WTHR's Mary Milz badgered Mayor Greg Ballard today about when he planned to make public the decision we already know he's made not to seek re-election next year. "I'm most of the way there, yes," he said. In the next couple of week, you'll know." "The mayor indicated he would not make his plans public at least until after election day and possibly not until after he returns from a 10-day trip to Berlin, for which he leaves on Friday," Milz added.
Yes, that makes his tenth overseas junket in the past seven years for those keeping count. Add to that several recent out-of-state junkets he's taken in recent weeks, he's been spending more time out of town than running the City, not to say he's really the person in charge of running the City even when he is in town.
Milz observed that Ballard has $700,000 in his campaign fund right now, which is about half what he had at this same point in 2010 before he ran for re-election in 2011. She says political insiders tell her the mayor is not raising funds for re-election, and he has done little to refute her report back in September about him considering a job at Cathedral High School when his second term ends. Marion Co. GOP Chairman Kyle Walker told Milz he has no idea what Ballard intends to do. Walker said he wasn't "antsy" about Ballard making his decision because he has several potential candidates waiting in the wings.
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