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One for White, For Now

Embattled Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White won a victory today at the Indiana Recount Commission.  The body ruled 3-0 (unanimously) that White was eligible to serve as Secretary of State, even though he voted using his ex-wife’s address.

You can read the full write up here by my colleague Eric Bradner of the Evansville Courier & Press.  White still faces several felony charges in Hamilton County Court.

White will be our guest Wednesday morning at 7: 35 a.m.  You can listen by logging onto www.wxnt.com.

Posted: 06|28|11 at 12:09 pm by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • Abdul Is My Hero

    How many times do we have to go over this? Bradner is not a colleague. He is a journalist. You are a blogger with the lowest rated talk show in the Indianapolis market.

  • Think Again

    Yikes.  Blogger/journalist/professor….lay off, Hero…no one is demanding that you listen to the show, or drop in here.

    I disagree with Abdul plenty, but I acknowledge that he’s a journalist.  By any reasonable definition.

    Not all journalists are right all the time.

    As for Mr. White: Buddy Pylitt’s wrong, but here’s a question I don’t understand,, Abdul:

    Why didn’t Mr. White take the fifth throughout the Commission proceeding?  Win or lose at this stage, he looks pretty stupid.  We now know he lived basically out of his car for awhile, and that he was so power-hungry to hold onto a Fishers Town Council position that he manipulated his voter registration.  And let’s not quibble over words here–”quibble” is the kindest word we can use at this point in the process.

    And no one (with a reasonable bone in their body) would deny him the right to save his powder for the criminal trial.  Instead, he plunges his wife into pauper-counsel status, and we know the entire creepy story about his divorce/mortgage/moving.  TMI.

    I never thought I’d say this, but he’s making Rokita look good.

  • Abdul Is My Hero

    I use to operate a blog as part of my day job some 4 years ago. That didn’t make me a journalist. I’m just here to try and keep Abdul honest.

  • Scooter

    Who cares where he lived or got his mail?    If he lived in South Bend, and got his mail in North Vernon, (as long as it was within the boundaries of the State of Indiana), who really gives a baby ruth?

    Sheesh.  Go after something real…. like all those folks in graveyards that still vote.

  • Scooter

    Abdul’s stock is rising…. 220 & 240 N. Meridian has a lot of desk radios tuning in lately.  

    How do I know?   Ever time you walk past a soda machine you hear, “…. did you hear what Abdul said about….”

  • Wurstnitemare

    Then give us your real name. If you had been good at your blog it would still be here.
     I don’t agree with Paul Especially with his head up Charlie Whites ass) or Abdul a lot of times,but they are journalists. Both have broken news stories prior to any other media outlet. The old definition of a journalist went the way of pen and pencil.Abdul is working in the Clay story and Im starting to think that it has legs.if he breaks this one, every other media outlet should be ashamed.

  • Think Again

    Scooter: if you have graveyard evidence, kindly provide it to your nerrest prosecutor instead of posting pompous untruths.  Just because it’s repeated doesn’t make it so.

    To get one’s name on a ballot, for SOS and most other offices, one must affirm that one is a bonafide voter.  Pretty elementary.

    He wasn’t.

    Also pretty elementary.

    Write when you get work, or a life, OK?

  • Think Again

    **nearest   

  • Scooter

    http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/13/copy/18460-on-active-voter-lists-clearly-arent.html?sid=101

    Less than 2 seconds, random pick.  I’ll go after the other 49 states (or 56 if you love Barry), if you wish.

    I draw a military retirement after two decades of Honorable service to my Nation & it’s Constitution, and have been employed by the same multi-national corporation since putting Uncle Sam’s Flyin’ Circus to bed 17 years ago.

    Meet with your approval?? 

  • indyernie

    Hey TA, You constantly brag about knowing every democrat since Roosevelt. I‘m sure you can get an appointment. Isn’t it time that you do something for your party? If you are so smart, why aren’t you sitting on the commission?

  • Think Again

    Ernie: Because I have this thing going called a life.

    You oughta try it.

    Scooter: however long you toiled for our country, I’m grateful.  However long you toiled for a multinational, your retirement is bigger, so good for you.  I’m closer to retirement every day.  

    So yeah, it meets my approval swimmingly.  The “get a life” comment was a smartass comment, probably best left on the shelf.  But two questions:

    1. Why don’t you call the President by his name, instead of a supposed cast-off name?  Have you taken Rico lessons?  I’m betting that during your military service, you served at least one president with whom you disagreed.  But you served anyway.  Would you ever have thought of calling your President, while you were in service, by a cast-off nickname that can be viewed as flippant?

    2. In all your worldly travels, didn’t anyone teach you the difference between its and it’s?  Language is powerful.

    OK, that was 3 questions.

  • varangianguard

    Oh, so it would be OK for me to sit on the Fishers Town Council, even if I moved to Bloomington or West Lafayette? That’s an interesting take.

  • Scooter

    1)
    I served under 5 Presidents of the United States.   My Oath was to the US Constitution, and that same Oath
    kept my 1st Amendment right(s) just a bit in restraint…. now I can
    speak my mind, and that buffoon & his chewbacca-lookin’ old lady
    do nothing for me or this country. If
    any other of our presidents had doubled the National Debt, which had
    taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would
    You have Approved? If any other of our presidents had then
    proposed to Double the debt again within 10 years, would you
    have approved? If any other of our presidents had criticized
    a State Law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that
    he is just an ignorant hot Head? If any other of our
    presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a State in the
    United States to force that State to continue to allow Illegal
    Immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who’s side
    he was on? If any other of our presidents had pronounced the
    Marine Corps as if it were the Marine Corpse, would you think him
    an Idiot? If any other of our presidents had put 87,000
    workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore
    oil drilling on companies that have one of the best safety records of
    any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you
    have agreed? If any other of our presidents had used a forged
    document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000
    American workers unemployed, would you support him? If any
    other of our presidents had been the first President to need a
    teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference,
    would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is
    on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
    If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of
    thousands of taxpayer  Dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC or pizza in Chicago,  would
    you have approved? If any other of our presidents had reduced
    your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions
    a majority stake in GM, would you have approved? If any other
    of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special
    Olympics, would you have approved? If any other of our
    presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and
    incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a
    thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have
    approved? If any other of our presidents had given the Queen
    of England an IPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have
    thought it to be a proud moment for America ? If any other of
    our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have
    approved? If any other of our presidents had visited Austria
    and made reference to the nonexistent “Austrian language,”
    would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? If any other
    of our presidents had filled his Cabinet and circle of Advisers with
    people who cannot seem to keep current on their Income Taxes,
    would you have approved? If any other of our presidents had
    stated that there were 57 states in the United States , wouldn’t you
    have had second thoughts about his capabilities? If any other
    of our presidents would have flown all the way to Denmark to make a
    five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking
    out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he
    was a self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk? If any
    other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to
    “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when
    it was “The 5th of May” (Cinco de Mayo), and then continue
    to flub it when he tried again, wouldn’t you have winced in
    embarrassment? If any other of our presidents had burned
    9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day,
    would you have concluded he’s a Hypocrite? If any other
    of our presidents’ Administrations had okayed Air Force One flying
    low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown
    Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether
    they actually get what happened on 9-11? If any other of our
    presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout
    the Midwest, with more people killed or made homeless than in New
    Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing Political issue
    with claims of racism and incompetence? If any other of our
    presidents had created the positions of 32 Czars who report directly
    to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening
    in America , would you have approved? If any other of our
    presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation,
    even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would
    you have approved? 

    So why should I ‘respect’ this circus clown??

    #2  I’m a product of the public schools as far as my basic grasp of writing & punctuation goes…. a liberal success, you must concur….

    Beer?   (This is fun!!)
    t and
    impressive? Why should I ‘respect’ him??

  • Scooter

    Both of those are 70+ miles away from ol’ Mudsock.

    Fishers is Fishers is Fishers  It’s only a couple miles from one side of that zip code to the other.  

    It is kinda fully about him crashing in the basement though. 

  • Scooter

    Grrrr…..  (darn formatting)

  • MH

    uh..TA? Please refrain from your  customary habit of rebuttal when you are woefully outmatched, fact-wise, and just be Owned!!!

  • Mely

    Hmmm…not a peep from Cynical Sam.  I come here to read him.   Sam, please pipe in. 

  • Think Again

    I would if I were.

    But I’m not.

    Scooter: how are things in your world?  And where do I start?

    You may have earned the right to speak out now, given that you couldn’t not while in uniform.  That does not mean you have the right to sling bigoted remarks like these.  Plus–the uninformed part of your post is staggering.

    Anyone who refers to the First Lady–ANY First Lady–in that manner is definitely off his rocker.  Take your meds man.  You’ve disgraced your former uniform.  Badly.

  • Turk182

    chewbacca lookin old lady, I laughed my keester off on that one!

  • Blackbart

    Retard,

    Welcome to my office. Have a seat on the sofa. Lie back, get comfy and let’s get to the root of your problem.

    When you were eight years old you confronted little Abdul on the school playground. Rather than cower under the shadow of your superior intellect, little Abdul struck you down with his wit and humor.

    All the other children pointed and laughed. “Stupid retard,” they said, “You dummmm!”

    As tears welled in your reddened eyes you cried aloud “Oh, Yeah! Well Abudul lives in Illinois!”

    The other children hushed their laughter and stared in disbelief.

    “What the hell does that have to do with anything,” they wondered in unison.

    It seems you suffer from accute abduldisocciative disorder; sometimes called Abdulphobia.

    The remedy is simple. Go home. Put on your big boy pants and quit being an asshole.

    That’ll be $925.74
    Dr. Black Bart, Psy.D.

  • Guest

    Okay TA start rebutting or shut up for once.

  • Ramon

    Buddy Pylit’s vote is just one more example of Dan Parker’s poor judgement of character and another reason why he needs to be replaced.

  • Scooter

    Does this mean you won’t be sending a Christmas Card this year ?

  • MH

    “That does not mean you have the right to sling bigoted remarks like these.  Plus–the uninformed part of your post is staggering.”
     
    Really?
    You’re the arbiter of 1st Amendment rights, including expressing an opinion? 
    I have a news flash for you, TA. He or anyone else can refer to Mr. or Mrs Obama however he wants, including using the word “nigger”.  Although it may not be particularly polite, its anyone’s God-given right to be bigoted, including yours.   And I recognized a lot of the situations our President’s mouth has gotten him into.  Rebut Those!
     
    I told you you should have quit while you are ahead.
     
    PS- Try not to get a case of the vapors upon seeing the word “nigger”.  I would bet my next paycheck that the President and or his family have used that word themselves, either playfully or while ‘playing the dozens’.  The hypocrisy of being offended or not by that word has always amused me.  And when some members of the black community use the word ’redneck’ or ‘cracker’ along with the MSM/sitcoms, well..bigots come in all colors.

  • Ibviral

    Buddy Pylit should have known that the Republicans would vote for Chuckie.He should have at least held the line. It will be interesting to see if the Judge in the CRIMINAL case is a Dem or Rep. As much as I do like Karen, she got beat and beat bad.When Brizzi walked in the room,it was all over. He is a deal maker,not a good attorney.That was his job wiht the city,make deals.

    It will be interesting to see,( Not that we will ever know) what kind of deals he made. Buddy has no idea of how bad he hurt the D party.Wheelers gonads were in Dan Parkers hands because of the donations,now nothing cn be said about it because of Buddy.

  • melyssa

    It’s so easy to lobby insults at people when you hide like a coward behind a moniker. 

    Cowardice.  He stands for nothing to which he will put his name. 

  • melyssa

    It’s so easy to lobby insults at people when you hide like a coward behind a moniker. 

    Cowardice.  He stands for nothing to which he will put his name. 

  • Rico

    Barry IS his name, or at least it was until he left the country at 18 and returned Barack, after his dead-beat, philandering father.

    I have two questions:

    1) Does correcting one’s grammar make you feel superior?

    2) How do you survive each day without someone punching you in the mouth?

  • Rico

    I can answer for TA if I may.  The answer is YES, if that president had a D beside his/her name. Period.