Northwest Indiana Discussion

The Sunday, January 9 Times editorial favors eliminating Township government.

The problem with eliminating township government in Lake County is Democrat corruption at the Lake County level.

In the past 30 years 52 Democrat officeholders have gone to prison in Lake County.

In the past 50 years, not even one Republican officeholder has been indicted in Lake County.

Last November 2 in Lake County, 43 Republicans were elected to office and 51 Democrats. Many of the South County townships elected Republican officials - like Center Township elected all Republican officials (assessor, trustee and 3 township board positions.)

The first priority in Lake County should be stamping out Democrat corruption.

How about fighting to eliminate Democrat corruption, Times? An editorial about crushing Lake County Democrat corruption is sorely needed.

There is a huge cultural split in Lake County.

Not between blacks and whites or between rich and poor.

It is between honest and corrupt - and it is destroying the Lake County economy.

Chicago is facing a similar problem with major companies fleeing the city rather than deal with corrupt Chicao politicians. Sears has fled to Hoffman Estates. Kraft General Foods has fled to Northfield. Brunswick Corp. has fled to Lake Forest; Baxter to Deerfield; Motorola to Schaumberg etc. Abbott Laboratories has its own city - Abbott Park north of Chicago. Opposition to corruption at McCormick Place has forced changes to benefit exhibitors at conventions.

Pay-to-play politics is killing Crown Point and Lake County.

There is no question that East Chicago and Gary-style political corruption has spread to Crown Point under the current administration.

Four years ago, in 2007, Mayot Uran's supporters aggressively attacked his GOP opponent Gayle Van Sessen - a very fine, competent, and well educated (an MBA) woman - as a drunk and a whore.

Is it any wonder that few people want to run for public office in Crown Point?

Uran's campaign in Crown Point was particularly viscious.

The staphreport blog allegedly registered to and posted by Uran operative Bill McCall attacked Gayle Van Sessen using words like drunk, slut, whore and the like.

Gayle is a very fine, competent and well educated woman. She should not have been subject to Uran's slime and filth.

We can expect the same slime and filth out of the Uran campaign this time. That is why few people are willing to run for office in Crown Point.

Uran will be lucky if people don't use words like "dirty cop" and dig into his past record.

Is there an echo in here?

Gayle was a thoroughly decent person who wouldn't get into Uran's gutter and sling mud.

This time will be different.

What about it? You're like a child always trying to rationalize your own misdeeds, and the misdeeds of those you support, with the "well, what about so and so, or what about this and that". You learn that from edge and artie or is that just a standard tactic for 60-something, whining, left-wing, America-hating men? Anyway, the title of the thread is "LAKE COUNTY CORRUPTION IS DEMOCRAT" and it's in the Northwest Indiana section of the board. Perhaps you could start a thread on statewide Republican corruption.

Would be a short lived thread

No one said Richard Nixon or that jerk, Mark Sanford, in South Carolina who cheated on his wife in South America weren't undesirable - or that Tim Durham's Ponzi scheme and his contributions to the Marion County prosecutor shouldn't land him in jail.

The point of this thread is that LAKE COUNTY CORRUPTION IS DEMOCRAT.

52 Democrat Lake County officeholders have been imprisoned in the last 25 years

No Republican Lake County officeholders have even been indicted in the last 50 years.

Lake County has been called one of the most corrupt in the United States.

Lake County corruption is Democrat. It is spreading like a cancer from places like East Chicago to Crown Point.

Only the voters can stop it.

On November 8, 2011, throw the Democrat crooks out!!

LAKE COUNTY CORRUPTION IS DEMOCRAT!!

In the November 2, 2010 election, there were 51 Democrats and 43 Republicans elected to public office in Lake County.

In the past 25 years, 52 Democrat Lake County elected officials have been convicted and gone to prison.

In the past 50 years, there has not been a single GOP Lake County elected official even indicted.

Elected Republicans like Sue Landske, Larry Blanchard, Jim Forsythe, Mark Schweitzer, Jim Conlon, Eldon Strong, Lou Fererro, Red Witten, Glen Corbin. etc have been above reproach,

Cure the problem in 2011!!

VOTE REPUBLICAN!!

Pabey is the 53rd DEMOCRAT to go to prison!!

Here is the list. Who will be next?

Dozier Allen, Wanda Joshua, Ann Marie Karras, Albert Young Jr., Lawrence Meeks, Jewell Harris Sr., Bob Cantrell, Frank Kollintzas, Joe De La Cruz, Ewardo Maldonado, Adrian Santos, Jose Valdez Jr., Pedro Porras, Gerry Nannenga, Kevin Pastrick, Peter Manous, Carl Paul Ihle Jr., Peter Benjamin, Troy Montgomery, Joel Markovich, Katie Hall, Junifer Hall, Robert J. Velligan, Marilyn and Gregory J. Gill, Dimitrios Sazalis, Edward Samuels, Miguel "Mike" Arredondo, Kimberly Lyles, Jan Allison, Gregory Cvitkovich, James H. Fife III, Karen Krahn-Fife, Randall Artis, Terrance Artis, Robert White, Morris Carter,
Deborah Riga, Paul Hernandez, Ken Castaldi, Jojuana Meeks, Charmaine Pratchett, Derrick Earls, Johnnie Wright, Greg Hill, Will Smith Jr., Roosevelt Powell, Willie Harris, Nancy Fromm, Otho Lyles, George Pabey, Jose Camacho

The names of the DEMOCRAT CROOKS of Lake County should be emblazoned on a WALL OF SHAME in the Lake County Courthouse.

They should be included in all students' civics textbooks to teach them that Lake County Democrat crooks go to prison.

Fifty-three? Is that all? I guess bandwidth allows one to only go so far back in time.

But, and this is important: Dave Kusiak (you know, the guy who tells union war stories from his hardscrabble youth in Munster but runs a non-union roofing firm) will have you know that some guy, a Republican official yet, got busted for vote fraud or some such thing down in Marion County. His buddy, the "Economic Guru and Republican" Matt Reardon, always bobs his head in knowing agreement when this is brought up.

I guess this is their way of illustrating that rampant, long-standing political corruption knows no party boundaries.