Judge it!Marnin, you weren't in Carmel for the last election but this exactly how it was done then as well. Brainard hand picked Griffiths, Mayo, Sharp, Ratterman, Glaser, Carter, Kirby. He hand picked ALL of them and funded ALL of them. Initially Ratterman and Glaser where Brainard guys too. After working with the mayor and seeing what happens behind closed doors did they realize what a scam this mayor is and decided to bail from the slate and vote their own way on the council. Now Brainard is trying to do exactly the same thing with Woody and Phiebes.<quoted text>
Rider is basically another mouthpiece for the Mayor. Looking at his Campaign Finance Form for the primary, one can find some revealing facts, and connections.
Bruce Cordingley, Gerald Pedigo, and Phillip Stoffregen each gave $1000 to the Rider campaign. Guess where they are all connected? To PEDCOR, the same development company "partnered" with the Carmel CRC to build City Center, and other projects. Cordingley is President, Pedigo is a Director with a 10%+ stake, and Stoffregen is the Executive Vice President. Does this tell anyone anything? I discovered this information about these individuals from SEC public records.
http://www.secinfo.com/ $/SEC/Filings.asp?As=M&Nam e=jphillipstoffregen&Find= Phillip+J%2E+Stoffregen
http://www.secinfo.com/d14sr8.112Jj.htm
Another interesting contribution is from the Sharp for Council Committee, also for $1000. What can be said about that? Could it be that Sharp is giving his campaign fund to these other candidates with promises that if he has a hot contest in November that he will be reimbursed big time? Maybe some folks out there might be able to answer these questions.
The real issue here is that for seemingly no other reason, why are major contributors of Brainard now helping finance the Rider campaign? If you listen to Rider's campaign spiel, you can almost see a match to the Mayor's political pitches, and excuses for everything whether it be for the debt, TIFs, City Center, Park...the whole shebang.
Could it be that Rider was recruited in an attempt to get Rattermann off the Council? Would it not be better for the Mayor to stack his Council up with his rubber stamping friends so that he could continue his unbridled "vision" for another four years? What real benefit would Carmel have if Rider, as a firm Brainard ally, was elected?
See his campaign finance report....
http://www.co.hamilton.in.us/publicdocs/Campa... (Woody)/r_Rider,%20Kevin%20(Wo ody),%20CFA-4,%202007%20Primar y.pdf
TIME FOR A CHANGE...FOR GOODNESS SAKES!
History repeats itself.
I can only hope Carmel voters will rise up and oust this cast of characters. I'm telling you, if Brainard is gone you won't believe the information that will come screaming out of city hall with regard to graft, ethics violations etc. But people are only going to talk if they know Brainard can't hurt them.
Also, watch your back Marnin, Brainard has known to hire investigators to glean information on opposition candidates and opposing citizens. This happened to people I know during the last election and I'm sure that it is happening again now.
Oh and one more thing. The city showed up at LArry Fritz's place of business and cited him for bogus ordinance violations! That is what happens when you oppose the mayor of Carmel. Disgusting!
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