Outrage: State Taxpayers Donating $345,000 To Eric Turners Terre Nursing Home Project That Will Net Him A $1.8 Million Profit Advance Indiana May 20, 2014 At some point the taxpayers of Indiana are going to have to rise up in revolt at the sight of our public tax dollars being pilfered by political insiders for their own self-enrichment. One of the worst offenders is State Rep. Eric Turner (R-Cicero), the Speaker Pro Tempore of the House who has blatantly exploited his state legislative position to amass tens of millions of dollars for him and his family. The APs Tom LoBianco reports that our states Economic Development Corporation is awarding $345,000 to a nursing home project that Turners family is developing in Terre Haute from which he stands to personally make $1.8 million. According to LoBianco, the money was what Gov. Pence originally decided to hand out to the state lawmakers business, Mainstreet Properties, to move its headquarters from Cicero to Carmel. Yes, our fake conservative governor thinks public subsidies should be given to a politically-connected business to move its business offices from one side of Hamilton County to another location within the same county. After public outrage over that announcement, Pence put it on hold until IEDC officials said a review of the award showed that no conflict of interest rules were broken by the awarding of money to a business controlled by a guy who exercises control as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee over how much money gets appropriated in the state budget for IEDC. Do they actually expect us to believe that construction of a nursing home is legitimate economic development for the state? Please. Now that the $345,000 state taxpayer gift to Turners company is a go, its being redirected to help pay for the development of a new nursing home Turners company is building in Terre Haute. Through a high-paid spokesman at a big Indianapolis law firm that lobbies the state legislature, Turner assures the public that his stake in Mainstreet is only as a passive investor, which is laughable given that everyone knows that hes the one whos been pulling the strings for the business all these years as he continues to build a massive fortune on the backs of Indiana taxpayers while passing himself off to the voting public as a fiscal conservative and devout Christian. An assistant professor at Indiana University, Josh Perry, tells LoBianco that deals like this erode the public trust in government. Yeah, no sh__.
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 03:58:08 +0000