The campaign for Democratic Mayoral candidate Melina Kennedy has been forced to pull an Internet ad ad attacking incumbent Greg Ballard on job creation because the footage used violated federal copyright law. The campaign used clips from an RTV 6 newscast of reporter Kara Kenny questioning the Mayor on job creation numbers and him walking […]
If City-County Council Democratic candidates are expecting any financial help from their candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis, it looks like they’re in luck. According to sources inside the Kennedy campaign, she gave them the good news this past weekend during a strategy session. Kennedy reportedly told her fellow Democrats that she was skeptical that incumbent […]
As someone who really enjoys covering and writing about local government, I was like a kid in a candy store Friday night at the University of Indianapolis watching the former and current mayors of Indianapolis address the city’s past, present and future. You would be surprised how much they agreed on things. What I also […]
Lots of things to talk about this morning, so let’s get started… If anyone thought having a few days to think would change embattled Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White mind and he would step down, not so much. I communicated with White this weekend via text messaging and when I asked if he was […]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard delivered his State of the City address tonight. If you’re a Republican, you liked it. A Democrat, you probably boycotted it. I’ve embedded the speech here so you can read it for yourself. I’ll have some thoughts later this weekend. 2.24.11 mayor ballard delivers 2011 state of the city address View […]
Once again, I have a lot of little things to report on that worth a mention or two so here they are. Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock is formally announcing next week he’s going to challenge incumbent U.S. Senator Dick Lugar. Mourdock was reportedly at C-PAC making the rounds and made a lot of contacts […]
Here’s some reaction to Governor Mitch Daniels State of the State address. Is anyone really surprised? Pat Bauer, House Democratic Leader “Yet for the seventh year in a row, our governor does not use his State of the State speech to talk about the number one problem that concerns most Hoosiers: jobs. This is the […]
As you know Melina Kennedy formally announced Monday she is running for Mayor. Although her staff did not provide copies of the speech, they did embed it in her website. I used that to transcribe the speech. I got about 98% of it, anything omitted were stumbles and small things that had no bearing on […]
With the start of the new year comes the new year’s resolutions. We all have goals to lose weight, quit smoking, be better people, or in my case finish that novel that’s been sitting in my laptop for three years. I’m not sure what resolutions some of my favorite politicos in Indiana made for the […]
When my political counterpart Amos Brown of Radio One can’t yell racism and instead has to argue on the merits, you know something is going on. Amos, like me and several hundred other people were at Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard’s re-election announcement Saturday morning at the Indiana War Memorial. Ballard was introduced by Reginald Jones, […]
