Carmel
Sometimes it’s hard to be a council, giving all your love to just one man – or so the Carmel City Council majority seemed to be singing last year to the tune of the old Tammy Wynette standard, “Stand by Your Man.” Former mayor Steve Dallas, former councilmember Carolyn Hardy and current councilmembers Carrie Theis and Jan Reimers backed outgoing city attorney Glen Mozingo through good times and bad times, doing things we don’t understand. Their stubborn devotion cost the city thousands of dollars in a lost public documents court case, as well as in a cushy contract they approved for him last summer. It also led to the defeat of Dallas and Hardy at the polls in November. And just as Tammy crooned, “And if you love him oh be proud of him,” Reimers and Theis continue to sing Mozingo’s praises. Theis was near tears in her praise of him at a council meeting on Jan. 8, after he announced his resignation, showing the world she loves him and is giving him all the love she can.