Friday, November 2, 2007

Mayor Richard - We Are Not That Stupid, But You May Be

Check out the latest Mayor Richard's OmniSource con game....

Yep, he is now telling us he wants someone else to pay for the cleanup of OmniSource, with our federal and state tax dollars. He has no clue when such could or would even happen.

Then his people try to compare the OmniSource cleanup to the Bowser Avenue cleanup. The only thing these two have in common is the word "cleanup." Comparing the two is like comparing a person with a broken arm, to someone suffering massive body trauma.

Everyone running for office, or holding office, should be standing tall on this issue. They should either state they support Mayor Richard on this issue, or not.

The only two people I know who have outright rejected what is going on is Matt Kelty (R) and Karen Goldner (D). Kelty is running for mayor and Goldner is running for the 2nd district seat on city council.

This is so stupid, I cannot even express my thought without yelling. My only guess is Richard's has some vested interest in seeing this property purchased by the city. This is past common sense.

Check out the report here.....
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/10980506.html

The OmniSource property is closer to the cleanup project of the I. J. Recycling grounds on North Clinton. It took 20-25 years to get cleaned up. All at the cost of taxpayers!

Think of this. If companies could just sale contaminated property to local government, then have the EPA/IDEM clean it up, there would not be one court case in the United States of the EPA suing companies for cleanup. Every company owning contaminated property would just sale it to the local government for a buck, and walk away.

5 comments:

Dave MacDonald said...

J Q -

Great post! Thanks for continuing to draw attention to this important issue.

Dave

Eric White said...

J.Q.

No disrespect here, but Graham's last name is "Richard" not Richards.

J Q Taxpayer said...

Darn Eric.... I do that to his name so many times. I am going to break my ring finger so it stays of the "S" key when typing his name.

Thanks guy.

Eric White said...

Haha, no problem. I'd noticed that you'd done that before and I thought maybe Karen Richards took over while I was out of town or something.

J Q Taxpayer said...

You might be right.... Karen Richards will never ever get one more vote from me. It has nothing to do with Matt Kelty.

There will be a time and place for the issue to come to the front.