Mayor Greg Ballard won reelection and Dr. Frank Straub retained his place of prominence. Straub can continue his assault on the morale of the Indianapolis Metro Police, and try a few more of his brilliant doctorate ideas. Don’t fret though, all indications point to a Straub departure in the near future.
The more important result in this election was not that Ballard beat a Kennedy, it’s that the Democrats regained control of the City-County Council. By the way, did anyone bother to look at the number of votes the Libertarian council candidates received. The Republicans probably would have retained their council majority if they had been more conservative. Approximately 10,000 votes for a Libertarian candidate meant 10,000 fewer votes for a moderate Republican. Yet another example of why compromise never works out for a spineless politician.
I digress: The best possible outcome may have taken place on Tuesday. Ballard wins and the Dems retake the council. The local media immediately began to question, “Can Ballard and the council work together!?” Who cares!? I prefer that they don’t “work together” and we have 4 years of complete governmental inaction. However, I have a sneaking suspicion that Ballard won’t have a problem working with the Democrat-controlled City-County Council; because Mayor Ballard isn’t too far from being a Democrat himself. Let’s face it; if Marion County Republicans are conservative, then Obama is a centrist. Let’s hope Ballard and the Council Dems can’t agree on where to waste our money.
So much attention is given to the concept of “working together.” This concept usually means that conservatives must sacrifice their deeply held values for immoral liberal ones and liberals get to remain entrenched in their failed philosophies. I pray our local government becomes stagnant and ineffective, because when they are passing laws they are usually limiting our liberties and spending our money. So bring on the stalemate; it’s the best possible solution to our problems.
New Yorker Frank Straub has shown that Central Indiana must sacrifice their deeply held values for immoral liberal ones and that liberals get to entrench their failed philosophies.
ReplyDeleteWe can only hope that our local government becomes stagnant and ineffective, because when NY Liberals pass laws they are usually limiting our liberties and spending our money. So bring on the stalemate; it’s the best possible solution to our problems.
Right on, Jedna!
The problem with Mr. Straub is that he is a Democrat working for a Republican Mayor. While Mr. Straub may be a nice person, his ideology as a Democrat is completely different then a Republican's. I am not saying either's ideology is correct, I am just saying that they cannot coincide.
ReplyDeleteIt was not necessarily a mistake to hire someone from the outside to be the Public Safety Director, but it should have been someone with the same ideas and thoughts as the person that hired him. Oil and water do not mix.
Personaly, I do not see Mr. Straub lasting another year.
Anon 9:58, I tend to think that Straub and Ballard are in fact cut from the same stone. There is not much difference between Republican and Democrat ideology at the leadership level both locally and nationally. Ballard is the local version of Romney. He thinks as a liberal, governs as a liberal, and despises conservatism as a liberal. He is entirely in line with local Republicrat's which mirrors liberal leadership in all manner. It isn't that he not conservative enough: he is simply not conservative and in fact, antithetical to conservatism.
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