Archive for September, 2006
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
I sat down Tuesday night and spoke with Eric Dickerson’s wife, Paula. I asked her about her husband’s domestic violence arrest, the brusies she reportedly received and whether she thinks the bad news about Eric are politically motivated. I’ll have the interview in the morning between 7:30 and 9 a.m. I’ll post back here later […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
I’ve been doing some following up on Eric Dickerson’s interview this morning. Democrats are telling I didn’t have all the facts. A police report has been circulating the Internet this morning. It makes serious allegations that there was more violence that might have occurred than Dickerson let on this morning in the interview. He was […]
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Republican 7th Congressional District Eric Dickerson says police did the right thing when they arrested him in 1991 arrest on domestic violence charges. Dickerson told me today he had come home from a business trip to find that his son had wrecked the car. An argument ensued between him and his wife. The shouting was […]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
The fun in the Marion County Prosecutor’s Race is off an running this week. The Marion County GOP took a swipe at Democrat Melina Kennedy’s record as former Deputy Mayor of Economic Development for the city of Indianapolis. According to the news release, GOP Executive Director Mike Bieberstein said Indianapolis experienced negative job growth from […]
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
By now you’ve probably figured out that I am probably not the biggest fan of the current President of the Indianapolis City-County Council, Monroe Gray. To be frank it’s nothing personal. I did have an issue with the way he became President, which was after Council Democrats threw former President Steve Talley under a bus […]
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi says his office is looking into whether a special prosecutor will be needed to investigate the deal that is putting a bar in the Carson Center. Brizzi says his office is conducting research to see if there were any statute violations concerning the agreement and zoning. If criminal charges have […]
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
“The natives are restless!” I did some research on that famous Hollywood cliche line. It’s used when the main character in a film suddenly notices all those people he’s been taking for granted for all those years are unhappy – VERY unhappy – and there’s trouble brewing. But he doesn’t know when or where and […]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Well less than 24 hours after an in-house debate at the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Hobnob, Democrat Melina Kennedy and Republican Carl Brizzi are going after each other. In a news release put out this morning, Kennedy accused Brizzi of being soft on crime by giving a “free pass to a habitual offender.” She’s […]
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Hobnobbing I did the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Hobnob Wednesday night. It’s a political event where candidates and the public get together. I came across a lot of people I know who listen to the program. I think the most interesting item though was the “debate” between Melina Kennedy and Carl Brizzi. Both looked […]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
It’s amazing what happens when all your political friends (Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians) all get in one room full of alcohol, food and good will. You get good gossip. Let the games begin… City Budget Blues Mayor Bart Peterson and Governor Mitch Daniels are currently negotiating how of the city will get back in alcohol […]
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