This Isn’t What South Bend Needs.

You’ve just come off a very heated campaign that you won by the narrowest margin you’ve ever had.  The main issues in the campaign were jobs, crime, and high taxes.  Your city has the second highest amount of violent crime in the state, property tax assessments are poorly done, and a number of major companies have left your city for a neighboring one because your administration wouldn’t help them.  With all of these factors in play, what would you be doing right now?

If you would have immediately begun the process of trying to bring more jobs to your city you would be a smart mayor.  That’s not what Steve Luecke (D-South Bend) is doing though.  After winning a third term as mayor, Luecke and the Democrat controlled Common Council are now preparing to focus their attention on trying to pass an ordinance that would require local employers (or what’s left of them), landlords, and businesspeople to not discriminate on the basis of sexual-orientation.  If a man walked into your restaurant but proceeded to use the women’s bathroom and you tried to stop him, and he informed you that he “felt” like a woman or had a sex-change operation, you could do nothing to prevent him from using the woman’s bathroom.  If one of your male employees showed up for work dressed as a woman you couldn’t fire them.

Word has it that the South Bend Common Council will be holding a first reading on the ordinance (which was defeated in 2006) as early as Monday afternoon.  Apparently supporters of the measure are trying to pass it while they still have a strong friend in Councilperson Charlotte Pfiefer (D).  Ms. Pfiefer was defeated in the ‘07 primary.  Stay tuned to Hoosier Access to learn more about this developing story.

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