The Indianapolis Star is taking a page out of Micky Maurer's Indianapolis Business Journal where it decides who the elites are in our community whom the rest of us are all expected to bow down before and worship. To that end, it produces a list of 15 "movers and shakers" from whom big things are expected this year. If you haven't already, reach for your barf bag. It might come in handy.
At the top of the list is Dave Lucas. Why? Because the co-founder of Deer Creek Music Center in Hamilton back in the 1980s wants to build a similar amphitheater along the White River near downtown at the site of the former GM Stamping Plant where Mayor Greg Ballard wants to spend $1.75 billion to allow a P3 operator to build and operate a new criminal justice center complex. There's no need for another concert venue in the downtown area, but anything involving the investment in sports and entertainment is a top priority of the Gannett-owned newspaper. After all, the middle class needs as many distractions as possible to take their mind off the decimation of the middle class by the New World Order's policies.
Number two on the list is an obscure Department of Public Safety employee by the name of Lori White who heads up citizen complaints against police. The Star must anticipate more frequent confrontations between the City's residents and police during the coming year.
Rated number three not because of any investigative journalism by its reporters to show his company may be one of the longest-running Ponzi schemes in the state of Indiana is Angie's List CEO Bill Oesterle. The Star is hopeful the company will finally begin turning a profit for the first time in its nearly 20-year history. I still don't understand what separates his business from Tim Durham's other than he's more discrete and more adept at making friends with media folks.
Two persons rank fourth and fifth on the list come from the theater community. Justin Wade and Georgeanna Smith are deemed the power couple of Indy's arts scene according to the Star.
Gov. Mike Pence only ranks sixth on the list--because he's pondering a run for president in 2016.
This is no joke. The person rated number seven on the list is a bee keeper. Yes, Kate Franzman's efforts at promoting sustainable farming as a bee keeper in an urban setting earns her a spot on the list of movers and shakers.
The black minister who never let another murder in the city go to waste by failing to step in front of the TV cameras to promote himself, Rev. Charles Harrison, comes in eighth on the list because he now wants to run for Indianapolis mayor; he just doesn't know which political party he'll run as a candidate yet. Sorry, Joe. You didn't make the list.
Tracy McDaniels earns the ninth spot on the list because she's fighting human sex-trafficking. Too bad the Indianapolis Star doesn't report on the real perpetrators of sex trafficking in Indianapolis whose names you might recognize.
The Star's golden boy, Ryan Vaughn, rounds out the top ten on the list because he now runs the Indiana Sports Corporation. The Star never saw anything wrong with Vaughn trading his position on the City-County Council and as Mayor Ballard's chief of staff to line his own pockets and those of his former employer because that's the only point in holding a position in government as far as the Star is concerned.
Megan Robertson, a lesbian GOP consultant who spent many years working for anti-gay candidates, became the Star's biggest hero because she started working on behalf of the right of gays to legally marry in Indiana last year only when it became en vogue to support gay marriage rights and after there was a big paycheck offered to her to run Freedom Indiana. The folks who toiled away for years on behalf of gay rights without compensation are not worthy of mentioning as far as the Star is concerned. She got extra kudos from the Star because she got paid to help elect to the IPS school board candidates who are bought and paid for by the education profiteers.
The University of Indianapolis' Robert Manuel makes the twelfth spot on the list because his university plans to spend a lot of money on new buildings in the near future.
IPS Supt. Lewis Ferebee makes the thirteenth spot on the list because he has no problem putting the interests of education profiteers over the interests of his school's students.
And the last two on the list come from the sports community. Oliver Luck's new job at the NCAA ranks him fourteenth on the list for no other reason than he's Andrew Luck's father. No, Andrew didn't make the list. Finally, Peter Wilt earns the final spot because the Star wants badly for taxpayers to finance a new stadium for the Indy Eleven soccer team owned by his employer, the Turkish immigrant businessman Ersal Ozdemir, who has walked away with hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars under circumstances the Star would rather not investigate.
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