well gary got a little help over the weekend or last week from the portage mayor james snyder remember that really just last week was one of the snows were hit  western lake county and portage chesterton vapo really didn't get much at all so gary got dumped on and portage didn't so the mayor and portage said you know what i'll send you a couple of snow plows and will help you  twenty inches of snow and a lot of places if you remember that last week and then immediately boarded city council members criticized the mayor saying why are you sending our trucks to gary some spoke of spending tax dollars on other cities other suggested snyder should have cleared the move with the city council first of all it's kind of a weird thing that's happened over there ten to fifteen people have now sent checks to portage just give them money when gay send them five hundred bucks or produce cal professor alan specter and  it's the american way of helping each other freeman wilson said she is thankful for the donations to portage said she did not know why some porters council members of jack did only the people who objected know why they objected to the mare they have to look into their own hearts and determine why did i find this objectionable she hinting of a racist thing i don't think so anyways specter said he was reluctant to discuss his donation but to me it was like somebody has to take a stand against this someone's going to complain about it costing money let someone send an example so there you go i just sent sent to see the money and they've said ten to fifty people send in money when was the last time somebody sent in money any anybody out there any municipality can you tell us about any time or somebody just sent your town or city money or your county or your i mean i understand charities and some think that  anybody ever say oh you know what you know city of ham and some of someone just sent us like fifteen hundred dollars that we're doing a good job if h a doing dave and testing good what's going on waiting for my truck see the heat up just like you you know i went out early and started their car at like five fifteen and got into it at five thirty and it was still cold i don't know why that is i mean i guess when it gets to ten degrees we think it's it's not that cold you know and i mean i wanted to comment on these donations yeah to gary it's it's really amazing if you think about it and when you get conservative politicians and they complain about big government big government but yet when when the public you know because we want to privatized everything let's let the public of you know what i can do whatever i what i want my money and no sixteen people that sent checks and can do whatever they want with the money peak people like mad max i think you just thrown it away but this is what they want they want private money in there and that's what that's what's thrown in there and i have to applaud those cysteine people essentially because they just couch the whole argument of privatizing our services so good for them you made the politicians of portage look stupid and here's the people of the region taking care of people of the region they don't care about demographics they don't care about city borders all they want to do is take care of somebody and good for them it's just good for them not man you said it thank you has been watchin this where the portage mer sent some trucks over to gary and then the city council got all mad about it and now ten to fifteen and i think i have a mind and the question to him is like what's the endgame of one region i mean what are you guys trying to do and he's trying to get everybody to think regionally and honestly friend i don't know what that means what are you supposed to do with that so we think like a region what does that mean that we collapse all our governments i mean i don't know what is it what's the endgame there well you know that would begin again because i don't know that much  the town of griffith doesn't want to be bothered by anybody and the town of one city of whining doesn't want to be bothered by anybody there's factions in gary that don't want to be bothered by anybody i mean you get all these fiefdoms the reason that there is because people don't want to be bothered by anybody they don't want to be touched by the other communities and want their own little community and that's it i mean that's the mindset i don't know i don't know what to do with that you know what i mean every time you hear about some  let me let me just let me throw down an open mind on this what if there is pent up demand for people to come together in the county met region one that i can't quite see but it's there it's under the surface and ten to fifteen people just sending checks to the city of portage is on heard of but maybe there's just it's just a simple as symbol of the  undercurrent of people tired of fighting with each other so i think that there truly is there i mean i'm one of the people who feel that way but also if you recognize that the mayor of port is also with the money that he didn't say oh this is just going in our treasury he said let me talk to the mayor gary and see what we can do to use this money together so he began thinking regionally and wasn't going to do with the money you know but he say that well it doesn't i mean either way i mean the folks on the portage city council have a good point i mean really it's a hey you know what it's our money you're giving our resources to someone else i mean it's not all that different from i guess it is different but i mean what if if the portage city council guy said you know what some private business in gary is having trouble we'll go over and help them then that's different right well i think that's different but i forces may be forcing regionalism quite frankly i think in ten years we could have just a county why police force and i'm not sure that's a good thing i'm not sure that's a bad thing but just the economics of the situation will force that of the economics of the situation force over time to like one county wide street department i mean is it good or bad i don't clearly been wrong that you know money they have got rid of the health it's just different i mean in the county doesn't have the greatest of records of running things so i mean do you want i mean if you're really going to do that if you're going to say i'm going have a countywide police force then you really got to go to like a single marry somebody that is ultimately responsible for everything rather than this three headed monster where everyone can point at each other you know nobody have a countywide police force voting for the police to be from the chicago to be over it i don't want to be an elected position