Archive for March, 2010
Monday, March 8th, 2010
As expected, Indianapolis City-County Councilor and IMPD Major Lincoln Plowman has resigned from both positions. That announcement came this afternoon from Public Safety Director Frank Straub. Straub said Plowman was being investigated both internally and by the federal government, but he did not go into detail. He also said the internal probe was ending […]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
My Democratic blogger are obviously and understandably quite ecstatic over the recent misfortunes surrounding City-County Councilor Lincoln Plowman and they cite the recent ethics complaint filed by Democratic Councilor Angela Mansfield as partial motivation for Plowman’s expected resignation today. I read the complaint. Mansfield is says that since Plowman won’t talk about the pending investigation […]
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
This weekend marked six months of being a very happily married man so I gave local and state politics a break and spent time with my lovely wife. It was time well spent and I highly recommend some of you getting off the blogs and getting out of the house and doing something. With that […]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
The Marion County Election Board today turned back a challenge that would have removed Republican Bart McAtee from the ballot in the May primary. At issue was whether McAtee’s candidacy was in violation of the Little Hatch Act which prohibits state and local government employees from running for public office if their jobs are partially […]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
I was planning to write about the Indiana General Assembly this morning, however in quintessential lawmaker fashion those people can’t get their act together so they recessed last night won’t be back until Wednesday. In the meanwhile, there’s nothing like a little blogging about voter ID. I was going to spend some time talking about […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
I’m at the statehouse and this is what I’m hearing or seeing so far… Lawmakers are still wrangling over education and unemployment. I hear Democrats are willing to take a two-year delay in the tax increase if Republicans will give in on more flexibility for schools to move money around in their budgets. The House […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Here are some of the interviews following Supreme Court hearing on Indiana Voter ID. todd rokita league of women voters I’ll have an analysis either later today or in the morning, but from my read, they seemed skeptical that there were no individual plaintiffs in the case who were victims of fraud as well no […]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this morning over whether Voter ID violates the state constitution. The main issues are whether the law adds an additional qualification to voting other than age, residency and citizenship and whether the provision that only requires a voter show ID in person and not when they cast […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
There’s some interesting polling data coming out of the Republican primary for Indiana’s 4th Congressional District. A survey of 300 likely voters shows Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita the front runner in the race with 40% of the vote. State Senator Mike Young is second with 10%. Brandt Hershman polls in at 8% and […]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
As much as I love politics, I find the internal processes even more fascinating. Two examples of that were Monday night’s caucus election of Angel Rivera to take the place of Kent Smith on the City-County Council and the Tuesday afternoon Marion County Election Board hearing over candidate challenges. Rivera won the caucus after two […]
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