Councilor calls for change during mayor fundraiser – News 8 at 11 INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Tensions arose Thursday night outside a fundraising event for Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett. One City-County Council member, Democrat Jesse Brown, showed up to the Democrat mayor’s event not in supp ort, but calling for a change in leadership. News 8 was not allowed inside the fundraising event at Parlor Public House, a downtown coffee shop. However, outside the event was the big story, with Brown holding the mayor and his potential donors’ feet to the fire and asking the question: Is Hogsett running for a fourth term? Brown told News 8 that a multitude of reasons exist for the mayor to resign. He says, “This is a mayor who’s mired in sexual abuse scandals, failed to maintain our roads in any kind of decent way for a developed country. We just got done with a winter where he failed to plow the streets.” Brown stood outside the event and took pictures of those walking inside, saying he’s putting potential Democratic donors on notice, saying, “If you’re standing with Joe Hogsett, that makes you somebody we’re going to be paying attention to, somebody we’re going to avoid spending any money at your establishment. We’re going to avoid giving you any kind of position of power in society.” Brown has been critical of the mayor and his own fellow Democrats. Nearly two months ago, Brown spoke exclusively to News 8 on how he was ousted from the City-County Council’s Democratic caucus. He says it’s because he exposed the lack of Democratic leadership on a number of issues, including the fight over Indianapolis Public Schools funding. The council member said Thursday night, “There is no chance that a Republican will become leader of this city if he resigns. There are plenty of good Democrats. You (the mayor) said you’d have two (four-year) terms. You’re now into your third. There’s more scandal and abuse than ever before. There is no reason for you to be in charge unless you’re an egotist. Just resign.” Questions have been brewing on whether the mayor is running for a fourth term. In the past, Hogsett said he wouldn’t. Brown says even if Hogsett isn’t running again, it’s Hogsett’s fundraising money that will go toward who Hogsett wants to run. Brown thinks it should be the people’s choice. “The only reason he is staying in power is because the donor class and political insiders continue to prop him up,” Brown said. Hogsett assumed office Jan. 1, 2016. His current term ends Jan. 1, 2028. Related coverage Indianapolis mayor adopts 4-inch standard for residential roads’ snow removal ...read more read less