Northwest Indiana Comical Politics

Funny When You Run into a NWI Democrat Who Is NOT Stealing!!!!

The Federal Government is at it again.  This would be the U.S. Attorney office for NWI, the NWI FBI in Merriville, the DEA of NWI etc.  Nothing has ever been involved from the State or Local level, for example the Lake County Prosecutor.  This is a fact when we are talking about political white collar crime almost always committed by Democrats.  The occasional Republican is used by Democrats to proved that the ones who are not caught yet must be "good."

There is no such thing as a Democrat in NWI who is not also a thief.  What a clown show.  That is the nature of being a Democrat in NWI.  It is the Chicago way.  Think about how funny this is.  The head of the Democrat Party is arrested for a kickback scheme and most of his staff is involved.  Now realistically, how many of the Democrats he hired as payoff are not part of knowledgeable of this scheme or others.  According to the local FBI, i.e. Merriville, there is not an innocent Democrat.  It is only a matter of how much evidence they can have available for the U.S. Attorneys.  Maybe NWI will change, most likely not.  Too much money to be made by politicians like Tom McDermott (and his father and brother, etc.), they Sheriff of Lake County, the head of the Democrat party,  Then there are the unions,  They are all making money and always have.  That is the scam.  You give me your votes and I will get you money and jobs.  That is how we have great buildings for schools in Hammond with lousy student outcomes.

Someday NWI may face its own problems; but, not likely until Chicago changes its ways.  But there is now a new cop in town, Trump.  Maybe, just maybe, NWI will change. 

 

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What a Joke on Us -- Allegiant Air pulling out of Gary airport

It is now official, although I have always known it, the empirical evidence is in.  Everyone associated with the Gary-Chicago International Airport is officially insane.
Allegiant Air pulling out of Gary airport - Post-Tribune.

Insanity is defined when one uses the same activity over and over and expects different results.  That is what all the insane people have utilized with this Airport.  I sincerely believe that its major value is as an extended farm, ranch, or fish-pond. 

Another airline is leaving.  How many is that now?  There is not any known individual who will speak the truth that there is not any future for the Gary airport.  Its only value is the continued sinking of public funds into the system and this money coming back out in other people's pockets.  It is called corruption.  Why do you think the man behind Peotone airport is now going to jail with his wife?  Anyone really thing Gary is any different?

How many people have to take money out of your pocket before you see the light?  Gary's Mayor has turned out to be as corrupt as all the other mayors.  She is even worse because she has Tom McDermott as the head of her party helping her in the corruption process.

I have watched all of these "so called honest people" reach for the brass ring to make something out of the Aiport and Gary -- both are lost completely.  Then I realized that the brass-ring served to line so many people pockets; no one cared if it ultimately workded or not as long as they made money. 

That isw the politics of Lake County and it current head is the McDermott corrupt family.

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Trust Local Officials To Do What's Right? I am in NWI, Is This A Joke?

If like me, you live in Northwest Indiana the first question that comes to mind when you look at this headline is: could this be a joke or possibly a parody?

GUEST COMMENTARY: Trust local officials to do what's right.

Then when your read it you find out that it was written by none other than Whiting Mayor Joe Stahura.  To "trust local officials" in Northwest Indiana is an oxymoron in and of itself.  No one shoulc be able to say this with a straight face. 

Now it is true that Mayor Stahura is now also president of the Indiana Mayors Association.  But it does not preclude this elected Democrat from recognizing that this is probably one of the most corrupt areas of the country and that there is no such an entity as a trustworthy politicians in NWI.  They are all elected and almost all are Democrats.

As he not heard of the latest one Tom Philpot, and the over 50 local elected officials who have been sent to prison since just the year 2000?

"And federal prosecutors' run (of prosecutions) in the Northern District of Indiana has been impressive, nabbing the president of the County Council, the best friend of Gary Mayor Rudy Clay, nearly half the East Chicago City Council, the Gary chief of police, the Schererville town judge and a Merrillville clerk-treasurer office employee who stole $300,000." from the Chicago Tribune Newspaper.

Further: "It's the only place like it in the state that has that kind of history and systemic problems," said Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller. "There's a kind of denial or lack of appreciation. They don't seem to realize how they look to people on the outside."

The joke is that if you are an elected official, a Democrat, and in NWI, by definition you cannot be trusted.  Where does this concept even come into Mayor Stahua's head: to trust NWI public officials?  You are certifiable if you do think this.  No one should allow any bill to pass that gives any more power to local officials.  In NWI, elected officials by definitions are crooks.  The only question that remains is, like all crooks, whether there is sufficient. legally acceptable evidence, to convict them.  That is all.

I am still laughing that Whiting's Mayor came up with this idea.  It would be the funniest line from a politician if it was not so offensive.

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Tomorrow's Indiana Primary Election -- the Democrat Ballot

To those who want to know my recomendations are based on two principles:

1. If you do the same thing over and over and expect different results, you are crazy.
2. Evaluate political candidates by results; not rehtoric.  What have they accomplished; not what they say, promise, or excuse.  Results are independent of the candidate and in that sense are more objective.

Now that we have that clear, you as a voter have your first choice to make.  Do I choose a Republican ballot or a Democrat ballot?  This is the primary so you can only vote in one.  With the two principles mentioned above there is not any way to justify taking a Democrat ballot.  In Lake County, the Democrats have been in power since 1932, and I mean absolute power,  If there is anything wrong in NWI, it is because of Democrats.  Now I do recognize that no matter what, some of you will pick up the Democrat ballot.  So let us take a look at the possible real options there.

In the first place, sticking with the principles enumerated above, do not vote for any incumbent.  There is not a single one that is worth keeping and if they remain in office it will not change a single thing in NWI.  This is true of all offices, from the national level to the most "insignifcant" local community office.  If there is an incumbent running unopposed, do not vote for them, leave it blank.  It will drive them crazy and the pundits crazy.  It will also result in them and their campaign taking you more seriusly before the general election.

There are some pretty old people running against some energetic "young" challengers.  Challengers like Darren L. Washington for State Senator and Tony Walker for State Representative are talented go-getters who have shown that they understand and believe in NWI.  They want to improve it in their lifetimes.  Their opponents have been in office for so long they have no ideas and do not have any purpose in running except for the status of the job.  It is also a reality that they have been continuous losers -- as it relates to being an elected representative.  Look at how badly they have caused NWI to be treated.  Why would you vote them back in office?  I know both of these candidates, Washington and Walker, and they will do a greatly improved job of representing NWI in the Gerneral Assembly.  Do not vote for people that have not done anything for NWI for thirty years but somehow still claim that they can make a difference in the next two years. How can anyone believe that?

At age 68, and no accomplishmnents to his name, Vernon Smith has to be voted back into reality by kicking him out of next year's General Assembly.  How bad do you need to be before the voters will finally say no?

One of the most important races in Lake County is the one for Commissioer.  There are two offices open out of three.  Frankly, no matter who gets elected, or re-elected, no one is going to match retiring Commissioner Fran DuPey.  Commissioner DuPey's fight for the middle class and her constituents in NWI is legendary.  Her retirement will be a great loss to everyone in NWI.  Now we have Commissioners in District 2 and 3 open.  I firm beleif is that one of these MUST be a Republican if there is to be any fair representation in Lake County Government.  Probably the best choice to replace DuPey is Repay, if he can keep McDermott at arms length, which is a big if.  If not, then all is lost.  At 76, Scheub needs to retire and he should have know it.  The current disaster of Raggs son should have called for an immediate firing.  What kind of person is this that works for the Commissioners?   If I had to vote Democrat for the 2nd District Commissioner, I would vote for Dominguez.  That is only the true viable choice.  The attacks against him by other Democrats should only enhance your desire to support him.

If you are going to take a Democat ballot, please remember the principles above and the challengers I have named.  If the voters stick with the Challengers, the one thing I can say is that NWI will improve.  It cannot get any worse than it has under the current incumbents.

 

The New Joke: Ecomonic Development in NWI by The Times Board of Economists

Uncertainty created by the slow pace of the economic recovery, gasoline prices, and the 24/7 news cycle continue to hold back business investment in Northwest Indiana and across the nation, according to the Times Board of Economists.

via www.nwitimes.com

I love this. You are asking the people who are causing the problem why NWI has a problem. The Times Board of Economists have not idea of what is going on. And if they do, most of them will not dare say it. In my over thirty years of watching NWI political economy, the problem is most of the people sitting around the Times table. If anything of what they are saying has legitimacy then why was there minimal economic investment in NWI ten years ago, or five years ago, or even fifteen to twenty years ago?

The main reason companies will not move here start a business here in any significant number (and by the way Illinois too), is Unions, Corrupt Democrat politics, no available qualified labor, and lack of higher education with any credibility. These factors have not changed for over twenty years and over that twenty years there has been minimal investment in NWI. The only economic item that occurred is gambling and it is sucking what ever is left of economic life out of NWI. And now that is going to go the way of the dodo bird.

Another Brass Ring for Gary?

Am I the only one who sees the none-sense is this Times editorial about the Genesis Center in Gary?

Genesis Center to Lead Gary Revival.

This is just not going to happen.  For twenty plus years, everything has been tried without any success and Gary has sunk almost as low as it can go.  I am sure the consulting group will enjoy their retainer and Gary will be that much poorer (financially).  But, what is it about no one has any desire to come to Gary, that Gary's politicians do not understand?  Nothing that in human imagination can be done with the Genesis Center, or anything else in Gary, which will attract the citizens of the rest of the County to go there.

Most citizens will prefer to pay for a ride to Ft. Huachucka, Arizona than go to Gary.

Now if Gary is handing out gold coins with dump Obama on them, that will attract people.  How that is economic development can at least be argued and debated, which is more than can be said for the "new" Genesis plan.

Gary crime reduction vital for city's growth :: Opinion :: Post-Tribune

Now I know that Rich James has given up smoking; but what drugs was he on when he wrote this piece of lying garbage.  Who is he trying to fool?  Since when did he become g-d and somehow whatever he says miraculously becomes so?

Gary crime reduction vital for city's growth :: Opinion :: Post-Tribune.

James actually wrote in this piece that "(t)here are reasons that Gary is becoming a safer city."  What "safer city?"  What planet is he on.   Everyone who is sober knows that Gary is not any safer, period.  On the first day of the year a visitor to Gary was shot three time on a house porch.  The idiot known as Rich James goes further and state that, "Is Gary a safe city today? Not yet. But it is considerably safer than it was in 1995 and has been every year since."  That is just absolutely not true.  It is a lie to bolster his wife's boss, the Sheriff and to help Mayor Clay.  The sad thing is that James' whole career has been a series of lies that he has published to fool the people of Lake County and NWI.

The beginning of the editorial is quite clear. "It was 14 years ago when 132 homicides were recorded in the city of Gary. In 2009, there were 49 homicides -- a 63 percent reduction. That is significant."  It is not significant when you population has dropped that much in that period of time.  Gary used to have over 175,000 people living and working there now it has less than 70,000 people and most of them do not work there.  You also have to dumb and blind not to recognize that we are ONLY talking about homicides and NOT about any other kind of violent crime. 

If Gary is so much "safer", why does not anyone, either from Gary or not, willing to test it.  It is the significant increase in crime that has closed all privately owned eating businesses in Gary, never to open. 

The editorial does point out that there has been a 17% reduction in violent crime; but really no one blieves it.  All of us know better because we go out and experience it differently.  One should also point out, if one was a real journalist and not a pitiful drunk lier that violent crime has been reduced over the past year in every city and town in the United States according to the FBI.  Consequently, it would seem to indicate that there is NOTHING that Gary has done right.  At best it is just an accident of fate.   What it does prove is that there are many people in Gary who are natural criminals; it does but to rest the idea that poverty and lack of education etc. have any causal relations to crime.  I used to remember former Mayor Scott King when he first got into office talking to people outside Gary asking for jobs and employment and Gary would have no crime.  Wrong.  No matter what you do for Gary as far as more money, jobs, etc. the crime culture will continue.  That is the cancer that has to seared out before anyone will ever look seriously at Gary as a civilized place.

The editorial in the Post-Tribune is a disgrace for its lies, its misleading of the public, and its general lazy and irresponsible journalism.

New Democratic Joke: Homicides drop to 49 in 2009 in the Steel City

The following story about crime being reduced in Gary is a combination of being the biggest lie, which no one living in Lake County belives or  an outright fable meant to mislead the population of Gary and Lake County for the sake of the Democratic Party politicians like Rudy Clay and the chair Tom "the Dooby" McDermott.
Homicides drop to 49 in 2009 in the Steel City :: Lake County :: Post-Tribune.

This Post-Tribune story is fake and everyone knows it (or should know it, unless they are delusional.)  Crime in Gary only went down because of two things.  One, there is no population left and two, there is nothing left to steal.  The next census should show that Gary has no more than 70,000 people.  Anything more than that and they are cooking the books.  A drop of 40% of the population will eventually lead to a drop in the number of crimes (i.e. nobody left to steal from; it is the same problem the politicians in Washington are having.)  Those that are left in Gary have nothing left to steal from.  The first murder of the year was a visitor from out of town shot three times on the porch of the home he was visiting.  It is safer in Mosul than Gary.

The sad thing is that everyone in NWI is trying to keep the crime in Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago but it is becoming a loosing battle.  Merriville is almost finished with the old South Lake Mall going the direction of the Calumet City Mall.  The only safety net is Munster; but, that will only occur if it can create a high enough fence between it and northern Lake County and Illinois, otherwise it is also living on borrowed time.

By the way, what I am saying here is not denied or deniable by anyone.  The latest census numbers show that the population of every city and town in the north half of Lake County is dropping substantially.  The only exception is Munster, so far.

Gary is finished!!!

I will be writing some more about why Gary is finished as a city.   But, in the mean time, I want people to consider a simple question:  Why would anyone in their right faculty move to Gary, either as an individual or as a business?   There is none.  Further, there is not any way to get there.

When the financial report came out, a week ago, it was the last ditch effort to stop the end, that is all.  There is no business development possible in Gary until Gary is gone.  If you actually owned a legitimate business, would you ever move it to Gary when you have the whole State of Indiana, the Midwest, or the United States to choose from.

What does Gary have to offer?  Nothing.  Crime, none existent work force, high taxes, criminals for politicians, no infrastructure, etc.  By the way, all this applies to East Chicago and Hammond -- they are also finished.  Only the gang-bangers and the criminal politicians are left in all those cities and Lake County is not far behind (Merriville is Gary it is breathing its last as we write).

Actually when one thinks about it, Gary's demise is good for everyone.

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.