IS IT TRUE? December 21, 2011

IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Redevelopment Commission has called a “special meeting” for December 28th, 2011 at 10 AM in Room #307 of the Civic Center?…that no agenda has been released so we must engage in some speculation?…that maybe we will learn the identity of the “MAGICAL MYSTERY DEVELOPER” that supposedly already has a contract in place to assume the agreement between the ERC and City Centre Properties LLC to turn the Vintage McCurdy Hotel into an apartment building?…that the ERC would have to give their blessing to any such agreement and maybe 5th 3rd Bank who holds the first mortgage would too?

IS IT TRUE that it would be even more sinister after Christa Lockyear stood on behalf of the Kunkel Group before the Evansville City Council Monday night stating that the details of a binding contract would occur under the Winnecke Administration turns out to be incorrect?…that there are those who expect that a binding agreement will be jammed through before the end of the year and this may only surprise the 8 members of the Evansville City Council who pulled the wool over their own eyes by voting for the supposed “unnecessary, non-binding, resolution with no legal standing” on Monday night?…that only Republican City Councilman Dan McGinn had the presence of mind and good sense to call for the resolution to be brought before the 2012 City Council?…that if the ERC meeting turns out to be for the purpose of announcing a signed binding agreement that there will be absolutely no credibility left for the 4 departing and 4 returning members of the 2011 Evansville City Council?

IS IT TRUE that Mole #13 has told us from a high level of authority that the Department of Justice has been in Evansville conducting an investigation of the hiring practices of the Weinzapfel Administration in the Evansville Police Department and the Evansville Fire Department?…that these investigations have been going on without much fanfare for roughly one year?…that this news is worthy of mass media and paparazzi but we are willing to bet that not a TV station or the Courier will have the courage to report this news?

IS IT TRUE that this is yet another BALL AND CHAIN hoisted onto the Winnecke Administration by the sloppiness and secrecy of the Weinzapfel Administration?…that the collateral damages are starting to stack up as incoming Police Chief Billy Bolin and Fire Chief Mike Connelly getting fitted for their first BALL AND CHAIN that is not related to their core jobs?…that we would all be better off if the entire Weinzapfel Administration would just go to sleep for the next 10 days?

IS IT TRUE that President Barack Obama on a recent segment of “60 Minutes” when asked to reflect on his presidency so far volunteered where he thinks his administration ranks against other presidents?…that in the foreign policy department President Obama ranks himself somewhere in the top four and only mentioned the possibility that Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and Lyndon Johnson as “possible” equals?…that President Obama is really putting himself into the winners circle with some presidents who have stood the test of time and in the cases of FDR and Lincoln who were literally cast into situations where the truly transformed or saved the United States?…that many would say that President Obama needs to have his “MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL” moment with a more realistic version of self evaluation?…that it has been opined many times that President Obama was elected to repair the economy which he really can’t claim much tangible progress with?…that the most memorable magic trick is the one where “creating jobs” miraculously morphed into the term “saved or created jobs” so the president with a healthy ego can claim to have saved pretty much any job that he choose to?

IS IT TRUE that the closing lines from yesterday’s IIT Meatloaf song are a perfect ending for the final bow of the puppet council and the state the Evansville finds itself in?…that those words are “it was long ago and it was far away but it was so much better than it is today”?…that could apply to Evansville’s parks, or budget, our roads, our economy, our crime rate, our suicide rate, and of course our drug related problems?…that there is much to do in the wake of 8 years without transparency or accountability?…that Mayor Weinzapfel may have been much better if he would have had wisdom and honesty for Council to prevent the hubris of the illusion of a landslide from blinding him to the truth of who his master should have been?…that master should have been the people of Evansville?

IS IT TRUE that in this Christmas season there are 81 homes listed in the record of houses that are to be offered up at the January Sheriff’s Auction?…that these transfers of property are highly probable to make up on the order of half or more of all residential real estate that will change hands in Vanderburgh County last month?…that we have been advised before that these transactions are not included in the “official” records of homes sold?…that the CCO finds it disturbing and ironic that in a number of the notices that the banks that have initiated the legal proceedings that lead to a Sheriff’s Auction are the very same banks that were bailed out by the United States government?

IS IT TRUE that former President of the United States Bill Clinton in his new book speaks out on a couple of subjects with plans and opinions to get America back to work that would be well accepted in conservative Republican surroundings?…that President Clinton acknowledges that America cannot prosper without doing a much better job of eliminating long term debt and balancing the federal budget?…that President Clinton also favors allowing free markets in the health insurance business instead of closed markets within state borders?…that if he favors this approach for insurance that maybe he would also support open grid free market competition in the utility industry?…that if he could do such things by working with a Republican congress as he did in cooperation with then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich during his presidency that the country would begin to heal much faster and may actually be sustainable?…that the CCO endorses a three month vacation for President Obama so that President Clinton can take over in his absence and repair these three things?

IS IT TRUE that one of the interested parties in doing something with the McCurdy has been identified by the Evansville Redevelopment Commission as the “MYSTERY DEVELOPER”?…that this may or may not be an improvement on the previous “MISERY DEVELOPER” that spent 4 years needing only one signature to get started?…that the “MAGICAL MYSTERY DEVELOPER” is not one of the people who has contacted Mr. Joe Wallace who published an article that makes a financial case for the McCurdy as a hotel but dismissed the apartment concept based on valuation and market rate rents?…that it will be quite interesting to see the rent and occupancy assumptions of the “MAGICAL MYSTERY DEVELOPER” to analyze just what numbers have to be stuck into a pro-forma to make a case to turn the McCurdy into apartments?…that the downtown Convention Hotel while challenging with reasonable assumptions works very well at $250 per night and 80% occupancy?…that pipe dreams seem to have a long life here in river city?