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Bernie called a local non-profit this week, and stated, “my position has been eliminated by the Mayor and I no longer have a job. As such, I’m resigning effective immediately from the board of directors.”

Odd, no one has picked up this story. Last I heard the county commissioners and the mayor were still talking it over.

Her name is Jackie Sparling. Her and her sex offender sympathizers have been posting vile comments all day due to my “Sex Offender of the Day” feature.

I found the following on another site called, Evil Unveiled.

Jackie Sparling

Jackie Sparling is a bitter sex offender activist who believes the government owes sexual offenders something for imprisoning them.

Fort Wayne, IN – In an effort to answer questions from customers about the proposed increase in the cost of drinking water, Fort Wayne City Utilities officials will present information and answer questions at several venues in the next few weeks.

Residents can speak with a City Utilities representative one-to-one  at:

Georgetown Library                             Tuesday, February 7, 2012      11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

6600 E. State Boulevard

City Utilities representatives will make presentations and answer questions at the following meetings:

Neighborhood Presidents’ Meeting      Monday, February 6, 2012      6:30 PM

Citizens Square – Omni Room

Southeast Area Partnership                  Wednesday, February 8, 2012 6:30 PM

Calvary 3^rd Presbyterian Church

Corner of S. Anthony and Capitol

Northeast Area Partnership                  Thursday, February 9, 2012    6:30 PM

Good Shepherd United Methodist Church

4700 Vance Avenue

Northwest Area Partnership                 Thursday, February 16, 2012  6:30 PM

Northridge Baptist Church

1300 E. Cook Road

Just added:

Southwest Area Partnership                 Wednesday, March 21, 2012   7:00 PM

Fort Wayne Sport Club

3102 Ardmore Avenue

November 18, 2011. Jim Howard, city purchasing director, who wears his pro-life and conservative credentials on his sleeve, was terminated without warning, and no reasonable explanation was given. You can only imagine, no wait, you imagined correctly.

December 21, 2011. Beth Malloy gets her walking papers. Her explanation; “She said she had both personal and professional reasons to leave.” Professional reasons? One can only imagine. I suspect a tiff with the administration. Glad she left nonetheless.

January 28, 2012. Andi Udris is shown the door from The Alliance. He was an outspoken individual, and successful at his job. Udris also openly supported the  “right- to- work” legislation, something Henry opposed. He leaves under a cloud of suspicion. Kevin Leininger stated just the other day:

But surely an agency that spends so much of the public’s money and claims to represent its interests can muster a better explanation for what happened than the terse two-sentence news released issued Friday stating that Udris had resigned to “pursue other interests” – the oldest euphemism in the book for a separation that is not entirely voluntary.

February 2, 2012. King Henry kills the city-county homeland security agreement. No reason, he just did it. On Thursday, Henry sent a letter to the county commissioners stating the agreement is over  in 60 days. That’s it, no explanation. According to one county commissioner, the was no advance warning, and no complaints from the city.

Henry writes: ”While the past six years have been a valuable experiment, with the challenges of budgetary constraints, the city must work to find more effective service solutions for its residents”

Effective solutions? More lockstep democrats, one could suppose.

But if you read the fluff piece in today’s Politico, one would think so.

Last year, Sen. Dick Lugar was the tea party’s top target — a 35-year veteran who lives in Washington, strays from conservative orthodoxy and even criticized the right-wing movement in the wake of the 2010 elections.

But last week, Lugar was the tea party’s dining companion.

For more than two hours at a restaurant in Carmel, Ind., Lugar sat face to face with the head of one of Indiana’s largest tea party chapters, speaking at length about campaign politics, the senator’s voting record and some of his comments that have irked the movement. Lugar listened patiently and said he’d do more outreach, as he ate his eggs Benedict and peppermint ice cream.

“I was surprised,” said 62-year-old Chuck Ford, president of the Tea Party of Hamilton County. “I don’t usually dine with senators and congressmen.”

At least not in public he doesn’t. The fact is, the Hamilton County TEA Party leader supports  Senator Lugar. Ford recently ousted his vice president, who had expressed a dislike for reelecting Lugar. In an interview with AWB, the ousted VP stated, “Lugar gives Ford tingles up his leg.”

Late last year, when Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate, (HFCS) held their convention to declare support for Richard Mourdock, the Hamilton County TEA Party, (HTP) decided to hold a competing event.  Lugar did not attend the event but his spokesman and campaign coordinator David Wilke attended as Lugar’s representative. While Ford has denied to me his group is supported by the Republican party, the Hamilton County Young  Republicans donated $500 to the event. The Young Republicans generally march in lockstep with the state party. (read:support Lugar)

Ford’s group could not attend the HFCS convention due to their 501c3 status, however, they were invited to attend the rally afterwards, which was represented by the majority of Indiana TEA Parties. The time of the rally would not have impeded on their event, but they chose to not stand in solidarity and were no-shows.

By all impressions, this is not a TEA Party group. It’s merely a bunch of hacks parading to be a TEA Party group to make it appear as if Lugar has some TEA Party support. It should be noted that Mr. Ford at one time was a member of the Indiana State Teacher’s Association, (union), and negotiated union contracts on its behalf.

Back to Wilke for a moment. The 1940 Republican presidential nominee was Wendell Willkie, David’s grandfather.

From the blog, Welcome to my TEA Party.

Willkie was cozy with Democrats.  He joined with Eleanor Roosevelt to form Freedom House and was a delegate to two Democratic national conventions.

A Wilsonian Internationalist who promoted world government, Willkie wrote the book “One World.”  He supported Roosevelt’s controversial New Deal.

Late in his career, Willkie joined the New Liberal Party and attempted to push its agenda nationally.  Senator Lugar was a member of a liberal think tank, the Roosevelt Institute’s Campus Network.  And proving that he’s no statesman, he recently resigned under pressure from the Tea Party.<

So, while Ford states, “I don’t usually dine with senators and congressmen,”  according to another HTP member I spoke with, Mr. Ford has regular breakfast meetings with Lugar’s closest adviser, David Wilke.

Imagine that.

His name is Robert Vincent Erb. His business, according to Facebook, is Bad Ass Distribution (link), and he does brake jobs, changes flat tires, etc. He’s an Obama hater, Ron Paul-ite, gun lover and, general pissed off citizen.

He’s also a fan of Star Molecules, on Facebook.

 

He lived in Wabash at one time, and operated a business called the Pine Farm Greenhouse. It appears he may have co-owned it with his father.

Court records. Not much, really.

7 seat belt violations, 3 speeding.
Lost house to foreclosure in 2006.

Divorced in 2006

Not sure what this was all about. Had another in 1990, same basic thing.

WABASH COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT
85D01-0507-CM-518
ST VS ERBFile date: 07/14/2005   Disposition Date: 08/10/2005
Minute Date:7/15/2005
Order Location:Book: 86 Page: 61Court examines probable cause affidavits and determines there is probable
cause. Court orders defendant to appear for initial hearing on
8-10-05 at 9:00 a.m. Service by mail. llMinute Date:8/10/2005
Order Location:Book: 86 Page: 307

State orally moves to dismiss. Granted.

Interesting case study for someone.

Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, and his opponent, Richard Mourdock, will both speak at this year’s Allen County Lincoln Day Dinner, which will be held shortly before the May primary.  That begs the question:

A tweet from Indiana State Senator Mike Delph at 10:15 this morning. “Congressman Burton is announcing his retirement on the Statehouse floor at 10:30am, where it all started.”

Burton represents Indiana’s 5th congressional district. There are several vying for the slot, including former congressman and Kendallville native David McIntosh, attorney Jack Lugar, (Senator Dick Lugar’s son),  Susan Brooks, a former U.S. attorney and Fort Wayne native, and former Marion County Coroner John McGoff, who came close to defeating Burton two years ago.

The 5th District presently includes Huntington County, which joins the 3rd District for the next 10 years beginning with the 2012 elections.

Oh, I can hear Kevin Knuth now, hunkered down in his bunker with Mike Bynum.

A former Fort Wayne police officer, who must hold the record for disciplinary actions against him, has filed to run against Stutzman.

John Roberson filed this week as a democrat candidate in the primary election for the 3rd congressional seat. Robertson was canned form the FWPD in 1999 after receiving 28 various disciplinary actions. After that, he drove truck for a while, then retired.

Then we have hotel dweller Tommy Schrader, who never saw a gay porn flick he didn’t like. He’s also running as a democrat. You’ll recall he ran as a democrat last year in the at-large city council race, and won, only to be booted by the election board at the demand of Knuth and the democrats due to residency issues.

Hot damn, we have a race, eh?

The paid union protesters had little effect on the outcome of the Indiana House vote on right-to-work. It passed union 54-44. The bill had passed the Senate last Friday 28-22.

Indiana becomes the 23rd state to ban unions from collecting union dues from non-union workers.  Governor Daniels will likely have the bill in his hands, and signed, prior to the Super Bowl.

So much for the OWS and union protests that were planned for the Super Bowl, eh?

Watch this video, it’s priceless.