Comments on Advance Indiana™: Deep Budget Cuts Required To Pay For Marion County Criminal Justice Center

My dad told me that our cousin, John Barton, did n...

2015-03-13T09:47:23.985-05:00

My dad told me that our cousin, John Barton, did not get reelected because he was too honest. When I was elected John, the only thing that Mayor Barton asked me to do, was BE HONEST.

Do you have to ask where Hogsett stands on this is...

2015-03-13T06:40:03.777-05:00

Do you have to ask where Hogsett stands on this issue? His law firm is being paid $750,000 with your taxpayer dollar to lobby for this corrupt deal while he campaigns full-time for mayor and earns a big six-figure salary.

And the cost to expand the jail to the future Cumm...

2015-03-13T05:46:14.281-05:00

And the cost to expand the jail to the future Cummins location that was formerly Market Square Arena?

The TAX AND SPEND philosophy is a failure. Ballard is running out of OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY to spend!

That we have Democrat and Republican City Councilo...

2015-03-13T04:36:06.835-05:00

That we have Democrat and Republican City Councilors who continue to support the lies upon which the intentional deception known as the criminal justice center project is based indicates how far the chasm is from sanity and representative government to crony "politicalism" and politician greed. We have the best Democrat and Republican politicians money can buy... ask Councilors paid off via campaign "contributions" by the digital sign corruption corporatists (hello, Zach Adamson and Jeff Miller and Mary Moriarty Adams), or ask bought and paid for Brian Bosma. Brian Bosma is just one of the men Ersal Ozdemir adds to a crew of male escorts the construction company owner financially beds.

Where is Joe Hogsett on this criminal justice center issue? Where is Joe Hogsett on Ballard's giveaway of what could be called a work or art... the old City Hall? Would the Louvre or MOMA give away a Rembrandt or a Manet in the apparent cavalier way Ballard gives away our artistic heritage like the old City Hall for a bag of gold coins? Where is Joe Hogsett on the many fee increases Ballard and his idiot City Council championed at any opportunity possible?

Where is Joe Hogsett on any issue facing a City who has unborn taxpayers already pledged by career politicians to fill the coffers of corporate pockets?

The other savings are highly speculative. The admi...

2015-03-13T01:43:09.400-05:00

The other savings are highly speculative. The administration believes $10 million will be saved through staff reductions. Remember the large savings promised from law enforcement consolidation back in 2005? Yeah, none of those savings ever materialized. Ditto the merger of township fire departments into IFD, which only increased the cost of providing fire protection. Nearly $10 million is claimed in savings from rent paid on the two jail buildings, both of which are owned by the Marion Co. Building Authority. There will also supposedly be over $4 million in health care cost savings from treating inmates in-house rather than sending them over to Eskanazi Hospital. There's also projected new revenues of nearly $4 million from parking fees and another $2 million for a possible contract to handle federal inmates.

Time is running out, and the administration wants the City-County Council not to waste any time kicking the tires before driving off with this one. There's only a little more than nine months left for this administration to steal everything that's not nailed down. Why not just one more big round of payoffs, kickbacks and bribes before the most corrupt mayor in the city's history calls it a day?