JOHNNY KINCAID ENDORSES COUNTY COMMISSIONER CHEYL MUSGRAVE FOR FOR RE-ELECTION
JOHNNY KINCAID ENDORSES COUNTY COMMISSIONER CHERYL MUSGRAVE FOR RE-ELECTION
MAY 6, 2024
It’s rare for a political candidate to impress me enough for me to make an endorsement. Cheryl Musgrave is that rare candidate.
I’ve known Cheryl for many years, and she has been consistent in her beliefs and work ethic. She is practical, pragmatic, and straight to the point. But, most of all, Cheryl Musgrave is an innovator.
In 20 years of serving our county, Cheryl has found new ways to do things. As county assessor, Cheryl used the internet for mapping and property information before many people had computers. Her efficiency in that position drew the attention of then-governor Mitch Daniels, who put her to work at the state level.
As Vanderburgh County Commissioner, she was persistent about making high-speed internet available to anyone in the county. AT&T partnered with Musgrave and the county to lay fiber optic cables throughout Vanderburgh County.
Cheryl has a passion for historic buildings, having lived in one herself. She is currently spearheading renovations at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and has a vision for seeing the 100-year-old building host concerts, weddings, and other events.
Cheryl fought against rate increases from Centerpoint Energy.
Cheryl is also a supporter of the local business community. Her campaign finance reports show she has spent 99% of the campaign’s money locally. On the other hand, her opponent has spent 70% of her campaign funds out of state.
A lot of money has been spent trying to convince you that Cheryl Musgrave is against business. The mailers say that Musgrave wants to raise taxes on businesses and stands in the way of progress. These claims are assumptions from newspaper reports that are out of context. The Courier and Press has published two recent stories that debunk every claim made in those slick direct mail attacks.
Musgrave has a long history of voting Republican, while Canterbury had to get a waiver to run because she has voted Democrat. Musgrave has an A grade from Right to Life; her opponent has a B but claims to be “Pro-Life.” Canterbury has hijacked the word “conservative” to try to get your vote. The true conservative Republican is Cheryl Musgrave.
Make your voice heard and go to the polls. Vote for Vanderburgh County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave on May 7, 2024, in the Republican primary.
Footnote: Mr. Kincaid is a regular contributor to the City-County Observer and isn’t a paid employee of the City-County Observer.
We posted Mr. Kincaid’s letter of endorsement without bias, opinion, or editing.
ONE YEAR CHILD IS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: WHY I’M RUNNING FOR DISTRICT 8th CONGRESSMAN
by RICHARD MOSS, MD
MAY 6, 2024
My name is Richard Moss. I am a board-certified cancer surgeon, seasoned businessman, and America-First conservative running for Congress. I have been in private practice for 35 years in Jasper, Indiana. I am married with four children. I am committed to limited government, defending our Constitution, and preserving Judeo-Christian values.
I support sealing our southern border, avoiding forever wars, and returning jobs and factories to the heartland, particularly here in Indiana. This, after 50 years of “America Last,” when we shipped industries, vital supply chains, and jobs overseas for “cheap labor.” “Cheap Labor,” it turns out, was not cheap.
I favor a strong military but not a “woke” military. I follow President Ronald Reagan’s adage of “peace through strength.” If we must go to war, it should be a war of necessity, not a war of “choice,” with a well-defined mission and purpose. Victory should be achieved as swiftly as possible. In our two wars of choice this century, we did not have a clear mission and paid dearly in blood and treasure. We also damaged our national interests rather than improve them.
I favor a balanced budget and paying down the debt and will work to move the GOP to become the party of fiscal discipline and prudence. I support cutting spending and eliminating deficits, which result in the “printing” of money, causing inflation and higher interest rates. This harms consumers and homeowners.
I support full spectrum energy dominance including coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear. I do not accept the myth of so-called “man-made climate change” or “global warming.” Carbon dioxide (CO2), along with H2O and oxygen (O2), is critical to life, our atmosphere, and all living things. It is an essential compound. I will oppose spending one dime of federal money on windmills and solar panels, which are themselves environmentally unsound, costly, and undependable. They do not generate the inexpensive, reliable energy that our modern economy and large population require.
I oppose DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and embrace color-blind meritocracy, the key to American progress and greatness – and a fair and just society.
Election integrity is critical. Photo ID must be mandatory, with signature verification and proof of citizenship. I oppose same-day or motor-voter registration, “ballot curing,” “harvesting,” or “drop boxes.” Illegal aliens should not vote; the right-to-vote belongs to US citizens alone. We must eliminate unsolicited mail-in ballots and return to paper ballots counted the same day, on “election day.”
We must reign in our out-of-control federal bureaucracy (the “Swamp), with emphasis on the DOJ, FBI, EPA, and the IRS. We must return power to the states and local communities and away from unelected bureaucrats, and purge the partisans that have infiltrated these institutions and turned them against regular Americans – and President Trump.
I am deeply opposed to the weaponization of the legal system. It is appalling that corrupt, activist courts in deep-blue jurisdictions are prosecuting President Trump, forcing him to spend precious time and resources in court. These are “political” prosecutions that seek to bankrupt and incarcerate him, and prevent him from running. This is unprecedented in our nation and reflects the behavior of Third World dictatorships and the former Soviet Union.
The Covid lockdowns, school closures, and mask and vaccine mandates were a disaster. I opposed them then and would oppose them again.
I support the state of Israel and its right to defend itself and oppose the antisemitic, Nazi-like campus protests, encampments, and riots against Israel, the Jewish people, and the United States. Those who hate Israel usually hate the US. Their long-term target is not Israel but this nation. There is surging antisemitism in our universities, the Democrat Party, the country, and the world at large that I would vigorously confront.
Regarding the student riots, they must be ended immediately, students expelled, visas revoked for foreign students that support Hamas, and sent back to their native countries, such as so-called Palestinian students, among others. The universities that support such attitudes and behavior should also be defunded – and taxed. I would recommend rescinding loans for students supporting terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
I embrace the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with emphasis on the first and second amendments – but all of them. Our founding documents, including the Declaration of Independence, are unprecedented in their brilliance and clarity, an inspiring and historic foundation for a newly formed nation – and model for the world.
I support traditional values, the Judeo-Christian tradition, and hold to the definition of marriage as the union of a man and woman. We must encourage and support strong intact married families as the cornerstone of the civil society and the nation at large. I am pro-life and believe that life begins at conception, a gift from God and God alone, and that the unborn must be protected.
I have been endorsed by Congressman Bob Good, of Virginia, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus in Congress, Indiana State Representative Betty Cash, and the Bull Moose Project, an organization devoted to America First principles.
I am running for Congress because of my profound concern over the direction of our country as a result of the destructive policies of President Joe Biden and the radical Democrats: in particular, the invasion of our southern border, the massive government deficits, and ensuing inflation, the release of criminals onto our streets, the assault on fossil fuels, and the appeasement of our worst enemies globally that have resulted in wars around the world.
The primary is May 7. Early voting is taking place as we speak. A vote for me in the primary and subsequent election victory in November will send a strong conservative Hoosier voice representing Southwestern Indiana, the eighth district, to our nation’s capital. I humbly ask for your vote.
FOOTNOTE: Richard Moss, M.D., a surgeon practicing in Jasper, IN, is a candidate for Congress for Indiana’s 8th district. He has written “A Surgeon’s Odyssey” and “Matilda’s Triumph,” available on amazon.com. Contact him at richardmoss4congress.com, Richard Moss for Congress on Facebook, Richard Moss, M.D. on Twitter, and Instagram.
The CITY-COUNTY OBSERVER posted this letter without opinion, bias, or editing.
Let’s talk MONEY
Freedom, Indiana – Author Andrew Horning is the Libertarian Party of Indiana’s candidate for Indiana’s US Senate seat in 2024.
It should now apparent to all, that the unconstitutional, wholly corrupt, inherently divisive “Two Party System” puppet show we’d been warned against since our nation’s founding, is driving us to destruction. My book, “Relighting the Torch,” goes into much more detail of the constitutional and pragmatic aspects of money, banking and inflation. But the simplified gist is that the more dollars our central bank prints in relation to market activity, the less each one is worth; which is why prices in those devaluating dollars go up. In the words of Milton Friedman, it’s “too many dollars chasing too few goods.” Our nation’s founders had experienced disaster with the hidden taxation, market distortion and inflation with fiat currency, and crafted solutions in both state and federal constitutions. We only need to learn, and use them.
Bankers don’t have to be, “a den of vipers and thieves,” as described by Andrew Jackson. Sound money, as both state and federal constitutions still demand, would make over-issuance of monetary debt instruments to cover government overspending, and the market distortion, and persistent inflation that invariably results, practically impossible. Our current, unconstitutional fiat currency, central bank, and so-called “Modern Monetary Theory,” or MMT, on the other hand, helps the rich get richer at the expense of everybody else. So today, if you’re not in the “investment class,” you’re paying for it.
MMT, with it’s inevitable “Cantillon Effect,” was doomed to failure from our government’s implementation of it in 1913, because it’s based on a few catastrophically and invariably debunked notions:
- Fiat currency – or the creation of unbacked literal monopoly money out of nothing. This becomes a “hidden tax,” debt engine, and means of transferring wealth from the bottom-up.
- Zero reserve banking – or lending money, even fiat currency, that the bank doesn’t own, or have even a fraction of other people’s money, on hand. Fractional reserve banking isn’t all bad, but The Fed eliminated the requirement to hold even a fraction of deposits on reserve, during the COVID madness. This practically ensures bank runs and closures, fairly soon.
- Forever debt – the idea that a government can keep spending fake money that doesn’t exist, and doesn’t belong to it anyway, which both increases debt costs, requires the Fed to fabricate more devaluating dollars, which erodes the trust of the whole system until it inevitably collapses.
As economist Herbert Stein said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” So before our monetary monster dies and collapses down upon us (let’s do hurry), I propose all states invoke, Article I, Section 10, of the federal constitution, which forbids states from making “… any thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts,” including, quite literally, our unconstitutional and inflationary Federal Reserve US dollars. Indiana’s constitution Article 10 Section 3 already demands that “…all paper credit designed to be circulated as money… be readily convertible into specie, for the redemption of the same in gold or silver.”
The Indiana Constitution’s Article 11, Section 7 says, “All bills or notes issued as money shall be, at all times, redeemable in gold or silver; and no law shall be passed, sanctioning, directly or indirectly, the suspension, by any bank or banking company of specie payments.”
In other words, a return to a monetary system that’s been proven to be stable, functional, and a means for the poor to get richer, for over three thousand years… is already, and still, the law.
Several states, and indeed many nations, are already making moves to return to sanity. Texas is on the cusp of a state-issued gold-backed digital currency. The state will hold gold on behalf of the digital currency holders, with trade being 1:1, without fractional reserve fudging. Utah already passed a bill to accept federally issued gold and silver coins as legal tender to pay taxes. There are commercial apps like Glint Pay, that are backed by physical gold holdings, yet allow simple digital transactions that are at least as easy as a credit card. And past court cases held that increases in the value of monetary gold against the Fed’s fiat USD would not be taxable. In other words, this is very doable, right now, and would give us a stable means for business, savings growth and daily life, even when today’s banking systems fail (and they will).
At the federal level I’d reintroduce Ron Paul’s “Free Competition in Currency Act” to repeal the Coinage Act of 1965, which unconstitutionally decrees that, “Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banks, are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.” And I also propose we, of course, End the Fed.
But let’s be very clear: None of this will happen as long as voters keep reelecting the status quo cronies who benefit from the transfer of wealth from you, to them. We have to vote out these liars, thieves, puppets and bums. All of them; both the ones we see on the ballot, and those that lurk behind the curtains, and closed doors. That is what Election Day is for, you know. It’s our power of peaceful revolution. And God Knows we need such an epiphany in action right now.
Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Senate unanimously passes Braun’s Mark Our Place Act to honor Medal of Honor recipients
WASHINGTON — Last night, the Senate unanimously passed the Mark Our Place Act—bipartisan legislation introduced by Sen. Mike Braun, Sen. Jon Tester and Sen. Sherrod Brown to allow the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to honor all Medal of Honor recipients with a headstone, grave marker, or medallion. Currently these memorial honors are only available to Medal of Honor recipients who served after 1917.
“Our Medal of Honor recipients are the best America has to offer. I was proud to introduce this bill to memorialize the valor of all Medal of Honor recipients, and I’m so proud to see it pass the U.S. Senate on its way to become law.” – Senator Mike Braun
“Our brave Medal of Honor recipients deserve a final resting place that honors their incredible service and sacrifices—no matter when they served. Our commonsense bill will ensure we’re preserving these heroes legacies by rightfully memorializing all Medal of Honor recipients, and I urge my colleagues in the House to quickly take action on this legislation.”—Senator Jon Tester, Chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee
“Yesterday we moved one step closer to ensuring that all Medal of Honor recipients have their legacy preserved and their memories honored. We will never forget the debt we owe our veterans, and we’re humbled by their commitment to service.”— Senator Sherrod Brown
“I’d like to thank everybody involved in the Mark Our Place Act. This is a great bill to recognize the recipients of America’s highest medal for valor, the Medal of Honor, and I fully support it.” – Sergeant First Class Sammy Davis, Medal of Honor recipient 1968
Entrepreneurship Expo. On May 9, 2024
Entrepreneurship Expo. On May 9, 2024
Businesses that have been created in this year’s Entrepreneurship classes will be represented in booths throughout the event. The winner of the Pitch Competition will be awarded $3,000 during this event and a $500 award will be given for the best display at the Expo. Where: Speaker Series, Vectren Auditorium, Room 147 All others, Koch Student Center, Room 152
The Department of Metropolitan Development Historic Preservation Office is pleased to announce the guest speaker for the Randall and Amy Shepard Lecture for 2024 will be Sampson Levengston of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Livingston is a practitioner of Black History using his platform called “Through 2 Eyes”. Sampson travels the state researching and delivering lectures about African American history to a variety of audiences including schools and professional organizations. His “Walk and Talk” tours of the historic Indiana Avenue corridor in Indianapolis have garnered him national attention having been featured on the PBS program “All things Considered” among others. In addition, he has been featured in the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and Forbes Magazine.
Livingston offers insights on neighborhoods in Indianapolis like Irvington, and areas in Central Indiana as well.
Interim Preservation officer Kelley Coures, recently retired as Executive Director of DMD, said, “We met Levengston when he visited Evansville in 2022 during the efforts to secure a National Register Nomination for the historic Baptisttown District (it was awarded in December 2023). Levengston’s grandfather had attended Lincoln High School during the 1950s when Lincoln was the segregated Black high school and played basketball for the Lincoln Lions.”
Mayor Stephanie Terry will deliver welcoming remarks introducing Mr. Levengston.
The lecture will be held at Willard Library Auditorium, 21 First Avenue, on Thursday, May 9th at 6:00 pm and last an hour. The event is free and open to the public.
Learn How to Take Advantage of Earned Dual Credit at Ivy Tech Event
Learn How to Take Advantage of Earned Dual Credit at Ivy Tech Event
Evansville, IN – High school juniors and seniors are invited to Ivy Tech Community College Evansville on May 21, from 4-7 p.m., to learn how to use earned dual credit to their best advantage. Everything will start in the Enrollment Center, Room 111, at the main campus, 3501 N. First Avenue.
Denise Johnson-Kincaid, vice chancellor of Student Affairs, said, “This visit will provide valuable insights into how their hard work in dual credit courses can lead to success at Ivy Tech. They can explore our Ivy+ Career Link “IvyStrong” system to identify the best fields of study for them, tour the campus, learn about the application and enrollment process, and discover various financial aid options.”
To RSVP for the event, go to link.ivytech.edu/dualcredit. For additional information email Cary Conley, director of admissions, at cconley75@ivytech.edu.
May is Older Americans Month
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the ElderlyResidents of Indiana agree that they want to remain in their homes as they age. However, it is challenging to manage chronic health conditions, coordinate appointments, secure transportation and understand medications for some Hoosiers in traditional care models. Aging Hoosiers need support to stay at home successfully. The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly is available to Indiana seniors, with new service areas expanding statewide to meet this demand.
Updates from the Division of Aging
One of our most recent additions to the team is Audrey Caley, a seasoned ombudsman who joined us in July. Audrey, who hails from Ohio, brings with her over 16 years of experience in ombudsman work. Since her arrival, she has embarked on an extensive state tour, visiting all 16 planning and service areas of Indiana, meeting with local ombudsmen and assisting in visits to assisted living facilities. Audrey’s role is multifaceted, encompassing technical assistance, casework and field monitoring. One of her recent initiatives is the development of a training program for facility staff, focusing on the purpose and goal of resident council meetings. This year has also seen us making substantial progress in other areas. We’ve successfully completed several of our “to do” tasks, including new hires and compliance reviews. We’ve been diligent in establishing performance measures for our local ombudsmen, with the hope of improving our reporting quality. We believe we’re on the right path towards enhancing the lives of Hoosiers living in facilities. Our goal is to be an added voice for them, advocating for better care and quality of care. It’s an exciting time for the ombudsman program as we see several pieces of the puzzle falling into place. To contact your local ombudsman representative, please see our new interactive map. AAA SpotlightArea IV Agency, serving Benton, Carroll, Clinton, Fountain, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Warren and White countiesArea IV works with various partners to improve the lives for those in its community.
Let’s Talk Program for SeniorsArea IV, in Partnership with Mental Health America-Wabash Valley Region, introduces the Let’s Talk Program for Seniors. Area IV Agency on Aging and Community Action Programs, Inc. received a grant in October 2023 from FSSA and the Department of Mental Health and Division on Aging to develop a Mental Health Conditions program for persons over the Age of 60 in our eight-county service area.
Community outreachGov. Holcomb declares May 2024 Older Americans Month
Severe weather safety tipsIt’s that time of year for severe weather. For severe weather safety tips, visit www.weather.gov. Provider Spotlight
Community resourcesHelp is just a phone call away
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PACE was implemented by the state to provide quality community-based care for individuals aged 55 or older who qualify for nursing facility level of care but choose to remain living in their homes. PACE services are provided in the home, at the PACE Center and are available to participants in all other necessary medical care facilities. The PACE Center provides primary care medicine, therapies, socialization and recreational opportunities such as exercise, cooking groups and art activities, allowing seniors to stay active and engaged in their communities. “Getting transportation, for a senior, can be very overwhelming. PACE takes the guesswork out of making sure they will get to an appointment and back home without worry.” says Adam Robinson, Director of Transportation at Ascension Living St. Vincent PACE.
This is a partnership between Animal Advocates of Greater Lafayette and Area IV Agency on Aging and Community Action Programs.
When Older Americans Month was established in 1963, only 17 million living Americans had reached their 65th birthday. About a third of older Americans lived in poverty and there were few programs to meet their needs. Interest in older Americans and their concerns was growing. A meeting in April 1963 between President John F. Kennedy and members of the National Council of Senior Citizens led to designating May as “Senior Citizens Month,” the prelude to “Older Americans Month.”
Help is just a phone call away at Indiana 211 (dial 2-1-1). The truth in this statement is illustrated by many experiences callers have involving the skilled team at Indiana 211.