The Gary Snyder Show

The Gary Snyder Show - Where politics and sports collide!

Weekdays from 3-5 pm on 1400 WBAT/860 ESPN

Monday - Jim Shella, WISH -TV political reporter and host/producer of Emmy-nominated "This Week in Indiana"; N. Scott Jones, President of N. Scott Jones & Associates Inc. and Ross Allen, Marion Police Department, with his weekly segment, MPD Blue

Tuesday - Pete Seat, Indiana GOP Communications Director and publisher of TheFrontRowSeat.com; Paul Helmke, former Ft. Wayne Mayor and former President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence; Chris Barron, co-founder of GOProud and publisher of TheRealRedBarron.com, talks everything politics and Pens. Pirates & Steelers!

Wednesday - Kip Tew, former Indiana State Democratic Chairman; Brian Howey, publisher of Howeypolitics.com; 

Thursday - Mike O'Brien, publisher of Capital & Washington; Abdul Hakim-Shabazz, publisher of IndyPolitics.org; 

Friday - Ed Robertson, syndiated radio talk show host of TV Confidential, wraps the week in entertainment and television; Josh Flagner, publisher of MoreThanAFan.net

Sheriff's Department Takes Family's Home and Contents Using a Fake Eviction

(MT. PLEASANT, MI) - U.S. Navy veteran Ted Visner and his wife, Kathy Smith of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, have been living out a nightmare. It started two and a half years ago, when the family fell victim to an apparent real estate scam by a local sheriff's department employee.

Ted Visner says they bought their former home on a land contract, only to learn seven months later, that the seller, Isabella County Sheriff's Dept. employee Shelly Sweet, was not making monthly payments on the house. A bank foreclosed on the property, all unbeknownst to the Visner/Smith family.

Ted Visner, who builds custom homes for a living, said, "Although we were paying Sweet every month on the purchase of the property, she had not been paying the underlying mortgage and the home fell into foreclosure." I asked Visner if he had records of those payments, he said he does, including canceled checks. You won't believe what happened next.

"On a weekend Sweet knew that we would be out of town, she offered the contents of our home to her friends and coworkers at the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department, claiming we had abandoned the home. Many took her up on her free offer deal and took over $55,000 dollars worth of our personal property."

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WTH! Using children as props? I thought that was, well, you know...

Remember the temper tantrum the "Right" threw over President Obama using children as "Props" during some events late last winter and early spring.  Here is just an example of a few headline from some right or right leaning publications:

Using Children To Pass Gun Laws Is Grotesque And Childish

Obama use of children as props mirrors Hitler, Stalin

Hey guys, what the hell is this?

VIDEO: 747 cargo plane crashesvduring takeoff at Bagram airfield killing 8

Frankfort Police Dept. faces lawsuit

Frankfort Police Dept. faces lawsuit

'What Is It With You People & The Animal F*cking?'

Raztenburger and Bilas Monday on The Gary Snyder Show

I have John Ratzenburger and ESPN's Jay Bilas Monday on The Gary Snyder Show from 3-5pm on 1400 WBAT and Indiana Talks

Guests include:

Jim Shella, WISH TV-8 policital reporter and host of Indiana Week in Review.

Sgt. Ross Allen, MPD, with his weekly segment, MPD Blue.

Jay Bilas, ESPN College Basketball analyst and author of "Toughness"

John Ratzenberger, actor, discusses his new project: RealityTVStar.com - the first platform for anyone in the country to have their TV show ideas seen by decision makers at production companies and networks worldwide.

Scott Jones, resident pr guru for The Gary Snyder Show, Daily Caller Columnist and former aide to 3 US Presidents.

Smart ALEC

Editors note: If you want to know why we are getting some of the ridiculous bills pushed through the Indiana General Assembly that we are, read this article by Karen Francisco of the Journal Gazette.

Boycott threats pressured dozens of corporations to cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council after Trayvon Martin was shot to death in Florida and “stand-your-ground” gun laws were exposed as the shadowy organization’s handiwork.

But the multinational corporations supporting and framing ALEC’s work are just the overseers of a sophisticated network responsible for a raft of corporate-friendly bills across the nation. State politicians are the workhorses. They are sent forth from corporate-funded meetings at resort settings to sponsor and pass cookie-cutter laws, and then are rewarded with campaign contributions from the same business partners.

Indiana has an impressive army of ALEC soldiers, concealed by an undeserved exemption in the state’s lobbying law and successful in pushing through voter ID, anti-regulation, education, health care and more laws championed by the organization. Then there are ALEC’s Hoosier supply troops: Gov. Mitch Daniels, state Superintendent Tony Bennett, Rep. Todd Rokita and more. They champion the goals supported by ALEC to help spread its influence.

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So Governor Pence, is this business as usual?

Doden is far left

That sound you heard Wednesday? That was the sound of the Indiana Charter School Board rubber-stamping a real estate deal to benefit a politically connected Fort Wayne business owner.

How else to explain a 5-1 vote to "replicate" an unproven school that has drawn few students in Indianapolis and met strong resistance from the Fort Wayne community during a public hearing held just 7 business days after local school officials and were notified? The application was approved less than 24 hours after the hearing.

Daryle Doden's Ambassador Enterprises has been looking to draw a charter school tenant to The Summit, its education center at the former Taylor University campus, for more than a year. Another charter school applicant, Sun Academy, proposed leasing space there in a charter school application last year, but withdrew its bid. (Sun Academy has submitted a letter of intent to offer another application this spring, along with Global Village International Inc., so as many as three new charter schools could be opening in Fort Wayne next fall.)

Doden is the father of Eric Doden, a former GOP candidate for mayor and Gov. Mike Pence's newly appointed director for statewide economic development. Daryle Doden and his wife contributed $15,500 to Pence's campaign.

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Club for Growth singles out Rep. Larry Bucshon to be primaried

Club for Growth, fresh off their successful efforts to get Richard Mourdock elected to the US Senate...wait...that's right..they didn't!  Anyway, Club for Growth is still calling for ideological purity and putting together a list of RINO's they would like to see primaried and Indiana's 8th CD Larry Bucshon makes the list.  I guess this puts Richard Mourdock's recent "I'm not done with running for office in to perspective?

Washington, DC – Today, Club for Growth Action launched a new website, www.PrimaryMyCongressman.com. The purpose of the website is to raise awareness of Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) who are currently serving in safe Republican seats. In many of the Congressional districts highlighted, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney received over 60% of the votes for President in 2012, but the incumbent Congressman has a lifetime rating of less than 70% on the Club for Growth’s Congressional Scorecard, which measures the commitment of lawmakers to limiting government and free markets.

Huntington County Commissioner Tom Wall's Trial Pushed Back To June

Picture coutesy of Huntington County Sheriff's Department

Indicted Huntington County Commissioner Tom Wall's trial on 7 Class-A misdemeanor battery charges has been moved from early March to June 5, 6 & 7th.  The move was requested by special prosecutor D.J. Sigler.

Wall is accused of inappropriately touching two different women.

Should we be executing the mentally disabled?

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The execution of a Georgia man who killed a fellow prisoner in 1990 was halted Tuesday at the last minute so courts could consider claims that he's mentally disabled and other issues.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted its stay of execution as 52-year-old Warren Lee Hill was being prepared for lethal injection. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the appeals court said further review is needed of recent affidavits by doctors who changed their minds about Hill's mental capacity.

"In other words, all of the experts — both the State's and the petitioner's — now appear to be in agreement that Hill is in fact mentally retarded," judges in the majority wrote in their order.

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Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court

Courtesy of NPR

This week, the Supreme Court will take up a classic David-and-Goliath case. On one side, there's a 75-year-old farmer in Indiana named Vernon Hugh Bowman; on the other, the agribusiness giant Monsanto.

The farmer is fighting the long reach of Monsanto's patents on seeds — but he's up against more than just Monsanto. The biotech and computer software industries are taking Monsanto's side.

Bowman also is battling a historic shift that's transformed the nation's seed business over the past 20 years.

Despite all that, Bowman seems remarkably cheerful about his situation. "Confrontation does not take a toll on me!" he says. "You and me can argue about the Bible; we can argue about religion. I'll pound my fist and we can argue all day, and I won't lose a bit of sleep at night!"

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Diana Henriques Monday on The Gary Snyder Show

NY Times financial columnist and author is back on The Gary Snyder Show on 1400 WBAT & Indiana Talks Monday from 3-5pm and a replay from 11p-1a.

Guests include:

Jim Shella, WISH TV-8 political reporter and host of Indiana Week in Review

Sgt. Ross Allen, MPD, MPD Blue

Diana Henriques, award winning NY Times financial columnist and author of "Wizard of Lies", talks about Bernie Madoff's recent "I wish I wouldn't have pleaded guilty" remarks.

Scott Jones, resident PR Guru for The Gary Snyder Show, Daily Caller Columnist and former aide to 3 US Presidents.

 

Fast start sends No. 1 Indiana past Purdue 83-55

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- America's No. 1 team finally came out a winner twice this week.

Indiana's reward: It can stop worrying about votes and start focusing on the Big Ten title chase.

Will Sheehey scored a career-high 22 points and set a new school record Saturday by going 9 for 9 from the field and leading Indiana to its second straight blowout over archrival Purdue, 83-55.

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NCAA

Clarke has 22 as No. 11 Butler tops Fordham 68-63

Batts leads Providence over Notre Dame 71-54

McDermott, Creighton defeat Evansville 71-68

Bryant leads Eastern Michigan by Ball State, 56-50

Will Indiana turn its back on the working poor?

By Brian Howey

INDIANAPOLIS –  How is Indiana going to ensure health insurance to the “working poor?”

State Rep. Ed Clere, the New Albany Republican who chairs the House Public Health Committee, defines this estimated pool of 400,000 Hoosiers like this: “These are people who are doing exactly what Republicans want them to do. The father works in a factory. The mother is a retail clerk.”  They are more than likely to be Republicans.

Together, they might bring in $40,000 to $50,000 a year. But the factory and the retail store don’t provide health insurance, and even if they do, in many cases it’s a flimsy policy.

“If they have a major health issue, they face a financial disaster,” Clere said.

Or as Dr. Aaron E. Carroll of the Indiana University School of Medicine, told the committee, “The choice for many isn’t between Medicaid and some private insurance. The choice is between Medicaid and nothing.”