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Nice to know that Dixit Chit had neglected to include the following thread.

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Post subject: Re: Mayor McDermott Selectively Enforces Sex Offender's Laws!
New postPosted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:56 pm
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true or false tommy.

a former student of yours has accused you of being worthy of that sex offender list

You guys missed McDermott's Department Heads lack of enforcement with regard to residency requirements. So, the HPD has no responsibility to enforce a State Law regarding offenders being 1000 feet from a school, park, etc.

No coverage on neglecting all of hammond on this issue...

Has Mayor McDermott Selectively enforced Sex Registration and Residency laws placing Hammond residents and their children at risk?

Has Hammond's Mayor Thomas McDermott turned a blind eye and allowed sex offenders to reside in a politico pal's hotel with out enforcement of the state statute or has someone in his administration been asleep at the wheel?



The Preacher in his first show in his new time slot, brought to the attention of the public, Hammond's Mayor Thomas McDermott has again slighted the residents of Hammond by selectively enforcing Sex Offender Residency requirements. The McDermott's has began to enforce the residency restrictions (1000 feet from a park, school, etc) for a dozen or so individuals living at the LaSalle Hotel. It has been now discovered, after approval of a charter school in the area, that sex offenders at this location have been allowed to live for years in a residence which is less than a 1000 feet from a bike path.

The McDermott Administration and the responsible Department Heads have turned their back on a community for years, apparently allowing convicted sex offenders to reside in this locations in violation of the law. Why this new found interest? The pending construction of a charter school, no other reason. I am sure you would want to know that the LaSalle Hotel is owned by an individual who McDermott appointed to a board. Is this again special privileged for people of the McDermott political army at the cost of the residents of Hammond's personal safety?

Who ever McDermott's has given the responsibility to follow up on Sex Offender's residency requirement apparently have been sleeping for the last 6 years of his Administration. The LaSalle Hotel has been for a number of years a place where Sex offenders have landed after being released from jail. All this time McDermott's Administration has placed that community at risk by his inaction!

Localized enforcement of a state law because of a pet project?
Why have Hammond residents in this community been neglected?
Why is this statute now being enforced in Downtown Hammond and not city wide?
This statue should be enforced city wide, not just for a pet project!


If you look at the web site for the location of sex offenders, many are with in a 1000 feet of a school or public park. This selective enforcement can and will open Hammond to litigation on this recent selective enforcement by the McDermott Administration. What about those sex offenders that are residing within a 1000 feet of other Hammond Parks, Schools?
Why is McDermott doing only a localized enforcement?

Who ever in Hammond City Government that has been sleeping at the wheel should be investigated and held accountable for not doing their job.

McDermott has been very busy, maybe too busy. McDermott is the Democratic Chairman for Lake County and Hammond's. One thing that is very clear, crystal clear, Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. is ultimately responsible for his Department's heads inaction. This inaction has placed Hammonites and their children at risk! It is apparent McDermott has been too busy running the Lake County Party and governor and making the phone calls on behalf of his Capo's who are growing grass in their back yards to effectively run Hammond.

We all remember the story about our dear good friend Bobby Cantrell. Cantrell’s friends in Lake County paid him handsomely with taxpayer’s money for his political skill ($220,000 plus). Once arrested his political friends turned their back on him, but I guess it should be expected. Lake County Democratic Chairman and Hammond's Mayor, Thomas McDermott has said he's a stand up guy and he's not gonna talk. This message implied McDermott was endorsing Cantrell's silence!

Cantrell really did a lot for a number of people, many now rather wealthy and others rising through the political-elected ranks. Those people should not turn the back on him in this time of need. So lets do a fund raiser for Bobbie. He needs an occasional cigar, chewing gum, pop or sandwich from the consession machines, some magizine subscriptions.

Others may wish to write Bobbie and give him words of encouragement. A special post card every now and then with an "I'm thinking of you!" or "See ya when you get out!" "Getting out Soon" or my favorite, "January 9th, 2015 is just around the corner!" The card doesn't have to be signed, and might just help keep his spirits up!

Maybe a subscription to the Hammond Times, to not only help the Times, but keep Bobby up to date on all the happenings in the political world here in Lake County, Hammond, Indiana.

He can be reached by writing to him @

ROBERT J CANTRELL
Inmate No.: 09199-027
FCI ASHLAND
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 6001
ASHLAND, KY 41105

Inmate locater link to Bobby:
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderSe ... &x=41&y=18

Pictures of his vacation spot:
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/ash/index.jsp

Those of you who might want Bobby to continue his vigilance of silence can send money to him at:
http://www.bop.gov/inmate_programs/money.jsp or

Most important send cash or a money order so your donation can remain Anonymous from the federal authorities to Bobbie at:

ROBERT J CANTRELL
Inmate No.: 09199-027
Post Office Box 474701
Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001

Yea, I know some may say this tinges on tasteless, but if you think about it, a lot of political operatives here in Lake County need to be nice to Bobby and not forget about their one time dear friend. This is just a way to make sure they dont forget about their friend.

I was a bit concerned that the original post was out there, funny, yes, but with a good deal of truth in it. Cantrell is sitting in a cell, away from his grandchildren, and children, and it very well may incite some anger. Who knows, he just might start talking unless someone has threatened his family with retribution? Interesting thought isn't it?

With the dirt Cantrell has on political operatives between his ears, what would be the reason you would not chirp? As McDermott implied, be a stand up guy? Or some threat? Which make more sense?

he was makin a good buck and now he has 3 squares, heat, bed, blanket, full medical, gated community and a girlfriend named bubba. Something money cant buy!. All this creates some resentment

Regarding heil McDermott, dixie and my person on the inside sorta say he is very very jumpy as of late. Dixie has said the feds may be circling the camp.

A fine example of how Cantrell helped out lake county politico's including Hammond's Mayor Thomas McDermott

MARK KIESLING
Times Columnist | Posted: Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:00 am | No Comments Posted

Font Size:Default font sizeLarger font sizeI was out in Chicago Heights having a nice Italian dinner a couple of weeks ago when my dining companion let something casually drop that made me flag the waitress down for another chianti, rapido!

The city of Hammond is quietly dropping its old Employee Assistance Program, Northwest Resources, and hiring in its place Addiction and Family Care, the counseling service owned by Nancy Fromm, which is also a money machine for Bob Cantrell.

Significant? Only if you know the players and consider how Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. has gone to great lengths, at least when talking to me, to distance himself from Cantrell, the longtime former East Chicago GOP chairman who (officially) turned Democrat in 2003.

And if you consider that both Fromm and Cantrell were actively involved in McDermott's campaign.

Of course, there were those who contended the East Chicago Republican Party under Cantrell was nothing more than an adjunct of ex-Mayor Bob Pastrick's machine, and that Cantrell stayed in power by bringing busloads of rummies to county conventions from the Chicago Avenue flophouse owned by the late Charlie Dahlin.

Cantrell, who also works for (indicted) North Township Trustee Greg Cvitkovich, was responsible for getting Fromm's group hired there to teach diversity sessions that some township employees claimed was an utter waste of their time and taxpayer money.

He also engineered an $84,000 contract with County Sheriff Roy Dominguez to counsel work-release inmates, and his daughter, Superior Court Judge Julie Cantrell, orders substance abusers to use Fromm's service as part of their sentence.

Like Cantrell, Fromm worked for McDermott to defeat incumbent Duane Dedelow in 2003. She has said in the past that Bobby Cantrell is a sort of headhunter, in that he gets a fee for each person referred to the agency and for the amount of money each respective counseling services contract brought in.

There are a lot of drunks and druggies out there moving through the revolving doors of the county courts and the city courts, and Hammond City Court Judge Jeff Harkin also uses Fromm's service.

Is Fromm doing a poor job? Not from what anyone says. She's a licensed clinical social worker and a master's level drug and alcohol counselor.

"She works with compassion and does a good job for us," Dominguez said, and even Fromm's critics say she provides excellent services in the field of substance abuse.

But is her agency so much superior to the city's former employee assistance program that the replacement was necessary, or is this merely political payback for favors rendered? You're the taxpayer. You guess.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it still may be correct to say it's not a duck.

It's a cash cow.

Mark Kiesling's column solely represents the opinion of the writer and not necessarily that of The Times. Readers can reach Kiesling at markk@nwitimes.com or (219) 933-4170.

thanks for listening maurie !!!!

nice to know, at least per the mail man he has been drug free for 20 months. so that helps understand how why mcdermott has relied on him for the last 6 years!

Glad I could help, your ratings were just great at 6 viewiers, I was one of em.

Nice to know you have a bunch of sponsors lined up, I sure wont support them. Believe a lot of others wont support them as well.

comeon dixit selective reading..