IS IT TRUE OCTOBER 26, 2015

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IS IT TRUE the 4th Ward race for City Council is turning ugly and personal?  …political challenger Henrietta Jenkins is seemly attacking Councilwoman Robinson on a daily basis because she lives in a nice home,  drives a new car, can afford to go on business trips and vacations and dresses nice?  …we commend Mrs. Robinson for staying above the personal and insulting remarks made towards her by Ms. Jenkins?  …Connie Robinson is known throughout our community for being a caring and sharing person that helps disadvantaged people be they black or white?  …its time for Ms. Jenkins to stop trashing Mr. Robinson earned station in life and start talking about why she wants to be elected as the next 4th Ward Councilwomen?

IS IT TRUE that CCO blogger TIM BURR just submitted a post concerning the  Jack Schriber matter that we found interesting?  …he posted that Gail Riecken should demand that Winnecke reveal the “non-police source” by which he allegedly learned about Schriber’s admission last Tuesday (10-20-15). If Winnecke really did receive information from a non-police source, that would imply that there was a LEAK in the EPD to outsiders.

IS IT TRUE that in the final public political debate the Mayor claimed that Evansville is growing? …we wonder what his statement was based on? …we hope he wasn’t referring that Evansville overall debt for capital projects are growing by leap and bounds?

IS IT TRUE that the Plumbers and Pipefitters, local #136 didn’t endorsed  4th Ward Councilwomen Connie Robinson or At Large City Council candidate Alex Burton but they made a $500 donation towards their campaigns?  …all we can say-“are you kidding us”?

IS IT TRUE that during the last  Mayoral debate Gail Riecken stated that crime is up and arrests are down in Evansville, the Mayor appeared to agree with her?  …we wonder why the Mayors TV commercials doesn’t relay this information to the voters?

IS IT TRUE that our current “Readers Poll” question is “Do you feel that Mayor Winnecke is telling the real truth about the overall drug problems in Evansville”?

IS IT TRUE we are surprised to hear the opitate-based street drug may be blamed for five deaths in Vanderburgh County so far in 2015, according to the  Vanderburgh County Coroner’s office.?   …that Mayor Winnecke TV ad states that meth labs has decreased by half since is took office?  …” Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Nicholas Hermann said. “opitate-based street drug is getting to be a problem”?   …when people become hooked on opiate painkillers they will switch to heroin because it is much cheaper than pills?   … we are can’t wait  to see how Sgt. Jason Cullum, the spokesman for the Evansville Department is going to spin that a massive amounts of heroin is being smuggled into Evansville area over the past couple of years by the Mexico drug cartels?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville is lucky to have an organization called “Keep Evansville Beautiful”? …that they assist in promoting some of the modern art we see in Evansville? …”Keep Evansville Beautiful” raised thousand of dollars from local residents and Vandeburgh County /Evansville Convention and Visitors  group  to put a welcome to Evansville sculpture at the airport to welcome visitors to our city? ,,,one hope one day that they will start to focus on the blighted home problems in Evansville? …they shall have a major task before them on deciding what to do with the 9,000 blighted homes located in Evansville proper?

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  1. Jack Schriber matter–Gail Riecken should demand that Winnecke reveal the “non-police source” by which he allegedly learned about Schriber’s admission last Tuesday (10-20-15). If Winnecke really did receive information from a non-police source, that would imply that there was a LEAK in the EPD to outsiders.

    • Also, the Editor of the Courier said yesterday something about Schriber and EVSC ending his consulting agreement just prior to the public announcement. Leak # 2 ??

  2. Sorry can’t do it. It would compromise the thin veneer of truthfulness I’m trying to paint over the reality of my failed tenure as mayor for purposes of being reinstalled. I’d appreciate it if you’d just ignore my lies. Can’t say anything else about it — might compromise something you know.

  3. Channel 14 announced that John Zody, the chairman of the Indiana Democratic Part, will hold a press conference at 1: pm today on the steps of the civic center to discuss the Schriber affair.

  4. IS IT TRUE that in the final public political debate the Mayor claimed that Evansville is growing? …we wonder what his statement was based on? …we hope he wasn’t referring that Evansville overall debt for capital projects are growing by leap and bounds?

    I here the Mayor is correct if you spend your time downtown. I just don’t spend much time there. In the neighborhoods I frequent I see a lot of deteriorating houses. Bells just went off. Things are growing – weeds, mold, mushrooms, fungus, rank vegetation, crime, homelessness. You just have to think positive for a minute and see the things growing in Evansville.

  5. “IS IT TRUE that CCO blogger TIM BURR just submitted a post concerning the Jack Schriber matter that we found interesting? …he posted that Gail Riecken should demand that Winnecke reveal the “non-police source” by which he allegedly learned about Schriber’s admission last Tuesday (10-20-15). If Winnecke really did receive information from a non-police source, that would imply that there was a LEAK in the EPD to outsiders.”

    I find this interesting THE CCO promoting this demand. You of anyone should not. How many time have you Cited information received confidentially and refuse to divulge source in protecting them!!! Cant have your cake and eat it too! I support protection of informant to whoever t may be and I could care less which candidate prevails. All three have positives and all three have negatives more than any other race in history of this city. So please don’t try to turn this as a support or defense of any candidate it is not, just a simple observation of double speak.

  6. Guys,
    It could have been Schriber that informed Winnecke. If so, Winnecke would have known pretty early in the game what was happening and should have advised Jack to withdraw from the campaign. At any rate, whatever the source of the information, it is immaterial now. The mayor, after all, has access to Bolin, and Bolin is supposed to report to him.
    As far as the drug problem in Evansville, it is alive and well and not just confined to the very poor. Some middle class families are in it together. And yes, opiates are very prevalent and heroin has hit us big time.

    • Winnecke was the Schriber family spokesperson when Schriber had his health issues in Florida this past summer. They are very close. A FOIA request for any emails between the mayor and his friend reportedly yielded an email about a fundraiser at the Reitz Home and that was all they admitted to.

      Sure looks like an attempt by Winnecke to keep his good buddy Schriber on the ballot. It worked. Gotta always be looking for the mayor to do something underhanded. His reputation for deceit in the community is unrivaled. He should not be allowed to manipulate the ballots with his dirty little hands. Maybe a grand jury should be impaneled to look into any electoral impropriety. He ducked the question about the timing when a reporter first asked him, saying he’d be issuing a statement on it (he didn’t know what to say at that point and the truth was not an option). They decided the ‘integrity of the investigation’ dodge would once again be their cover. By debate time he had it down. It became his answer to any questions about Schriber.

      Winnecke is a tap dancer of some renown. It is disconcerting to watch him use his oily talents to put that council seat essentially in Wayne Parke’s hands.

      • ….zzzzzzz
        Will somebody please tell that cheerleader to shut up?
        God help us. Please come, Nov 3rd.
        I know. I know. I don’t have to read the same damn drivel Bandana writes everyday.
        But I do.
        Out of some sense there is some other fiber in Bandana’s
        character other than “my enemy owns me.”

  7. Appears that the current issue of Dems R Us is out. Containing everything you want to hear as a left leaning democrat and/or Liberal. This site does nothing but regurgitate the same stories, all of which have a leftist slant to them. Back in the day the site would just give the facts and tell the tales and then let folks make up their own conclusions. Now all we get is the “Giddy for Gail” campaign every day.

    Now before all of you start with the bashing, I think our current mayor is a douche bag and a liar. But that does not in no uncertain terms make Ms. Reicken an automatic better solution, just because she rides on the other side of the rails with her politics. For all we know she could be worse. In you folks have forgotten, a majority of the time politicians lie. They tell you what you want to hear and then spit in your face when they get elected. This occurs on both sides of the aisle.

    But we all know we have to vote for Gail, after all she is a woman. Experience, past actions nor skills matter, just so we push the agenda.

  8. Nothing like driving by that airport sculpture every morning and getting a whiff of the sewers to say Welcome to Evansville !

    • We need more of those sculptures if that is what makes evansville beautiful. Might be cheaper than demolition. That thing cost $250k. Put a few in the neighborhoods and people will not notice the blight and start building houses around it. The will be a fight over the empty lots so people can be close to them.

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