Monday, June 06, 2011

Paul "No Tolls" Fetter's good ink in the Courier-Journal.

Paul Fetter, who dared push back when the regional oligarchs demanded he grovel, gets some good press in the C-J:

Newsmaker: Paul Fetter ... Clarksville businessman focused on bridge tolls fight, by Dale Moss (Courier-Journal)

... He finds time, though, to lead the charge against using tolls to pay for new Ohio River bridges. Fetter co-founded the Organization for a Better Southern Indiana Inc., better known for its No2BridgeTolls.org website, billboards and yard signs. This is a political campaign with huge stakes.
Meanwhile, Moss records a Ron Grooms sighting. It seems our State Senator and Dan Coffey share an inability to find the necessary information.

Fetter is mounting letter-writing efforts and meeting routinely with leaders such as state Sen. Ron Grooms, who said he is not taking a stance on tolls until all the facts are in.
Speaking of pertinent facts, I'm still waiting breathlessly for the economic impact study on the effects of bridge tolls on Southern Indiana small business. It's the study promised by certain Tolling (er, "Bridges") Authority members from Floyd County, and it has yet to materialize.

My guess is Kerry Stemler borrowed the Big Chief tablet on which it was written to play Tic Tac Dough with his oligarch buddies.

But what the hey -- how could we leave Rep. Ed Clere out of any thoughtful consideration of deleterious tolling mechanisms: Clere has a toll to pay whether they build bridges or not.

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