You read here months ago that Mayor Greg Ballard had been visited by the powers that be and told it was time to hang up his jock strap and move on. WTHR's Mary Milz learned in September of a job he was seeking at Cathedral High School at the end of his term. Yet the Star's Tim Swarens shamelessly claims an exclusive on the mayor's official announcement on the subject as he prepares to head over to Berlin for his tenth overseas junket paid for by his favorite pay-to-play, city contractors.
UPDATE: State Sen. Jim Merritt has seized on today's announcement to tout himself as a Republican candidate for mayor. Readers should know a couple of things about Merritt. He is behind the cabal of good ole boys who drafted Tim Craft to move into Councilor Christine Scales' new third district and run against her in the Republican primary next year. He approved of the same council Republicans who never asked Lincoln Plowman to resign or leave the caucus after being indicted for taking a bribe from an undercover FBI agent booting Scales from the Republican caucus because of her conservative and independent streak. Former Chief of Staff Ryan Vaughn liked to copy Merritt on e-mails deriding Scales for putting her constituents ahead of their petty politics. Merritt would reply approvingly to Vaughn's cutting e-mails of Scales. Secondly, Merritt lobbied hard for the bone-headed decision to locate the Regional Operations Center at Alex Carroll's Eastgate Mall property despite the legitimate misgivings former Public Safety Director Frank Straub had with using that location. Know the man before you jump to support him.
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