If You're Not Outraged You're Not Paying Attention

Lets face it, Commissioner Kilmer did nothing more than verbalize what many rational thinking individuals in this community have been thinking since the November 2nd election. Radical environmentalists now control every facet of local government and with that, all economic development in Monroe County will undoubtedly grind slowly to a halt. If they happen to like your project, you’re in, if they don’t, your out and whether or not you’re in compliance will have very little to do with the decision. They equate growth with capitalism, and in their book, both are bad. It’s a mentality that runs deep in our community and quite frankly it’s a concept that’s very difficult for most logical thinking individuals to accept and or understand. When a republican speaks out it is considered incivility and when a democrat speaks out it is considered passion. Local democrats excused the incivility of the likes of Brian O’Neal as he routinely vented his anger as Commissioner and now they do the same with Andy Ruff who insulted an INDOT official in one of his many anti-69 diatribes. If they can have their angry outbursts why then can’t Herb Kilmer? This double standard exists because the democrats utilize the local media to their advantage; the republicans rarely get the chance. The fact is the democrats are already working on the 2006 election where they have their sights firmly fixed on Herb Kilmer’s Commissioner’s seat.

In this past election local democrats mobilized their voters with a message of hatred and ire toward President Bush. Voters on the IU campus turned out in record number to vote for John Kerry with little concern for any of the other candidates on the ticket and with that, local democratic candidates simply road the wave into office. No other reasonable explanation could exist when a person like Kevin Enright can get elected? Commissioner Poling surely recognized how far left things have swung. She was given an ultimatum by Mr. Kilmer to appoint a moderate to the Planning Commission, or else. She decided to side with the greens and the rest, as they say, is history. Mr. Kilmer is simply suggesting that you made the bed, now you get in it. If anything is a mystery out of this situation, it is why any elected official or for that matter anyone seeking an elected office would waste even one minute of their time talking to Kurt Van der Dussen of the Herald Times. Talking to him is like having unprotected sex with a total stranger, you never know what you’re going get from it. Kilmer’s level of frustration should be understood, and if its not, your not paying attention.