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Those of you who follow INDY REPUBLICAN, Advance Indiana, and Ogden on Politics are familiar with Angie's List and it's underhanded way of doing business. Former Angie's List CEO & Co-Founder Bill Oesterle has been a particularly frequent target for criticism by our staff, the now deceased Gary Welsh, Paul Ogden and Charlie White. Although we don't envy the 150 plus layoffs our sources tell us are coming at Angie's List. In a way it's only poetic justice that this Frankenstein monster that Oesterle and his cohorts have created is like the walls of Jericho is "a tumbling down"! Thank God for small favors! No wonder Bill went flying out of Angie's List like a bat out of hell last year! He is forever grateful to "Asskisser" Matt Tully and his minions in the media for not reporting on Billy's lack of business acumen.As we covered on the earnings call yesterday, we're always looking to drive efficiencies and have identified another $15-$20m in savings. These are primarily workforce related and targeting non-revenue generating headcount.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard has submitted his budget for 2017, along with a salary ordinance that includes a $50,000 pay raise for himself, which is a 40 percent increase.
The mayor’s salary is proposed to increase from $127,946 a year to $179,344 a year. Itwill be introduced at the City Council meeting on Oct. 3 but will likely not be passed on first reading to allow the public time to comment.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard
Prior to the ordinance being released, Brainard told Current in Carmel that his salary was going up, “around $35,000 or $40,000 or something.”
“City manager salaries can be way above that,” he said. “In some cities they make $200,000 or $300,000.”
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett makes $99,000 a year. When asked about the discrepancy, Brainard said, “They don’t have money to get their roads paved.”
“It’s a ridiculously low salary for someone representing a city of that size,” he said. “It’s a billion-dollar business.”
If passed, the salary increase would make Brainard the highest paid mayor in the state.
Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson is currently the state’s highest paid mayor at $142,096.
“We don’t really look at Indiana when we do salary comparisons,” Brainard said.The mayor said the salary increase is necessary.
“It’s important to attract qualified people to run for office,” he said. “Many of the mayors we look at (for comparison) can make seven or eight times that in the private sector.”
,,,Then leave office Mayor Brainard. Contrary to your claim, there would be quality people lining up the door to take your place when you leave. I get so sick of that ridiculous argument. I hear it all the time from judges wanting to be paid more. Like there is a shortage of excellent attorneys out there who who wouldn't jump at the chance to be a judge.
After all these years, my passion for service to our fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so by serving in Congress has waned, For some time, I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress. ... Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people's business is not getting done.One has to wonder what Bayh saw about how Congress has operated in the last six years to cause him to have renewed faith in the institution. Further, Evan Bayh does not even live in Indiana. He is a Washington, D.C. lobbyist who lives in the Georgetown section of that city. The Washington Business Journal published a story on the Bayh's purchase of a home four-bedroom home on N Street Northwest in March of 2015:
The former Democratic senator from Indiana, now a partner at the K Street office of McGuireWoods, said he would have been just as happy staying in Spring Valley. But with their two kids off to college, the big six-bedroom, Georgia-style brick home was more than the couple needed.
Susan Bayh, her husband said, "just liked the idea of being in the middle of things," including plenty of shopping options. After the sacrifices she made for his political career, the senator figured he could sacrifice for her by moving to Georgetown.
"It's really simple. We have twin sons who went off to college last fall, my wife really wanted to downsize, and we didn't need as much space," Bayh told me in a phone interview. "It's the age-old story. The wife wanted to move. The husband didn't. So we moved."
The couple, which celebrated their 30th anniversary last month, settled on an 1820 Federal that was completely renovated with modern amenities, an old-meets-new "best of both worlds" setup, Bayh said. The home is assessed at $1.4 million, according to the District, and initially hit the market through Washington Fine Properties at nearly $3.2 million. McEnearney Associates represented the Bayhs.