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I’m Not Indicted
White Out
We hear when the new
Indianapolis Public School Board
convenes one of the first orders of
business is some major house
We at the Cheat Sheet are keeping cleaning, including getting rid of
a close eye on the U.S. Attorney’s Superintendent Dr. Eugene White.
Office and whole Carl Brizzi-John TCS hers White is being made an
Bales deal. You know real estate offer to resign (and get the
developer Paul Page recently remainder of his salary left on his
entered into a plea agreement to contract) or he will be fired and get
cooperate with the feds. TCS only his pay up until June. Either
hears the feds have interviewed a way, he’s gone. In addition, a lot
lot of former Brizzi employees, of the IPS bureaucracy is going to
some have been very cooperative, be told to leave as well. It’s not
others not so much. They also clear whether they will do a new
recently interviewed former Brizzi search for a new Superintendent or
Chief Trial deputy David Wyser, hire a “CEO” to run the district.
who we also hear is a possible One name being circulated to take
person of interest. Interestingly over is Karega Rausch, former
enough, Wyser is getting ready to head of Charter Schools for the city
move out of state either to of Indianapolis and now the head
California or Nevada. He may want of Stand for Children, Indiana.
to ponder a place that doesn’t have
an extradition treaty with the
United States. TCS will have a lot
more on this in a future edition.
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again, what do we know? We’re
just gossip and rumor mongers!
Ritz Fails to Impress
The more Glenda Ritz talks to
Indiana lawmakers the worst it City-County Council Stuff
gets. In a private meeting with
Department of Education attorneys
over some interpretation of the
state education statute she chimed
in starting with “As a Librarian, I
think…” all that did was make eyes
roll. She is also still big on building
a tunnel in her office to connect
the two sides that are currently
separated by a staircase.
One thing that is happening is that
a lot of charter and choice
supporters are worried about Ritz It looks like there’s a budget deal
playing games with charter reached between Mayor Greg
schools, so look for something to Ballard’s office and City-County
happen in the next week or so that Council President Maggie Lewis.
removes charter schools from The two sides are using the
under DOE and puts them under weekend to sell the idea to their
the office of the Governor. caucuses. We don’t have the
details yet, but give us a few
Also, we hear Ritz wants to audit
hours.
the families that receive vouchers
to make sure they meet the Also Maggie recently announced
current state income requirements. she is running for Council President
We’re not sure how that’s going to again. John Barth will be Vice-
look with a white woman from President and Vern Brown is
Hamilton County wanting to audit sticking around as minority leader.
the finances of poor, minority
families who are trying to get their Of course, a lot of this could be a
kids a better education, but then moot point as Council Democrats
are scared you-know-whatless that
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the Indiana General Assembly will
pass a bill that eliminates the at-
large positions. Right now
Democrats hold all four at-large
positions, giving them their 16-13
majority. In the past House and
Senate Republicans were afraid to No Common Ground on
eliminate the at-large seats for fear Common Core
of bring labeled racists, but that
was also back in the day when Republican State Senator Scott
Roselle Boyd, Ron Gibson and Schneider has introduced
“King” Ro Connelly were on the legislation that would pull Indiana
council and the at-larges were 75% out of Common Core, the federal
Black, now they are 75% white education guideline program.
(Pam Hickman, John Barth and However, that may not be as
Zach Adamson). Thank County simple as it sounds, we’re told the
Chairman Ed Treacy for that one caucus is pretty divided on this
since he didn’t want too many issue and it could get ugly. We
blacks running in at-large frankly don’t think it will get
positions. The only black at-large anywhere.
Councilor is Leroy Robinson. In
A Wing and The Lord’s Prayer
addition, there are a growing
number of black Indianapolis
residents who think the at-larges
are useless positions and would be
willing to go testify in any
committee hearing as well. The
question now is if the at-larges
were eliminated would their term
expire in 2015 or would they be
eliminated now, but they would still
be paid ½ their salary for the
There’s more to Senator Dennis
remainder of their terms. Stay
Kruse’s bill that would mandate the
tuned to this one.
Lord’s prayer be said in charter
schools than you might think.
While Kruse is a deeply Christian
man, he knows the bill won’t go
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anywhere but has to offer it up to unless they’re getting ready to get
keep constituents happy. In active.
addition Senate Pro Tempore David
Long doesn’t like to automatically
kill bills so he will let them float up
and then get shot down. While it
does have the potential to hurt the View from Da Region
image of the caucus, it also sends
We hear former Lake County
a signal to the ideologues to keep
Sheriff Roy Dominguez may be in
the crazy at home.
some hot water soon. Also, they’re
Fishing for Mayor going caucus crazy up there with a
lot of musical political chairs taking
Now that Fishers is about to place since Rick Niemeyer won
change to a mayoral form of State Rep and his county Council
government, with a mayor elected seat had to be filled.
directly by the voters (what a novel
concept), the candidates are lining Who Wants to Be Chairman?
up for the job. So far the short list
We hear the next reorganization at
is Town Council President Scott
the Republican and Democratic
Faultless, and council members
state central committee meetings
Renee Cox and John Weingardt and
could get interesting. TCS is still
a dark horse, to be named later.
hearing folks are trying to get Vi
Simpson to run for the job as State
Chair, however a new name we’re
hearing is Trish Whitcomb Riley,
Way Down South who is an advisor to Glenda Ritz.
We also don’t expect GOP
Although TCS focuses a lot on Chairman Eric Holcomb to stay put.
Central Indiana, we do get an Since he was Mitch’s appointment
occasional report from down south. we figure he will want incoming
We hear that former Evansville Governor Mike Pence to have his
Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel is own person there. We hear Pence
looking to get active again in the may pick a female to replace
future and get this, Evan Bayh sent Holcomb.
out a lot of Christmas cards to his
fellow political types. No one
sends Christmas cards in politics
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Another Auditor Candidate When Carter got named, there was
the talk that current Hamilton
Look for GOP Fayette County County Chairman Pete Emigh was
Chairman David Cox to possibly going to run and that kept a lot of
throw his hat in the ring for State people out. Now that Emigh isn’t
Auditor. He currently works for the running the floodgates of political
Department of Natural Resources. crazy have opened up. Try to
follow this.
Steve Holt is trying to pull a Mitch
Daniels and get precinct
committeemen to “recruit” him to
fill the spot even though his term
ends this month. He’s being backed
Hamilton County Cluster**** by Commissioner Steve Dillinger.
Another name is Mark Heirbrant
who has the backing of Christine
Altman. Rumor also has it that
Emigh likes him as well. Another
person looking for the job is
County-Councilor Rick McKinney.
And there is a move afoot to
recruit Amy Massillamany of
You would think that with the Fishers to run as well, she also
Republican reputation for being serves on the County Council.
orderly, things would be running
smoothly in Hamilton County. Not What makes this so odd is that a
so much. Since former Sheriff guy by the name of Greg Pulse
Doug Carter was named as the leads a hard core ideologicial
new incoming head of State Police faction of the Hamilton County GOP
things have gotten wild and crazy and he has been looking to take
up in the HC. out Eimgh as Chair for a while. So
he may be looking to make
Here’s the deal. Carter had just statement as well. There are more
gotten elected to County than 200 PCs who would vote to
Commissioner and was getting fill the spot, 70 were appointed by
ready to replace Steve Holt who Eimgh.
decided not to run again because
he didn’t want to lose to Carter.
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By the way, the Hamilton County
Commissioner job pays about
$50,000 annually. It has health
insurance and since Commissioners
dole out all the contracts there are
a lot of “perks” that go along with
the job that should probably be
disclosed somewhere on an ethics
form, if there was one.
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