Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Ballard Plans Launch Of Blue Indy Complete With Police Escorts In Downtown Indy

Councilor Christine Scales (R) has taken to Facebook to protest a plan by Mayor Greg Ballard to force IMPD officers to provide a police escort service through the busy streets of downtown to launch the Blue Indy electric car sharing service on September 2. Councilor Scales is the most vocal critic of Mayor Greg Ballard's highly illegal contract with Bollore's Blue Indy under which the French-owned company was granted a monopoly to operate an electric car-sharing business utilizing hundreds of public parking spaces and right-of-ways Mayor Ballard stole from the City and gave to the company for its exclusive use. Scales writes on Facebook about the Mayor's plans for September 2:
The Mayor plans a full blown police escort to accompany BlueIndy cars in parade like fashion down a major downtown artery to mark the official opening on Sept. 2nd of the illegal and expensive BlueIndy car share program. The past violent 5 days of homicides demand the manpower of a limited IMPD officer workforce be used for more important purposes. Call the Mayor and City Councillors. Tell them to demand an immediate halt to the Blue Indy car share program. Contact Sheriff Layton and Chief Hite and demand that their officers enforce the law they were sworn to uphold by citing the illegally parked BI cars on E.Washington Street. Layton and Hite should have the courage to fight political pressure, not just criminals.
Council members have been throwing up their hands at what they say is their inability to stop Mayor Ballard from carrying out what amounts to a theft of tens of millions of dollars in public assets. A council resolution sponsored by Councilors Zach Adamson (D) and Scales was postponed while they said negotiations with Blue Indy took place to address concerns council members had with the contract, in particular, the lack of a formal franchise agreement the council's attorney maintains is a legal requirement for such an arrangement.

Incredibly, the local news media has been doing nothing but cheerleading the Mayor's Blue Indy initiative and ignoring the unequivocal evidence his administration broke numerous state and local laws to aware the monopoly business to Blue Indy. Ballard committed $6 million to the privately-owned company out of the parking meter fund to help pay for the new power charging stations that are being illegally installed in the City's most highly-trafficked areas without any prior notice to the affected business owners and residential neighborhoods that are being adversely impacted by the loss of public parking. Council members say their pleas to Marion Co. Prosecutor Terry Curry to open a criminal investigation of the Mayor's actions have fallen on deaf ears. Local law enforcement will not enforce existing no stopping, no parking zones designated by city ordinance where Blue Indy cars have been illegally parked for the past 18 months.

Those involved in the deal refuse to answer questions about local persons who may have a beneficial interest in Blue Indy. Mayor Ballard's two terms in office have been marked by shady deals that are clearly conceived as nothing more than schemes to line the pockets of his campaign contributors at the public's expense. Pay to play is the Ballard way.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like heir Straub demanding PR attendance from IMPD officers working a fatal crash site.

Charles M. Navarra said...

Gary, I have had it with the corruption of both political machines. As a former multiple times elected Precinct Committeeman, a former Ward Chair, a former Vice Ward Chair, a former delegate to our Conventions, I publically call on this Mayor to cease and desist from his illegal deals- specifically Blue Indy, to abrogate his illegal unilateral contract with Bollore and their battery powered car rental business, and to follow the laws just as we "everyday taxpayers" who underwrite his paychecks are expected to obey.

Thank you, Gary, for keeping the disinfectant of the light of day on these foul, illegal, crony deals that enrich the few at the expense of the Marion County taxpayer.

I have a Facebook Page, Stop Blue Indy NOW, and a petition which is gathering steam at Petition to Stop Blue Indy NOW

Anonymous said...

I would feel a little better about Scales if she would write a public open letter to the Federal prosecutors asking that the matter be investigated. Right now, I simply do not care if she is reelected or not. Like Mavarra, I am a former Precinct Committeeman, former Ward Chair and former delegate to GOP conventions. The whole City Council and GOP leadership stinks.

Anonymous said...

I profoundly believe what we are witnessing in Greg Ballard is a psychologically impaired mental state marked by severe delusion. Mr. Ballard can no longer hide what I perceive to be serious personality psychopathy.

When I read the recent news reports that Greg Ballard is now offering his unsolicited advice to his national party leaders and his national party members, and in the way he delivered that unsolicited advice, I truly could not fathom that Greg Ballard actually considers himself to be so important that Reince Priebus and his east coast establishment RINO Republicans would pay heed.

Greg Ballard must be stopped and stopped today.

Anonymous said...

check out item 8 "other business" on today's board of public works agenda
http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPW/Board/Pages/2015-Board-Meeting-Materials.aspx

Josh said...

I wonder if all this push for blue indy, involving a foreign corporation that will be attached to the taxpayers as a parasite, is due to agenda 21 crap?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoMaYJwLyu4

And the America 2050 crap;
http://www.america2050.org/

Imagine police state "meggaregions" where millions are packed cheek to jowl and no one is allowed personal transportation other than bicycles.


Put all these Rockefeller/Rothschild plans for you and your progeny in a tidy package;
http://agenda21news.com/2015/03/america-has-a-definitive-date-with-depopulation/

Anonymous said...

You know Josh, Indianapolis is a voluntary, participating member of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and as a consequence of that membership contributes and aspires to implementation of the United Nations Agenda 21. There is no obligation for member cities to completely abide by the ICLE’s plan. But in the absence of withdrawal from membership, Indianapolis “voluntarily” joins more than a thousand world cities to advocate for environmental and sustainability initiatives per United Nations Agenda 21 guidelines. There was, briefly, a movement locally advocating against Indianapolis membership. But if you want and aspire to withdrawal, first you need to identify exactly who pays the annual ICLEI membership fee on behalf of the city of Indianapolis.

Josh said...




" Anonymous Anonymous said...

You know Josh, Indianapolis is a voluntary, participating member of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and as a consequence of that membership contributes and aspires to implementation of the United Nations Agenda 21. There is no obligation for member cities to completely abide by the ICLE’s plan. But in the absence of withdrawal from membership, Indianapolis “voluntarily” joins more than a thousand world cities to advocate for environmental and sustainability initiatives per United Nations Agenda 21 guidelines. There was, briefly, a movement locally advocating against Indianapolis membership. But if you want and aspire to withdrawal, first you need to identify exactly who pays the annual ICLEI membership fee on behalf of the city of Indianapolis.

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And there we have it. This explains pretty much everything. Thanks for posting that, I'd no idea how local this effort in global misgovernance was. Guess I should check my county.

Marycatherine Barton said...

If only we had more councilors with the integrity and intelligence of Christine!!

Anonymous said...

Marycatherine, I think she lost it when she rejoined the caucus.