Northwest Indiana Discussion

Well councilman, it's rather apparent that your hero is not doing his job.... 80% of the 11,500 votes out of a city of 80,000 people ain't something I would be bragging about. If Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr wants to run for higher office, he needs to cross and appeal to those republicans. The day after Jr's re election, he came on wjob and threated the largest voting block in munster, republicans. Stuipd move, but we're talking about McDermott here.

That's it go ahead and being your slander campaign.... lunatic? Well then Tom has been your hero for 8 years, then why has no one dealt with that gang tag? It's been their for a 1 1/2months. Maybe because people are afraid to call Hammond Police and code enforcement.

Talking to people on that block, whom I know several, they CLEARLY said if you call code enforcement, every one on the block gets cited. That's what I call intimidation.

And why was that gang grafitti not dealt with, Someone sleepin on the job? Doesn't a garbage truck go down that alley? Someone not smart enough to have the Garbage truck record the address and have the tagging removed. Used the frigging idea, claim it for your self. See, the problem with Hammond city government it has too many inbred appointed government workers like the fuller and post man.

If the friggin politician was doing his job, the gang grafitti would not be there. The cops are understaff, underpaid and overworked, don't blame them. The grafitti points directly to a politician, not adequately funding a police department, except for hiring a 10 cops just before the election. Eight years they have been understaffed. 10 cops ain't gonna make much of a difference.

Now what is your excuse for the following picture. That roofline has been like this for YEARS... WTF, tenants live in that building. Your hero allows the landlord to lease that property despite it's major structural problems. Must be a contributor to a certain campaign fund.

Of course... This is just my opinion.



Note the Illinois plated car in the apartment parking lot.... must be a visitor

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Got it from a fairly reliable source.

Ducks are being lined up by this administration as we speak! Any financial impropriety investigation that occurs in Hammond is going to go the East Chicago way..... dumped on someone else. Namely a board or city council.

The line that Mayor Tom is going to coin is: "I didn't have anything to do with it. The board allocated the money and the city controller wrote the check."

Or

"The Board approved those expenditures, were they really illegal?"


Note in the last state board of accounts report re: Hammond's finances, $33,000,000 was spent/paid by the city controller with out authorization from the city council, and just like the four years of missing Festival of the lakes parking receipts, this was not the first year for unauthorized expenditures being paid.

Sounds like maybe, just maybe someone should not have paid those funds until they were approved and as you know, ignorance of the law is not an excuse, right.



Oh, by the way X, festive holidays to you and yours....know you have had some health problems lately... take care.

Speaking of Lunatic, look yourself in the mirror pal, you can add that liar title to your name as well.

You hide behind a screen name, with no credibility, you post only to protect your city job, very much like the other cupcake posting to assure hubbie keeps his officer's rank. At least you have the protection of your vote.

Take a look at the housing stock in these pictures. They depict years of neglect and disrepair. McDermott's been mayor for 8 years, look at an inside view, out side his 8x10 self promoting glossies.

This is how the city really looks.... if there is a lunatic in the crowd, it is you and mis cupcake. both of you should lay off the sauce.

This is the garage of the house across the street from me. From the front it looks gorgeous, the best looking house on the block, until you look at it from the alley. It has been like this for a long time.

FYI, this is an owner occupied property.

What about the homeowners/property owners getting off their lazy behinds, and picking up the phone??? I for one, am darn tired of calling for my lazy neighbors.

Honestly, I don't blame the owner. From my conversations with people, they are afraid to call city hall, as someone shows up with a ticket book citing the whole block.

Many times a home owner doesn't know about the tag, but a garbage truck goes down that alley once a week and has for the last 6 weeks......

To have the city Grafitti clean, some dufas, Mikie are you reading this, at city hall can propose having the garbage truck operators call this in.

In fact an incentive can be built into this, giving the team with the most referrals a $5.00 a tag turn in reward for each of the team members. Totaled at the end of a week. Such a program would have an immediate return on a paultry investment benefiting the city. Of course, drivers and workers abide by safety first.

Hell the money could even come out of a santition superviser's pay check....

simple solutions to complex problems.

Is this a new play ground for kids in the neighborhood tom?

can't you get someone to clean it up, or is it that after you spent all that money on city services during the election, the city is over budget.

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Hey Tom, someone was cleaning this up the other day.... finally


Oh by the way, how about institutiong that grafitti reporting program... garbage trucks go down city alleys once a week (or they should)...

give each truck an incentive to report grafitti so much for address, you might clean the city up that way...

and oh... why not have em record where trash is on lots and in the alleys for the special pick up's

you really need to clean the city up tom... it looks terrible.

Does that fence go all around? Or were you trespassing?? lol

Why do people do that? You got it gathered up so why not just toss it in the bin for the garbage truck?

Now this, i believe has been a problemed rental for years. The car in the driveway (hidden by the tree) has weeds growing around it, the roof has obvious tab roll, the front porch appears to need work, and as you can see in the picture, it appears the back steps are with out a rail and appear to have a problemed staircase thread/headder.

I thought cars needed to be parked on asphalt or cement.... bet it has out of state plates..

I believe this is the same property which had a GD sign plastered for months on the shed which you can barely see on the left part of the picture.

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Aren't you afraid you are going to get shot creeping around peoples back yards taking pictures? You still won't report the adresses. Why? The election is over you would think you would let your hatred go and use these pictures to better a community not fan gang turf wars and point out how lousy some landlords are about keeping their properties.

Hey X, you got to stop playing with your fire hose, your gonna soil your pants....only a creep would think like such.

As to reporting address, there are dozens and dozens of properties like these in Hammond. It is clear, crystal clear that someone has not been doing their job, really not doing their job. The old story about teaching someone to fish vs feeding them.. if you give address out your defeating the purpose... go out and find em.....

Hatred... you seem to have forgotten, Mayor Thomas McDermott's has used his authority to go after his political opposition and/or anyone who questions what he does. By the very by line at the end of this thread indicates how both you and Tom dealt with your hate.

This is about fiscal and responsible government. And it is apparently you are among the happles leaches feeding on what is left of Hammond residents's blood. Be careful, you need to leave enough on the fiscal bone to assure y our pension payments are made... otherwise you and your pension will go the gary way......

The State Board of Accounts Reports is a great place to start. I believe, one day, Tom is going to follow in Bloggo foot steps.

















Why bother responding X, Hammond's good for another 4 years. Right?

Now both of these I believe are rentals. This disrepair just didn't occur yesterday.

This type of neglect and the city's failure to deal with it, is the cause of the demise of Hammond!

All of these pictures depicted in this thread are easily identified from the outside.

Inspections? Whole neighborhoods are ALLOWED to fall into urban decay.

Or is it that Tom uses code enforcement to go after his "friends"?


Tom?


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This is another two for one special. This car has been parked in this back yard of a rental and hasn't moved for months.

The brick garage with the red garage door is missing a roof. The garage belongs to a rental.

Now how can someone miss this? Months and months of neglect.

I believe both are rental units, who the hell needs to get inside to deal with both of these exteriror problems.

Can't clean up the neighborhood or is it that someone doesn't want to.


Tom?

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this one is close to Wallace School, off of Harrison, i believe.

I think this one is in the 500 block of Conkey.