day.
SMH, as well.
Thank you, BB, for the details. You covered it much better than I could have!
Would this jobs bill have been as effective as the stimulus package of 2009. Do you remember that one? It was close to one trillion dollars and much of it was earmarked for “shovel-ready jobs”. Oh wait…those jobs weren’t so shovel-ready. Ha Ha Ha! At least our president got a good chuckle out of that because nobody else did…or at least those people who know we are taxed enough already.
It worked out great.
Several states were saved from bankruptcy, republican congressmen and governors secretly worked to get the money, 2 million jobs were created or saved, and GDP was increased several pct points.
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/09/did-the-stimulus-create-jobs/
If the economy is doing so well, why is the number of Americans using food stamps on the rise? In January 2009, there were 133.56 million Americans with jobs and 31.98 million on food stamps. Today, there are 133.76 million Americans with jobs and 46.68 million on food stamps. The employment rolls have thus grown by 0.15 percent and the food stamp rolls have grown by 46 percent, meaning that for every one American who found a job, 75 Americans signed up for food stamps. Yeah, the current administration is doing a bang-up job…of expanding the dependent class and growing the democrat power base.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042278_food_stamps_job_growth_Obama_economy.html##ixzz30ak81Z1y
I know this is not a big deal for rich liberal and high dollar union people, but this weekend is the last weekend for a local icon. After 20 years the giant/super flea market will cease operation. This will probably cause a few hard working people to lose their money source. Shame the local politicians didn’t use tax dollars to prop them up. I’m sure they had a few folks who lost jobs. Will the old Kmart building become one of our new abandoned non tax paying properties? Not much of a loss but every little bit hurts.
How many dollars have been spent to get this litle bit improvement? Money supply growth tracks perfectly with stock market growth.
More likely this is a rebound to fit the new relevant range of production and not driven by lasting sustainable GDP growth especially givenl the 10 bps growth that was just reported. Labor participation rate still shows little improvement.
…CDAD,
I think the Wall Street Journal disagrees with you this morning:
“WASHINGTON—Americans gained jobs at the fastest pace in more than two years last month and the jobless rate plunged, a sign the economy has rebounded from a winter rut.
The report is the strongest sign yet the economy has stabilized since December and January, when the economic recovery slowed considerably amid snowstorms and severe cold.
It also could reassure Federal Reserve officials that the economy is on solid footing as the central bank gradually winds down its bond buying, a program that was launched in 2012 to spur hiring and investment. The Fed cut its monthly purchases by another $10 billion this past week to $45 billion as officials said the economy appears to be strengthening.”
I don’t care what the WSJ says.
Have you checked the labor participation rate? When you start to see that go up, in conjunction with steady, sufficently high GDP growth to move the labor participation needle, then I will believe the WSJ’s conculsion.
Otherwise this is just Kool Aid being served trying to offset 10 bps GDP growth. If anything, using weather as an excuse is a seasonal argument, and is evidence that the type of growth needed, that being sustainable GDP driven by increased demand, is not being achieved.
…cdad…aaaah, what a breath of fresh air.
You said:
“I don’t care what the WSJ says.”
Of course you don’t cdad.
There’s the real world,
and then there’s the living in denial cdad/Tea Party Rancher world…..”The fact is, I just hate Obama, and any good news, good business, growth, profits, more people being hired…damn them all. I don’t care. I hate Obama.”
These are the facts:
1. Business is improving, it has been steadily for 2 years and it is clearly getting stronger. We need that, it’s good for business, profits and for hiring more employees.
2. Obama is NOT going to lose the next election.
He WON TWICE. Obama is President until 2017. Grow up.
The umeployment rate went down due to 806M people leaving the workforce per AP.
I received a mailer from the Marsha Abell campaign stating she was opposed to any further consideration of consolidation.
Really?
I remember Marsha supporting city-county consolidation while Bruce led the charge of the opposition group.
Additionally, I seem to remember her attendance at the secret homestead credit meeting with no mention to the public on her part of the plan to let the credit die through lack of action.
If anyone believes Marsha, well they must believe it’s only a cold-sore….
Marsha, obviously is welded to the hip of Winnecke and will do his bidding. What is so amazing? Well, I thought the Republican Party stood for fiscal responsibility, values, and integrity, etc.etc.etc. So, we have County and City govt in the hands of these so-called republicans. These two [Winnecke/Abell] opposed our Governors efforts concerning the Marriage Amendment to the Indiana Constitution and the elimination of the personal property tax, well the hell with the value thing and damn the fiscal thing as well!!!
S-S-UP:
Is the Gov’s Marriage Amendment good for Indiana business?
Breaking News….Marsha Abell’s stepson was hired as the Vanderburgh County Soil and Conservation Director….is this nepotism or what???
I thought the Republican Party Platform embraced the “Protection of Marriage” not necessarily my embrace, but their’s…the business interest seems to be on the back burner, as least in priority to the value issue…what’s the point…the point is clear, these two individuals are NOT in the mainstream relative to the party platform and this may be the undoing of Marsha at least with respect to the Tea Party aspect of the Republican Party!
Hold the presses…news flash…IS IT TRUE that the State Board of Accounts is holding up the City’s 2012 audited report until after the primary election in the hopes that the report will not adversely effect Winnecke’s endorsement of Marsha? IS IT TRUE that our State Auditor, Suzanne Crouch has been solicited in this process? IS IT TRUE that, historically, the State Board of Accounts has been a-political until NOW? IS IT TRUE that Author Anderson WAS once the 6th largest non-public organization in the country and their lack of integrity in dealing with one client, Enron, brought them DOWN? IS IT TRUE that the City receiving millions of dollars from the Feds and this delayed audit has an impact on future grants? IS IT TRUE that the OMB might be inquiring into the situation. [Office of Management & Budget]
@Liquored Up:
WOW is all I can say. Did you write this before or after the Liquor ?
Just kidding, I can tell you have knowledge of this matter.
My only question: if the State is holding up an Audit report to favor a local candidate, why would OMB (a federal agency) be investigating, instead of the State’s Inspector General’s office ?
My understanding is that the IN Inspector General can only investigate other State Agencies–but if your account is true–and I do belive you–then that means the SBOA is the Agency to be investigatied.
Thank you for the inside info–it explains a lot !
Why would the State Board (or even the Guv) care about a County Commission race in the backwaters of Indtucky ?
Do the State boys really have that much dap for Winnecke that they would pull a stunt like this ?
Incredible if true !!
Especially in light of the fact that Winnecke publicly opposed two measures that were from Gov. Pence.
My Dear Phyllip…
Politics makes strange bed-fellows…you know this…why did Winnecke give some of organized labor’s money to Pence. Pence know that regardless how he may or may not feel about this Mayor, he is still the Mayor of the third largest city in Indiana and will count on him to drum up the vote in a Democrat leaning area and not just the vote, $$$…make no mistake, this Mayor has raised $1.2 million though Dec 31, 2013 and because his cronies are going to get even richer and our less fortunate citizens get to eat cake, the cronies will have pen-in-hand, to write checks and BIG ONES!!!!
+1000
YCBYA that Pence will do everything he can to protect Winnecke
Hey Kid….when millions are given, must will be expected….
WOOOOOOOW!!!!
Everybody please read the above.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ 😉
Liquored Up, unknown to me there does exist a STATE agency called OMB (same as the feds).
I did not know about that State Agency, so I believe your account.
This will give me something to be mad about all weekend, gee thanks (just kidding) !
In normal circumstances, I’d dismiss what you posted here as “hearsay”. Evansville is in far from “normal circumstances”, and it had occurred to me that the audit information might reflect badly on our “watchdog.”
I would still be skeptical about the Governor’s office caring enough to get involved, but there is a Couch/Abel connection, which might explain things. We do need to bear in mind that Pence does entertain delusions of reaching higher office, and he needs to keep down any kind of scandal concerning Republicans anywhere in Indiana.
If the freshly appointed state auditor Crouch is holding back the 2012 audit for political gain for her lifetime friend Abell, she should be removed from office. Here is how we will know. If the audit is published before next Tuesday at 6 pm then Crouch is doing the right thing. If it comes out afterward she is involved in suppressing material information to influence an election. If she does this it puts her right in the same class as the Obama Administration flunkies who explicitly lied about the Bengazi attack to influence and election.
Really? I guess it figures that somebody who is obsessed with “Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi” would think that its okay to withold the audit from the public until election day. That is, as long as the one witholding the audit is a Republican.
You misunderstand me. I clearly said if Crouse holds it back that makes her just like the Benghazi liars. I think she is a POS if she hold it back for political purposes, just like I think the white house spokesperson is a POS for sending Ms. Rice out to tell lies. I am consistent. Lying politicians who withhold information are POS.
Boehner will now allow Issa to burn the Obama/Benghazi rag doll in effigy while the mob cheers. They’re nuttier than squirell poo.
@ Tater Salad:
” If the audit is published before next Tuesday at 6 pm then Crouch is doing the right thing.”
The above is a direct quote in which you say that so long as Ms. Crouch releases the report a few minutes before the polls close, she’s doing the right thing. See if you can figure out what might be wrong with that thinking!
You know what, you are right. If it isn’t out on Monday she is a POS.
@ Tater Salad:
How about this? She is a POS for witholding it since it should have been posted, and deserves to be prosecuted for it.
OK, OK, you have to at least give us a crumb, Liquored Up.
Is this from a source with personal knowledge ? Is there ANY CONJECTURE here, or is your post completely sourced information ?
p.s. You may want to change your name to ‘Deepthroat’.
It sounds like you are either a politico or someone in the know.
While this is hard to believe, I am jaded–and thus it is at least possible.
Another poster “threw down the gauntlet” re: posting the Audit prior to the end of the primary polling (Tuesday, 6 PM).
I would up the ante, and demand publication prior to the START of primary polling, 6 AM on Tuesday.
If Ungethiem is defeated, he should file a challenge to the vote.
If this post is true, this is the local equivalent of Watergate !
Bravo, Dances…I’ll toast to that…
Just told that John Montrastelle didn’t get a dime from Wayne Parke and his puppet Central Committee. Also heard that Pete Swaim did.
Nothing like splitting the party Mr. Parke. Looks like the line has been drawn in the sand.
Please vote for John Montrastelle and Bruce Ungethiem in the May 6 Republican primary.
Liquored,
I normally don’t shower mid morning . . . but after reading your post I feel compelled !
Surely you jest ? Is your source solid on this ?
Just stay tuned….
The demise of Mesker Amphitheater is an absolute community tragedy. Was is allowed to die so as not to compete with the Ford Center or the Victory? For whatever the reason, a community treasure has been lost with no political accountability for the loss.
Hey Joe,
Keep your eyes on the 2015 budget….LW has 25 million going to the ZOO…oh, yes….nothing for the Amp…
I am amazed at the lack of comments concerning the possibly of SMG being given Burdette Park, With their track record of lack of audits for all the years at Roberts Stadium, why would anyone in their right mind hand the keys to this jewel over to this non-resident company, who defies anyone to question their financial records.
I hope Bruce gets in office before the park ends up like Mesker Amphitheater.
Steve Craig, please do not retire! You have done such a great job, under several administrations, and the park is looking more beautiful every day.
I don’t care what the WSJ says with regard to this data point.
This is just Kool Aid being served to offset 10 bps GDP growth. To even mention weather, a seasonal argument, is evidence that the type of sustainable growth needed is not be achieved.
Have you checked the labor participation rate? When that goes down, in conjunction with sufficiently high and stable GDP growth, driven by consumer spending and investment,then I will buy the WSJ conclusion.
Ultra conservative wsj would have no incentive to falsify information to trump up the economy under a democrat pres.
….Quite true T-J. But CDAD has a bag of cats in his head. He doesn’t realize the WSJ is owned by FoxNews owner, Rupert Murdoch.
…His biggest problem is one he can’t change. He can’t deal with losing the last Presidential election. So, he denies everything.
CDAD’s kind of immature, denial and resentment attitude practically guarantees Hilary Clinton will the the next President of the United States.
I hate to disagree with Amen corner, but if I quoted various WSJ articles critical of the recovery, I doubt the same enthusiasm.
My point was that sustainable GDP growth would drive labor participation up, and that this would be better evidence of improvement then simply one metric. That conclusion is sophomoric and window dressing.
Per the BLS, another 806M people left the labor force last month and we now have 92.6 million in not the labor force which is near record level.
The AP has reported that the primary driver of the drop in U3 unemployment was people working or seeking work fell, which is reflected in the BLS stat.
Adhomein comments don’t refute my argument. Why the WSJ reporter wrote the article without a more critical mindset I do not know, anymore than why when the President goes to Asia, one of the hardest questions from the press corps is how he likes his ice cream.
So Marsha Abell hired her step son as the new Director of Vanderburgh County Soil and Conservation District. Did you know she hired the wife of Ex-Mayor Russ Lloyd Jr to work with her step son.
Looks like we not only have nepotism but political patronage. Nice going Marsha. This is one reason I’m voting for Bruce.
Under the community organizer clown America has just set a record for Americans not in the work force..Only toads…bird brains and deadbeats will see this as good news…….http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Dear Mr. Al Racy/Sharpie SterlaBundy.
What you are seeing are the results of our kind hearted public servants known as the republican parties actions.
Since the GOOPer’s have blocked every last measure by the president to the delight of you and your ilk what you are referring to is result of the glorious uninterrupted free market at work. If people are suffering from long term unemployment and dropping out of the work force and living on food stamps and other government assitance it is the glorious free market that is letting them down.
Government intervention and jobs programs would only lengthen their suffering, at least that’s what you clowns always tell us when we discuss Keynesian economics, the New Deal and the Great Depression.
Oh and of course I love this one, first we would have to take money from the private sector too. How dare Democrats and liberals suggest we take caviar and champagne from the lips of the oligarchs and put it to work rebuilding our infrastructure and handing out contracts to private contractors to hire people and stimulate the economy!!!
I mean Donald Sterling might have to give up his French Maid, Bundy the welfare cowboy might have to make do with something less than his custom made Cadillac, O’Reilly might have to fire one of his obsequious staff members.
And where are the glorious job creators? Every last thing they were whining about that prevented them from hiring has been laid at their feet yet their still on the couch. Why don’t they hire some of these people?
You forgot to add one last point to tell us;
I swallowed a fly the other day, did you know that? Well you do now and you all should considered yourselves blessed by my wisdom and insight.
Where are the job creators? They have left or are leaving the country. Labor unions and welfare have made workers scarce. That’s why we need to open our borders and get people willing to work in this country. The willingness to struggle and make good disappears once an ebt card is issued. Of course you can’t get an ebt card without proper state issued ID.
crazy people!
Vote for BRUCE
My 18-year-old grandson and I voted this afternoon. We actually had to wait a few minutes, but it was nearly closing time.
I’ve observed a half dozen or so “Abell” yard signs appear in my neighborhood just yesterday. I know at least two of the houses are home to Democrats. I think this is going to be a squeaker, and I’m not even certain Mr. U is going to beat her. In a normal town, he should and would win, but this is Evansville.
I’m sure the democrats are going all out with their covert politics to ensure Bruce loses. I’m sure the word is out on Bruce as it was with Rick, “we have a problem Houston” there’s an honest politician running for office. I think the problems in Evansville are so severe and run so deep that even the republicans are helping to cover them up. But there is nothing LW has done to make matters worse, he has not added to the debt load of this city, yet.
pov, are you sure about ‘he has not added to the debt load of this city” ?
1) Johnson Controls (wireless water meters: $ 46 Million + interest;
2) Downtown Hotel: $ 20 Million subsidy, already committed;
3) IU Med School: $ 51 Million + interest;
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