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What I’m Watching

This week is shaping up to be pretty busy and it’s not even Monday.   Here’s what I’m following.  If there’s something I’m missing, let me know.

Monday night the Marion County GOP will fill the position left vacant by Kent Smith.  My front runner list hasn’t changed.  It’s still, not necessarily in this order, Angel Rivera, Avacino Reeves, Dorothy Henry, Jackie Cissel and Aaron Williams. I expect 2-3 ballots before a winner is declared.  I am hearing some of the candidates are upset at the process and may hold a news conference Tuesday to complain about it.

On Tuesday, the Marion County Clerk will hear candidate challenges.  I’m especially interested in the 14 filed against precinct committeemen that were brought to the table by Indy Mayoral candidate Brian Williams.  For all the huffing and gnashing of teeth in the blogosphere you would have thought there would have been a lot more challenges filed.

On Thursday, we’re doing the radio show live from the Statehouse, and following that, the Indiana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Voter ID case.  I hope to have the audio up by noon.

This is also the last week of the Indiana General Assembly.  Lawmakers still have to figure out an agreement on unemployment insurance, school funding, ethics  and township government reform.

And finally, expect some posts this week going into more detail on the lawsuit against the state over the school funding formula as well as the Carmel school district hazing incident.  My sources tell me the Department of Child Services is investigating the coaches who were on the bus at the time to determine if they have any liability.

Also, I’m told the situation involving local labor leader and Democrat Lettie Oliver is a lot more serious than originally believed and the next 12-24 hours will be outcome determinative.   Keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

Posted: 02|28|10 at 10:43 am by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • Melyssa
    Abdul, I'm curious what your take is regarding the Marion County GOP allowing just two of the nine candidates for the at-large city council seat address the PC's who are responsible to choose Kent Smith's replacement for his seat.

    I'm also curious what your take is on the fact that David Brooks, who is a Hamilton County resident, is playing a leadership role in the Marion County GOP when he doesn't live here.
  • Indiana_Barrister
    Melissa,

    I did look into that. The meeting of the two candidates was the Center Township Republican group. The two who were invited were the two the ward chairmen all agreed on. A candidate may not like, but that's how it is. The danger is that it alienates pcs and may push people towards a candidate who were otherwise open-minded or agnostic on others.

    As far as David serving, it's not my party so I don't care.

    Political parties are not democracies. They can do whatever they want, but like everything else in life, there are consequences to those actions.
  • melyssa
    Abdul, Thanks for the answer. I can't help but think if they use these shenanigans to slate their candidates, that their candidates would employ the same backroom dealings if elected. People should pay close attention to how these political parties operate.

    You are right, political parties are not democracies. But rather they can choose how they want to conduct their affairs. Their choices give us plenty of information about who they really are when it comes to action as opposed to their phony public rhetoric.

    The Marion County GOP has shown itself to be sneaky and backdoor dealing...a complete and utter face slap to all the good people that worked to give them the mayor's office and the council majority.

    We trusted them. And their word is no good.
  • Think Again
    Pascal, it might surpriser you, but I'm with Rico on this one.

    However, everyone deserves the presumption of innocence, and a thorough impartial investigation. I'm guessing the investigation is difficult because of the many moving parts of this story. We don't know all the facts. But we do know this:

    More than once incident is involved. The bus incident was on one of those "short" buses, and any adults on that bus should've been able to hear a gnat fart at the back of the bus. FOur seniors have been dismissed form the team, for the critical week before and including the sectional tourney.

    In Indiana, that's huge. So there must be a lot of fire where there's a lot of smoke. Sports mean more to Carmelites than they should...so this has to be huge.

    And my overwhelming thoughts keep going back to the allegedly assaulted students. I hope they're OK, and that they're getting the help they need.

    "Something to do with Washington Township." I'm not sure what that means, Pascal. Did a similar incident happen there?
  • TA, while everyone deserves a presumption of innocence before convicted in a court of law, that only applies when they are actually facing criminal or civil charges.
  • Hector
    ..but this is Carmel and the rules that apply to the rest of us, do not always them to people from Carmel.....
  • pascal
    Rico, listen up! Government schools have had decades of experience in avoiding responsibilties of every kind, shape, type or manner. If you think about it, "Government" should be the noun since not much occurs in schools. Government has decades of experience in avoiding responsibilities. Clear? Given the silence, I'm thinking that TA might have had something to do with Washington Township.
  • Rico
    First of all, let's call it an assault, not a 'hazing incident'. Second, if the coaches were on the bus, then they are liable. No DCS investigation should be necessary. If this happened to students in their charge, they're responsible--period!
  • pascal
    http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2010/02/one-laws... One might ask that if your ears are up and catch anything at all about this?
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