The primary served to show that they started throwing dirt on us before the lid was on or, the box was in the ground. Mitch is slippery enough that he will slide back in on the slug trails left by his cronies, and the 1-2-3 "Plan" will remove ALL residual property rights in Indiana. (If you think you own your property, skip a tax payment! You WILL find out differently!) See: SB 1145, 2008 session.
The orchestrated juggling of Property Tax payment dates; statewide, is designed to keep the trolls under the bridge, until the flood of taxes comes to drown them---after the election. The sheep (see: Electorate) will follow the Shepherd / Kernan across the bridge, all the way to fleecing and slaughter.
Americans are already asking for political / financial asylum, in Canada...Where, I suppose, they can at least expect legitimate socialism. Unlike the insidious creeps we have here. The NAZIonal gubment has presented a PONZI scheme to provide the illusion of foreclosure relief, whilst lining their own pockets Which Bush has promised to veto, right after Jenna's reception...
So, the promised chicken dinner is all beaks and feathers. What you have is agendized governance, by collusion and illusion. There are NO party distinctions left. Only class division---The haves (gubment) and, the have-not's (Everyone else).
The last line of Francis Scott Key's famous tune (The Star Spangled Banner) should be updated for historical relevance, to read: "o'er the land of the greed and, the homeless slave". But, of course, it needs to be re-written in a combination of Spanish and Arabic, too...
The smart monkeys learn how to open the cage, and escape. The stupid ones think they look good in carcinogenic make-up, as long as there is a promise of free bananas...The primaries sure brought out the Mary Kay monkeys!
The news---For what it's worth:
Leba-tucky:
http://www.reporter.net/local/local_story_129005320.html
http://www.reporter.net/local/local_story_130000213.html
Ft. Whine:
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/EDIT07/805080341
South Bend-over:
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/News01/443127766/1130/Sports01
Terrible Hut:
http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=9775
NAZIonal:
http://www.realtytrac.com/ContentManagement/RealtyTracLibrary.aspx?ItemID=4567
Friday, May 9, 2008
Prediction: You will get screwed over even more after the election
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Ken Morgan thanks his supporters
It was most disappointing to learn that "the good guys" lost two races yesterday. One was Senate District #30 to unseat Teresa Lubbers and the other was House Representative District #98 to unseat Bill Crawford.
Ken Morgan distributed 15,000 flyers and knocked on countless doors inside District #30 and worked 7 days a week. Abu Henderson put forth a similar effort in district #98. Both got only about 20% of the vote. Both of these men have given countless hours of volunteer work on the property tax front and deserved to win. Their efforts are much appreciated. If only more honorable people could get elected.
Here's a note we got today from Ken Morgan:
Hello Friends
Yesterday, the people, in considerable numbers, decided the important thing to do was vote in the Democratic primary. They ignored the Republican primary. Out of a population in district thirty, which may approach 160,000 people, only about 12,000 voted in the Republican primary. That was a decrease of about 1800 from the last primary. So we see that a tiny minority determines who runs for office.As a newcomer, I never expected to turn a large portion of the Republican core against their slated candidate.
However, it was my intention to motivate greater participation in the primary by people who usually do not vote in the primary. Despite the fact that we delivered 15,000 flyers, by hand, to as many households, and potentially reached twenty to thirty thousand voters, it appears that we persuaded virtually none to vote in the Republican primary.
It appears that we reached twenty percent of the core republican voters who were ready for a change, but the rest were satisfied with the status quo and leery of an unknown newcomer. Perhaps, if it had been an ordinary election, where Indiana's primary would not affect the presidential race, the outcome might have been different.
I wish to thank all those who contributed to this campaign with their money, their effort, and their hearts.
Ken Morgan
Aaron Russo talks with IRS Commissioner Sheldon Cohen
This site will be posting many Aaron Russo interviews in the coming days. Do yourself a favor, watch them all, and pass the interviews along to your friends.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Congressmen and hypocrisy
Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:
* 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
* 7 have been arrested for fraud
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
* 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
* 3 have done time for assault
* 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
* 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
* 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Q: Which organization this is?
A: 535 members of the United States Congress.
The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.
Andre Carson cares more about politics than representing YOU in the 7th district
Hat tip to Advance Indiana today for reporting that Andre Carson misssed several more votes in Congress today. As evidenced by Carson's actions (not his words) representing YOU in Congress is his last priority today. Please recall he swore after the special election that he would never miss a vote if he was elected.
"Congressman-elect Andre Carson said today he expects to be sworn in Thursday at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and vowed not to miss votes in Congress despite his campaign to win the primary in May."
Published in Indianapolis Star on March 12, 2008
We can clearly see that Andre Carson's word to the taxpayers means absolutely nothing.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
ABU HENDERSON: Knock Out Tax Bill Crawford !
just like he did to qualify for the 1980 Olympics.
Abu will make sure you have fair representation in the State House.
That's where the decisions that most closely affect Hoosiers happen.
VOTE ABU!
ABU IS ENDORSED BY
HOOSIERS FOR FAIR TAXATION
TAX BILL CRAWFORD: The Ways & Means by which you get screwed
Read why Tax Bill Crawford has to go!While you are at it, check out what
the Indiana Minority Report has to say about the scoundrel too!
Indiana 7th District to Senator Barack Obama: "Stop The Seed!"
CONTRACEPTION OUTREACH
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And Dr. Woody Meyers is Indiana's former state health commissioner. Dr. Meyers is endorsed by Jeanne White, mother of Ryan White. Ryan's mom says that Dr. Meyers was the only state official who helped her son during his persecution over his right to go to school with AIDS.
LIBERTARIAN, REPUBLICAN, & OPERATION CHAOS
FRIENDS of DR. WOODY MEYERS
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Washington Township wants to know: WHY WON’T WANDA RODDY ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BACKGROUND?
Wanda Roddy"Fibbin' to the taxpayers comes easy for me."
THE SITUATION
Several people have called and emailed Wanda Spann Roddy about legitimate questions concerning her background. She refuses to answer, to date. WHY?
THE EVIDENCE
Compare the info from the 1991 grant which provided START-UP funds …. For a Teen Parenting Program at NCHS to Wanda’s program which didn’t start until 1997.
From a Health and Hospital Report dated May 7, 1992, a grant was issued:
Grant No. 91-11
March 21, 1991
$28,359
Date of Check: 6-1-1991
TO:
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP TEEN PARENTING
Ms. Irene Krahulik
6295 N. Olney
Providing start-up funds for a Teen Parenting Program at North Central High School
From the Friends of MSDWT website describing Wanda Spann Roddy:
“Wanda is founder and director of a program for pregnant and parenting teens that operates at several local high schools, including North Central.”
Elsewhere she has stated that this program was started in 1997.
QUESTIONS THAT ARE RAISED:
“Why does Wanda claim to be the FOUNDER of the NCHS program when it is obviously predated by the 1991 NCHS program?”
“Did Wanda use the 1991 NCHS program as the basis for her 1997 program?”
“If yes, did she give credit to the NCHS program?“
“If she used the NCHS program and did not give credit to it, is that plagiarism – or worse?”
“Should such a person serve on the WT School Board?”
“Is this the type of transparency in government that we must have?”
INFO NEEDED:
We need to get more info in order to answer those questions. Wanda should provide a copy of her original program proposal. MSDWT/NCHS should provide a copy of the original program outline for comparison.
If such information is not forthcoming to clear up these questions, then are MSDWT/NCHS and Wanda complicit in a cover-up?
Friday, May 2, 2008
Ron Paul in Indiana -- May 5th !
For Immediate Release
Ron Paul Brings Campaign to Indiana, May 5
What: Ron Paul Freedom Rally at Indiana University - Purdue University at Fort Wayne
The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center
The Auer Auditorium
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
Monday, May 5th, 7:00 PM ET
Public and media are invited.
(Press availability 6:30 - 7:00pm in John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center room RC115)
Paid for by the Ron Paul 2008 Presidential Campaign Committee
Taxpayer Clinic in Meridian Kessler -- THIS SUNDAY !
With all the rumors swirling around and the confusion about property tax relief, it seems appropriate that Hoosiers rally once again, to ask a simple question. "Where's the relief?"
Becky Williams, President of the Indiana Assessors Assoc., along with several township assessors, has kindly offered to join taxpayers this Sunday (5/4/08) in Indianapolis; to help them estimate their upcoming bills, prepare appeals and understand the assessment process.
Sunday, May 4th, 2008, 1PM
Taxpayer Clinic and rally: "Where's the relief?"
49th / Pennsylvania St, Indianapolis
(near the Governor's Mansion)
For more info. call Dave at 317-446-6435
Many Hoosiers will be surprised to learn that "relief" is actually a tax increase. Join fellow citizens to get clarity on recent legislation.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
D.C. Madam dead: Randall Tobias alive
Earlier today, Deborah Jeane Palfry dubbed the 'DC Madam', was tragically found dead in a shed near her mother's house just weeks before her July sentencing was to take place.
A story issued by the Washington Post a little less than hour ago has a plethora of reader comments (likely from inside the beltway) suggesting her death was no suicide, but is murder.
No doubt much evil does lurk within the lives of politicians. Every single man who hired services from Ms. Palfry's agency is complicit, yet none of them are prosecuted, including Indianapolis' Randall Tobias.
"During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder."
Discrepancies worst in Center Township, with values down 28.8%
We hear that there will likely be a Taxpayer Clinic on Sunday in Meridian Kessler. Stay tuned. We will publish details as soon as we have them. --HFFT
INDIANAPOLIS STAR REPORTS:
A sluggish housing market is eroding Marion County home values even as the state is calculating higher values for tax purposes, squeezing thousands of homeowners and tipping some toward bankruptcy.
Worst hit: Center Township, where the housing slump slashed property values 28.8 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to an Indianapolis Star analysis of home sales data.
Despite that dramatic fall in home prices, the taxes on many of those homes will rise as the state attempts to bring assessed values in line with market values.
The median assessment on 2,900 homes sold in Center Township last year was $49,600, whereas the median sales price for the same group of homes was only $39,900, a difference of 24 percent.
The disparity does not appear to result from assessment errors so much as the fact that assessed values for 2007 were based on 2005 sales data, and real estate values have fallen since then. A rash of mortgage fraud schemes also may have contributed to it by falsely inflating values during 2005.
For many, it all adds up to a problem.
When
tax bills went out last year, some homeowners were floored.
Indianapolis bankruptcy attorney Mark Zuckerberg said hundreds of calls came into his office from beleaguered homeowners squeezed by higher taxes, falling property values and adjustable rate mortgages automatically resetting to higher payments.
"They were already getting adjustments going up on their ARMs, and then the property taxes came in on top of it,'' Zuckerberg said. "It was like a double whammy. They were using credit cards to keep afloat in hopes of refinancing their loans, and then when it turned out the homes were losing value, they found the banks didn't want to make new loans on their homes."
A property reassessment ordered last year and completed this spring should lower many tax bills below those issued last year, which were based on flawed assessments. But most of the new 2007 bills to appear in mailboxes later this year will still be higher than those paid in 2006, the last valid assessment.
Houses across the county are vulnerable to the same forces. A review of data on the sales of 28,500 homes in Marion County found the median sales price dropped by 3 percent, from $100,000 in 2005 to $97,000 in 2007.
But the crumbling housing market is hitting Center Township much harder than other parts of the county, despite a push by the city to transform Downtown, Fountain Square, Fall Creek Place and other neighborhoods.
The review revealed the median sales price in Center Township dropped from $56,000 in 2005 to $39,900 last year, a percentage decline three times larger than in any of Marion County's eight other townships.
Values based on 2005 sales
Home values reflected in the new assessments may seem high to many owners because of the recent declines in the real estate market, Marion County Assessor Greg Bowes said.
He said the recently redone tax assessments represent the market value of a property as of Jan. 1, 2005. That's because of a time lag built into the property tax system. That lag is necessary to collect and analyze sales data, update values and then calculate and distribute tax bills.
"In that three years, we know there's been some change in the housing market," Bowes said. "But because we are so late (in getting the county's 2007 property tax assessment done), we're having trouble catching up."
Assessments for 2008 tax bills, for example, will be adjusted to reflect market values as of Jan. 1, 2006.
But for homeowners already hit by rising gasoline and food costs, the timing of the current reassessment couldn't be worse.
Douglas and Sharon Purdy are considering appealing their home assessment after learning the house they purchased in the 1900 block of Prospect Avenue last year for $8,500 is assessed at $74,100.
"When we bought this house, it wasn't livable. It had been empty and deteriorating for years," Sharon Purdy said. "There's no way it was worth $74,000 in 2005, and it sure isn't worth that today."
Disabled and living on fixed incomes, the Purdys bought the house hoping to fix it up as a way to escape rent payments that contributed to their living "check-to-check," she said. But now, they can't even get a bank to lend them the money to make needed repairs, Sharon Purdy said.
"We thought we would buy this place, fix it up and spend the rest of our lives here," she said. "Now, we may not even be able to afford the taxes."
Rosie Jefferies is in a similar situation: The rundown home she bought last year in the 2900 block of Baltimore Avenue for $7,000 is assessed at $53,500.
Jefferies, 64, said she doubts the house is worth that much today, even though she has replaced the wiring, drywall and carpet, added insulation and updated the kitchen.
"It had been vacant for a couple of years," she said, "and before that, the people had really let it go downhill."
Even with the repairs and a fresh coat of paint, Jefferies says, "it's about the worst-looking house on the block."
Official "very happy"
Jeff Tracy, director of assessment for the Marion County assessor, said Center Township homes were the most difficult in the county to accurately assess. The township has the county's oldest housing stock, and its urban character and diversity put low- and high-priced homes near each other and make it tough to set their taxable values, he said.
That also makes it difficult to gauge the accuracy of the township's assessed values by comparing them with sales prices, he said.
"To just take a raw set of data and try to do any kind of analysis is brutal," he said.
Tracy, who did much of the reassessment work for Center Township, said he is "very happy" with the overall results.
"For the data that we have and the numbers we used, I am pretty confident" in the accuracy of the taxable values, he said. "The appeals process will help sort it out even better."
As of early April, more than 8,000 homeowners and businesses in the county had filed appeals of their new assessments.
Foreclosures and fraud
Other possible factors in the disparity between sales prices and assessed values might stem from the city's high foreclosure rate and mortgage fraud cases.
While no one tracks the number of homes involved in the fraud cases, as many as 1,000 homes that went into foreclosure in recent years were at the center of illicit real estate deals, conducted especially in the older neighborhoods around Downtown, real estate experts say.
But the number could be much higher, with perhaps 10,000 homes in Center Township financed, bought or resold, sometimes multiple times, by companies and investors now implicated in fraudulent loan or investment schemes, estimates Frank Corsaro, supervisor of the real estate division in the Center Township assessor's office.
Last fall, the metro-area ranked 24th in the nation with 6,600 homes in foreclosures, down from first place in early 2006. In a sample of 75 homes across the county known to be involved in fraud cases, The Star found at least seven were used as comparison sale in the last reassessment.
Bowes, Marion County's assessor, said he thinks his staff was able to identify most home sales that were out of whack with market prices, including many of those involved in the fraud cases, and exclude those sales from assessment calculations.
"We threw out a whole bunch of sales," many because they were connected with companies or investors known to be involved in fraudulent mortgage schemes, he said.
"I can't give you an assurance that mortgage fraud didn't have an improper effect on the results. There were too many (fraud-related sales) to deal with . . . for us to have caught all of them."
Steve Minton, a Realtor with the Steve Minton Group at Keller Williams Realtors in Indianapolis, said the number of homes on the market is at a record high and is expected to increase as more homes caught up in the subprime mortgage collapse are offered for sale over the next few years.
"The ripple effect in the water for real estate is that more inventory can make values fall," he said.
Minton said the glut may not clear the market until 2012 or later at which time, barring unforeseen economic problems, property owners can hope to again see moderate appreciation in home values.
Call Star reporter Tim Evans at (317) 444-6204.
NEWS RELEASE: District 7 taxpayers call for Obama to unendorse Andre Carson
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Press Conference Friday, May 4th @ Noon
2 Monument Circle, Indianapolis
HOOSIERS FOR FAIR TAXATION
Media Contact: 317-938-8913
Hoosiers For Fair Taxation will join with Hoosiers For Honesty in Government PAC at Obama Headquarters on Friday to call for Senator Obama to unendorse Andre Carson. It is our position it is unfair to ignore other candidates from district 7 with far more public service experience than Andre Carson. We join with other District 7 citizens and echo the following message issued by Hoosiers For Honesty in Government:
"Recently elected Congressman Andre Carson, and the Carson political machine, are practicing monarchy with a Congressional seat and are hurting our community and a lot of people.Senator Obama, please withdraw your endorsement of Andre Carson immediately and rehabilitate each of those candidates by making a public appearance with each of them. These candidates are seeking Congressional seats in our nation's capitol. Their roles are 'just as significant' in American politics and American history as is the presidency; they are the foundation of our democratic society."
Should Senator Obama unendorse Andre Carson?
Weigh in with your opinion, take our poll located to the right of this page.
HFFT supports Hoosiers For Honesty in Government Rally at Obama's Indiana HQ
Boston Legal ran a timely episode last night that explored litigation against the DNC for allowing a super delegate to cast a vote for a presidential candidate that did not win the popular vote. It also explored the purchase of super delegate's votes by presidential candidates. It is our position that Andre Carson was bought by Senator Obama in exchange for use of the Carson Machine politics, as described in the Wall Street Journal article we re-published yesterday.
HFFT' asserts that if the the two parties desire to cast votes for the people's presidential candidates via delegates, it should do so without forcing the taxpayers to foot the enormous bill for primary elections.
Many of America's taxpayers are independent or third-party voters and it is immoral to force these taxpayers to foot the bill so that two private organizations can sort out who they want to run for office. These independent voters are not represented by the primaries.
HOOSIERS FOR HONESTY IN GOVERNMENT, the influential local PAC that helped end Bart Peterson's eight year reign as Mayor, organized a rally tomorrow (and everyday thereafter) at Obama's Indianapolis Headquarters.
Here is the press release we received:
WHO: Supporters of the 7th Congressional District candidates
WHAT: Rally
WHY: To Request Senator Obama withdraw his endorsement of Candidate Andre Carson
WHEN: Friday, May 2, 2008, 12:00pm and everyday thereafter until the November election
WHERE: Obama Volunteer Headquarters, 2 N Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN.
If you are supporting ANY of the other candidates in this race please join together and respectfully make this public request of Senator Obama:
Dear Senator Barack Obama, As you cast your eyes to our nations Capitol in your bid for the presidency, please take a moment and cast those same eyes toward the leaders of the communities you desire to serve; specifically those leaders currently running for Congress in the 7th Congressional District of Indiana.
Recently elected Congressman Andre Carson, and the Carson political machine, are practicing monarchy with a Congressional seat and are hurting our community and a lot of people.
Senator Obama, please withdraw your endorsement of Andre Carson immediately and rehabilitate each of those candidates by making a public appearance with each of them. These candidates are seeking Congressional seats in our nation's capitol. Their roles are ‘just as significant’ in American politics and American history as is the presidency; they are the foundation of our democratic society.
These candidates have given up so much to run for this office, and for some it has been a very emotional experience. These candidates should be allowed to run without the influence of the 1st formidable black presidential candidate backing the ‘least qualified’ candidate who is slated because of a ‘dying declaration’ from his grandmother to a group of hand-picked precinct committee people to send her ‘seed’ to Congress.
We forgive you if you weren't aware of these details, but now that you are, we respectfully request you withdraw your endorsement of Andre Carson and rehabilitate the remaining formidable candidates before the public.
Warmest regards,
Hoosiers for Honesty in Government, PAC
