Northwest Indiana Comical Politics

Why Gary is Finished?

I recently made the observation on "Facebook" that there was no way to save Gary, Indiana and that its future was essentially finished.   Some individuals, who had not known of my work previously, asked the serious question of why I would argue for such a position.  It was further suggested by some of the readers of the comments that a new approach to Gary's future could be undertaken by improving the circumstances of single mothers in the city.

The basic reason that Gary is finished is that there is no one and I mean no one who knows what to do and what they are doing to change things in Gary.  For over forty years, Gary has been analogous to a 747 in a stall with snow white and the seven dwarfs at the controls.  No matter what option or idea the people in charge will come up with or have come up with, nothing will change the final outcome that the 747 will land nose first into the ground and will leave a big hole behind.

If you improve the lot of single mothers in the City of Gary, they will move out as soon as they can.  Bank Calumet has already tried that approach.  Not a single candidate stayed in the city and that was over five years ago.  Does anyone really believe that it has gotten better. 

No!  Now the school system would be better off investing in large screen TVs and getting rid of the teachers.  Let the kids watch the television and have homeless people monitor them.  It is a win-win situation.  I suspect that the ISTEP scores will be higher and retention will increase. 

For over forty years, Gary has done nothing but take and take and take.  It has returned nothing to NWI, except what was already there previously, e.g. U S Steel.  The most recent Rudy Clay approach is to take from the Obama, the Lord and savior of Gary, administration to save Gary.  This will not make one iota of difference.  This political option was undertaken by former Mayor Hatcher for decades.  He and the City got billions of dollars from the U. S. Government now there is nothing to show for it -- just a destroyed city.

The next big plan was lake front gambling in the early 1990s.  Gary made such a case (or stink and blackmail) that it got two boats and no referendum.  Gary is special (specially incompetent).  What is there to show for 10 years of gambling revenues to the city in hundreds of millions of dollars -- the continued death of the city.

One can go on and on.  The stadium, after 50+ million of dollars, including kickbacks, absolutely nothing has changed in Gary, except its continued devastation.  Then there is the "international airport" that is a joke to everyone, except for the people, like its director, who are making hundreds of thousands of dollars from it; but no one will or ever has flown into Gary.  Why fly there?  If it were not for the crime, there would be no entertainment whatsoever.

Everyone who is now in Gary wants out.  What does that tell you?  U S Steel is the highest taxed steel mill in the U.S. for what?  Why not just get rid of the City of Gary?  It would be the best thing for everyone in NWI, including the people of Gary. 

Being truthful, since no one, has an idea of how to change things, there is no future for Gary.  The choice is a slow glide into oblivion or a fast crash and a less painful end.  At one time Gary had some choices, I discussed them with Mayors Clay and King.  I also talked to mayoral/council candidates and the Gary school board members.  They all nodded their heads but nothing was ever done.  I suspect the reason is that the choices to turn Gary around did not include pocket money for the politicians and that, ever since Hatcher, pocket money has been the ONLY choice that has mattered to the people in-charge.  Now it is by all accounts too late.

Have mercy.  Let it end quickly.

Is Dominguez Really Qualified for State-Wide Office?

If Sheriff Dominguez is at all interested in running for Governor of Indiana or any state-wide office, he needs to serve out a warrant for the arrest of Mayor McDoobie, known as Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott, Jr.  In his current position, Dominguez is the top law enforcement official in Lake County, period.  Mark Kiesling's take on Dominguez and McDoobie.

For example, he is the only official with the authority to arrest or legally challenge the Lake County Cornor, in any way. No other law enforcement official is empowered to carry out any legal actions against that position.

McDermott did in fact illegally influenced the Lake County sheriff in carrying out his duties.  The proof is in the tape; whether it is public or not is irrelevant.  No average citizen would get away with this type of action.  If there is no arrest warrant for the mayor, then it can only mean the Dominguez is afraid of McDermott's power as Lake County Democratic Chair.  Since he is allowing raw politics and his personal political welfare to dictate which law he enforces, Dominguez would not be qualified for any State wide office.

McDoobie Conspired to Intimidate Law Enforcement Officials

The well known out-of-control mayor of Hammond, Tom "McDoobie" McDermott Jr, has now overstepped the line by attempting to intimidate the Lake County Sheriff and law enforcement officials to protect his long time bag man and thief, David Woerpel, known as "the postman."  David Woerpel and his family are an embarrassment to the Democratic Party and decent people everywhere.  They are more so for the City of Hammond.

I have known for quite some time that the Postman and his family, with his sidekick, the former radio looser (Steve), have long degenerated politics and political activity in Hammond to name calling and the politics of personal destruction.  There sole goal, under the direction of the Mayor of Hammond, has been to destroy peoples' personal life who want to improve NWI.  This has been the consistant approach of Tom McDermott.  He learned this well from his father, the other McDermott looser.

Making phone calls to threaten people is not new for McDermott.  The only thing new is that he picked on the wrong person. Sheriff Dominguez did not have any reason to be intimidated by "doobie" McDermott, especially since this was an Indiana State Police case.  They were the one who discovered the Woerpel/McDermott stash.  It was out of the hands of Dominguez.  Further, listening to McDermott would have made him legally libel for censure and removal of his license to practice law.  By the way, going public was the only way for Dominguez to protect himself against blackmail by doobie Tom.

If one takes some time to read some of my earlier blogs, you will see that McDoobie did the same to me.  He called and left an intimidating/threatening message on my Purdue University telephone.  The Purdue police listened to it and agreed that it was a threat.  You can hear the message.  I put it out there.  I guess McDoobie thought that I was a "weasel" too.  I wonder why this did not stop McDoobie and his wife from continuing to teach at Purdue University?

In the last election for mayor of Hammond, McDoobie won by only 400+ votes.  He spent over $300,000 and his opponent spent about $3,000.  After looking at the voting results precinct by precinct, I have never believed that McDoobie won fairly; because the vote fix was in by people like the postman.  Even at that time, McDoobie should have been in jail; not running for office.

Why is he not being accused of illegal interference now?  Why is he being allowed to have a law license?  Given what he said on the message to Dominguez, why does anyone think that he is not on drugs?  If he is not on drugs, then is there any doubt that he is incompetent, truly incompetent, as a lawyer?  If he is incompetent and/or out of control as has been clearly indicated, why is he not being let out to pasture quietly?  It is sad to see that Tom Philpot has chosen to have McDoobie's support.  Philpot is much, much more competent than that.  Factually, in the brain department, McDoobie does not even hold a candle to Philpot.

 McDoobie is out of control for the message he left the Lake County Sheriff.  On top of that, he showed his willingness to use his public office as mayor to intimidate law enforcement officials from carrying out their job.  He used his public office to curry favor for his friends.  This shows a level of illegality, immorality, lack of ethics, and incompetence that should automatically, i.e. through impeachment, have McDermott removed as mayor and chair of the Lake County Democratic Party.

On second thought, maybe those are the necessary qualifications.