Family Of 10-Year-Old Fair Victim Angry With Governor(Mitch Daniels)

Source: theindychannel.com

The family of a 10-year-old girl severely injured in the stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair has issues with Gov. Mitch Daniels’ descriptions of the tragedy.

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Jerry Miniard, an attorney and close family friend of the Walcotts, said Daniels’ public comments in the wake of the tragedy got his attention.

“I realized (Daniels) was using words of legal art. He was using words like ‘foreseeability.’ ‘Nobody could have foreseen this,’ he says. Words like ‘fluke.’ ‘This was just a fluke,’” Miniard said. “All these words tend to imply nobody could have prevented this.”

Miniard said he isn’t satisfied with the current investigation that’s being carried out by state police, by a contracted company chosen by the State Fair Commission or by the Industrial Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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A Washington D.C.-based firm headed by former President Bill Clinton's FEMA director will look into the procedures and decisions that influenced state officials' actions before, during and after Saturday's fatal stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair.

In a statement, Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today that the state has hired Witt Associates to conduct "a comprehensive, independent analysis of the state fair’s preparedness and response to Saturday night’s event."

Witt will be the second outside firm looking into the tragedy. The Indiana State Fair Commission announced Tuesday that it has hired New York-based engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti, to conduct a structural investigation.

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The Star found that those officials did not follow their own weather plan, which says fair workers are supposed to announce severe thunderstorm warnings and direct fairgoers to safety. Nor did fair officials follow the advice of the National Weather Service, which issued a severe thunderstorm watch at 5:57 p.m. and a severe thunderstorm warning, which carries a recommendation to evacuate and seek shelter immediately, at 8:39 p.m.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110818/NEWS/110818020/D-C-based-firm-investigate-fair-procedures?odyssey=mod%7Cbreaking

Daniel's is covering all bases to deflect any responsibility for the State;

They had 4, that's FOUR warnings the storm was coming and they did nothing until the last minute when it was too late

Daniel's was tap dancing all over the place the morning after this on a CNN interview -

He is a POS, but of course he is....he is a republiCON

"He is a POS, but of course he is....he is a republiCON"

is a free market based private entity? Really?

Or relying upon old information.

who have loosened Indiana safety laws to cause this fatal accident.

The state and their imbecilic R's should be accountable for this accident, and set aside $250 million for the families of the dead and the injured from the GOP pork side of their coffers.

Nothing from the Dem side of the coffers should be even close to being touched.

you want a governor that puts people first? first don't vote for a republican

Gov. Mitch Daniels calling it a fluke when anyone could look up the forecast online or listen to a weather radio is idiotic or worse.

* so long as said science isn't part of weapon development


If the Republicans and the Tea-Baggers get anymore power, it would not surprise me if large wooden stakes start appearing around major Universities.
Then they will have their Tea-bagging parties with large 'fires' centered around the stakes.


Anyone know how much a duck weighs?

Cue:


BURN HER ANYWAY!!!!!


On another note, I am sick to death of these Republican/Libertarian/Ayn Rand drones who champion the "free market" and pillory the "evil government regulations" and then are given a free fucking pass by the media and the public too for that matter, when their chickens come home to roost!

No government = no regulations = increased "profits" vis a vis blood money.

Don't look now "My Man Mitch"...but your fucking hands are blood red with the lost life of a CHILD, sacrificed on the altar of your TRUE GOD - MONEY. I hope you die a painful and protracted death...one that causes you incredible pain and also injures your family as they watch you writhe in agony you husk of a human being.

All the way from their headquarters in Oklahoma. They can't deny the facts.