Public Oversight wrote:
I think the goal of public officials in Gary is to get as much federal, state and local money as possible under their control and then to steal as much as possible.
They have become very good at that.
It used to be Gary and East Chicago, but now we have that practice in Crown Point.
Crown Point Mayor David Uran has paid $300,000 to his lawyers suing Plasmatronics to recover $10,000 and will recover none of the $380,000 loaned to Plasmatronics. The lawyers contribute to Uran's campaign fund.
It's revolting.
It is political corruption, pay-to-play politics and kick-back begging politicians that are preventing economic development in Northwest Indiana.
That's why Crown Point and the rest of Northwest Indiana has so many homes for sale and empty storefronts and malls.
That is why Crown Point is getting Bo Jackson Stadium which resembles the Plasmatronics debacle, while Tipton gets a $500,000,000 solar panel plant that will hire 850 new employees.
Crown Point really got the short end of the stick in the last mayoral election.