Compassionless Senator Lubbers offers no comfort to friend of citizens who committed suicide over pressure caused by property tax bills

Senators Luke Kenley & Teresa Lubbers
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Senator Lubbers' (Indiana District 7) gave this bitter and unfeeling reply to the letter below she received from from a pro-repeal taxpayer who lost friends to suicide over property taxes:

Re: PROPERTY TAX ELIMINATION
Date: 12/5/2007 9:34:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
From:SENLUB
To:Jhayshoh

Your grief and anger are understandable but your need to place blame is pretty harsh.

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To Senator Lubbers:

My name is Jeff H,

In 2003, my best friend, of nearly twenty years, had reached a very low point in his life. He had been laid-off from his employment, and fallen into the trap of an endless cycle of trying to regain his footing. I was among many who tried to keep him bolstered. I; as it turned out was the last one to speak with him, some six hours before he took his own life. His last words to me were: “Just when I thought my life could get better, these bastards say they are going to take my house away”. I boarded the first flight home that I could find; hoping that I could help him find a solution…The body wasn't even cold yet, when his own father found him. That blood, and the tortured look in his father’s eyes, ARE on the hands, and heads, of every one of you in those chambers.

That is only one of three such cases for me, from that year. I have forced myself to be insulated from the many recent, too familiar, events. When others tell me of similar events, I question the humanity of those capable of ignoring their own involvement--meaning you. You, by your own laziness, inaction and indifference, are guilty of murder!

Anyone in those chambers; the chambers across the hall, or the office below you, who does not believe their political lives to be in the balance, is fooling themselves. When the horrifyingly inevitable does happen again, there will be such a pile of dogs fighting over the bones of your careers; none will be rewarded without a mortal wound to their political future. When a "victor" emerges, it will be next November. Many, if not all, of you will then know how bleak and cold you have made that month become to us.

I have been assured from conversations with people across the state, that campaigning for re-election by anyone opposed to the repeal of property tax is a fool's errand at this point. You can waste our time believing that this will not be important prior to next year. You can bluster upon the contrived points of your own arrogance and apathy to the lives of people in this state. You can “Win” your battle to preserve a corrupt, unjust, inaccurate and antiquated system… Sure, it’s a battle you might win, but I will refer you to the concept of a "Pyrrhic Victory". Ask Mayor incumbent Peterson for an illustration, if you must.

Or, you can attempt to redeem yourselves--Be a Statesman, for once in your career. The quotation which keeps re-emerging to me is this: “The most dangerous person in the world is the person who has nothing left to lose”.

Keep up your harvesting without planting. Keep stealing the bondsman’s share of bread, and then beat him because he will not work harder for you. With so many “Rainmakers” calling up so many storms, and so much “Light of Day” beginning to show on the state sponsored slavery which is property tax, I find it puzzling to see so many of you stubbornly re-planting the seeds for your crop of whirlwinds.

MY FRIEND HANGED HIMSELF, IN HIS BASEMENT STAIRWELL, WITH AN ORANGE-INDUSTRIAL EXTENTION CORD THAT HE BORROWED FROM ME. "SENATOR" LUBBERS.

PLEASE REMEMBER THE STORY OF MY FRIEND AS YOU ARE PLUGGING IN YOUR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, WITH AN ORANGE-INDUSTRIAL EXTENTION CORD, THAT YOU HAVE BORROWED FROM ME!