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Some Friendly Advice for the Marion County GOP

On Saturday, Marion County Republicans will have their slating convention where they will choose their candidates for the upcoming election as well as a county Chairman. The smart pick for the GOP for Chairman would be local attorney Tom John. John has been active in the party and ran successful campaigns for Secretary of State Todd Rokita and City-County Councilmember Ike Randolph.

John and I sat and chatted recently and one concept he gets is that for Republicans to stop their spiral in the political abyss they need to understand that if they can’t win an election, nothing else matters. Just take a look at the last election and the number of Republican Council members who are fleeing city hall so fast I could hear Exodus playing in the background.

The demographics of Marion County are changing and last election there were 10,000 more Democratic straight-ticket voters than Republican. The GOP has no mayoral candidate and the party is divided into three factions, the old guard, the religious conservatives and the downtown crowd. Someone needs to bring this party together and get its head screwed on straight. If not, they better get used to being the permanent minority in this town.

Posted: 02|9|07 at 7:38 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • Anonymous

    Hey Abdul, ever heard of full disclosure?

  • Anonymous

    They better get used to being the permanent minority anyway. Demographics baby.

  • http://www.advanceindiana.blogspot.com Gary Welsh

    Abdul, It would be nice if I actually heard what John or the others plan to do if he/she is elected. It’s kind of hard to root for someone when it’s such a mystery what there intentions are.

  • Abdul

    It’s no big secret Tom and I are at the same law firm. It’s on the website. Anyone who knows me, knows that. So the disclosure is already there. Steve Campbell is also a good friend. Want more disclosure? Let me know.

  • DowntownDem

    We hope it is Tom. We have something special for him. He won’t survive his next election. Bet on it. Everyone has secrets and his are already in the pipeline.

  • Anonymous

    Hopefully it’s something he hasn’t already disclosed or someone found out through background checks on his various jobs he’s held over the years. Because that would be called old news.

  • Wilson46201

    OK – spill the beans on Tom John – everybody seems to know about some of his pecadilloes except me! Dish!

  • Wilson46201

    Is Tom John the slick campaign manager that got Ike “The Snake” Randolph to answer 100% positive on that LGBT voters questionnaire that Ike then flip-flopped and voted against? Is Tom John the genius that did that egregious pandering?

  • williams46205

    Wilson you are quite the character. Talk all you want about the past. When it is all said and done you are an old has-been unattractive, queen who only finds an idenitity only as a blogger respondent. In reality you have zero allies in the African-American community. Sadly you have failed to realize that you are the butt of plenty of gay jokes in the Black-Democrat wing of the Party. You are a pathetic loser that gives gay males a bad name. The only way you will find acceptence in the Black community is poster-boy who will say anything to get recognition. In reality you will never understand what it is like to be Black in America. And yes I am a Democrat

  • arnie

    No candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis? So the report this morning from the repubs slating convention. Sad.

  • Wilson46201

    I strongly suspect Williams46205 is actually the failed GOP candidate for Center Township Judge Darla Y. Williams who is still delinquent over $1000 on her property taxes… she runs around hollering as a voice for the taxpayers yet cant pay her own small tax bill !

  • Wilson46201

    P.S. Calling a gay male a queen is considered homophobic by most civilized folk – chill on the gratuitous namecalling, OK ?

  • Wilson46201

    Blogs function better when isues and politics are discussed, not the personalities or appearances of different commenters … whiners like “williams46205″ just muddy the waters with peripheral sidechatter…

  • Anonymous

    Pathetic Wilson needs to clean up his own neighborhood and his corrupt politcal party instead of blogging insults on everybody. You need to make sure you have re-paid the taxppayers for work you did not do while you were a public employee. The pot can’t call the kettle black.

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