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A lone “waiter” in a sea of blue…

May 4th, 2010

This is a photo from the 2nd Lake County Sheriff’s Debate

From left to right: Deputy Commander Oscar Martinez, Retired Chief of Police Don Parker, Colonel Richard Ligon, County Policeman Dan Bursac, Former Lake County Sheriff, John Bunich, Mike “the Waiter” White, Child Protective Services Investigator, Chris Roberts-Gonzalez*, and Patrolman Frank Dupey

*Chris Roberts-Gonzalez, in my opinion, had the most profound advice from the campaign: “The children of today will become either the criminals of tomorrow, or the leaders of tomorrow… ” and went on to say “that’s where the county’s limited resources should be employed… ” …and i agree…

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:)… just one more… this time a video…

May 3rd, 2010

These reporters discuss my ideas for the next Lake County Sheriff…. starting about 6 minutes, 15 seconds into the video…

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DOUG ROSS: Why candidate hops from race to race

April 29th, 2010

This article appears in the Northwest Indiana Times…. and will be my last diddie about the Sheriff’s race. Then, I’m back to food and beverage… (where I feel most at home!)

StoryDiscussionBy Doug Ross - Doug.Ross@nwi.com, (219) 548-4360 | Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 12:00 am |

Can you guess who I’m thinking of? He’s a candidate in the Lake County sheriff’s race who has a real zeal for politics and campaigning. He can’t seem to make up his mind which office he wants to run for, hopping from one to the next.

I’m talking, of course, about Mike “the Waiter” White, who is running for the Republican nomination for sheriff this year.

White admits he has no chance of winning the sheriff’s job, but he filed anyway to try to advance his agenda of limited government. And when he says limited, he doesn’t mean limited in what has become the GOP sense of the word. He’s got more of a Libertarian bent.

If he’s elected sheriff — a big if, he admits — he would immediately announce the department would no longer enforce laws regarding no-victim crimes, including marijuana laws, he said.

White sees this as a way to bring county spending under control.

I’ve heard estimates of somewhere around 75 to 80 percent of the county’s budget goes toward law enforcement, between the Sheriff’s Department and the courts and associated support services.

“That leaves nothing left for the arts, parks and other higher callings,” White complained.

Wait a minute, I said to him. Isn’t marijuana considered a gateway drug?

“It’s a gateway drug because it makes you run in the underground environment,” he said.

Sell marijuana in a regulated environment, like liquor stores, and the government could control the cycle of production and sale more easily.

Oh, and the government could tax it, too. White suggests $1 per reefer.

“We could get out in front of this and ride it to prosperity and balanced budgets,” he said.

“We could rebuild that Cline Avenue Bridge two times over,” he said, without having to rely on state funding.

Well, that’s certainly an idea you won’t hear from most people in the Republican Party.

White has no shortage of opinions there, either.

“The Republican Party has been taken over by religious lunatics,” he said. The Tea Party folks, he said, are “nut cases. The radical fringe.”

White’s practice is to wait until just before the deadline, then to file for a race in which no Republican has filed. He knows he doesn’t stand a chance of winning — or does he?

“I win just by participating,” he said. “The public is a winner because when they go to the polls in November, there won’t be just one name on the ballot.”

“The failure of Lake County politics can be laid at the door of the uneducated, uninformed voters,” he said.

On Tuesday, Republican and Democrats have a chance to pick the candidates they feel will be best able to win the general election in November. Will you vote for someone who hops from one race to another?

Editorial Page Editor Doug Ross can be reached at (219) 548-4360 or (219) 933-3357 or Doug.Ross@nwi.com. The opinion expressed in this column is the writer’s and not necessarily that of The Times.

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…and now a blogger’s report on the Sheriff’s debate featuring Mike “the Waiter”

April 23rd, 2010

…well, maybe I made my Dad proud, as he looked down from Heaven…

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Mike “the Waiter” & the Final Sheriff’s Debate

April 23rd, 2010

I know I am making our democracy stronger by offering the voters a choice, but these things really take a lot out of me….

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Navy SEAL Cleared in Iraq Abuse Case

April 22nd, 2010

… praise the Lord … says Mike “the Waiter” …

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GUEST COMMENTARY: We need to relearn how to get along… by: Raymundo Garcia

April 18th, 2010

Whether it’s lazy speech, disrespectful clothing or aggressive attitudes, I am frustrated to no end when I see people behaving badly in public.

This un-American acting out can be seen everywhere: aggressive driving, children screaming in public, throwing trash out of car windows; not maintaining your yard and home; lazy study habits; not paying bills; not voting.

It’s this behavior that makes hatred and prejudice seem axiomatic and accepted without thought. We dislike each other not just because we look different, but because we act differently.

I think we need to re-examine what it is to be an American, and we need to start behaving accordingly. We need a common rudder to guide all of us in a similar direction. We need to re-establish what Thomas Harris called the super-ego of our society. What we need is civics 101.

One of the things civics teaches us is how to behave in public. For example: how to order in a restaurant and leave a tip for good service; that we must not talk during a movie; that when we are interacting with other people we should not be on our cell phones. It demonstrates at which point to cross a street, and the polite rules of the road; to address each other as Sir or Madam; how to treat each other with respect and deference. We can mend the racial divides created as a result of ignorance and hatred by learning to behave by the same basic rules.

It’s not going to be easy. First, let’s ask all blacks, whites, browns and yellows to stop hating each other. We can start by accepting all of us as Americans. Next we need to establish and follow the same rules of conduct. For example: poor white trash — clean up your junk-filled front yards; lower-class blacks — pick up your pants and lower your radios in public; browns — study American culture and language; yellows — stop being such overachievers and making the rest of us look bad. (That’s a joke for those of you who didn’t get it.)

Seriously though, we need to leave behind the angry, ignorant and intolerant feelings of the past, and begin to build the future of our country. One way to start is by accepting each other as human beings.

It is said we are all equal before the law, but let’s also accept the fact that in reality we are not all equal. Some people are born with advantages over others. Therefore, if you are born to a wealthy family, do not see that as making you in any way better than someone else, and conversely if you happen to be born poor, let’s not treat you as being somehow bad.

Let us begin our civics lessons by judging each other based upon our behavior and not the color or our skin or the number of shekels in our pockets.

Second, let those of you who know the rules of our society embrace and accept those who do not. Instead of rejecting the ignorant, let’s teach each other how to behave. Lead by example and sweep your sidewalks, let someone cut in front of you in traffic, buy someone of lesser means lunch, engage people who don’t look like you, share your advantages with those who have none.

We will all be immeasurably better off by teaching those who don’t know any better than by continuing to exclude them from our society.

Raymundo Garcia operates El Taco Real in Hammond.

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Mike “the waiter” links to Sarah Palin … ?

April 10th, 2010

The driving force behind these changes is no longer those who advocate personal freedom, but the financial realities of balancing local governmental budgets. Some us opposed casino gambling, but it’s here. Some of us will oppose the new marijuana legislation, but it’s coming… like a tsunami… Starting on November 2nd, in the great state of California…. and it’s better for the citizen leaders of northwest Indiana to get out in front… and RIDE THIS WAVE… to a balanced budget and a new Cline Avenue Bridge!!!

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Justice4all responds to mike “the waiter”…

April 9th, 2010

Justice4all said on: April 9, 2010, 12:10 pm
MikeTheWaiter, I bet I know who you are referring to when you state “except for one”. Let’s not forget……

A vote for Buncich is a vote for the return of police and political corruption. He has an insatiable appetite for political power and greed. John Buncich disgraced the Lake County Sheriff’s Police Department during his 1995-2002 tenure as sheriff.

As sheriff, Buncich controlled a secret fleet of county cars he assigned to political supporters in his department, even though they did not participate in investigations and may have little or no reason to drive on the job. - The Times 3/31/96

Buncich reportedly squandered county funds on political meals, $39,000 in office furnishings and extended stays in luxury hotels at a time when his department was facing a budget crisis. - The Times 12/22/96

Buncich is a loose cannon and a deeply political public official with a huge ego who has managed to endanger the effectiveness, even the existence, of a promising federally financed effort against illegal drugs in Lake County. - The Time 7/15/97

In what some think was a ‘pay-to-play’ arrangement, most of the automobile towing firms called out by the Lake County Sheriff’s Police were also among the top contributors to the re-election fund of then Sheriff John Buncich. - The Times 2/1/98

A twice-convicted drug dealer implicated via federal court papers members of Buncich’s Drug Task Force as ringleaders of an organized drug ring, selling cocaine that had been seized in drug raids. - The Times 2/23/99

Political supporters of Buncich assigned to the Lake County Drug Task Force were able to collect thousands of dollars in overtime at a time when the unit was shut down because of pending FBI investigation into corruption involving the unit. - The Times 8/1/99

It is time for an intervention for the Partnership for a Drug-Free Lake County. It’s addiction to political back-scratching rather than doing the work its name requires is dangerous to the physical and mental health of the people the agency is supposed to be helping. How did this happen? Thank that power monger former sheriff, John Buncich. - The Times 1/30/01

While running for 1994 and again in 1998, Buncich handed out hundreds of special deputy commissions to his political supporters, giving police powers to people with no police training in exchange for their support and campaign donations. - The Times 5/27/01

Consider John Buncich and his merry band of “special deputies.” Consummate politician that he is, Buncich has conferred this “honor” on about 1,100 people. Including politicians, precinct committeemen, lawyers, businessmen, and union bosses. - The Times 5/30/01

A Lowell citizen filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was beaten and then arrested without cause by Buncich while on his way to a festival at a local shopping mall. - The Times 6/27/01

Even though he was the HIGHEST paid elected official in Lake County, Sheriff John Buncich paid himself almost $2,000 overtime in 1999. Buncich, like other elected officials, was salaried. - The Evansville Courier 9/19/01

Buncich’s handpicked leader of his Drug Task Force was convicted of stealing a mink coat from a drug dealer on Buncich’s watch. - The Times 10/08/01

Buncich’s obsession with money and power led to the loss of confidence of Lake County police chiefs who sought to topple Buncich as chairman of his scandal-ridden Drug Task Force. - The Times 9/12/02

Buncich reportedly tried to corrupt a community crime-watch meeting by turning it into a political rally and tried to stuff his pockets with cash from the community group. - The Times 6/17/05

As sheriff, Buncich reportedly had an illicit affair with his secretary. Federal court filings describe her job as basically a do-nothing position. - The Times 11/30/05
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Mike “the waiter” comment? … well said!

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Mike “the waiter” responds to criticism of the other candidates…

April 9th, 2010

Eric Krieg,
I beg to differ with you. If not being a part of the machine is your litmus test, then you forgot to mention me… & I was there last night… on the stage. Except for one, I felt surrounded by honorable, hard working gentlemen, who’s reasons for participation are beyond rebuke… and I was proud to be amongst them…

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