Behind Closed Doors
All due apologies to my friends at 300 N. Pennsylvannia.
It’s amazing what people talk about behind closed doors when they think no one is listening.
Strategy or Tragedy in the Making
In a recent caucus meeting, City-County Council Democrats planned their next line of attack against Republican Mayor Greg Ballard. The Dems are planning to go after the Mayor on the issue of abandoned housing. Toward the end of the year, Democrats will say the Mayor has no plan to deal with abandoned housing and doesn’t even have an accurate measure of the problem. They also plan to say the Mayor needs to do a better job of dealing with home foreclosures. So I guess that means the Mayor should have to go negotiate with banks. They’re also going to accuse the Mayor of squandering the $29 million HUD grant.
Friends in Low Places
Speaking of Democrats, City-County Councilor Doris Minton McNeil isn’t getting much love from her own party. Word is she’s been contacting the Ballard administration in an effort to get felony battery charges dropped against her for allegedly shoving a police officer while intoxicated this past summer.
Traffic Jam
The grumbling is beginning about VP nominee Sarah Palin’s visit Friday to the Verizon Music Center. I’m hearing political insiders wonder how much headache it will be to get in and out of the Center at four in the afternoon at one of the worst places for traffic congestion in Indiana.
