With the clock ticking down to the final days of the 2019 municipal primary season, it seems incumbents at Carmel City Hall are pulling out all of the stops in a reactive effort to capture voter favor ahead of the May 7th election. With early and absentee voting already underway, the question is: are those […]
Category: Deceit & Manipulation
Mayor Jim Brainard either lied to Ann Marie Shambaugh or he has Carmel Police conducting off the record investigations.
On Friday April 5, I spoke with Ann Marie Shambaugh. She has a copy of the Police report in hand that proves there is no record of an investiation until I, Rick Smith, contacted the Carmel City Police via their non-emergency phone number at 8:01:00PM, AFTER I read Ann Marie’s story that evening. Things get […]
Brainard & The CRC – Master illusionists with an agenda and no oversight.
The purpose of the Carmel Redevelopment Commission is to maximize TIF! By maximizing TIF they create debt instruments to add infrastructure. Infrastructure is added to attract new taxes that hopefully results in additional TIF growth and then the cycle is repeated. So long as buildings are occupied, by lessors paying the market rate and is […]
Carmel City Council President Worrell responds to letter from Mike Shaver
Posted By: The Reporter March 22, 2019 Dear Editor, On March 18, Mr. Shaver addressed the Carmel City Council claiming Carmel taxpayers were unprotected regarding buildings not yet constructed in Carmel City Center. Unfortunately, before given an opportunity to respond, Mr. Shaver made the same claims in a letter to the editor the very next […]
Shaver: What exactly did Pedcor “guarantee”?
March 27, 2019 Dear Editor: The following is a response from Carmel resident Mike Shaver to the members of the Carmel City Council, including Council President Jeff Worrell. Dear Mr. Worrell & Members of the Carmel City Council: Thank you for responding to my inquiry regarding the “Developer Guarantees” for City Center, and for including […]
Mayor Brainard calls a Technical Foul – Removes Campaign Signs & everything but the American Flag
Will he be back for the Stars and Stripes? It would appear Dr. Tim Hannon’s flags are also in the easement. This has to be the most unusual easement in Indiana. It extends approximately 13 feet from the edge of the multipurpose trail to the edge of Hannon’s private front yard sidewalk. I […]
How to build a hotel without financing, public support or proven demand — and create a fiscal crisis at the Carmel Redevelopment Commission
Imagine that you reach a point in your life where you decide you want to build your own house. Not a modest single-story reach-style, split-level or neo-Craftsman, mind you. But the largest, fanciest and most noticeable house in town. Your new house is going to be so famous that townsfolk are talking about it even […]
When full transparency is worth more than a cup of coffee
Have you ever noticed? Carmel’s mayor and council incumbents are quick to trot out their cut-and-paste proclamations to convince us how great Carmel is — as if they somehow cannot trust us to believe in our own senses and experiences. “Carmel is ranked at the best place in America to raise a family.” “Carmel has […]
Why does a six-term incumbent need to find ways to eliminate challenges from within his party anyway?
As Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Weingarten filed a request with the Hamilton County Election Board last week to have allegations of bribery in the Carmel mayoral GOP primary campaign investigated, it turned on a bright and shining light in a number of places local GOP insiders would likely rather it didn’t. […]
Heard of the $21.8M Energy Center Boondoggle?
The first question to answer is what did we pay for the Energy Center? The following PDF shows we paid a Total of $21.8M This is really just a complex Loan scheme as explained in this information from the Vendors website. It wasn’t like the Newspapers didn’t keep us abreast of what was occurring […]