CSU's New Year Gathering: Regional Chair Stefan Huber's Address
Hell of a Night! / OB Election 2025 / Politics and Cocktails**
Yo, peeps and pals, proud members of the CSU Ingolstadt, welcome to the city hall theater! Let me give you a massive round of applause for joining us for our wild New Year's bash! This jamboree serves up a plateful of divine opportunities to steer a political change for Ingolstadt and the entire Deutschland!
So, folks, sit back and unwind while we set the scene for a political revolution. Remember back in the spring when we first tossed around the idea of this New Year's shindig? I hit up my buddy Reinhard Brandl and hollered: "Hey Reinhard, who's the dude we should get from Berlin?" He immediately connections Carsten Linnemann, CDU heavyweight, economics whiz, and straight-up shooter - perfect for sparking a campaign fire for our man Reinhard. We had a federal election penciled in for September 2025. Linnemann's down to party with us!
But you know what they say about best-laid plans. Cue the SPD chaos! First off, our SPD mayor takes a powder, splits for Munich, and gets the Oktoberfest gig! I get it; professionally speaking, it's a tall order. Then, last month, our SPD chancellor says "Ahh, governing ain't all it's cracked up to be when it comes to dolin' out the dough." Bam! January explode-y election!
Linnemann's like: "Awww, man, I was having a ball with y'all in Ingolstadt, but February 3rd? I gotta be in Berlin for the CDU conference, 'cause duh, I'm the general secretary and all." So, I holler up Markus Söder and tell him, "Yo, Markus, I need a keynote speaker." He says, "Awww, man, Ingolstadt is a thousand times cooler than Berlin." You know what he also says? "But I need to get my butt to the CDU conference, too."
He also advises me to let Reinhard Brandl, the man of the hour, and Michael Kern, our superstar guest speaker, share some opening remarks. According to Markus, they've got theOL' party spirit and will slay the stage!
Now, I'd like to settle a few scores. You know that ugly situation that went down at the SPD's New Year's gig? It's not about the nitty-gritty politics. It's about something deeper. Something that makes it worthwhile for you to cast a CSU ballot. Friedrich Merz had to pull some tough strings in Berlin last week, and not a single happy Union camper came out of it. But then, the CDU headquarters in Berlin caught fire 'cause the employees weren't safe no more. The Left posted a pic of Friedrich Merz with a Hanns-Martin Schleyer vibe - "A prisoner of the AfD for 2 days." It's just a slippery slope from there to wishing a similar fate for Merz. Come on, folks! That's some leftist, chaotic nonsense!
Let me add that little Robert Habeck had the decency to speak out about this wacky behavior. It's too bad the rest of the SPD couldn't find their voices.
On a separate note, Christian Scharpf is hollering on his Facebook feed that the Union's drumming up division and political chaos. But he says squat about the lefty troublemakers camped out in his city. Instead, he is batting his eyes about how a vote in the Bundestag and Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 are somehow connected. Take a peek at the flyer for the planned candlelight parade in Ingolstadt, and you'll see a buncha worrisome groups. I'm talking Leftists, anti-Semites - the whole enchilada. Nothing we need to learn about the history of January 27.
Folks, take it from me: The SPD are howlin' for change at the top of the city hall. I've watched 'em corner the market on the "We don't want to go back to before 2020" phrase. And guess what they always tag on the end? "We gotta avoid a repeat of the broken budget hellscape!" As if they didn't spend so much cash they're leaving an unapproved budget as a present for their successors. And don't even get me started on the cost of the mayoral election. It'll run ya more than five citizen festivals, for Pete's sake!
Now, remember that glorious time before 2020? There was building everywhere, finances in order, a mayor with vision and moxie - Michael Kern! That's the good news we're wanna bring back, along with solid finances, progress, and a solution-focused attitude. Need proof? Check out that mess in the pedestrian zone. Construction's been draggin' on for eons, and we've still got no sense of when it'll be done. Add the Lessingschule to the list - we've been renovatin' that joint since 2019!
But it gets worse at the hospital. The new Harderstraße has no bike lane, and momentum's all messed up now. We got cars, cyclists, pedestrians, and buses all butin' on the entrance to the old town, right where the businesses are taking a hit. Ain't no solid politics there, my friends - that's just nuts!
The elections in February are all about climate, our economy, and security. And that's where we come in, peeps. We're pragmatic, we're reasonable, and we don't doll out extremist nonsense. Let's get this country back on track! Hats off to a kick-ass 2022, and here's to another glorious year of chasing our dreams!
The political landscape of Ingolstadt and Deutschland is in flux, with the sudden resignation of the SPD mayor and chancellor, leading to an unexpected general election in January. Amidst the chaos, the CSU champions a pragmatic and reasonable approach, focusing on climate, economy, and security to get the country back on track.
