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IS IT TRUE September 18, 2013

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IS IT TRUE September 18, 2013

IS IT TRUE it appears as though the Evansville Courier and Press has decided to remove the posts of one Phyllip Davis, the admin for the Facebook site “Citizens of Evansville for Progress on a Downtown Hotel” after it was pointed out that he alleged that City Councilman John Friend and Dunn Hospitality Chairman John Dunn were essentially criminals?…while this was the right decision on the part of the CP it sure took a long time for them to remove these posts?…there is no record of the posts of Mr. Davis anywhere on that website?

IS IT TRUE that many of the problems that all seem to be coming to roost under Mayor Winnecke whether it is the 5 year saga of seeking a downtown convention hotel or what the daylights is going on with the McCurdy Hotel could have been avoided with a well thought out master plan for the revitalization of Downtown Evansville?…there are many very nice things in downtown Evansville that are not even remotely connected to each other?…in every downtown that has been successfully resurrected in the United States there was a plan with a long enough time frame to transcend Mayors?…the successful projects were done a block at a time in totality as opposed to a nice thing here another one 6 blocks away over there, and who knows what in between?…it is the failure to plan that has resulted in failure in downtown Evansville?…it is the failure to get the buy in of the people of Evansville that has lead to such skepticism within the population?…the Evansville City Council should mandate that an approved city plan should be developed and approved before another dollar is spent haphazardly in a random manner?…only in insane asylum are works of beauty juxtaposed with squalor?…downtown Evansville by any measure of reality resembles exactly that?

IS IT TRUE while we have been concentrating on the hotel agreement with HCW that mercifully will finally come to a vote next Monday without 3rd party vetting there are many things that have been going on that deserve (there’s that word again) the people’s attention?…the biggest of these is in the county and it involves the refusal of the Vanderburgh County government to release the report on why the stretch of road on North Green River Road is in such poor condition only a few years after the taxpayers through a TIF paid $26 Million for improvements and widening?…the people’s money paid for a study to expose the reason for the problems and the people deserve to know what the devil caused our road to fail so soon?…the refusal to release these reports ranks right up there with the SNEGAL tactics of the City of Evansville to cover their tracks in instances like the HOMESTEAD TAX CREDIT?…the same players are still in elected office so what can we expect?…once non-transparent always non-transparent?

IS IT TRUE that while Evansville is squabbling about yet a fourth hotel deal that was done in a vacuum with no public disclosure Owensboro, Kentucky is cutting the ribbon on a privately financed downtown convention hotel?…while it is true that Owensboro may be on the hook for a occupancy guarantee if the hotel does not perform the fact that they got not one but two developers to build convention hotels without an up-front check really makes the City of Evansville look like an easy mark?…maybe our leaders need to go to Owensboro for a lesson in how to get a hotel and stop aspiring to be the next Fort Wayne with lower occupancy and room rates than Evansville?…ask yourself where you would rather live, Fort Wayne or Owensboro?…for most of us that is an easy answer?…the one thing that Evansville has in common with Fort Wayne but not Owensboro is that 3 cars got shot last weekend?…that gives even more support to playing “monkey see money do” on Owensboro and not Fort Wayne?

Link To Mayor Winnecke on City Finances, Hotel & Sewer Fees 9.17.13

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Two arrests made in downtown vandalism cases

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Evansville Police have arrested two men in connection with several cases of vandalism in the downtown area. Multiple buidings, including the Children’s Museum and the Ford Center, were spray painted in the past several weeks.

Zachary Schnabel (25) and Michael Boettger (20) were identified after a picture of the two men was released to the public. The image was from a video captured near one of the scenes.Both have been arrested and charged with Criminal Mischief, Class D Felony. Additonal charges may be filed as the investigation continues.

Union Leaders Get RICH as Union Membership Falls

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Labor union membership as a percentage of the nation’s overall workforce has been steadily declining from its peak of 35 percent in the 1950s. The result is that unions now represent only 6.6 percent of all private sector jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS data makes it clear that the trend isn’t going to reverse any time soon, either, because unions lost 400,000 members last year as total employment grew by 2.6 million. The only thing keeping Big Labor from becoming an incidental factor in the American workplace is that government employees are five times more likely to be unionized than those in the private sector.

If corporate executives lost market share as dramatically and steadily as the labor chieftains, they would be shown the door or their doors firms would be shuttered. Failure to develop and sell products and services that people want is a surefire way of going out of business. This is what makes free markets the source of the widest range of goods and services for the most people at the lowest cost.

But that’s not the way it works in the highest ranks of Big Labor, as is made clear in an examination of how much the top 100 union leaders were paid last year. A total of 428 private sector union leaders were paid at least $250,000 annually, and the top 100 of those made more than $350,000, according to a study of Department of Labor data by Media Trackers, a conservative, nonprofit investigative watchdog group. The highest-paid union leaders work for organized professional athletes, with G. William Hunter, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, who received $3.2 million. The only government employee union leader in the top 10 is Gerald McEntee, international president of the Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees, whose $1.2 million compensation put him fourth on the list.

The vast majority of the rest of the top-paid union leaders, however, represent blue-collar trade organizations. Joseph Senese, head of the National Production Workers group, made $698,406; Robert Scardeletti, president of the Transportation Communications Union, got $630,053; and John Niccollai, who runs the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 464, received $549,497. Others managing blue-collar unions on the list include Longshoremen’s Association president Harold Daggett at $541,103; William Hite, general president of the Plumbers Union, at $501,203; and Joseph Nigro, the Sheet Metal Workers’ general president, at $459,643. All of these men also receive generous benefits and perks in addition to their annual salaries.

These individuals lead many unions represented by the AFL-CIO, whose president, Richard Trumka, led a labor delegation that met privately with President Obama last week to discuss Obamacare. They represent workers covered by multi-employer “Cadillac” health insurance plans that Obamacare taxes heavily. Their unions will get a special exception not available to millions of middle-class Americans when Obamacare takes effect Oct. 1.

Source: Washington Examiner

“Citizens Against…” calls Mayor Winnecke’s & Hunden’s statements highly questionable

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Citizens Against

Evansville, September 17, 2013:

Written by: Brad Linzy and Posted by CCO, without opinion, bias and editing

 Since the stalled vetting process has made headlines, Mayor Lloyd Winnecke has made a couple statements our group finds highly questionable.

In a recent statement released by his office, the Mayor not only blamed Crowe Horwath for the stalled vetting process, but he nominated their successor – a company called Springsted. The problem with this is that this company has come to the attention of the Mayor by HCW themselves. In other words, the Mayor wishes for the Council to use the vetting firm HCW recommends while simultaneously defending their right to privacy, even from the City Council members.

Furthermore, the Mayor has for the second time released a statement by Rob Hunden calling our efforts to digest his 193-page report for public consumption “cherry-picking”, an accusation we find deeply offensive. In fact, most of our questions about the Hunden Study remain outstanding such as the Mayor’s assertion of 250 jobs created, rather than the 41-71 full time equivalent (FTE) jobs cited in Hunden, and the fact that anything beyond a 120-150 room hotel will require significant “future reinvestment”.

It is our firm belief this hotel vote should go ahead on September 23 – the next scheduled Council meeting. We have said for some time that regardless of the outcome of additional vetting, this deal is not in the best interests of the people of Evansville. We stand by that claim now more than ever. We further renew our call for the Mayor to withdraw support for this project and stop trotting out Rob Hunden to scare the people of Evansville with threats that if this deal falls through, the next deal will be 100% publicly funded. Hunden was hired to do a study of a 240-270 room hotel, not a study of the fiscal situation of the City of Evansville. Rob Hunden is not an expert on the fiscal situation of Evansville, therefore, he is in no position to offer up advice on what is best for the people of Evansville given their current fiscal situation.

Reitz Anatomy Students to Participate in White Coat Ceremony

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 Reitz Anatomy Students to Participate in White Coat Ceremony

Wednesday, Sept. 18

9:30 a.m.

Reitz High School, 350 Drier Blvd.

Before doctors go into residency, they participate in a white coat ceremony where they repeat the Hippocratic Oath and officially receive their ‘white coats.’ Students in Teri Sanders’ anatomy classes at Reitz High School will participate in a similar ceremony tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. at the school. Dr. Darla Grossman, MD, will help distribute the white coats to students and talk to them about what it takes to become a medical doctor.

Plaza Park Pacers Host: The Run at The Mounds

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9/17 @ Angel Mounds

Opening ceremonies ~ 4:30 First race @ 5pm

20 schools and over 570 runners registered

“Some Kids Run So Others Can Live”

proceeds benefit the Local LLS (Leukemia & Lymphomia Society)

This year Plaza Park’s goal is $6,000

Barr Reeve

Castle

Cedar Hall

Princeton

Thompkins

Perry Heights

McGary

North Jr High

Gibson Southern

Evansville Lutheran

Evansville Christian

Evansville Day School

Mater Dei feeders

Memorial feeders

St James

Helfrich Park

Mt Vernon

Glenwood

Washington

Plaza Park

VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES

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nick herman Below is a list of felony cases that were filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday, September 16, 2013.

Mark Watson Receiving Stolen Property-Class D Felony

(Habitual Offender Enhancement)

Ian Hamilton Receiving Stolen Property-Class D Felony

Resisting Law Enforcement-Class A Misdemeanor

For further information on the cases listed above, or any pending case, please contact Kyle Phernetton at 812.435.5688 or via e-mail at KPhernetton@vanderburghgov.org

Under Indiana law, all criminal defendants are considered to be innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.

Pro-Hotel Facebook Admin Alleges John Dunn Buying Councilmen & Councilman Friend of Improper Accounting Practice

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Pro-Hotel Facebook Admin Alleges John Dunn Buying Councilmen & Councilman Friend of Improper Accounting Practices

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The mudslinging has truly gone beyond the norms of civilized discussions in the wake of this weekend’s revelations about the stalled vetting process of the hotel agreement with HCW. Not only has the Mayor’s Office released a clarification statement by Rob Hunden but the administrator of the Facebook page “Citizens of Evansville for Progress on a Downtown Hotel” has accused John Dunn of a crime and Councilman John Friend of improper accounting practices on the Courier and Press comment site. Both posts are included in this article for our readers to make their own conclusions:

Community Comment

In the last 24 hours numerous allegations of a serious nature have been flying freely in comments on both the Courier Press, article entitled “Consultant Refuses to Review Hotel Developer” and now the Pro-Hotel Facebook page.

In a post dated September 16th at 12:57pm, pro-hotel Facebook group Administrator Phyllip Davis alleged on his page that hotelier John Dunn is “buy[ing]” Council votes and/or paying Council members to obstruct the process.

“What I’m most amazed by in this is the number of people still with Dunn on this,” said Davis. “If it were a movie, it would be unbelievable. A rich, hotel tycoon is against a competitive project in the city that will help the city because it affects his plans for growth on the east side. He then turns on several community organizations and ends his support of them. He buys Council members to do his bidding and people stand with him like he smells like roses. Unbelievable.”

In another comment on the Courier Press article entitled “Consultant refuses to review hotel developer” Davis alleges improper behavior specifically on the part of Councilman John Friend: “They should have been capable of vetting HCW without having to give John Friend, who is rumored to be associated with Dunn, their financials.”

Bribing a public official is a serious crime in the State of Indiana, a felony in fact, and may even come with Federal charges as well. If there is any merit to this most serious of allegations, Mr. Davis and others should present whatever evidence they possess to our County Prosecutor, the Indiana State Police, and the State Attorney General.

If no such evidence exists, we would remind Mr. Davis and anyone else thinking of making such allegations of felony activity in a public forum their words may be considered libelous if they are not true and the offended parties wish to litigate.

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EPD Activity REPORT_9-16-2013

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