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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">GREG BALLARD<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 9pt; TEXT-INDENT: -9pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:City></st1:place> native</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>23-year veteran of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> Marine Corps (Lieutenant Colonel) – Gulf War Veteran -<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Service-disabled veteran </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Successful Small Business Owner/Current Corporate Trainer</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Two-year volunteer/board member of Lilly Boys and Girls Club</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- Author of <U>Small Unit Leadership<o:p></o:p></U></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- College Instructor – Economics, Marketing, Management</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Contributing Author – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Indiana</st1:State></st1:place> Minority Business Magazine</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:City></st1:place> Writers’ Group – Founder</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><U><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">What I can bring to the election<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sense of civic service and responsibility </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A wide range of experience - military, corporate, small business, education<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An understanding of how social pathologies are complex and interrelated</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An understanding of how a substandard education affects an individual’s role in society<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- Strong desire to change the paradigm of how children are educated – public-private<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>partnership to help students struggling in schools at a very early age</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Civic pride - moved my family back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:City></st1:place> after 23 years of military service to provide a home for my children</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ability to influence others – ability to articulate ideas clearly <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- <U>I will be quitting my teaching in two weeks to devote full time to the campaign</U> </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Will have a list of personnel needed and a preliminary budget completed by the end of this week</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Have gathered data on crime and solutions and also have sample campaigns plans </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>- Have raised the slating fee </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- The intent is to win, but short of that, the Republican Party in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Marion</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> needs to be stronger at the end of the campaign than at the beginning - will be a team player – <U>will stay on message</U><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">- The Mayor is vulnerable – just talking to people in the last few weeks confirms that, but we must overcome a lack of inertia<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Mayor is detached from these two issues <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>Crime</U></B> – Record homicide rates not getting any better – the trend is still terrible <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></U></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Police force is seriously undermanned and it is not scheduled to get much better in the short term – morale is at an all-time low – have some contacts in the police force including a current candidate for City-County Council </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Broken Windows Theory - design a program for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Indianapolis</st1:City></st1:place> using the model successfully employed by Rudy Guiliani</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Examine moving the “Criminal Justice Complex” to the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Lafayette Square</st1:address></st1:Street> area – can sell valuable land (jail is at <st1:State w:st="on">Delaware</st1:State> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Maryland</st1:State></st1:place>) and stop expensive downtown leases<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Make drug rehabilitation available to all those who seek it – maybe combine this with incrementally increasing drug usage fines to encourage users to seek help</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Heavily advertise alternate three digit police phone line to free up 911 – 911 operators use their judgment to transfer calls to alternate number </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Address the command relationship between the Sheriff and the Mayor </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">It is not fair that many kids being born today have little to no shot of being successful<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Help overwhelmed schools by combining efforts with non-profit literacy groups (unite these groups) – focus on 1<SUP>st</SUP> through the 6th grades – track <U>every</U> kid through a database – set a definitive goal to measure and gauge resources needed</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Use non-profits to provide information to parents on how to best help their school age children – many parents don’t know how to do this since no one did it for them</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Determine how the Mayor can best influence schools - office needs to be engaged instead of standing by<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Attack adult illiteracy<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>- estimated to be 100,00 in Marion County - use bully pulpit to more fully fund Indy Reads</FONT></P>
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