
IS IT TRUE that Jay Carter, co-owner of Shaggy’s Towing and a member of the City of Evansville Redevelopment Commission, may not have a “Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement” on file with the City of Evansville regarding his desire for his towing business?… Shaggy’s Towing, to obtain the City of Evansville towing contract was represented by Mr. Carter when he appeared and spoke to the Evansville Safety Board about the city towing contract in January of 2012?…we wonder if Mr. Carter failed to file his “Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement” when he spoke to the Evansville Safety Board? …we wonder does he now have one on file?
IS IT TRUE that on April 25, 2012, the City of Evansville Safety Board voted 2 to 1 to award the City of Evansville towing contract to the partnership of Tri-State Towing and Shaggy’s Towing?…right after this vote the Mayor forced the President of the Evansville Safety Board to resign her position with the board?
IS IT TRUE that the owner of Tri-State Towing was recently quoted as saying that Shaggy’s Towing never received any tow runs after Tri-State Towing and Shaggy’s Towing were awarded the City towing contract in April of 2012?… that Jay Carter, co-owner of Shaggy’s Towing, was quoted in September of 2012 that Shaggy’s Towing responds to 12-18 calls a day, many of them on Highway 41?… these 2 versions of the towing runs by Shaggy’s Towing seems to be inconsistent?
IS IT TRUE it has been reported that one of the selling points that was made to Tri-State Towing for partnering with Shaggy’s Towing was that this partnership could take advantage of the Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) status that Shaggy’s Towing enjoyed?…if Shaggy’s was just a front to enable Tri-State Towing to present themselves as a Minority Owned Business that such a SNEGAL (sneaky but legal) trick is an abuse of the intentions of the MBE & WBE programs?…such sneakiness puts these programs in jeopardy and hurts legitimate MBEs and WBEs who can certainly benefit from these programs?…this would not be the first time that someone has successfully benefitted from these programs by SNEGAL tactics?…this is reminiscent of the dolled-up lady with nine inch nails who claimed to make a living pouring concrete but had soft hands, long nails, and a tanning bed tan (orange like Congressman Boehner) as opposed to a real work outside and get dirty tan?
IS IT TRUE that we wonder if the Federal Authorities have contacted the Mayor or his appointed administrators to see if they were involved in allegedly pushing members of the Evansville Safety Board to make the decision to award the city towing contract to Tri-State Towing and Shaggy’s Towing in April of 2012?
IS IT TRUE that there is a website that looks like a USI website dedicated to political activism that openly denigrates Vanderburgh County Commissioner Marsha Abell?…regardless of where one stands on political issues of any kind it is quite bold and crosses many people’s lines in the sand when a publicly funded institution of higher learning openly denigrates or looks the other way when an elected official that is supportive of them is denigrated?…the page on the USI Safe Zone Initiative site where Commissioner Abell is bashed is on the following link?…if this is a student owned and managed website that receives no financial support from USI then this is simply free speech and the students running it are within their rights to bash whomever they wish?…if there are taxpayer dollars that were paid for education funneled into this website then this is an inappropriate use of that taxpayer funding?…if a public institution that enjoys 501c3 status uses money to push political agendas it could easily be interpreted as lobbying?…a 501c3 cannot lobby by law?…doing so puts such and entities tax exempt status at risk?