I went looking for the definitive statement on where Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard stands over the controversial bail-out of the city's Capitol Improvement Board. Thirty minutes later, I was so dizzy I had to sit down.
As it stands, Greg Ballard has managed to turn one of the most visible, powerful public offices in the state into one of the weakest, most irrelevant positions of power we've ever seen. He appears happy to simply agree with the last person who snags his ear, and the result has been a tragically hilarious array of positions of the CIB fix.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard told state lawmakers Friday that deep budget cuts suggested by Gov. Mitch Daniels won't work and that additional taxes and new fees are needed to bail out the financially ailing Capital Improvement Board.
Ballard's latest in a series of several proposals was a marked reversal from a plan he endorsed with Daniels three weeks ago.
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"We really appreciate the governor's help; but as we dug deeper into the numbers, we thought we were left a little bit at risk," Ballard said. "We don't want to be back here in 2011 asking for more money."
(Read: You told us this was a good deal, but when my numbers guy went and looked at it the other day, we figured out you were fibbing!)
This just weeks after standing behind a podium nodding while Governor Mitch Daniels declared he would be seizing the CIB and claiming it as his own.
And just weeks after Ballard himself went to the Statehouse and declared he had a fix.
I'm not certain, but there has to be something about "clinical indecision" in the ol' Ballard Rules.
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