Thanks Mitch for holding the new Stadium and Convention Center expansion hostage.
You expect the bulk of the funding to come from Marion County citizens, yet you want control instead of the Mayor of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Capital Improvement board.
Instead of Slot Machines in 3 existing Indianapolis area betting parlors, we have an increase in our Marion county restaurant tax. Thanks Mitch... that affects me... slot machines didn't. Appreciate the consideration. And the $3 ticket tax will be nice as well... Thanks!
So bottom line... you have taken control... and will take credit for this... yet the State isn't ponying up jack outside of the Indy area. Oh that's right, only Indy residents attend Colts games and NCAA games. Nice!
Careful what you ask for... err... demand. Any headaches with this deal are now on your shoulders... and the residents of Indianapolis won't be too kind to future funding issues. Better not go over budget Mitch.
And on a side note... if you are going to run radio ads promoting all the great things you have done in your first 3 months of office... you might want to give specifics. Because your current commercial is quite hollow!
Indy Mayor steps aside - Indy Star
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But Steve - he invented those cool green t-shirts with the "My Man Mitch" logo? How can such a man be wrong, I ask you? ;)
I haven't heard that radio commercial, but it must be a pretty short one if it lists his accomplishments. Unless of course he considers it an accomplishment to screw over each and every one of his consituency groups, one after the other. Unions, educators, sick and old people, college students, sports fans, his own office cleaning staff...next thing you know, he'll import a few puppies and kittens to kick around on the Statehouse steps.
(Whoops. Shoulda taken my meds today.)
The guy is doomed. He may be as bad as Steve thinks, or he may be just an ordinary politician. None of them keeps all his promises. But Daniels is doomed anyway, because "Ditch Mitch" has such a nice ring to it. People vote for slogans, and that one is a winner.
I love the fact that the rest of us are being taxed just so some snot-nosed punks in Indy can keep a team that they stole from Baltimore in the first place.
Build I-69 down here and MAYBE it will only take 3 hours to get to a colts game. Until then i'll watch them on the tube...
Yes!!! Build I-69! Now that is an economic development issue for Evansville, Washington and other SW Indiana cities and towns.
DST means nothing... I-69 means everything.
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