Blue Ribbon Pork

If he’s interested, the Mayor could surely win a prize if he entered his budget at the Monroe County Fair as it would easily take top honors in the swine or should I say the pork division. In the Mayor’s 2006 City of Bloomington’s budget there is a $10,000 increase in funding for the local WFHB radio station. The funding is under the category of economic development. Can anyone possibly explain how this local radio station has anything to do with economic development? Is this simply another example of the skewed idealisms Democrats utilize when making their decisions or is it a tactic to expand their liberal message throughout the community? Lets examine the later.

It was common knowledge throughout the Republican Party that during the last general election the WFHB radio station got caught with their preverbal pants down when the shenanigans of one its hosts was brought to the station managers attention. Reportedly one of their talk radio hosts was inviting only Democrat candidates into the station for live interviews and circulating reports that Republican candidates failed to respond to his invitations. This charade obviously provided their listeners with programming that was very timely in nature and extremely biased in content. Fearing the incident would be reported to the FCC the radio station quickly went into the damage control mode and reported corrective measures would be taken to remove any political bias from their programming.

It is difficult to imagine this incident is an isolated case when still to this day you can find vehicles sitting in front of the station with Kerry / Edwards or Kernan / Davis bumper stickers in conjunction with others that contain anti I-69 or anti Bush slogans. My guess is that you would be hard pressed to find a registered Republican on staff at the station but I could be wrong. In his notes on the city’s proposed budget the Mayor’s indicated the funding would help the underwriters get their message to a broader market, I must say truer words were never spoken. The Democrats know the demographics of the listening audience of this radio station and it is their message they want to get out to a broader market and furthermore, they want to do it with your tax dollars. Isn’t it ironic that even in tough economic times when excess levies are necessary the Democrats somehow find a way to justify this kind of pork? Furthermore, if $10,000 wasn’t bad enough now they want to double the amount. The question remains, why does WFHB radio station deserve $20,000 of your tax dollars and better yet how does this fit into the economic development budget. As Desi Arnaz would say, Mayor Kruzan “you have some splaining to do”. What’s next, economic development funding for “The Bloomington Alternative” publication? Wait a minute I better not give them any ideas.