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 really stupid from that point forward.
Also on Friday, April 5, a separate Request for Records was filed asking for any data that might have been missed in the initial request. This will prove beyond question that the Mayor either lied or he is again conducting secret investigations of Private Citizens.
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The entire headline and story below is a lie. The headline was either a lie or the Mayor has begun using the police as a personal security force not acountable to the citizens via public records.
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Carmel mayor: Police investigating after note from council candidate allegedly removed from trash can. (Is the Mayor Lying? We found no evidence of an investigation)
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard said police are investigating after a thank you note he received from a city council candidate was posted on social media after allegedly being removed from a trash container.
Brainard declined to elaborate on the incident because of the investigation, but he confirmed he believes the note from southeast district candidate Adam Aasen was removed from his trash can. Aasen said he sent the note to Brainard at his home.
In the note, which thanks Brainard for attending a campaign event, Aasen states “I promise I won’t let you down” and “I support you 100 percent.” It was shared on the Concerned Neighbors of Carmel IN Facebook page Feb. 8. Rick Smith confirmed that he posted the note online and said he received it anonymously through Facebook. He said he does not know who sent it to him or how the sender obtained it.
Aasen said the note referred to his support for the mayor’s re-election campaign, not that he’d rubber stamp the mayor’s agenda if elected.
“I sent a thank you note, which I think is good manners,” Aasen said. “They went through someone’s trash. I’m not sure that’s good manners.”
“I look forward to a clean campaign focused on the issues and not on trash,” he added.
Carmel police did not respond to a request for comment as of press time.
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About that Police Investigation you claimed was ongoing Mayor Brainard, why didn’t the Police know about it?
The Incident Report –
Errors on this page. The call time was 8:01 PM. I did not call E911 as I live in Noblesville and that would have been routed through NPD. I called the Carmel Non-emergency number. I explained it was a Carmel matter and I needed to speak to a CPD official regarding a current investigation. There seemed to be no one available that was aware of what I was speaking about. The woman said they had no current knowledge but she would have someone call me back.
Within 15 minutes I get a call from a Noblesville Police Officer asking how he can help. I explained again the issues and that I had no idea why Carmel dispatched it back to Noblesville.
I asked him to please have a CPD officer contact me.
Within the next 10 to 15 minutes I received a call from CPD Sgt. Flaming. She was the one who told me she was unaware of any investigation and if they needed a statement they would contact me.
At that point I assumed it was over but it wasn’t.
It had only just begun. I initiated a 3-day investigation of myself and another unnamed party. SO GIDDYUP!
First, after the Sgt has it it is sent to a Major on February 11, 2019 who transferred to an unidentiffied individual who with Sgt. McNair interviewed Mayor Brainard on Feb 12. Read what few comments of the Mayors that aren’t redacted. He thinks someone else might have knowledge of how the thank you note was – REDACTED.
Apparently, if the Mayor is involved overkill is the buzzword. Think about the Palladium, The Carousel, The Hotel, and his Art he is always way over the top. So the investigaton with two investigators continues into another day.
So for the crime of making a sarcastic remark about an oversexed Mayor I am investigated for 3 days for Stalking and Criminal Trespass.
Amazing the money Carmel can waste because a friend of the Mayors pulls some cheap tricks for his pleasure and amusement. Even Alan Sutherlin got into the act at The Hamilton County Reporter who initially sensationalized the story.
Hamilton County Reporter
Hamilton County’s Hometown Newspaper
Carmel mayor’s trash used for political agenda
The Reporter has learned a handwritten thank you note was taken from the trash of Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard, which was on private property and not set on the curb for collection.
A note expressing thanks for the mayor’s attendance at a campaign event for Adam Aasen, candidate for Carmel City Council, Southeast District, was posted on social media at approximately 9 a.m. Friday morning.
Aasen told The Reporter the note was intended to express support for the mayor’s re-election campaign and did not indicate he would unilaterally support all Brainard’s policies, which is what the social media poster indicated.
“The mayor attended an event and I mailed him a handwritten thank you note,” Aasen said. “I make it a policy to send handwritten notes to anyone who attends my events.”
While Mayor Brainard was unavailable for comment Friday afternoon, Allan Sutherlin, retired campaign advisor and long-time political consultant to Brainard, was available.
Sutherlin said he saw the original note while visiting Mayor Brainard at his home Sunday evening. Sutherlin also confirmed that this is not only a matter of going through someone’s garbage but of allegedly trespassing to do so.
“When it was posted I was on the phone with the mayor,” Sutherlin said. “The mayor was at an international energy conference in Colorado as a speaker. He said, ‘I don’t know how they got that unless they took it out of my trash. And if they took it out of my trash they trespassed because my trashcan is not on the street.’”
Sutherlin told The Reporter, “I just have to say that I’m disappointed. I thought we were above this.”
The original poster, whom this newspaper chooses not to name, later confirmed on social media that he had “staked out the mayor’s trash” for two weeks.
Editor’s note: The Reporter has chosen not to publish the details of the note or the social media post.
What was the post that caused all this panic?
The Reporter was kind enough to allow me to correct the record and post the actual message on their site .
Warning: This initially caused a PANIC…
Reader: “I, too, was Brainard gullible”
Dear Editor:
I realized the error of my ways during the 2012 Carmel bailout. That was the first time I had observed Mayor Brainard saying things he knew not to be right at the time he stated them. You can call that what you will; I know what I call it when someone intentionally makes an inaccurate statement for their own benefit.
Remember the 2012 bailout? That was when Brainard and the Carmel Redevelopment Commission made Carmel financially unsustainable. Councilor Jeff Worrell knew because he was a member of the CRC from 2006 until after the 2018. Even Jeff acknowledged the debt they had created was unsustainable.
So, it is true that a note was posted on my site Concerned Neighbors of Carmel IN by me.
Apparently, one person, that may have their own motives, made baseless accusations it was ‘stolen’ from the Mayor’s trash. Quote below:
D.G.M.: “Going through a person’s trash from their private home and stealing their US mail is a CRIME.”
Numerous comments followed, most of which questioned the accuser’s credibility.
Finally, the person addressed me directly and asked:
D.G.M.: “Rick Smith how did you get this?”
Rick Smith: “Well, it was all on the down low. After hearing Adam Declared Allegiance to the Mayor, I staked out the Mayor’s trash. It took two weeks of searching but I knew sooner or later I would find it…”
This would be considered obvious sarcasm by the most casual observer. Indeed 10 of 14 emoticons were of laughter, so ~70 percent took it as a joke and D.G.M. was the only person that seemed to be unable to detect it was sarcasm. Apparently, it went right over this person’s tightly-curled head. Imagine believing that someone would have been ignorant enough to try to go through the Mayor’s trash, on his property, in plain view during the weather we have had over the last few weeks.
There was no way I expected anyone to be that gullible.
I am informed that now a large number of people on Carmel social media’s Facebook page have swallowed this nonsense hook, line and sinker.
So, ladies and gentlemen, a single uninformed person exposes the leaky basket of remaining gullibles that believe virtually anything they are told to think or believe by the Mayor or his cheerleaders.
As far as any candidate being connected to my campaign, that too is fallacious. If you go to my page, you will see I announce both Republican and Democrat candidates for office. I started my site in August of 2017 well before any of the candidates except the incumbents were known.
I support any candidate that is not Jim Brainard or one of his puppet Councilors.
Friends, don’t let your friends be gullible!
Rick Smith
Noblesville
Concerned Neighbors of Carmel IN
On a last note many assumed I lied about receiving an anonymous facebook post. Luckily the person sent me another one as proof!
