If City-County Council Democratic candidates are expecting any financial help from their candidate for Mayor of Indianapolis, it looks like they’re in luck.   According to sources inside the Kennedy campaign, she gave them the good news this past weekend during a strategy session. Kennedy reportedly told her fellow Democrats that she was skeptical that incumbent […]

Mark your calenders. My sources tell me that the Governor’s office is looking at setting March 4 or March 11 as the date for the special election to fill the vacancy in the 7th Congressional District left by the late Julia Carson. Both dates are on a Tuesday. Sources also say both political parties are […]

Look at the front page of today’s Indianapolis Star and check which has the bigger headline.  This weekend’s snow storm or the passing of a political legend? I was in the middle of teaching when I got the text message yesterday that Indiana Congresswoman Julia Carson had passed away. I was not surprised it finally […]

Three weeks after she announced that she had terminal lung cancer, Julia Carson passed away at age 69. She died in her Indianapolis home this morning. More to probably come from Abdul . . . UPDATE: 12:17 PM “Julia Carson, the first black and first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died early Saturday morning. She […]

You might recall how I equated the process to succeed outgoing Congresswoman Julia Carson to that of the queen passing and the subsequent royal family jockeying for position. Well if anyone tells you there is no positioning going on they are lying to your face. For right now it looks like for the major players […]

Although Marion County voters just got done with one election, another could be right around the corner should 7th District Congresswoman Julia Carson not complete her term in office due to health reasons. Unlike state or local races where if an incumbent doesn’t finish his or her term, their political party gets to fill the […]

State Representative Jon Elrod officially announced his run for Congress today. Elrod narrowly defeated Democrat Ed Mahern in the 2006 election. Elrod says he wants to be an alternative for voters in the 7th District. I honestly don’t think incumbent Julia Carson is going to run again based on her health, so while Republicans make […]