Krusa Conflict

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:05 am

Here is a perfect example of what user-directed censorship has done to the Times message boards.
Last year I started a thread on the apparent conflict of interest by Ed Krusa, who now heads the Hammond Water Department. If you look at it now, you'll see the first post is NOT by me, but by Oracle, who has bragged about killing the Times board by deleting posts:

http://nwi.com/interact/viewtopic.php?f ... &sk=t&sd=a

If you go through all the pages, you won't find a single post by me. They have all been deleted. The Times management has decided to use a "self-policing" feature, which allows users to delete posts made by other users. On June 29. Times columnist Mark Kiesling wrote that most of the deletions had been traced to"city hall computers."

Instead of my posts, you'll now find faked quotes and lies posted by people like Dixie Chick, who was eventually banned there.

You will also not read my original premise-that it was WRONG for Krusa to collect $247,000 from Hammond to represent the city's interests and advise mcmayor while he was also being paid by at least one company, Jupiter Aluminum, which successfully sought a huge taxpayer-assisted bond issue.

Mcmayor never did comment on Krusa's double dipping. I emailed him 15 times, asking if Krusa also got paid by Cabelas and River Park, the other big money deals he also advised mcmayor on. When I finally called mcmayor on his WJOB program, he said "I don't know" about Krusa's side deals.

IN this time of budget constraints and bragging by Oracle about how Hammond has been more "fiscally responsible" than other cities, I would think the quarter million paid to Krusa SHOULD be examined. Just WHO was he representing in those three deals I mentioned? Did Hammond residents get their money's worth out of him?

Now mcmayor has made Krusa the head of the city Water Department. Krusa did not have the state required credentials for the job, but mcmayor's no-cut contract with him said the taxpayers would fund his education so he could gain the needed certification to run the department.

Now the Water Department is in the process of building a new, $4.7 million water tank at Hohman and Michigan.There was little if any public talk about that project, and I'm still unsure about why it was needed.

Krusa owns land near the existing main water tank in Hammond at 165th and Columbia.

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

Still harping on something that occurred years ago?

Give it up already

And what you are doing can be considered stalking as well

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

You also said you no longer care about the Times board, so why are you still going there is you know it is screwed up?

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:15 am

BTW, the Oracle post that has now replaced my post in starting the Times thread about Krusa's conflict's contains at least two lies.

The Oracle of the Region wrote:

hey free...you do remember that krusa was a consultant during the dedelow administration and first started getting paid a regular city pay check during the dedelow administration as well dont you?

your the one that has repeatedly claimed over an over again, regaurding vostron, that this is a completly legitimate policy.

so what's the problem? if its ok for you and vostron, why is it not ok for krusa?

Krusa was NOT a consultant for Dedelow. He worked for his dad, mcsenior, as an employee at the Hammond Planning Department, then went to work foir Nipsco while still on the city payroll. The State Board of Accounts later ordered him to repay the city.

He did NO WORK for Hammond while Dedelow was mayor. He resigned from his position on the Hammond Port Authority, which he was appointed to during mcsenior's term, when Dedelow was in office.

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

mike3775 wrote:

You also said you no longer care about the Times board, so why are you still going there is you know it is screwed up?

No one cares about a years old issue that was resolved Freetime

Remember this was all mentioned on that other board as well

Where are the lost marsh records at?

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:21 am

This thread is about Ed Krusa's conflicts of interest. Start your own thread if you want to talk about something else!

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

I already told you, this is a dead issue

quit beating a dead horse Freetime, this was settled on theTimes board

There is/was no conflict of interest

if there was, would there not have been a big investigation by now?

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:35 am

This is NOT a dead issue.
Krusa is now at the Hammond Water Department, spending millions of dollars.
Whether or not there would have been an investigation by now is unknown.
I know Krusa has a very questionable history and for it, he is rewarded by mcmayor with a good job he can't be fired from.

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

So go tell Keisling to do another "investigative" article on this and see what happens

Notice nothing has happened since this was first brought up years ago, so how come you cannot face the facts that no one cares except for you right now?

dixie chick · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:42 am

WELL WHERE ARE THE LOST MARSH RECORDS ???

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:02 am

Here's Krusa's latest project-the new $4.7 million water tank being built at Hohman and Michigan. From the story, it seems Hammond needs the new tank because Lake Michigan no longer freezes in the winter, so the intake pipes clog up with ice. Honest to god, that's what it says. Read it:

http://nwi.com/articles/2008/07/25/news ... 7e066f.txt

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

email Keisling again and have him do an article

No one cares Freetime

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:07 am

Despite Mike's best efforts, I intend to talk about Ed Krusa.
Here's what he's up to these days as mcmayor's appointed head of the Hammond Water Department:

Hammond builds water storage tank

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BY STEVE ZABROSKI
Times Correspondent | Friday, July 25, 2008 | No comments posted.

HAMMOND | The city is building a huge new storage tank near downtown to ensure a reliable flow of Lake Michigan water through changing climatic conditions.

The project includes a 6 million-gallon ground-level tank and adjacent park at the corner of Hohman Avenue and Michigan Street.

Maintaining water flow during the winter months wasn't a problem in the days when the surface of Lake Michigan was covered with sheets of ice in January and February.

But now that the water stays clear even through freezing temperatures, ice crystals periodically clog the intake lines half a mile out in the lake, requiring temporary shut-downs of the system, said Edward Krusa, Water Department chief executive officer.

The $4.7 million project will ensure uninterrupted flows of fresh water for Hammond and the 15 communities in Illinois and Indiana which buy water from the city, Krusa said.

About half of the 7.5-acre site will be covered by the 30-feet-tall concrete tank, according to the development plan, which will be built on the eastern side of the parcel, with a 150-foot green space buffer along Michigan Street.

"You'd be surprised how attractive these concrete tanks can be," Krusa said.

And cost-effective too: the city's three above-ground steel tanks, which hold a combined 4.5 million gallons of water, each costs $500,000 to paint every three to five years, said Krusa.

The park, which will be developed as a joint venture with the city's Urban Enterprise Association, is on land once occupied by Hammond's first City Hall and its Carnegie-funded public library, which were demolished more than 50 years ago.

Hammond sells drinking water to Dyer, Griffith, Highland, Munster and Whiting in Indiana, and the Illinois communities of Burnham, Calumet City, Chicago Heights, Lansing, Lynwood and South Holland.

By agreement with Hammond, Chicago Heights also provides water to Ford Heights, Glenwood, South Chicago Heights and Thornton in Illinois.

mike3775 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:52 pm **Posts:** 2573

So you are upset that Krusa is improving the water being brought in?

Again if there is a conflict, how come there is no big bad federal investigation? where are the feds at? Where is Keisling?

See you are making a mountain out of an ant hill(cant say mole because that would be to high). There is no conflict, you are going off of information that is over 5 yrs old now trying to smear the current administration

freetime · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:15 am

Wonder if the existing Hammond Water Works at 165th and Columbia will be retained? Wonder if Krusa still owns that land next to it? it?

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