IS IT TRUE Civic Center Moles tell the CCO that Vanderburgh County Recorder, Z Tuley will be challenged by an extremely well known Republican in the upcoming November 2012 General election? …that she should be ready to defend why she seems to take off from her job every summer?…that the other election issue that will be addressed is the lack of minority employees working in the Recorders office?

IS IT TRUE it is time to start a serious VETTING effort with respect to the Johnson Controls project that was shoved through by Mayor Weinzapfel during the final hours of his administration?…this particular project will supposedly replace every water meter in the area served by the City of Evansville?…the research to determine the accuracy of the existing water meters only took a few of the meters into consideration and even then determined that they were operating at nearly 99% accuracy?…the limited study assumed that all meters were inaccurate to the low side which is statistically impossible?…if the water meters that are in Evansville are already 99% accurate but 600 miles of cast iron pipes are in need of immediate replacement to the tune of $450 Million it is highly irresponsible to spend money on meters that are not needed and leave the obsolete pipes in service?…the commitment to spend $51 Million ($80 Million including interest) was made without a vote of the Evansville City Council?…the Johnson Controls project was snuck through in a convoluted way that makes the Earthcare Energy $200,000 loan advance look like giving pocket change to a hobo?

IS IT TRUE Mayor Winnecke and the Evansville City Council are faced with a choice that will define them either as a governance team that learned from a small mistake and corrected it OR as a team that gets rolled by every Tom, Dick, and Harry that waltzes through town with a silver tongued front man?…that the deal that Mayor Weinzapfel made with Johnson Controls without seeking City Council approval is 1,500% higher than the entire Earthcare Energy deal and a full 37,500% higher than the $200,000 at risk money already on the table due to non VETTING by five members of the City Council and GAGE?…Mayor Winnecke and the City Council need to hear the demands of the people of Evansville to actually get their college math books out and learn how to do some analysis before moving forward with the Johnson Controls deal?…if they can show definitive proof with sparkling results in other cities that this $80 Million investment will really save the City of Evansville enough to provide a respectable rate of return then they should move forward?…that the current contract ASSUMES 45% of the advertised savings and does not even pretend to test or verify that much of the amount?

IS IT TRUE that our Mayor and our City Council really need to think this through and their track record is not one of doing such things?…allowing this latest act in Weinzapfel’s last spending spree without securing proper VETTING and being transparent with the people of Evansville is simply not an acceptable way to govern?…that soon there will be two tempests in Mayor Winnecke’s teapot?…the Earthcare tempest was of his own making but the Johnson Controls tempest was slipped in by his partner in non-vetting Mayor Weinzapfel?…if Mayor Winnecke wants to redeem himself for the abject failure of the Earthcare Energy project that the Johnson Controls deal is a perfect opportunity to save Evansville $80 Million to make up for squandering at least $200,000?…we are quite curious to see if these old dogs can learn a new trick after 4 serial failures when it comes to VETTING?

IS IT TRUE this past week brought a number of things to the table that were bound to have gotten there at some point?…one of those was the public acknowledgement that Earthcare Energy has missed the May installment of $8,000 on the $200,000 loan that was hastily approved by the Economic Development Loan Committee that was formed the day before the vote and populated with people who were primed to vote yes as Mayor Winnecke instructed them to?…when the 3rd payment is missed that is a sure sign that the loan should have never been made in the first place?…anyone including Evansville City Council President Connie Robinson and Mayor Lloyd Winnecke who was naïve enough to express confidence that this loan would be repaid AFTER THE CITY DECIDED TO ABORT THE DEAL must have been intoxicated when they made such a statement?…this Earthcare Energy deal is far from over and the READY, FIRE, AIM mentality that allowed it to go forward without even the basics of VETTING must end forever if Evansville is to even have a fighting chance at competent leadership?…it is time for the City Council to pass some kind of VETTING RESOLUTION as it is clear that the people in charge are either unwilling or incapable of restraining the emotional appeal of the press conference in favor of the deliberate act of investigative VETTING?

IS IT TRUE the first time Earthcare Energy was supposedly placed into default on the contract with the City of Evansville the method used to communicate the default was the public news conference?…it is widely believed that Earthcare has still not been notified in writing of the two reasons that the loan was not closed by the City?…this is just amateurish on the part of the City of Evansville?…that Earthcare asserts that they are in compliance with the two items the Mayor stated they have failed on AND the words of the contract seem to be in Earthcare’s favor?…we wonder if missing this payment by 5 minutes really constituted a reason for a news release to the Courier Press with other media sources frozen out?…most loan agreements have remedies and late charges and that this may be the first time in history that a payment missed by 5 minutes resulted in a press release?…this is just another example of amateurish policy designed to get a headline by the Winnecke Administration?…the missed payment should have been no surprise to anyone and now is the time to find a real path out of this mess that hopefully does not end with Earthcare Energy owning the Civic Center?

IS IT TRUE one of the biggest early indicators of the trend in the race to be the next President of the United States will happen in Wisconsin on Tuesday?…if Governor Scott Walker prevails over the largely Democrat and Union driven efforts to remove him from office by a healthy margin, that Wisconsin may just go for Romney in the general election?…Romney has passed Obama in every poll that is taken nationally using “likely” voters as opposed to “registered” voters?…in the key battleground state of Ohio Romney has come from a double digit deficit to a 2% lead in the last month?…if Ohio, Wisconsin, and traditionally Republican Virginia flip to Romney it will be very hard for the President to secure a 2nd term?…that the momentum nationally especially with the weak jobs report is clearly with Mr. Romney?…we are about to be treated to an unnecessarily dirty campaign from both sides?…that these two candidates are quite clean as politicians go so the CCO hopes that the campaigns will cease with the single digit failures of Bain Capital investments and the musings of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and get on with the real issues of whether business or government is the way out of our economic malaise created by 12 years of irresponsible spending?