Welch Buying Votes With Tax Dollars

Peggy Welch was using a tool she and Vi Simpson have used with precision over the last several years, taking Build Indiana funds and distributing them in areas where they want to build a bastion of support. Over the years this dynamic duo have poured millions of dollars into the Ellettsville area slowly but surely converting this once largely Republican stronghold. This time Welch called for a meeting with citizens of Ellettsville to let them know she had another big stash of cash for them if wanted it, all they had to do was revive the once popular Fall Festival. She informed those in attendance that the clock was ticking on the $33,500 grant and if they didn’t hurry and get a project underway soon the money would slip away. She learned early that nothing endears voters to elected officials more than wads of grant money and she worked that meeting accordingly. She also knows that once the Fall Festival is resurrected from the ashes that she will be probably be given most of the credit and who knows they might even make her Grand Marshal.

They say timing is everything and in this instance don’t you think it’s just a little interesting that she managed to convince the town to revive the Fall Festival in 2006? Lets see, it just so happens that Welch will be up for reelection in 2006 but I’m sure it’s purely coincidental. The town’s people took the bait, hook, line and sinker. Surely someone will figure out that they really won’t be able to do much with $33,500, most of which is usually matching funds that costs money to get money, something the Town of Ellettsville doesn’t have much of. It’s a shame that more people don’t understand that it is this very attitude about spending that has gotten our State in such a financial mess. While in control, the democrats spread Bilk Indiana money around the state in areas where they wanted to build their support base, in essence buying votes. This is yet another prime example of a cure looking for the symptom as the citizens of Ellettsville didn’t have an immediate need for this money, Welch just went vote shopping with our tax dollars. It’s shameful when the Republicans are trying so desperately to balance our State’s budget and cuts are having to be made in areas like education that we still have democrats that can’t get over their old spending habits. Concerned citizens should realize Welch is only impeding our states recovery process and just say no thanks, I can't be bought!