Street Talk

Submitted by
Name: Charlie Cardinal
From: Madison

Comments:
@Shimfessel

Your dead on when you call the City Council other than Thevenow the Six Stooges. Do you think Krebs is Curly?

Added: September 14, 2025 02:03:32 PM

Submitted by
Name: Crybaby

Comments:
Looks like Mayor Bobby is having a meltdown on Facebook this morning about the mailer that went out opposing his apartments. What a crybaby.

Added: September 14, 2025 12:04:38 PM

Submitted by
Name: Downtowner too
From: Madison
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
I would have loved to have seen Courtney's and his stooges faces when they received the mailer

Added: September 14, 2025 05:56:02 AM

Submitted by
Name: Fred Shimfessel
From: Madison

Comments:
Hey Blonde Lady:
If I read this correctly. Courtney and his jokers down at City Hall have to start all over again. What I mean they have to go back to the original redevelopment board meeting with an application. Then it will have to go before the redevelopment board for another vote. Then to the city council for a reading followed by a vote two weeks later.
It will be Christmas before this thing gets pushed through at the earliest. I hope Lucy, Bartlett, Krebs, and the others have the stones to withstand the heat coming there way for the next 12 weeks or so. If they withstand all this and City Council votes yes to the zoning. We can take em to court and really get down to it. Wow! Courtney really didn't know what he was doing after all. These lazy City Council people just took what he said at face value. I wonder if they will ever be smart enough to figure the Mayor has not told them the truth and made them out to be the Six Stooges!

Added: September 13, 2025 06:19:38 PM

Submitted by
Name: Great Mailer
From: Madison

Comments:
Thank You!!!! To all that were involved in getting the awesome mailer out that I received in my mailbox today!! "Say no to subsidizing luxury apartments on our riverfront with your tax dollars" GREAT JOB!!!

Added: September 13, 2025 04:32:44 PM

Submitted by
Name: Update-

Comments:
Another win doesn’t mean the war is over but it’s a great win none the less. The upcoming meeting has been postponed because of threats of legal action. I'm sure Jb and Richard Ice will let you know the new date as well as Councilman Thevenow

Certainly recognition needs to go to Patrick Thevenow, Warren Auxier and Richard Ice along with two other prominent gentleman who are part of the core team and one lady. While there are too many subcommittees to mention off the top of my head special thanks to Julie Thevenow for early organizational efforts to “get butts in the seat” at those first few council meetings. Jan Vethrus for her remarkable work leading the public protest team - helping pass out signs therefore increasing visibility of the issue and helping make it safe for people who disagree with the mayor to show or speak of their concerns. Nathan Montoya continues to do extraordinary work on flood plain, DNR and FEMA. Ranie and Margie for their work getting phone calls to council members, teachers who can’t be named for job security reasons who helped lead e-mail drives, persons who prefer anonymity but worked hard on Facebook and getting reviews and pressuring the original developer Rebar. Thank you to the Readi grant team who has been reaching out on varies concerns related to the states 2 million dollar grant through IEDC- the readi board, coincidently , will also be meeting in executive season, and to the market and media team that handle distribution of information and strategy and timing of various steps in the battle against the RFD and citizen subsidized luxury housing for the wealthy in the flood plain. Special thanks to those many gop members who have worked behind the scenes as well as Councilman Joel Storm for his meeting and Josh Schafer for his survey. Whatever their motivation- in the end those efforts helped strengthen the public’s efforts for responsible, transparent and legal zoning and development projects.

I’ve no idea what will come from the executive session next week but will cover some of the obvious illegal actions by the mayor and plan commission as well as unethical and likely illegal conduct of the mayor. I’ll get back later with the meeting time —-please share and post as much information as you can about the letter concerning legal action. I’ll work on an easy summary later tomorrow. Again congratulations to all involved - no matter how big or small- the effort - everyone made a difference . Let’s see what happens - until then please know- various teams are moving forward quickly to address a multitude of remaining concerns. Tjh

Added: September 13, 2025 02:55:13 PM

Submitted by
Name: Cookin' Geese

Comments:
Way to go Warren! Might want to alert city hall neighbors that lots of geese plan on getting cooked there soon so they can get used to the fowl odor

Added: September 13, 2025 01:14:51 PM

Submitted by
Name: Breaking Report
From: Madison

Comments:
The report is City Council President Krebs sent an email to the Council members this morning stating, the Mayor said a legal matter has come up that also needs to be addressed at the executive session. It was received yesterday and Joe Jenner needs some time to prepare before he presents it to us. So, we are going to postpone our council meeting for this week. When I know a date, you will be the first to know. It will happen before our first October meeting.

Added: September 13, 2025 12:40:48 PM

Submitted by
Name: ugh

Comments:
wallace is not the saint everyone thinks he is or what he thinks he is. Just ask his pal Tim Armstrong!...Birds of a feather roost together.

Added: September 13, 2025 11:25:20 AM

Submitted by
Name: Sheriff
From: Madison

Comments:
I’d be surprised if Wallace enters any LEO again. I think he would be faced with some tough questions. Only rumors here, but it was said by some when Armstrong got arrested someone gave Wallace the dignity of retirement but made it clear he couldn’t stay. Not at all accusing Wallace of being involved with the same thing Armstrong was, but I don’t think I’d believe if he said he had no idea something was going on. It’s not a secret Wallace and Armstrong were deeply intertwined. If you look at Armstrong’s first appointment as mayor then you look at all the appointments Wallace gave Armstrong, it kinda tells the story. Armstrong was arrested Nov 16th 2023 and Wallace announces his retirement approximately 2 weeks later on Dec 4th. Is that a coincidence? Everything’s a lie, rumor, and conspiracy. Until it’s not.

Added: September 13, 2025 10:52:52 AM