IS IT TRUE January 13, 2015

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IS IT TRUE that Anna Melcher will file for 3rd Ward City Council seat at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon? …Anna has the current 3rd Ward Councilwoman’s full support.  …that Anna is married to Vanderburgh County Commissioner Steve Melcher?

IS IT TRUE we just learned that highly respected and dedicated Vice Chairwoman of the Vanderburgh County Republican Party Central Committee Becky Kasha has just resigned her position?  …we are hearing that Mrs. Kasha resigned her GOP position because of a disagreement between her and Party Chairman Wayne Parke?   …we wish Becky Kasha  well and like to congratulate her for during an outstanding job for the Vanderburgh County Republican Party Central Committee?

IS IT TRUE we found Evansville Courier Editor Tim Etheridge’s Sunday Editorial extremely interesting?…that Mr. Etheridge spoke of disrespect shown by City Council members and City Attorney Scott Danks to Marco DeLucio, a City Administration Attorney and Chief of Staff Steve Schaefer?…the details are following but the ultimate disrespect is to withhold material information or to present a false narrative about an investment?…that part is material and chewing gum, rolling of eyes, or calling someone by their first name is not?

IS IT TRUE that the Editor of the Courier and Press indicated in his weekly editorial that Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley referred to Mayoral Chief of Staff Steve Schaefer by his last name was disrespectful?…while this manner of addressing the Chief of Staff may be outside of the bounds of Robert’s Rules of Order, we at the CCO watched this interaction and did not think there was any disrespect intended?…respect is a two way street and intentional disrespect has been directed toward Councilwoman Riley by Mr. Schaefer outside of the Council chambers on a number of occasions over the past few years when she exposed the Earthcare Energy LLC debacle for what it was?…it was Mr. Schaefer who aggressively demanded that the $200,000 up front payment to Earthcare be made without giving the City Council the courtesy of notice?…respect, is earned?…going behind the City Council’s back to hand a check to a group that was never vetted was about as disrespectful as it gets?…while we agree that using a last name may infer disrespect it may also infer familiarity as we have often heard Controller Russ Lloyd called “Russ” and Councilman Adams called “Doc” in the Council Chamber?…we wish for a day when the Office of the Mayor and the City Council have earned respect for one another as people and not just for the purpose of honoring an office without regard for the occupant?

IS IT TRUE that the remarks made by Editor Etheridge that City Council Attorney Scott Danks was lambasting the Administration Attorney Marco DeLucio is laughable?…we must advise Mr. Etheridge that we have heard many positive comments concerning the way City Council Attorney Scott Danks’ being assertive about asking pointed questions of the Mayor’s Chief of Staff at the last Council meeting?…we also hope that City Council Attorney Danks will continue to demand answers from the Mayor’s Chief of Staff, and we hope Mr. Schaefer provides the answers?…the question regarding how much actual money that Old National Bank will be paying for the naming rights is public information as the public is a co-investor in the project?…to assert that it is not our business as citizens makes no more sense than it would for ONB CEO Bob Jones to refuse to let one shareholder know the equity held by another shareholder?

IS IT TRUE we do agree with the Courier Editor that Mayor Winnecke was sitting in his office across the hall from City Council chambers so as to let Mr. Schaefer take his licks for him rather than emerging to explain his actions directly to City Council himself?…we have learned after watching the Mayor over the last 3 years that his governing style isn’t open and honest dialogue with City Council or the public?…the Mayor’s preferred communication style is to use controlled press releases styled by his “Minister of Propaganda”?

IS IT TRUE that Editor Etheridge spoke about Councilwoman Connie Robinson, who represents a mostly African-American ward, who voted against a qualified African-American candidate for one of two seats on the Evansville Redevelopment Commission?…we are glad she did not vote for the qualified African-American gentleman who was nominated by City Councilman Jonathan Weaver just to embarrass Councilwoman Robinson?…it is important to point out that Weaver’s attempt to put Councilwoman Robinson in an awkward racial and political position has back fired?…we predict that Councilman Weaver’s attempt to put Mrs. Robinson in a racial and political bind may have cost him from winning the powerful 4th Ward in his re-election bid?…if a Democratic At-Large candidate can’t win the 4th Ward they shall most likely lose the election?…we are extremely pleased that City Council elected Cheryl Musgrave as one of the ERC Commissioners and expect her to inject sanity and reason into what has been a rubber stamp for the last two Mayors to the point of incompetence?

IS IT TRUE we would like the first question that City Council asks the Mayor (if he decides to attend) or his Chief of Staff at the next City Council the following question?  …the question is, “has HCW received a formal License/Franchise agreement approval from Hilton Hotel National office?” …if the answer is yes please provide City Council with detailed written documents when HCW received this approval and signed the agreement from Hilton Hotel’s National office to build a downtown Hilton sponsored Hotel?…if there is no such document we think that an apology is in order and the truth needs to come out as to why we have been told by both HCW and Mayor Winnecke that this critical step in the financing process was misrepresented in several public forums?…the question of the year may just turn out to be “Did both Mayor Winnecke and HCW intentionally misrepresent the status of the franchise agreement, or did HCW lie to Mayor Winnecke who then parroted that misrepresentation to the people of Evansville?”…the one thing that is not in dispute is the fact that material information has been withheld from the funding agency (City Council) and other critical conditions have been intentionally released that were incorrect?…that Mr. Etheridge is the very definition of disrespect?…you may call someone by my last name anytime you like, but if you lie to someone about an investment in the real world that is called investment fraud?…investment fraud is both disrespectful and illegal?

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98 COMMENTS

  1. It’s like these people think they’re just entitled to freebies and act annoyed if you ask any questions. There’s your “entitlement mentality” pov, and from your beloved do no wrong republicans even.

  2. News Alert!
    The calendar of events distributed by the Vanderburgh County Democrat Party this morning announced a filing for candidacy on Wednesday, January 21st at 4:00 p.m. by “Steven Davis for 4th Ward City Council.”
    I’m sure Missy Mosby is relieved and Connie Robinson a bit surprised.

  3. Well, Etheridge dances to the tune that his Boss, and the ERBC band plays,
    the problem is he can’t “Dance”, and the “spinning” leaves him Dizzy,—and mumbling (writing) ditsy sh-t while stumbling around on the dance floor called Creditability. The unabated Fading away of the C&P is well deserved Karma.

    • Etheridge’s editorial on the City Council was very out of character. Normally Etheridge’s editorials are left leaning-occupy wall street blabber like their “cartoonist” MacLeod.

  4. In this morning’s Courier, Winnecke didn’t get pg. 1 (that was saved for ‘Litter picking Lab turns 8’), but he did show up on pg. 3 (‘Winnecke gets into the race’). Some real gems:

    ” Winnecke said in an interview after his prepared remarks that his administration has received 172 formal requests for financial information on the city from either the City Council or a consultant acting on the council’s behalf”. ” We have responded to each one. One of them had 28 questions”.

    WELL, there you have it, the City Council screwed up ! They forgot to write ‘FORMAL REQUEST’ at the top for the withheld Hotel information and the 2012 Fraudit ! Come on City Council, you are better than this !

  5. Winnecke again, pg. A3 of Courier, a pearl”

    ” You talk about transparency, ladies and gentlemen?” Winnecke asked the audience. “We meet monthly with the builders and developers in the community to find ways to cut red tape, and we’re making progress each and every month”.

    Commment: What does meeting with builders/developers have to do with transparency ? Did they publish the minutes of those campaign contribution meetings ? Cutting red tape = transparency ? Did you publish the successes you’ve made in cutting said red tape ?

    • Courier & Press has to defend Mayor Winnecke and back him up. They endorsed him. Mayor Winnecke could pull an Enron and the C&P would find a way to blame the investors. Its shameful to have our community newspaper so invested in the politicians they are suppose to keep watch over.

    • I caught that comment, and I wonder what meeting monthly with potential donors has to do with transparency for public. I think it shows clearly that Winnie doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of ordinary citizens, and really doesn’t comprehend any interest they have in his actions. VOTE GAIL RIECKEN FOR MAYOR!!!

        • While I thought the Illinois fiasco was B.S., I feel Gail couldn’t make things any worse. I only hope her previous relationship with Weinzapfel won’t mean a continuation of his style of governance.

        • Since you brought up the running issue…let’s hope Winnie runs off to AZ much later than expected…

  6. Only Otis Redding should be allowed to call Councilman Adams “Doc”. El Presidente or Your Highness is preferred.

    • Bugs B. gets an exemption too, but only when querying him about what might be happening.

    • Dr. Adams has spent his career doing heart surgery, and saving lives. He served his country in the military, too. We may not always agree with his politics, but he deserves respect for his position, and for a career where he saved many, many lives.
      I don’t always like what he does, but I must acknowledge that he deserves everyone’s respect.

  7. I never did like Ethridge at all. For him to write what he did about the city council members is disingenuous at best and political terms a dropped ball. Maybe Tim Ethridge will be Winney’s campaign manager.

    Attorney Danks did his job and that was good to see.

    • Hold on.. you’re going to blame the MAYOR and CHIEF OF POLICE for two parents letting their child put a gun in his own mouth? The only reason we know about this video is because of the police setting this “father” up in a sting and seizing his phone. You are a special kind of stupid, aren’t you.

      • No I don’t blame them for the parents letting their daughter put a gun into her mouth. I blame the Mayor and the Chief of police for letting the town go downhill. There is a shooting almost every other day in this town and who else is responsible for not getting that under control. Do you think Santa should take the fall for the Mayor? I blame the Mayor for appointing a guy with little education to the top of the Police Force. You do agree that it’s the Mayor’s fault that Billy is in charge at the Police Dept?

        • Casual, this is how the left wing occupy wall street green peace Obama global warming race baiting Holder crack pots roll. Takes a while to ignore their posting, but its all the same. Blame Bush, Halliburton, Republicans (people that actually work) etc. Very predicable.

    • Moveon, you have to also be Ghost with such idiotic posts. Must be nice to live in Mom’s basement and spew BS. Ghost at least promised to move if he could find enough $. I’m in for $100 on the Greyhound. Its solid. I’ll mail to CCO and they can distribute. JB

  9. Anybody seen Schaefer the Wafer?
    Political factotums sure look stupid when they are given a decent sized stage to exercise their depth on.

    Meanwhile, our tin eared mayor continues to flog the Shotspotter technology on his web site. Holding out any hope that he would be listening to the people in addition to his appointees is by now futile. He must be replaced. Pure bull-headed willfulness is a poor substitute for good governance.

    Hiding out in his office and sending Schaefer to continue insulting the council is indicative of a Nixonian bunker menatlity. I fear it has enveloped our accidental mayor. It will give rise to increasingly erratic behavior as his looming date with the electorate draws near and his enemies list grows longer.

    I remember when the editor of a city’s newspaper was respected and his opinion valued. I do not believe our print newspaper has enough time left to overcome the hit the credibility of the editor’s job has taken the past couple of years.

    • I think the bunker mentality first reared its ugly head when the “Cross the River” fiasco emerged. The mayor was hard to find in the first days of that attempt to “put one over” on the public, and that served him well. He came out of that fairly unscathed, so a fetal position under his desk seems to have become his “go to” place.

    • I don’t think the paper will ever recover without new ownership that dumps Ethridge ASAP.

  10. “…we are hearing that Mrs. Kasha resigned her GOP position because of a disagreement between her and Party Chairman Wayne Parke?”

    It looks like WP’s karmic chickens are coming home to roost. Could it be that he will be facing the problem of party disunity in the coming election?

    Speaking of chickens, it appears to me that the prelude to Councilman Weaver’s request for a police escort to his car after the meeting was the result of the backfiring of his racially tainted planned “gotcha” moment for Councilwoman Robinson. If she had voted for her longtime friend that Weaver nominated for the ERC, he could have painted her as a racist who voted against the eminently qualified Mrs. Musgrave in favor of an African American friend. When she didn’t do that, he will now try to paint her as a part of the political machine first, and a representative of her constituency second. He didn’t count on the ire of this strong lady. I suppose he thought she would be crushed by the experience. He thought he had a win-win for himself, but it was a lose-lose that will not just bite his backside, it will maul it. Mr. Weaver apparently didn’t know Connie Robinson very well, and really underestimated the loyalty she has among residents of the Fourth Ward. I’m really curious to know if Mr. Stewart even knew of his planned nomination. If he did, was he told of the impact it would have on Connie Robinson?
    If the rumors on the political grapevine bear fruit, karmic chickens are circling his coop as well and Mr. Weaver will have a lot on his plate for this election.

    • Wayne Parke is a manipulator and can’t tell the truth to save his life. He has disgraced the Republican Party even more so than George W. Bush. I am sure he is plotting out his lies for this coming election.

  11. Anything going on out in the world today ?I heard there was a problem in France recently. It was good to see the show of unity by some of the worlds leaders in the parade Sunday.

    • Yes, Missy Mosby, Jonathan Weaver and Laura Windwhatever’s campaign chairs and members of their committee were at Winneckes filing yesterday. They have thrown 100% support behind Winnecke and then later in they day planned a fundraiser for those 3 stooges. You think those 3 will find new campaign managers and committee people or do you think they will continue on “business as usual”?

  12. If the mayor’s chief-of-staff came before the common council and deliberately lied to council members, there are sanctions available.

    _________

    E. Enforcement

    There are three aspects of disclosure that are enforced: late filing, insufficient filing, and false information. The first two aspects are usually enforced by an ethics commission imposing a civil fine on violators. The third aspect can be enforced civilly by an ethics commission, or criminally by a district attorney charging the violator with perjury.

    Perjury is not something that is normally dealt with in an ethics code, but it is a process that is available, as long as the disclosure statement requires a signature and contains a statement that it is made under penalty of perjury. But it can be harmful to an ethics program to have a district attorney criminally enforce ethics requirements. It is better for the ethics commission to enforce the ethics code’s requirements through finding late filing and insufficient filing violations.

    See the Enforcement chapter for more on enforcement of disclosure violations, including a discussion about the place of criminal enforcement in local government ethic

    • It is assumed that information given to council members by persons appearing before it will be true. No one gets a pass on this.

      • Maybe everyone in the room needs to swear an oath to tell the truth, under penalty of perjury, before every City Council meeting. It would make the meetings a lot shorter, and several of the Winnie reps would have to invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to City Council’s questions.

      • Maybe from now on anyone speaking before or to the city council during their meetings should be sworn in using their right hand on the bible ceremony.

  13. Cowbozo wants to draw attention away from the mess that the Poop has made in Evansville. If he wants to discuss the major blunder made by the President, there are lots of good forums to do that on. There’s trouble in River City and this forum deals very well with that fact.

    • The above was meant as a reply to Cowbozo’s pathetic attempt to draw attention away from Lloyd Winnecke and the clowns of the Civic Center.

    • You may want to expand your horizons a bit, lkb. It is true today’s IIT editorial was strictly local, but surely you know comments always range from Evansville to Mars, culminating usually with ” it’s Bush’s fault”. Or, recently,” it’s Winnecke’s fault.”
      You may wish to confine this forum to Giddy For Gail charter members, but is that good for the forum? BTW- I noticed the mayor and First Lady had a very lively and enthusiastic ceremony yesterday in which they re-upped for another term; a fact seemingly overlooked by CCO editor and yourself.

      • There’s very little”it’s bush’s fault” on this site. Are you high or just a constant victim? This site is full of right wing nuts!

      • I’m certain that CCO will print a letter that describes the Winnecke filing and his comments in depth just as they did mine about Gail’s announcement, if one is submitted. Why don’t you write one? It obviously isn’t a gathering I was interested in attending.
        As for the scope of comments here, I think you will recall that I have long pointed out that this is the City-County Observer, not the City-County-National Observer. It’s “crunch time” for the continued existence of Evansville, and that is where I am concentrating my energy this year.

      • Yea I saw their picture in the news paper. Funny there were no other people in that picture. I think it was taking at the office where one files for office. Normally a photo op picture like that shows a HUGE crowd of supporters in the back ground. But in this picture there were no supporters to be seen.

    • LKB-You folk are beating the same stories to death on here. Keep repeating yourself. A little diff topic now and then wouldn’t hurt. Long time to November.

      • You are free to write an OP ed and turn it into the CCO to see if they will publish it in here. That is if you really wish to change the subject. But I doubt that will work. This forum is mostly about local politics and the city’s future. It’s not about the Federal Government so much.

  14. …………….we would like the first question that City Council asks the Mayor (if he decides to attend) or his Chief of Staff at the next City Council the following question? …the question is, “has HCW received a formal License/Franchise agreement approval from Hilton Hotel National office?” …if the answer is yes please provide City Council with detailed written documents when HCW received this approval and signed the agreement from Hilton Hotel’s National office to build a downtown Hilton sponsored Hotel?

    Many of us would like this question asked, and answered. Will one of the City Council person please step forward and ask the hard question??????

  15. So Laura, Weaver and Missy have thrown their lot in with Mayor Whiney???

    Hmmmmmm

    I wonder what Rob Faulkner and Anthony Long have to say about this?

    And they said Rick Davis was the one who divided the local Democratic party.

    • The Democrat Party is united. These three are exceptions and do not represent the party on a whole. I’m sure the Democrat Primary will be kind to all of their opponents. Mayor Riecken will stop the Winnecke spending madness along with the hide and seek games that Winnecke and Schaefer are so fond of and she will have a new council with at least 3 new members. Evansville is coming out of the darkness in 2015.

        • It’s 2015, and that is past history. The Democrats are moving on, but the Republicans are mired in the CSO problems, aka “fecal matter.”

          • It’s not “past history” when the same troublemakers are running a relative against the incumbent democrat city clerk.

          • @who said that

            Funny you say incumbent.
            The incumbent (voters choice) is actually Alberta Matlock who is also endorsing the candidate running for the seat held by the temporary (committee) choice.

        • Sure, the Democrats are all united by hugs, fairy dust, unicorns and party loyalty. By the way, who are Mosby, Weaver and Robinson supporting for both Mayor and City Clerk? Just wondering.

      • Winnecke is done. Trying to divide the Party now will not work. All Dems are solid behind Gail Riecken for Mayor. Winnecke and those divisive tactics will not win.

    • I think tweedledumb and dumber won’t come out of the closet. They are going to try to ride Gail’s coat tails, but they do owe allegiance to the Whiner. His wife is very generous with them.

  16. Anyone else notice the local media didn’t report on the heavy equipment theft the CCO reported on but didn’t give details? Could it be the perps are white and from a prominent west side family?

  17. It can NEVER be said often enough about how W the lesser and his band of tax cutters, deregulators, and Cowboy Capitalists, like Larry Kudlow, John Kasich, Steve Forbes, Mitch McConnell and many other GOOPer’s brought this country to the brink, and left smoldering ruins for Obama to clean up. Then they blamed it all on little Barney Frank and then attacked Obama for the cost of the clean up. Then you have the other wing of W’s administration the warmongering torturing Neocons, like Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Kruthhammer, Bolton et al. Who killed 100’s of thousands of innocent Iraqi’s and various other nicieties.

    Yes this needs to repeated over and over and over again.

    • Careful Brains. You run the risk of being put into time out by lkb for commenting on something outside of Vanderburgh county. I am impressed though, you knew who Barney Frank was,

  18. W had his WMD moment and now Mayor Whiney has had his WMI moment.

    W ithholding

    M aterial

    I nformation.

    Every time these clowns Bawwk about Illinois Gail we should just say

    WMI, WMI, WMI, WMI, WMI. etc.

    • LKB

      Here, take a look at the following, Gail ran away from her job for 36 days, refusing to represent her constituents in support of the unions which paid her way. What happens if anyone else reading this would decide to run away from their job for 5 days, 10 days, much less 36 days.

      Legislative walkout

      Riecken and 36 other Democratic representatives participated in a legislative walkout on February 22, 2011, in opposition to proposed legislation limiting union powers in Indiana. The Democratic departure left the House void of a quorum, leaving only 58 of the 67 representatives needed to establish a quorum.[1] Terri Austin, Steven Stemler and Vanessa Summers stayed behind to provide, if necessary, a motion and a seconding motion, which would enable them to stop any official business from proceeding should the Republicans try to do so.[1]

      On March 7, 2011, House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer revealed the Democratic caucus’ hideout to be the Comfort Suites in Urbana, Illinois.[2] According to the Indiana Constitution, Article 4, sections 11 and 14, the House may enforce fines and other methods to compel absent members to return. Beginning on March 7, 2011, each Democrat was subject to a fine of $250, to be withheld from future expense or salary payments, for each day they were not present in the statehouse.[3] Regarding their actual pay, House Speaker Brian Bosma announced that the 37 lawmakers were required to be physically present in the chambers to receive their per diem payment of $152/day.[2] This move came as a result of the approximated $40,000 in per diem payments automatically made to the legislators during their first seven days of absence. According to reports, the representatives promised to either return the money, or donate it to charity.[2]

      March 22, 2011, marked the start of the fourth consecutive week of Democratic absenteeism, complete with an increased incentive to return. Governor Mitch Daniels and House Republicans upped the ante with daily fines increasing from $250/day to $350/day, effective March 21, 2011. Despite the increased penalties, Democratic resolve remained intact. House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer stated that Democrats “will remain steadfast” in their opposition to bills hurting wages and education in Indiana.[4] Rep. Winfield Moses, Jr. (D) called the increase “a poke in the eye,” and promised that it would do nothing to break the impasse.[5]

      The Democrats ended the standoff after 36 days, returning on March 28, 2011. The two sides agreed to compromise on a number of issues, including shelving the controversial “right-to-work” bill.[3] Although the Democrats returned with some of their demands met, their actions were not without consequence. Each absent member accrued a total of $3,500 in fines given by Republicans.[3]

      The Legislature ended up passing “right-to-work” legislation on February 1, 2012, becoming the 23rd state to do so. Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) signed the measure into law.[6]

      Taken from the website: ballotpedia.org

  19. BREAKING NEWS!!!!
    Anna Melcher will file for Third Ward City Council at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. She is a bright and competent successor for SBR, and has the current Councilwoman’s full support.

    • LKB, would you consider Mrs. Melcher a ‘legacy’ candidate? What are your thoughts on that? If you are looking for change in local politics, can you reasonably support the wife of a man who has been involved in local politics since 1991?

      • I wasn’t the one who called Gail Riecken a “legacy”. I just pointed out that you used the word inappropriately. I think you’re trying to put a negative spin on a word that is completely neutral. YOU’RE the one that has a problem with “legacies”, not me. I can absolutely support Anna Melcher regardless of who she’s married to, because she is a bright, capable, and caring lady.
        Since you’re so sure “legacies” are all bad, can you reasonably support a man for Mayor whose wife has been involved in local politics since 1980?

        • Fair enough. It’s just odd that for a group so vocally against the status quo, regular posters on this site are going ga-ga over people who have either already spent decades in political office or are closely related to those who have. That doesn’t seem weird to you? You and others frequently point out that the same group of elites are the ones who have had control of local politics and run this joint into the ground for ages, yet you seem perfectly okay with at least two candidates who by every definition are affiliated with this ruling group.

          A legacy candidate is NOT neutral. To me it’s almost entirely negative. Call it soft nepotism or cronyism – – political offices or political appointments should not be a ‘family business’ for anybody. That breeds corruption and insularity. Your opinion obviously is different, which is cool, it just confuses me. Either you don’t like the status quo, or you do. I’m beginning to draw the conclusion that you do, at least to a certain extent.

          Are you asking if I supported Winnecke? No. I walked and passed out flyers for Rick Davis, donated to his campaign, and voted for him. I would do so again if he hadn’t passed far too early.

    • Anna Melcher is an educator. She is an excellent candidate: well educated, highly involved with the PEOPLE of our community, genuine, and would make any decisions based solely on the best interests of the families and people in our community-
      I had given up hope-the people stepping up are very encouraging.

      • Me too, bootsie. The Democrats are finding good, down-to-earth people who see the real people of Evansville as important to the community. The Republicans are recruiting Winnie pals who see most of the citizenry as people who “just don’t understand what is best for them,” and believe in the Winnie agenda.

  20. SUMMARY REPORT VANDERBURGH COUNTY, IN OFFICIAL TOTALS
    RUN DATE:11/14/14 GENERAL ELECTION
    RUN TIME:02:38 PM NOVEMBER 4, 2014

    VOTES PERCENT

    VOTE CENTERS COUNTED (OF 22) . . . . 22

    REGISTERED VOTERS – TOTAL . . . . . 143,605

    BALLOTS CAST – TOTAL. . . . . . . 37,309

    **** VOTER TURNOUT – TOTAL . . . . . . 25.98 percent **** [*emphasis added]

    LOCAL GOVERNMENT ETHICS

    The principal goal of a local government ethics program is to further the public’s trust that those who govern their communities are putting their personal interests aside in favor of the public interest. It is hard for a community to have social trust when its residents perceive officials using government to profit themselves and their friends and families. [Without this trust, people tend not to participate in their government,] even as voters, and they feel as if their government were something apart from their community, an organization designed to benefit its members and those with the right connections, rather than an organization that serves, manages, and supports the community. They also feel they are being taken advantage of and treated unfairly.

    _

  21. Does anybody really care or why does it matter who or how many people go stand in a hallway while one person hands anothe a few pieces of paper that last all of 45 seconds! It means nothing most people have very import things to do, watching paint dry, re arranging their sock drawer, cleaning the litter box, all has better outcomes than standing in a hallway.

  22. I think it is encouraging, and helps the applicant feel strong about the very brave decision to run. It’s not easy to give a speech, much less represent hundreds of people in important matters.

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