IS IT TRUE that Mayor Lloyd Winnecke is now on record as having issued a statement yesterday that stated “I have every confidence that the state’s audit will show our administration has consistently balanced the books”?…regardless of recordings, alleged death and political threats that the machine has tossed at Councilwoman Riley through their willing accomplices at that former news source that calls itself 14WFIE.com since last week, the Mayor’s statement about balancing the books is blatantly false?…it is not only an intentional falsehood but it is counter to the findings of the 2011 City of Evansville audit, the words on the recording made of the exit conference of the 2012 audit, and even the words of City Councilman John Friend and City Controller Russ Lloyd Jr. over the past two years?…if Mayor Winnecke believes that the City of Evansville has “consistently balanced the books”, he is either completely out of touch with the reality of the last 42 months or he is a shameless purveyor of lies?

IS IT TRUE that the former Chairman of the City Council Finance committee and a former member of the finance committee came out swinging at Councilwoman Riley over the weekend and even into yesterday?…these two are Councilman John Friend and former Councilman Curt John?…that Curt John was a member of of the Finance Committee chaired by John Friend when the MIPS software debacle originated in the last year of the Weinzapfel Administration?…during 2011, Mr. John and Mr. Friend would have approved a budget for 2012 as finance committee members with the full knowledge that the accounts were not being reconciled on a monthly basis?…Councilman Friend continued that newly established tradition of approving three budgets without having the books balance in 2012 and 2013?…we wonder if is it really a coincidence that two finance committee members who signed off on budgets without a set of balanced books would offer themselves up to discredit the person who had recorded the exit interview for the 2012 audit?

IS IT TRUE that it was learned in the exit interview that the blue books that are published monthly were not accurate for any of the months in 2012?…the blue books were still not accurate in 2013 ?…in the recording that Councilwoman Riley released yesterday City Controller Russ Lloyd was asked point blank if the City was reconciling monthly and answered “yes”?…the response from the audit team from the SBOA is clearly laughter and then correction of Controller Lloyd’s assertion?

IS IT TRUE that we thought this was behind us and that it would not need to be shown but the interviews given by Curt John to 14WFIE and to Channel 25 over the weekend and the cherry picking of the comment that Councilwoman Riley has admitted to so as to make the worse impression possible makes it necessary to publish the entire comment and let our readers decide if this was a death threat or not?…here is the post in full?…we hope that you will all read this and then vote in our poll on whether or not Curt John was really in danger?…there have been no criminal charges made and the CCO has not been asked by any judge to release any files?

“I agree with Jordan. Curt John and BJ Watts used insider information regarding the location of the arena to open Maingate. Just like the theater complex at Morgan and Green River (Show Mes) and the boat (Fast Eddy’s). It would be poetic justice for that investment to fail. Unfortunately, and just like Fast Eddy’s, Curt has already made his money. And now he has managed to get his hands into D Patrick relocating. He’s pushing land “for a friend” at 41 and Walnut. Death is the only thing that will ever protect this community from that guy. Let’s also not forget that Maingate is where Mosby and Weaver and Krista Lockyear set up Al Lindsey and where Mosby worked after she was fired from yet another sales job.”

IS IT TRUE that President of Evansville City Council John Friend ordered that Chief of Police Billy Bolin have three (3) paid police officers attend the City Council meeting last night? …the reason why President Friend asked for the extra security protection is that he asserted that Evansville City Councilwoman Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley would flip out and go postal on the other members of the City Council?…Councilman Friend must have forgotten that one must go through a metal detector to get into the Civic Center nowadays?…the metal detectors have been a permanent fixture in the Civic Center entrances since the last couple of years of the Weinzapfel Administration?

NOTE: We were made aware after publishing that member of the City Council DO NOT have to go thru the metal detector. Making them do so would be cheaper and more effective than having 3 officers on duty.

IS IT TRUE we heard last night that a well known and highly respected loyal Democrat is ready to announce that he shall be running against John Friend in the 5th Ward Democratic party primary? …this individual was approached to run against Mr. Friend by Business Executives, Union Leaders, Independents, Tea Party voters, Libertarians and Democratic and Republicans alike?

IS IT TRUE we hope that the focus can return to the reality of the problems facing Evansville like non-reconciled payroll and pension accounts, crumbling infrastructure, and a level of debt for fun and games projects that is just too high for a city with a shrinking tax base?…Lying and character assassination is bad public policy?…those however have been the weapons of choice of the two former members of the City Council finance committee and the Mayor of Evansville over the past 4 days?…if the last two administrations had done their job correctly with managing our finances the pain of the last four days would have never happened?