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Is Ritz a Democrat, a Republican or Both?

A look at the voting record for the Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction shows that up until 2008 she had only voted in Republican primaries dating back to 1990.

Democrats are expected to nominate 57-year old Glenda Ritz of Carmel.  She is an educator in Washington Township.  However a check of the voter rolls dated May 31 shows she voted in the Republican primary in 2012.   However, that information was changed Thursday afternoon once Indy Politics broke the story that she was listed as taking a GOP ballot in the May primary.

Link to Ritz voting record dated May 31.

Link to Ritz voting record dated June 14.

Democrats say it was a “clerical error” and that Ritz voted in the Democratic primary, however it was transcribed to show she voted in the GOP Primary.  Ritz  did vote in the 2008 and 2010 Democratic primaries.  However records show she voted in virtually every Republican primary from 1990-2006.

Democrats went after Republican Lt. Governor candidate Sue Ellspersmann for voting in the 2008 Democratic primary between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

During her announcement today at the Statehouse, Ritz criticized the GOP for cutting education funding and incumbent Tony Bennett for not speaking up for schools.

 

Posted: 06|14|12 at 5:58 pm by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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  • Pascal

    It has been a long time since anything good has come out of Washington Township Schools.  

  • Scooter

    See?!  A ‘Permanent Record’  isn’t so ‘Permanent’!

  • Marksmall2001

    Indiana  is an “open” primary state. If a candidate for state-wide office for one party chose to exercise her or his franchise and, in a prior election, voted in the other party’s primary, it is a valid issue to raise. I think the changing of the records is a bit troubling. (“No, no—use the Wite-Out(r), let it dry, then type Democrat.”) The two “major” parties should not have a monopoly on the system. If someone chooses to vote in the “other” party’s primary—rather ask for a ballot to vote for the candidates in the “other” party’s primary—that is the voter’s right.    

  • Pascal

    So, why is it even an issue?  I’d still make the argument that Senator Lugar’s seniority in a Republican controlled Senate would have been an asset to all Hoosiers.  That now not being a choice I will now have to pick between two light weights.

  • Puttin on the ritz

    Permeable records?

  • M Theory

    Can anyone tell me the fundamental actions which differ the current republican party from the democrat party? 

    Does it matter if she voted for both?  Really?

    From where I sit there is not a distinctive difference between R’s and D’s, for both exploit the people for political gain.

    Surely, I’m not crazy because I see this so clearly.

  • Pascal

    It used to be that the Republicans would not steal.  That is, they wouldn’t stoop to less than a whole railroad line.

  • abdul is farty

    Abdul -

    It has been WAY too long. You are still a d-bag.

    MCDEM08

  • Turk182

     Was Ritz a Union offical?

    Sounds like she was in their back pockets

  • Rico

    And you’d still be wrong.  And who gives a damn if the GOP has a majority if it consists of the likes of Lugar?

  • Pascal

    I notice Howey’s comment that if Mourdock loses then the Republicans in Indiana will live with being world class fools.  They always have been considered to be the stupid party but I’m sure that envy of a sort has been transferred to the other major party too.  I’m wondering that if the basic Lugar party was 39% what the TP sorts can offer them to get off their butts to work for Mr. Mourdock?  Trading seniority for zilch never seemed too wise to me…as Lugar said, in Utah they were all for “purity” and they got Senator Reid.  Paraphrasing or quoting the great Bill S, I sure hope we don’t perish from an excess of purity.