Thursday, June 29, 2006

Déjà vu: Is Bunning Kentucky’s Coffey? Or is Coffey our Bunning?

Is there any more embarrassing a regional political non-entity than Jim Bunning?

Bunning: New York Times committed treason with story; information helps terrorists, he says, by James R. Carroll (short shelf life for Courier-Journal links).

Bunning has said he doesn't read newspapers, but his spokesman said the senator "relies on far more reliable sources for his news than The New York Times, but did read the article after seeing reports of this treasonous act."

Although Bunning doesn’t read, he still knows, and this sounds bizarrely like something I was told a year and a half ago:

NA Confidential vs. NA Incontinent at Monday's City Council meeting (Tuesday, February 08, 2005).

Coincidentally, Dan Coffey does not read Blogs because “anyone can hide behind the keyboard,” but by means of osmosis or the Vulcan mind meld, he purports to know exactly what is written in NA Confidential …

... By his own admission, he doesn’t read, but also by his own admission, he is one of the select group able to understand the money, who controls the purse strings of the city, who knows how things get done, who certainly doesn’t need the advice of mere "complainers" who should know their place in the back of the cosmos bus ...

… The meeting room was quiet as the Wizard of Westside self-destructed.

Then, having encapsulated the most virulent form of New Albany’s native disease in far more eloquent fashion than has been attempted in NA Confidential or any other repository of the written word, Dan Coffey ceased his diatribe.

As a reminder, we have a city council meeting coming up this Monday, July 3, and that means the council Gang of Four is hard at work preparing its own version of reactionary, sect-pleasing fireworks to precede Bullet Bob's riverfront record-shattering rock 'n' roll idyll on the nation's birthday.

Will the city survive the Gang's loving clutches? Stay tuned.

2 comments:

John Manzo said...

I'm still beside myself every time I think that Jim Bunning was re-elected. He ran on the platform, if people recall, on the fact that he said Daniel Mongiardo looked like one of Saddam Hussein's sons. And he won. This is frightening.

All4Word said...

We come not to praise Scribner Place, but to bury it.

Anna left the crayons out again, and Bill Schmidt just couldn't help but commit murder-suicide. Murdering Scribner Place and offing any shred of a legacy he may have had.

Read it and weep!

CITY OF NEW ALBANY
RESOLUTION NO. R-06-20

WHEREAS, the New Albany City Council is in support of the Scribner Place Project,

and

WHEREAS, there has been concern regarding the financial problems now facing the City of New Albany,

and

WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of the City Council to support the progress of the downtown area, and at the same time, consider any additional financial burden that might be placed on the property owners in the City of New Albany,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ALBANY, INDIANA, THAT:

1. Resolution No. R-05-31 be amended in order to pledge EDIT Funds dedicated for the Scribner Place Project Bonds in the amount of $137,500 per year.

2. Resolution No. R-05-31 be amended to remove property tax back-up for the Scribner Place Bonds.

This amendment is necessary due to the increased costs on the property owners listed below:

STORM WATER FEE INCREASES

SEWER RATE INCREASES

SANITATION RATE INCREASES

PROPERTY TAX INCREASES

3. This Council action will not affect the YMCA Project as the YMCA is doing their own individual fund raising and financing for the YMCA Project.

4. The funding for the YMCA Project does not include any City of New Albany funds for financing, bonding, or back-up support for the YMCA Project located at Scribner Place in New Albany.

5. The New Albany Scribner Place Project and the YMCA Project located in Scribner Place are individual projects.

6. This resolution shall be in force and effect from and after its passage.

Marc Antony, where are you when we need you?