IS IT TRUE? September 14, 2011 Extra Morning Edition

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IS IT TRUE? September 14, 2011 Extra Morning Edition

IS IT TRUE that it seems as though the vote to move the consolidation proposal came down to a party line vote at last night’s Vanderburgh County Commissioner’s meeting with the two Republicans in favor an Democratic Commissioner Stephen Melcher casting the lone NO vote?…that Commissioner Melcher has consistently expressed the opinion that a threshold rejection option is the only fair way to proceed with a vote on consolidation and even made a motion to amend the proposal to include one?…that neither Commissioner Winnecke nor Commissioner Abell seconded his motion so it did not go forward?…that now the issue of referendum or no referendum is in the hands of the Evansville City Council?

IS IT TRUE that maybe next year the City of Evansville can try to consolidate with the City of Newburgh in an election with no threshold rejection provisions?…that with the tax base and wealth that Newburgh has the City of Evansville could just take that over at the ballot box with its overwhelming population advantage and start sending Evansville’s bills to Newburgh to be paid?…that if this consolidation committee would have identified and clearly communicated what the significant savings from consolidation will be AND held a vote with threshold rejection that we believe that consolidation would have passed?…that they did neither and may have just set back a real and profitable consolidation effort by 10 years?…that only the City Council can send the message that doing nothing and annexation by the ballot is not acceptable?

IS IT TRUE that the City County Observer is pleased to see the focus that is coming together to advocate for making pseudoephedrine a prescription medicine at the state level and if not to force the state to let local government make this decision?…that both Evansville Fire Chief Keith Jarboe and Police Chief Brad Hill whose people are on the front lines of the collateral danger from the meth scourge that keeps accelerating in Vanderburgh County agree?…that Oregon and Mississippi have enacted prescription only laws and have seen meth lab seizures fall by about 70%?…that disrupting the supply lines is a very basic yet effective military move that has been practice for thousands of years?…that it has been proven to work in two states?…that Evansville and the State of Indiana need to get their act together in the effort to disrupt the cooking of meth?…that State Representative Gail Riecken is poised to carry the torch at the state level?

IS IT TRUE that our military has detonation bags for grenades that contain the blast to protect people in the proximity?…that the CCO was approached last week with the idea of applying this detonation bag technology to develop a bag to contain the toxic chemicals and potential blast from a one-pot meth lab?…that such a tool would be invaluable to law enforcement professionals all across the country?…that this technology may just be available for licensing through the PIA that GAGE has with Crane Navsea?…that this is commercial product with an immediate demand?…that this could be a great opportunity for an Evansville business to capitalize on the Tech Transfer program in a nationally relevant yet profitable way?…that as we have often stated, if the BRAINS, AMBITION, and MONEY are committed to this kind of a project, local jobs and local wealth will be created by doing a good thing?

IS IT TRUE that we would love to share the name of the person who had this idea but do not yet have permission to do so?…that many people would be surprised?…that a feasibility study and a patent search has been initiated with the appropriate tech transfer officer?…that the person who had this idea is very skilled at connecting existing technologies to immediate needs?…that the seemingly obvious answer is not always the right answer?

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  1. Sorry, CCO WizKid, there can be no consolidation of Evansville with Newburgh without a threshold rejection vote simply because there is an intervening Ohio Township jurisdiction in Warrick County, and the statute requires a threshold rejection vote when 3 or more jurisdictions are to be merged.

    In the case of the Vanderburgh-Evansville merger referendum, there would also have been a mandatory threshold rejection vote if Darmstadt had been included in the merger plan … a fact that the Darmstadt opponents to consolidation now have come to regret.

    • I know but wanted to use it as an example. I am aware of a certain elected official who has expressed a desire to annex Newbugh. He knows that there is not a chance and it frustrates him. The justifications to want to annex Newburgh are the same as the ones used for unification. Darn that pesky county line.

      • If you knew that merging Newburgh with Evansville would require a rejection threshold under statute, then why did you write the article as if that weren’t the case? And who is the “certain elected official” who would waste our time trying to annex Newburgh? He or she is delusional and needs to be replaced!

      • And if the same dilusional people who are using the excuse that outlying residents are sponging off poor, put upon Evansville, then I guess these same crybabies are rationalizing merging the entire Metropolitan area, Kentucky counties included?

  2. Don’t you just love bipartisanship? Like when Weinzapfel and Winnecke conspire, up front and early on, to do away with the threshold rejection.

    Lets here it for bipartisanship!

    • Name the city council members or county commission members who voted against the initial resolutions neither of which contained a rejection threshold? And remember, Weinzapfel had no vote on those resolutions. So, the “conspiracy,” if it really exists, seems a bit more extensive than the two persons you want to blame it on. But go ahead and name the council and commission members who were not a part of it, and who moved to includevoted a rejection threshold in the original resolutions, or who voted against the resolutions that did not provide a threshold rejection option.

    • Press…..bipartisanship is just a PC word to divert attention, we all know that Weinzapfel & Winnecke are members of the same club, the membership to the club has no bounds based on party affiliation but merely an oath to the club…..As Soon2b stated it’s a bigger conspiracy then just the two of them, lots of members behind the scenes with vested interests in the outcome of the mayoral election and consolidation.

      JMHO

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