Northwest Indiana Discussion

Of course all of northern Lake County Democrat elected officials are in favor of an income tax. They just don't have the guts to tell the sheep that vote for them!!

JCMT you got it wrong again, McDermott didn't try to run as a Governor Candidate, he did with in the party work at running as Governor, failed, then as LT. Governor, failed again, and then US Senate Candidate and failed again.

ON Friday, July 23rd, 2010, Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr said that he spends a good deal of time driving through Gary looking at their problems, boarded up buildings.

Hey Mayor Tom hows about spending some time doing that in Hammond. There are plenty of homes in Hammond that need trash picked up in the alley, tall weeds, broken windows.....or are you looking for something else in Gary?

Looking for more sources of revenue, perhaps? He has about bled Hammond dry.

Found the above statement credited to McDermott as incredulous (borrowed from Georgie worgie) and at least a very peculiar quote. Although I did not hear it, and there are many good people in Gary, the only thing that comes to mind why someone would driving through Gary as the above statement credited the Mayor would be to look, seek, find drugs and/or prostitutes?

Why Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr would rather drive through Gary than spend his precious time driving areas of Hammond as there are dozens upon dozens of areas in Hammond who require intensive city services, why on the face of this god given earth would McDermott drive through Gary looking at their problems?

PMFJI but I wonder if we have a quote from his honor on sending the bill for his Vegas hookers to the taxpayers? I mean for what was it $15k? Sounds like a boxed lunch to me!

You'd think there outta be a law against that but hey what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, I guess. hee hee

where you been dude?

I understand McDermott went after Freetime on WJOB today, he accused her of lying.

Nice to know someone holding a Juris Prudis/law degree, an educated man (supposedly) is attaching a hammond citizen, a lowly unemployeed hammond citizen...

must be real threatened, really really threatened....

what that means to me there is something there.

More like the truth is threatening and he seems to think he's not to be held to account for his stupid actions. Sorry that I tuned in just just as the show was ending. But even based on what Dedlow was saying about it just 5 mins after the mayor left it sounds to me the mayor was trying to deflect the truth.

I only hope a quality candidate will be running for mayor. It's getting ever more apparent that whether by choice or by prosecution his days as mayor and in politics are numbered.

An attack like that indicates he is guilty of something... and is in deep sht afraid he might get caught.

McDermott appears to have very limited knowledge on what is going on with in the city as well as the most current and even more critical State Board of Accounts report on Hammond Affairs.

Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr, a now self reported has a self proposed background in finance, has worked at discounting a current state board of accounts report as a previous year report. As if the State Board of Accounts has nothing to do but audit Hammond.

McDermott on the air at WJOB said it was an old report in attempt to disguise the poor and repeated year after year of poor performance the city has under Mayor Thomas McDermott's leadership...

Still no article from the times on why $27,000,000 of tax payer's money was placed in uninsured investment accounts, placing the total amount at risk of being lost in a bank/investment closure... sure in recent memory there has been no financial institution or investment firm that has closed... right Mayor Tom?

Well it has been rumored that McDermott's Campaign account has benefited from the placement of that money. No wonder he refuses to post the city budget and make public his campaign financial report.

Hammond Times article http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/article_12751ed7-94a9-5b54-ba19-6ddff8a33bac.html



This is more of an indication that Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr can not understand diversity. This unbridled support of Hillory Clinton most likely has cost Hammond Millions of dollars in Financial aid.