Goldner Needs To Talk To McCain

Here is City Councilwoman Karen Goldner’s post on the Democratic Party of Allen County blog.


September 06, 2008

The "E" Word


We have heard a lot about the Republican convention this week and congratulations to our friends on the other side of the aisle for a nice event.

Predictably, we saw lots of pageantry (nice touch on that backdrop for McCain's speech, but hey - mistakes happen.) We also heard lots of talk about their candidates and lots of criticism of Barack Obama. So far, nothing to be surprised about.


But what did we NOT hear? We did NOT hear about what the Republicans plan to do for working families and to get the American economy back on track. That is too bad, because that is what this election should be about. In a democracy, politican campaigns should be about ideas. Both sides present theirs, and the voters can decide which they like better.

But this year, you don't get to hear about the Republican plan for the economy. I guess when the Republican candidate believes that the economy is fundamentally sound, as John McCain has said, there's no need to worry about it.


If you believe our economy is fundamentally sound, please raise your hand.

I thought so.


Posted by Karen Goldner at 02:47 PM Permalink

Now it seems Mr. Goldner is trying to say the economy is in trouble and people are hurting. I think most of us agree!

I guess there is a difference in the Democrat ranks is that once you are elected to office then there is NO ECONOMIC problems if you are spending other people’s tax money. Because just three weeks ago she was trying to convince fellow council members and Mayor Henry’s officials that it would be a wise investment to spend maybe a million dollars more on an IT contract to support a local company. Then again she did not share with the public that one of the three subcontractor companies involved, included a friend of hers, as reported on the Angry White Boy blog.

“… It should be noted that Stacey Smith, the President of Prairie Quest Consulting is friends with Karen Goldner.”

Oh well, Goldner has shown in recent days integrity and being candid is no longer part of her makeup. If you see her, ask her about using the party’s blog to post a link to an Alaskan blog that was breaking the news via a comment about Sarah Palin’s fifth child was not being hers, but that of her daughter.

After posting a reply on the site and writing her an email of being outraged she said she did not intend for people to see that particular comment. Even though it was located in the top half of the posted comments, she claims it was not her intent! She did not edit her post saying anything about that some information may be in error or unfounded.

There are dozens of blogs in Alaska but somehow she found that particular one, at that very time, to let others know what “friends” in Alaska where saying.

Getting back to the subject is great to know is the economic condition of one of her friends was going to get a great deal better if she could only have swayed the council and the Mayor's officials.

Hay throwing taxpayers under the bus is no problem. Look at the friends, former supporters and voters Obama has tossed under the bus in the last ten plus years. No big deal!

If she had taken off her Donkey Ears maybe she would have heard McCain address the issue. See, McCain can not promise everyone everything (the world is great)! He has to address these complex issues and that takes more time then a ten second sound bite.