Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and Democratic challenger Melina Kennedy went head to head Tuesday afternoon at the Downtown Rotary Club of Indianapolis. The full audio of the debate will be embedded over our sister blog IndyPolitics.Org. It runs about 50 minutes. Both candidates stuck to their scripts. Kennedy came across as relaxed, but short on […]
You might recall a couple months ago I asked Stephen Clay, the head of the Baptist Ministers Alliance of Indianapolis if he had ever been the subject of an investigation by the Department of Child Services for inappropriate contact with a male minor. At the time Clay refused to answer my question and give me […]
With about six weeks to go before the Mayoral election, I found something pretty interesting; the role that numbers have played in this race. When I say numbers, I mean statistics. Whether it is crime, jobs, polling, it seems that numbers have had a much more noticeable role this time around than in previous races. […]
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard this week released a new 30-second campaign commercial, entitled “Leadership at Work”. The ad focuses on taxes, infrastructure and the economy. You see the ad below. The ad is the Mayor’s fourth television commercial this campaign season. Democratic challenger Melina Kennedy has released three television commercials to date. She is also […]
If you follow Marion County politics and the Mayor’s race, you’ve heard by now that Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy “released” poll results to supporters tonight showing the Mayor’s race a practical tie. Here is the e-mail that went out. S T R A T E G I C M E M O R […]
In my perfect world, the government takes as little of your money as possible and the free market decides where it gets spent. Of course, the free market also does a good job of self-policing so the government doesn’t have to step in and get involved. Absent my perfect world, I generally believe tax cuts […]
I saw this blog post put up last week from Democratic businessman Jeb Banner. It’s interesting because he is a Democrat who supports Melina Kennedy for Mayor, but seriously appears to be thinking about voting for Republican Greg Ballard. Since this is not something we see publicly very often, I thought it might be worth […]
I’ve got some work to do this morning so I am going to direct you my guest column in today’s Indianapolis Star. I write about Melina Kennedy’s plan to take $150 million from the Citizens deal and spend it elsewhere. Of course I don’t think it’s a good idea, big shocker there. But my argument […]
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