Discord Has hit already

As I have looked at many of our blogs on Indiana and Indianapolis government, it seems it does not take our troops to turn on the Governor, state legislators and Mayor of Indianapolis. I do know that we are all concerned with property taxes and the goings on at the state level. But for blogs to turn on their own people just because of their beliefs, are not doing the grass root effort any good.

It seems that almost every blog I read is reacting to Eric Miller and John Price to the point of saying Eric Miller's state house antics as similar to the KKK. In my opinion , this is loosing site of our main propose of doing something about property tax situation. We must remember that we knew of Miller’s stand before we joined in the fight of the issues of property tax. Was it a big surprise that they would link the bills to relieve the burden of property taxes by giving the people of Indiana the RIGHT to vote on the issue of gay marriage? It seems that people want a right to vote on referendums in Indiana except those that does not involve money.

As for Mayor Ballard, he has been in office only on month and the blogs are pointing their fingers as fast as they can. Mostly at the appointments that he has made. The biggest one is his promise to keep conflict of interest from his administration. The first blast that I read was from our very own Hoosiers for fair Tax Blog because they did not like Ice Miller handling the applications for the city of Indianapolis employment: http://hoosiersforfairtaxation.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html


With the steps taken by Scott Newman by owning part in the DNA company, I see no conflict of interest. Now comes the appointment of Robert T. Grand to the Capital Improvement Board. It seems that Advance Indiana is not happy with this appointment because they have been posting stories of conflict of interest in this choice. And steps have been put in place to avoid this conflict.
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/02/ballard-mired-in-ethics-dilemma-of-his.html

What do these people expect from Mayor Ballard. We choose him to lead this city and appoint people that he thought would get the job done and are qualified for those jobs. I feel some are feeling “left out” of city government appointments. Just because you work on a campaign for a office holding do not make you qualified to lead in office of government.

Lets join hands and keep in focus our goals for this State and City government. If we pick at every little detail that ‘might’ happen in appointments for the city and bills that is put thru our State government, we will lose that fight.