Some open questions today

We haven't had the amount of activity and traffic here since all the craziness last week with the party reorganizations. So, thought I'd post a few open questions to spur on some discussion especially among our more moderate and progressive readers:

• Which Porter County elected official would you most like to see removed from office? We all have a favorite, but who's your worst?
  
• If our elected leaders did allow us to vote for a County Executive, to run the county like a mayor while held accountable for a board of supervisors or council, who would you like to see be that first County Executive?
• The RBA is re-organizing, who would you like to see in charge?
  
• Do you support the merging of Lake and Porter counties' tourism teams? If so, who should be the executive director? If not, would you prefer to see it disbanded altogether and the monies returned to the communities?
• Much talk about property taxes, especially with Portage and Valparaiso businesses getting hammered pretty hard. What's the solution? Should we re-assess the entire county once and for all so that we all have a base to work off of that we can agree is correct? Should the assessor and/or other elected officials be held accountable, and if so how?
  
• Heard one elected official suggest that we are one of only five counties with taxes this high because we don't have an income tax, we have 1/2% but it's goes to econ develop not prop tax reduction. Want an income tax to widen the burden of paying for government?
  

Just plain ole open questions to get some conversations started. I know we have some Democrat friends that read here, and they were probably very bored with all the GOP talk the last month, so this is your chance.