Indiana

THE DEFIANT ONES

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

From what my sources tell me, Democratic State Representative Bill Crawford and Republican State Senator Mike Young don’t think very highly of each other.  Crawford thinks Young is a closet racist and what Young thinks of Crawford could not be printed on this blog.

However the two have found common ground, their opposition to government consolidation.  The State Senate overwhelmingly today passed Marion County fire consolidation out of the chamber today as part of a House public employees pension bill.  However, Young reportedly told consolidation supporters that he still has a couple tricks up his sleeve. That sleeve is Bill Crawford.

Although the two hate each other, they hate consolidation even more, sources say, so they have become unwilling allies.  Young wants to protect the townships and Crawford wants to protect Center Township Trustee Carl Drummer.  And while there is no direct conspiracy, per se, the two are like Sydney Poitier and Tony Curtis in the movie, The Defiant Ones.  They are chained together and trying to prevent the forces of less government and more accountability from catching up with them.

You can run, but you can’t hide.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).