Letter: Don’t be a victim of those in favor of Mid-States Corridor

The other evening Mr. Jason McCoy hosted an informative talk about the history of the Mid-States Corridor.

He went into great detail of the who, what, when, where and how we have arrived at the place we are at today. Mr. McCoy is not a politician; he’s “just a brick layer” who is concerned about what the future will be for his children and the surrounding communities if the Mid-States Corridor is allowed to come to fruition. He presented a way that those of us in the path of the Corridor can easily do, “just say no.”

Mr. McCoy further stated that another way we can apply pressure on the cabal that is dead set to have the Corridor is to remove their incomes. No, we can’t fire them, but we can not elect or re-elect them, and we can not do business with them.

Now is the time for our city and county representatives to get onboard with the public opposition to the Corridor.

In last week’s issue of the Martin County Journal, “The Martin County Board of Finance held a contentious meeting Tuesday, April 16. Last month, the redevelopment commission had requested Treasurer Rhonda Sanders take $750,000 from one of their funds and move it to Springs Valley Bank in Jasper.”

The reason? To get a better a better deal than they were getting from Mark Schroeder’s German American Bank. My question is, why is Cody Roush so in favor of doing business with any bank in Jasper? Right here in Martin County, we have an Old National Bank branch. I’ll bet ONB would love to have the county’s accounts; and, it’s not connected to those who want to force the Mid-States Corridor through our homes.

An old mentor of mine used to tell me when I fretted about something, something I could change, was “Don’t be a victim!”. What he meant was don’t fret about it, go do something, something positive. When I took positive action, I would stop fretting, and the actions led to success.

Let’s not be victims; let’s tell our city and county representatives to move “our” money to Old National Bank and dump the German American Bank.

Jim Arvin
Rutherford Township
Martin County