Comments on: I NEVER SAW THIS COMING (INSERT SARCASM HERE!)

By: MissouriDemocrat

MissouriDemocrat — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:10:41 +0000

I meant I am so proud we hoosiers are now citizens of the usa…. you knew that i hope. it was a joke about this states constant refusal to have dst…. i read it afterward and thought surely they’d know i meant now and not not….. oh anyway.

By: varangianguard

varangianguard — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:23:39 +0000

Meds imbalance alert. MD, step away from the keyboard. Those last few sentences were wacky.

By: MissouriDemocrat

MissouriDemocrat — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:50:06 +0000

Taxpayer834512 now you are catching on… I always found it interesting that when the democrats were in power they wanted daylight savings time and the Republicans didn’t. Then the Republican’s would be in power and the Democrats would fight it tooth and nail… Along comes Mitchy and he says, hey you all told the entire state I was a genius and if you don’t pass it my credibility is zilch. So they pass it. But, I always said, somewhere in President Lincoln’s papers in the basement of the Old Capitol Building in Springfield Illiois was a signed document that allowed Indiana back in the union and allowed us to have DST. Sure enough, they built a big old new Abraham Lincoln Library and in that shoebox was the papers that allowed Indiana to be a real State again. Now we have DST! I am so proud we are not citizens of the USA again.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:53:39 +0000

It begs the question of when does election reform get tackled. Since lobbyist reform can’t even get out of a committe in Indiana, I guess the answer is never.

By: patriot paul

patriot paul — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:41:18 +0000

This is a bold precedent that may offer good motives but the news clips had uncomitted students on camera saying this sealed the deal for them to vote Obama. This quid pro quo is not in the spirit of the law and maybe worse. What’s next free cheeseburgers & fries? I’ll take a combo and hurry up about it.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:34:01 +0000

Who ever said that tickets to a Dave show were “something of value”? Give me a break

By: d

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:58:28 +0000

abdul…i disagree! he is providing a service for votes! Its not felony wrong, but, it is wrong!! where does the highway end

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:46:59 +0000

Certainly, if questionable activity were so easy to prove, it is doubtful that the Obama campaign would ever engage in it or allow its people to do so; it certainly does not appear to be widespread (and I never contended in the complaint that it was). But several accounts and the general circumstances around the event indicate the potential for impropriety.

To determine whether anything happened is for the IEC to investigate and determine. There would never even be the possibility for the IEC to look into this if a complaint was not filed.

I don’t mind putting the issue before them (and that is basically all that the complaint does). They’ll either find it has merit or not, and in so doing they will make decisions and determinations that will settle this issue for other campaigns and elections in both this and future years.

And as for its chances, I said that the complaint was tilting at windmills for a reason.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:28:58 +0000

I think that part of the complain is that not all of the people giving out the tickets were as…umm…intelligently as described above.

By: bit

bit — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:05:57 +0000

So true. For the record, my stepson at IU went and said they only asked him for his Indiana ID to get a ticket and asked “if” he was registered and had people there if he wanted to.

It was pretty clearly laid out accordingly to him that it wasn’t required.

Obama has a lot of national people in on this campaign running the state race. There’s no way they would have done anything so stupid as require registration. The fact this complaint was filed by a county GOP chair says it all