An Indianapolis City-County Council panel investigating former council President Monroe Gray for possible ethics violations immediately ran into a partisan battle at its first meeting this week.
Co-chair Virginia Cain, a Republican, was stopped short by Democrats from reading a list of the violations Gray may have committed. William Oliver, a Democratic council member, said the discussion should be held in executive session.
"We just don't want to turn it into a witch hunt," said councilman Paul Bateman, the other Democrat on the evenly split four-person committee.
The committee was formed last fall to look into whether Gray failed to report a business relationship with a city contractor, as well as whether his role as a political liaison for the city's Fire Department was proper.
The panel decided to discuss the potential violations in executive session April 17 and to send letters to the county prosecutor, ethics board and state disciplinary commission to find out whether there are other investigations of Gray with which theirs might interfere. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008803220445
This is not the only thing that councilman Oliver brought up, Again he brought race into the facter. It seems that Councilman Oliver can not speak with out making some kind of comment of race.
And My question is why would they want to be in executive session when the list of violations are heard? You can watch a this meeting at 9:00 pm, tonight on channel 16 or go to the city this web site http://indianapolis.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3 and click on Council Investigative Committee on Ethics
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Oliver and Bateman don't care if Gray is guilty as sin. They want to protect him for no other reason than Monroe Gray is balck. You can bet they would be screaming from the mountain tops if Gray was a white counsilor.
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