Archive for July 29th, 2008

The Bloomington Peace Action Coalition has announced that the Bloomington City Council will debate and vote on a resolution opposing an attack on Iran and calling on Congress to support a diplomatic resolution to allegations that the country is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

The resolution will be discussed at the next city council meeting, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 6 at council chambers in the Showers Building.

Source: Bloomington Herald-Times.

Well, here it is. It’s not quite as negative as some had initially implied; more like a ham-fisted attempt to run the 2004 My Man Mitch campaign in reverse, but with the optimistic parts surgically removed and replaced with far-lefty liberal talking points.

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The Town of Speedway led by Town Manager (and former Bart Peterson flunkie) Barbara Lawrence wants to pass an anti-motorcycle ordinance “in time” for the Red Bull MotoGP event in September.

The ordinance seeks to ban “loud pipes” on motorcycles in the Town of Speedway, but the kicker is the ban will only be enforced during IMS events, the 500, the Brickyard 400, MotoGP, and if it were to return - Formula One.

A pipes ban being enforced during MotoGP weekend makes about as much sense as a subwoofer ban being enforced during Indiana Black Expo…. oh wait a subwoofer ban would be construed as racist we can’t have that now can we……

Nice going Town of Speedway let’s chase away the motorcyclists from the largest motorcycle event in Indiana.

Linda Pence has built her campaign to be Indiana’s next attorney general on her supposed skills as a lawyer and, most recently, on her claims that she will fight corruption more vigorously than Steve Carter has or Greg Zoeller will.

Her skills as a lawyer were not enough to save her client from having to make a $625,000 settlement with Carter’s AG office; it would seem that she is not a better lawyer than Zoeller (Steve Carter’s chief deputy) after all.

Her protestations that she will fight corruption sort of ring hollow when compared to how she tried to hide from Hoosiers her work for a codefendant in the East Chicago sidewalks for votes RICO case, the most notable corruption case in Indiana this decade.

Then she went to the Chicago offices of Greenberg Traurig, the former law firm of a certain convicted corrupt lobbyist by the name of Jack Abramoff, to raise money for her election campaign.

Pence then went on to say that she could not talk about the East Chicago RICO case, because of attorney-client privilege. It turned out that her client waived attorney-client privilege as a part of its settlement with the AG’s office.

Linda Pence has even put forward some rather comical quotes.

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