Riecken Urges Evansville “Don’t Settle”

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    gail riecken State Rep. Gail Riecken today urged community leaders and the public to stand firm in support of the comprehensive $ 100 million dollar IU Medical Center in Evansville that would include housing facilities for programming offered by Ivy Tech Community College and University of Southern Indiana.

    “We can’t settle,” Riecken said. “I am disappointed that I am starting to hear voices saying we should settle for the smaller project, housing only IU and U of E. She was referring to the funding level put in the Senate version of the state budget bill on Friday. “We can’t limit ourselves. The inclusion of Ivy Tech and USI tremendously expands the opportunities Evansville citizens can realize in this once-in-a-lifetime project.”

    Riecken, the Democratic candidate for Evansville mayor, made her comments Friday at a public forum presented by Stepping Up, a local non-partisan group that encourages more women to seek public office.

    Riecken returned to a theme she has hit on throughout the IU Med Center project discussion. Republican control of the governor’s office, both chambers of the legislature and the city administration should bring a very high level of assurance that the larger project will get funded.

    “We have to think all the Republicans would be in agreement and support one another so the fully funded project, IU/UofE/USI/Ivy Tech would get funded,” Riecken said.

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    2. The full funding of this project is essential, as both Ivy Tech and USI administrations and staff are major bastions of local progressive Democratic patronage. This will allow more of our local activists to have comfortable jobs from which they can continue to expand our assault on Republicans and America. Perhaps Mayor Weinzapfel can use this project as a base to bring his tremendous leadership skills and fiscal management to the Indiana Statehouse or Washington, DC!

      On a separate topic, it certainly was heartening to see President Obama groveling in front of Comrades Castro and Maduro! It is great to have a president willing to accept that the future belongs to socialist dictatorships, not democratic republics.

      J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
      Maximum co-coordinator
      Organizing for Idiocy
      Evansville Cell

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