Mourdock’s New Ad Hits Back At Lugar Claims:
Mourdock Campaign to Air “Fact Check” Radio Ad.
Independent watchdog group FactCheck.org calls Lugar’s attack ads “misleading”
Lugar Stance:
Dick Lugar has been cited as “Barack Obama’s Favorite Republican” and has seemed star-struck with Obama since they first served together in the Senate. Lugar appeared in a campaign television advertisement for Obama during the 2008 presidential election, then went on to serve as a co-chair for Obama’s inaugural committee, and is now co-sponsoring several pieces of liberal legislation supported by President Obama.
Mourdock Stance:
Richard Mourdock does not support Barack Obama. Obama’s agenda of runaway federal spending and expanded government control over nearly every aspect of the economy is contrary to the tradition of free enterprise and limited government that makes America great. Mourdock is a loyal Republican who has campaigned tirelessly across Indiana for Republican candidates.
Richard Mourdock Candidate Web Site: http://richardmourdock.com/
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Senator Lugar Can’t Vote in Indiana Precinct, Board Says.
Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has been ruled ineligible to vote back home, a blow for the six- term Republican facing a Tea Party-backed primary challenger who says the senator is out of touch with his state.
The Marion County Election Board voted 2-1 along party lines today, with two Democratic members finding Lugar and his wife ineligible to vote in his home precinct. Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is registered to vote with an Indianapolis address of a home he sold in 1977. He now lives in northern Virginia.
The board ruled there is “substantial reason” to believe a non-criminal election violation occurred because the Lugars “abandoned” their Indiana residence, losing their right to vote there.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Senator Lugar Can’t Vote in Indiana Precinct, Board Says
Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has been ruled ineligible to vote back home, a blow for the six- term Republican facing a Tea Party-backed primary challenger who says the senator is out of touch with his state.
The Marion County Election Board voted 2-1 along party lines today, with two Democratic members finding Lugar and his wife ineligible to vote in his home precinct. Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is registered to vote with an Indianapolis address of a home he sold in 1977. He now lives in northern Virginia.
The board ruled there is “substantial reason” to believe a non-criminal election violation occurred because the Lugars “abandoned” their Indiana residence, losing their right to vote there.
Read more on Newsmax.com:
The Marion County Election Board voted 2-1 along party lines today, with two Democratic members finding Lugar and his wife ineligible to vote in his home precinct. Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is registered to vote with an Indianapolis address of a home he sold in 1977. He now lives in northern Virginia.
The board ruled there is “substantial reason” to believe a non-criminal election violation occurred because the Lugars “abandoned” their Indiana residence, losing their right to vote there.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Senator Lugar Can’t Vote in Indiana Precinct, Board Says
Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has been ruled ineligible to vote back home, a blow for the six- term Republican facing a Tea Party-backed primary challenger who says the senator is out of touch with his state.
The Marion County Election Board voted 2-1 along party lines today, with two Democratic members finding Lugar and his wife ineligible to vote in his home precinct. Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is registered to vote with an Indianapolis address of a home he sold in 1977. He now lives in northern Virginia.
The board ruled there is “substantial reason” to believe a non-criminal election violation occurred because the Lugars “abandoned” their Indiana residence, losing their right to vote there.
Read more on Newsmax.com:
Sunday, March 4, 2012
The Truth About Richard Mourdock. Click Here for more information.
LUGAR ACCUSATION: Mourdock's Budget Proposal is "Ridiculous"
FALSE
Richard Mourdock proposed a federal budget that eliminated four cabinet departments and cut spending by $7.6 trillion over 10 years in order to balance the budget. Cutting spending to balance the budget could seem “ridiculous” to someone who has lived in Washington D.C. for the last 36 years, but Republican primary voters want someone who is going to tackle this fundamental problem and not “kick the can down the road.”
LUGAR ACCUSATION: Mourdock Didn't Show Up 66 percent of the Time.
FALSE
Since 2007, the State Treasurer’s Office has been represented by Treasurer Mourdock or a senior staff member at over 99% of the board meetings for which he or his designee serve as a member.
The Board of Finance, which the Lugar campaign refers to, is attended monthly by the Treasurer, Governor, and Auditor or their designees. Typically, meetings last 5 to 10 minutes. Due to schedule conflicts, the Governor, Treasurer, and Auditor often send designees in their place. The Lugar campaign's criticism of Treasurer Mourdock is also an attack on Governor Daniels, who routinely makes use of designees to this board and does not attend personally.
FALSE
Richard Mourdock proposed a federal budget that eliminated four cabinet departments and cut spending by $7.6 trillion over 10 years in order to balance the budget. Cutting spending to balance the budget could seem “ridiculous” to someone who has lived in Washington D.C. for the last 36 years, but Republican primary voters want someone who is going to tackle this fundamental problem and not “kick the can down the road.”
LUGAR ACCUSATION: Mourdock Didn't Show Up 66 percent of the Time.
FALSE
Since 2007, the State Treasurer’s Office has been represented by Treasurer Mourdock or a senior staff member at over 99% of the board meetings for which he or his designee serve as a member.
The Board of Finance, which the Lugar campaign refers to, is attended monthly by the Treasurer, Governor, and Auditor or their designees. Typically, meetings last 5 to 10 minutes. Due to schedule conflicts, the Governor, Treasurer, and Auditor often send designees in their place. The Lugar campaign's criticism of Treasurer Mourdock is also an attack on Governor Daniels, who routinely makes use of designees to this board and does not attend personally.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Mitch Daniels, Blasts Obama's State of the Union Speech.
"On these evenings, Presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our national condition. But when President Obama claims that the state of our union is anything but grave, he must know in his heart that this is not true.
"The President did not cause the economic and fiscal crises that continue in America tonight. But he was elected on a promise to fix them, and he cannot claim that the last three years have made things anything but worse: the percentage of Americans with a job is at the lowest in decades. One in five men of prime working age, and nearly half of all persons under 30, did not go to work today.
"In three short years, an unprecedented explosion of spending, with borrowed money, has added trillions to an already unaffordable national debt. And yet, the President has put us on a course to make it radically worse in the years ahead. The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy; it borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
"The President's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. In fact, it works the other way: a government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class, and those who hope to join it.
"Those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years are those unemployed or underemployed tonight, and those so discouraged that they have abandoned the search for work altogether. And no one has been more tragically harmed than the young people of this country, the first generation in memory to face a future less promising than their parents did.
"As Republicans our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon to haves.
"In our economic stagnation and indebtedness, we are only a short distance behind Greece, Spain, and other European countries now facing economic catastrophe. But ours is a fortunate land. Because the world uses our dollar for trade, we have a short grace period to deal with our dangers. But time is running out, if we are to avoid the fate of Europe, and those once-great nations of history that fell from the position of world leadership.
"So 2012 is a year of true opportunity, maybe our last, to restore an America of hope and upward mobility, and greater equality. The challenges aren't matters of ideology, or party preference; the problems are simply mathematical, and the answers are purely practical.
"An opposition that would earn its way back to leadership must offer not just criticism of failures that anyone can see, but a positive and credible plan to make life better, particularly for those aspiring to make a better life for themselves. Republicans accept this duty, gratefully.
"The routes back to an America of promise, and to a solvent America that can pay its bills and protect its vulnerable, start in the same place. The only way up for those suffering tonight, and the only way out of the dead end of debt into which we have driven, is a private economy that begins to grow and create jobs, real jobs, at a much faster rate than today.
"Contrary to the President's constant disparagement of people in business, it's one of the noblest of human pursuits. The late Steve Jobs - what a fitting name he had - created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew. Out here in Indiana, when a businessperson asks me what he can do for our state, I say 'First, make money. Be successful. If you make a profit, you'll have something left to hire someone else, and some to donate to the good causes we love.'
"The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy. It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach that breaks all ties and calls all close ones in favor of private sector jobs that restore opportunity for all and generate the public revenues to pay our bills.
"That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates. A pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise could be used to hire somebody. It means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy has gotten in years.
"There is a second item on our national must-do list: we must unite to save the safety net. Medicare and Social Security have served us well, and that must continue. But after half and three quarters of a century respectively, it's not surprising that they need some repairs. We can preserve them unchanged and untouched for those now in or near retirement, but we must fashion a new, affordable safety net so future Americans are protected, too.
"Decades ago, for instance, we could afford to send millionaires pension checks and pay medical bills for even the wealthiest among us. Now, we can't, so the dollars we have should be devoted to those who need them most.
"The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. Listening to them much longer will mean that these proud programs implode, and take the American economy with them. It will mean that coming generations are denied the jobs they need in their youth and the protection they deserve in their later years.
"It's absolutely so that everyone should contribute to our national recovery, including of course the most affluent among us. There are smart ways and dumb ways to do this: the dumb way is to raise rates in a broken, grossly complex tax system, choking off growth without bringing in the revenues we need to meet our debts. The better course is to stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need, and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth.
"It's not fair and it's not true for the President to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions. They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down time and time again by the President and his Democratic Senate allies.
"This year, it falls to Republicans to level with our fellow citizens about this reality: if we fail to act to grow the private sector and save the safety net, nothing else will matter much. But to make such action happen, we also must work, in ways we Republicans have not always practiced, to bring Americans together.
"No feature of the Obama Presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed, over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category. If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.
"As a loyal opposition, who put patriotism and national success ahead of party or ideology or any self-interest, we say that anyone who will join us in the cause of growth and solvency is our ally, and our friend. We will speak the language of unity. Let us rebuild our finances, and the safety net, and reopen the door to the stairway upward; any other disagreements we may have can wait.
"You know, the most troubling contention in our national life these days isn't about economics, or policy at all. It's about us, as a free people. In two alarming ways, that contention is that we Americans just can't cut it anymore.
"In word and deed, the President and his allies tell us that we just cannot handle ourselves in this complex, perilous world without their benevolent protection. Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb!
"A second view, which I admit some Republicans also seem to hold, is that we Americans are no longer up to the job of self-government. We can't do the simple math that proves the unaffordability of today's safety net programs, or all the government we now have. We will fall for the con job that says we can just plow ahead and someone else will pick up the tab. We will allow ourselves to be pitted one against the other, blaming our neighbor for troubles worldwide trends or our own government has caused.
"2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong. The year we strike out boldly not merely to avert national bankruptcy but to say to a new generation that America is still the world's premier land of opportunity. Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen; who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them; who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in, and to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.
"We will advance our positive suggestions with confidence, because we know that Americans are still a people born to liberty. There is nothing wrong with the state of our Union that the American people, addressed as free-born, mature citizens, cannot set right. Republicans in 2012 welcome all our countrymen to a program of renewal that rebuilds the dream for all, and makes our 'city on a hill' shine once again."
Friday, January 27, 2012
"See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, "....
Michelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing China for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband's salary.
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower: One-- paid for personally out of President's salary.
Jackie Kennedy: One
Roseline Carter: One
Barbara Bush: One
Hilary Clinton: Three
Laura Bush: One
Michele Obama: Twenty-two
How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers,prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:
Michele Obama's personal staff:
One.. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
Two.. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
Three.. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
Four.. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President
And Director of Communications for the First Lady)
Five.. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Six.. $90,000 Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Seven.. $84,000 - Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
Eight.. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
Nine.. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for the First Lady)
Ten.. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Eleven.. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Twelve.. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
Thirteen.. $60,000 Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director
For the First Lady)
Fourteen.. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
Fifteen... $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
Sixteen.. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
Seventeen.. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
Eighteen.. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
Nineteen.. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Twenty.. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
Twenty-One... $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
Twenty-Two.. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total $1,591,200 in annual salaries)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
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Monday, January 9, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS MAYOR BALLARD CLEARS AIR ON SMOKING BAN:
One thing became clear during an interview last week with Indianapolis
Mayor Greg Ballard: He's tired of being asked about smoking bans (Indianapolis Star). It's understandable -- he's been
answering persistent questions for more than two years. The Republican faced flak for threatening to veto a 2009 City-
County Council proposal that would have expanded Marion County's smoking ban to most bars. Last year, Democratic
challenger Melina Kennedy criticized him on the issue. And then, late last year, he endorsed a proposed compromise, put
forth by former Council President Ryan Vaughn, that carried exemptions to Ballard's liking. But Democrats ended up
scuttling the measure in a committee vote. Now, with Democrats newly in the council majority, a bipartisan smoking ban
proposal -- also mostly in line with Ballard's preferences -- is being introduced at Monday's meeting. It would cover most
bars, while exempting existing cigar and hookah bars, retail tobacco shops and nonprofit private clubs and fraternal
organizations whose members vote to retain smoking. So, yet again, The Indianapolis Star peppered the mayor with
questions about the smoking ban during a visit last week to his 25th-floor office. Here's one, but first some background:
Ballard's advisers are asking the new proposal's sponsors to relax the provision on private clubs to ensure that those that
retain smoking can still allow children in their buildings. As written, they couldn't, even when they host events such as
weddings. The council sponsors point out that Ballard, in seeking the exemption for private clubs, never previously
identified allowing children as part of his requirement.
Mayor Greg Ballard: He's tired of being asked about smoking bans (Indianapolis Star). It's understandable -- he's been
answering persistent questions for more than two years. The Republican faced flak for threatening to veto a 2009 City-
County Council proposal that would have expanded Marion County's smoking ban to most bars. Last year, Democratic
challenger Melina Kennedy criticized him on the issue. And then, late last year, he endorsed a proposed compromise, put
forth by former Council President Ryan Vaughn, that carried exemptions to Ballard's liking. But Democrats ended up
scuttling the measure in a committee vote. Now, with Democrats newly in the council majority, a bipartisan smoking ban
proposal -- also mostly in line with Ballard's preferences -- is being introduced at Monday's meeting. It would cover most
bars, while exempting existing cigar and hookah bars, retail tobacco shops and nonprofit private clubs and fraternal
organizations whose members vote to retain smoking. So, yet again, The Indianapolis Star peppered the mayor with
questions about the smoking ban during a visit last week to his 25th-floor office. Here's one, but first some background:
Ballard's advisers are asking the new proposal's sponsors to relax the provision on private clubs to ensure that those that
retain smoking can still allow children in their buildings. As written, they couldn't, even when they host events such as
weddings. The council sponsors point out that Ballard, in seeking the exemption for private clubs, never previously
identified allowing children as part of his requirement.
VANDERBURGH GOP CHIEF BLASTS REPS. BATTLES, and RIECKEN:
Vanderburgh County Republican Chairman Wayne Parke accused
Reps. Gail Riecken and Kreg Battles for "not showing up for work." (Howey Politics Indiana). Parke said, "It is very
disturbing that Democrat State Representatives Gail Riecken and Democrat Krieg Battles have decided to take their first
paychecks, but refuse to show up for work so the House Chamber can start its official business. It would appear, they are
not only against personal choices for workers they are against working. It is a poor example to set for others to follow
when you are supposed to be a leader but you take pay for a job that you did not properly perform. Democrat State
Representatives Gail Riecken and Democrat Krieg Battles are not doing the job their constituents elected them to do. They
are totally disrupting the democratic process by not being present for Roll Call so the House can officially start its business
in this short legislative session. They attended a 6 hour Right To Work ( RTW ) hearing Friday in Indianapolis but yet they
have failed to show up for Roll Call so the House can officially open up for business by having a quorum. Have they been
away from work so long --- they have forgotten the House Rules?"
Reps. Gail Riecken and Kreg Battles for "not showing up for work." (Howey Politics Indiana). Parke said, "It is very
disturbing that Democrat State Representatives Gail Riecken and Democrat Krieg Battles have decided to take their first
paychecks, but refuse to show up for work so the House Chamber can start its official business. It would appear, they are
not only against personal choices for workers they are against working. It is a poor example to set for others to follow
when you are supposed to be a leader but you take pay for a job that you did not properly perform. Democrat State
Representatives Gail Riecken and Democrat Krieg Battles are not doing the job their constituents elected them to do. They
are totally disrupting the democratic process by not being present for Roll Call so the House can officially start its business
in this short legislative session. They attended a 6 hour Right To Work ( RTW ) hearing Friday in Indianapolis but yet they
have failed to show up for Roll Call so the House can officially open up for business by having a quorum. Have they been
away from work so long --- they have forgotten the House Rules?"
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Public Safety Issue
Evansville Needs an Ordinance Requiring All Employees of Evansville Contractors, Volunteers and those that have Direct Interaction with Children to Conduct Employee Background Checks.
We must ensure sex offenders stay away from our children and out of our homes. To do so, the city of Evansville should require that all contractors conduct employee background checks as is permissible under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The Fair Credit Reporting Act allows
Employers to conduct background checks and report all records that are publicly available. As a
City Councilman, I will push for new background check requirements for contractors and those that work with or around children to prevent convicted sex offenders from working inside our homes and near children. To ensure the protection of our children, we need to consider explicitly barring sex offenders from any chance of working in a home or near children. As a City Councilman, I will push for reforming the local licensing laws explicitly banning anyone that is a convicted sex offender from getting a contractor’s license that can be used for in-home construction, repair, or those that have direct interaction with children. Employers can no longer take job applications on face value. They should be doing public criminal record checks and various types of background checks on new employees.
Working With Children.
Because children are so vulnerable, anyone that will be working with them in any capacity should be subject to a background check that includes any public criminal records. Employment may be refused to those who will work with, or near children, even if the criminal action was not against a child. Anyone with an assault or personal crime history may be a danger to anyone considered powerless against him or her. If you are going to be working with children as a school bus driver, driving instructor, or teacher at a school or day care center, these types of charges on the public records would be problematic. Any type of job that involves children should make you more prone to scrutiny. Yes, I am doing this at my company; it does not mean I will not give people a second chance. It does mean if they have been convicted of an offence against a child or any such personal crime that may be seen as a danger to someone that is powerless against him or her they will not be given the job.
Cost to Business
Doing background checks should not be an undue burden to the businesses required to perform them under this ordinance. Hiring the best employees is the most important task for your organization. If they work with and through their insurance provider, they may even see a reduction in their liability insurance cost that will more than cover the expense of doing the background checks. My insurance company has a program set up through ISO, (Insurance Services Office, Inc), we are using IntelliCorp one of the companies owned by ISO, using
this service a background check cost me $9.95 in most cases. If the potential employee has lived in many different locations, the cost can go as high as approx. $35.00. It is important that the service used be accurate, reliable, timely, reasonably priced, easy to use, and comprehensive. IntelliCorp even has a service designed for volunteer based organizations. There are many more companies available to use, I am just using a company I am familiar with as an example.
E. L. “Lon” Walters
We must ensure sex offenders stay away from our children and out of our homes. To do so, the city of Evansville should require that all contractors conduct employee background checks as is permissible under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The Fair Credit Reporting Act allows
Employers to conduct background checks and report all records that are publicly available. As a
City Councilman, I will push for new background check requirements for contractors and those that work with or around children to prevent convicted sex offenders from working inside our homes and near children. To ensure the protection of our children, we need to consider explicitly barring sex offenders from any chance of working in a home or near children. As a City Councilman, I will push for reforming the local licensing laws explicitly banning anyone that is a convicted sex offender from getting a contractor’s license that can be used for in-home construction, repair, or those that have direct interaction with children. Employers can no longer take job applications on face value. They should be doing public criminal record checks and various types of background checks on new employees.
Working With Children.
Because children are so vulnerable, anyone that will be working with them in any capacity should be subject to a background check that includes any public criminal records. Employment may be refused to those who will work with, or near children, even if the criminal action was not against a child. Anyone with an assault or personal crime history may be a danger to anyone considered powerless against him or her. If you are going to be working with children as a school bus driver, driving instructor, or teacher at a school or day care center, these types of charges on the public records would be problematic. Any type of job that involves children should make you more prone to scrutiny. Yes, I am doing this at my company; it does not mean I will not give people a second chance. It does mean if they have been convicted of an offence against a child or any such personal crime that may be seen as a danger to someone that is powerless against him or her they will not be given the job.
Cost to Business
Doing background checks should not be an undue burden to the businesses required to perform them under this ordinance. Hiring the best employees is the most important task for your organization. If they work with and through their insurance provider, they may even see a reduction in their liability insurance cost that will more than cover the expense of doing the background checks. My insurance company has a program set up through ISO, (Insurance Services Office, Inc), we are using IntelliCorp one of the companies owned by ISO, using
this service a background check cost me $9.95 in most cases. If the potential employee has lived in many different locations, the cost can go as high as approx. $35.00. It is important that the service used be accurate, reliable, timely, reasonably priced, easy to use, and comprehensive. IntelliCorp even has a service designed for volunteer based organizations. There are many more companies available to use, I am just using a company I am familiar with as an example.
E. L. “Lon” Walters
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Private Business is the only True Job Creator
Let me start by saying that any jobs creation is not going to be a sprint it is going to be a marathon.
The greatest job-creation machine always has been and will continue to be private enterprise. It does not come from the government. The problem is that companies have been beat-up by the economic situation. Most economists think the worst is now behind us, but firms are still plagued by uncertainty about how fast the economy will recover. They cannot plan responsibly without knowing the bottom-line costs of the massive new initiatives out of Washington on health care reform and carbon-emission regulation. Even companies relatively financially fit often do not feel like taking the risk of ramping up operations and hiring more workers. Job creation is also a function of the labor supply. It is not just about firms wanting to hire, but also about having people they can usefully employ. We have to have a talented job pool.
• We are going to need to work with the local universities, Chamber for Commerce, GAGE, business leaders, Vectren, (local electric rates are too high), and local banks to bring jobs to Evansville.
• Real jobs; we have to be producing products. We cannot just be a service industry economy.
• We need to simplify local codes and regulations so that companies find Evansville as a place that is easy to do business. This will also help existing businesses wishing to expand.
• Allow entrepreneurs the ability to create without such a stringent local code. Set-up an internet site, (one stop shop), where they can obtain all the information, forms, and permits they need. Make as many of these forms as possible interactive so that they can be completed online.
• Put together a group comprised of people from local universities, Chamber for Commerce, GAGE, business leaders, representatives of local government, and local banks. This Group should be empowered to offer incentives, training, and financing to bring jobs to Evansville. They need to be people that are able to think outside of the box, be willing to travel around the United States and the world being cheerleaders for Evansville, Indiana. We cannot narrow our vision to within the shores of the United States of America anymore. However, we should not continue to ignore what we have. We need to visit the existing industries/businesses in Evansville to see if we can assist them with expansion.
• Set up a business incubator to house fledgling firms, plying them with business-plan advice, contact with financiers and lots of coffee over which to share ideas and solve problems. This incubator should be set up for companies that will be producing a product, close or attached to an industrial park where they can manufacture their product.
• Establish an Evansville Growth Capital Corporation (EGCC), which would function as a one-stop resource for debt and equity financing for small businesses.
Companies do not start unless they are resourced. These new companies are key to job growth. People talk about small businesses being such great generators of jobs, but a more precise assessment is that young businesses are. John Haltiwanger, an economist at the University of Maryland, has been studying government data for 25 years and has determined that about a third of all new jobs created come from start-ups. Furthermore, young companies add jobs faster.
The greatest job-creation machine always has been and will continue to be private enterprise. It does not come from the government. The problem is that companies have been beat-up by the economic situation. Most economists think the worst is now behind us, but firms are still plagued by uncertainty about how fast the economy will recover. They cannot plan responsibly without knowing the bottom-line costs of the massive new initiatives out of Washington on health care reform and carbon-emission regulation. Even companies relatively financially fit often do not feel like taking the risk of ramping up operations and hiring more workers. Job creation is also a function of the labor supply. It is not just about firms wanting to hire, but also about having people they can usefully employ. We have to have a talented job pool.
• We are going to need to work with the local universities, Chamber for Commerce, GAGE, business leaders, Vectren, (local electric rates are too high), and local banks to bring jobs to Evansville.
• Real jobs; we have to be producing products. We cannot just be a service industry economy.
• We need to simplify local codes and regulations so that companies find Evansville as a place that is easy to do business. This will also help existing businesses wishing to expand.
• Allow entrepreneurs the ability to create without such a stringent local code. Set-up an internet site, (one stop shop), where they can obtain all the information, forms, and permits they need. Make as many of these forms as possible interactive so that they can be completed online.
• Put together a group comprised of people from local universities, Chamber for Commerce, GAGE, business leaders, representatives of local government, and local banks. This Group should be empowered to offer incentives, training, and financing to bring jobs to Evansville. They need to be people that are able to think outside of the box, be willing to travel around the United States and the world being cheerleaders for Evansville, Indiana. We cannot narrow our vision to within the shores of the United States of America anymore. However, we should not continue to ignore what we have. We need to visit the existing industries/businesses in Evansville to see if we can assist them with expansion.
• Set up a business incubator to house fledgling firms, plying them with business-plan advice, contact with financiers and lots of coffee over which to share ideas and solve problems. This incubator should be set up for companies that will be producing a product, close or attached to an industrial park where they can manufacture their product.
• Establish an Evansville Growth Capital Corporation (EGCC), which would function as a one-stop resource for debt and equity financing for small businesses.
Companies do not start unless they are resourced. These new companies are key to job growth. People talk about small businesses being such great generators of jobs, but a more precise assessment is that young businesses are. John Haltiwanger, an economist at the University of Maryland, has been studying government data for 25 years and has determined that about a third of all new jobs created come from start-ups. Furthermore, young companies add jobs faster.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Former Fire Chief Wants Private Meetings
The committee meeting about the possible closure of two fire stations and improving fire coverage is a sham in my opinion. How can closing fire stations improve service? Let’s be honest about this, it is about saving cost for the city of Evansville not about improving services. Now we hear that one of the committee members wants the meetings to be private. In a memo former District Fire Chief Ken Zuber sent out to committee members, he had requested that future meetings on the proposed fire station closings meet behind closed doors. He says the group has, in his words "merely bandstanded in front of the public without a common voice" .... And it needs to "sit down without the prying eyes of the media and public."
When the news broke about the memo, what did committee member and Representative for the Second Ward City Councilwoman Missy Mosby have to say about the memo? Well she said, "I'm curious. Who gave you his email?" "But we're going to have to have a little more respect from the audience to have our meetings and talk amongst each other without them standing up and applauding or yelling at us," Mosby said.
Has Councilwoman Missy Mosby forgotten who she is representing? I think so, and I think her voting record in the City Council proves this. How dare the people of the wards affected by the closing of the fire stations think they should be able to voice their displeasure and exercise their First Amendment rights. They should be respectful but complaining about them standing up and applauding is a bit much.
Maybe Councilwoman Missy Mosby needs to read the following from Wikipedia. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech and infringing on the freedom of the press. In the 20th century, the Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government.
Missy Mosby has already made up her mind and said she supports Chief Keith Jarboe on the closings. Councilwoman Mosby should not be on the committee since she has already made up her mind on the issue.
If Councilwoman Missy Mosby wants to represent the Second Ward then she should be on the same page as committee member Wendy Bredhold. She should be raising a stink about the possible closing of the two hose houses.
Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) is not the only company in the business of providing information about property/casualty insurance risk to the insurance industry.
Here is something I found interesting on ISO’s web site. “Nation’s Fire Departments Face Challenges in Staffing, Recruiting and Training Firefighters, and Accessing Water, Survey Finds.” http://www.isogov.com/news/2008/12-01-08.html
I would love to know how other companies rate Evansville fire services.
When the news broke about the memo, what did committee member and Representative for the Second Ward City Councilwoman Missy Mosby have to say about the memo? Well she said, "I'm curious. Who gave you his email?" "But we're going to have to have a little more respect from the audience to have our meetings and talk amongst each other without them standing up and applauding or yelling at us," Mosby said.
Has Councilwoman Missy Mosby forgotten who she is representing? I think so, and I think her voting record in the City Council proves this. How dare the people of the wards affected by the closing of the fire stations think they should be able to voice their displeasure and exercise their First Amendment rights. They should be respectful but complaining about them standing up and applauding is a bit much.
Maybe Councilwoman Missy Mosby needs to read the following from Wikipedia. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the Congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion", impeding the free exercise of religion, infringing on the freedom of speech and infringing on the freedom of the press. In the 20th century, the Supreme Court held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, including any local government.
Missy Mosby has already made up her mind and said she supports Chief Keith Jarboe on the closings. Councilwoman Mosby should not be on the committee since she has already made up her mind on the issue.
If Councilwoman Missy Mosby wants to represent the Second Ward then she should be on the same page as committee member Wendy Bredhold. She should be raising a stink about the possible closing of the two hose houses.
Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) is not the only company in the business of providing information about property/casualty insurance risk to the insurance industry.
Here is something I found interesting on ISO’s web site. “Nation’s Fire Departments Face Challenges in Staffing, Recruiting and Training Firefighters, and Accessing Water, Survey Finds.” http://www.isogov.com/news/2008/12-01-08.html
I would love to know how other companies rate Evansville fire services.
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