As expected, reaction to the Governor’s State of the State depended on your political persuasion… House Speaker Pat Bauer – “Now that the governor and his Republican colleagues in the Indiana House have seen the error of their ways and decided that they need to cut property taxes rather than increase them, the 2008 session […]

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels delivered his fourth, and what could be his final, State of the State address tonight. In the nearly half-hour long address, the Governor reiterated his property tax reform plan to lawmakers and told them not to make any plans for Spring Break if the job wasn’t done. Daniels said he wanted […]

Have you seen the story of the inmate who was left unattended in a Marion County Jail holding cell for two days with no food?  James Logan was put in the holding cell after being sentenced on drug charges.  He was left there until Sunday afternoon when a deputy noticed him.   All Logan had was […]

Now this is ironic.  Instead of taking the voting machines back downtown to the election board after Saturday’s Democratic caucus,  some party insiders went to lunch at Binkley’s on College Avenue.  While staffers were having lunch, someone was breaking into one of the vehicles.  According to my sources, the criminals stole some of the voting machines, probably mistaking […]

Don’t expect Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to stray too much from the subject of property taxes when he gives his state of the state address on Tuesday. Lt. Governor Becky Skillman says the speech has been written since Thanksgiving and will likely be the shortest of his four State of the State speeches. Skillman also told […]

Now that we have two candidates for the March 11 special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Congresswoman Julia Carson, I can handicap the race. While there is no arguing that the 7th District has been strongly Democratic, there is some evidence that this race will be somewhat competitive. I used […]

By a healthy 66-percent vote total, freshman Republican State Representative Jon Elrod won his party’s nomination tonight to run for Congress in the March 11 special election to replace the late Julia Carson. Elrod will face Carson’s grandson, City-County Councilmember Andre Carson. Elrod beat three other challengers including Tom Rose, a part-time talk show host […]

Indianapolis City-County Councilmember Andre Carson emerged victorious this morning as the winner of the Democratic Caucus to become the nominee for special election for the 7th Congressional District. He won a field of eight candidates with 50.7 percent of the vote. He had 223 of the 439 votes cast. The second place finisher, David Orentlicher […]

The first round of voting is complete out of 599 eligible precinct committeemen, 440 were registered to vote today, or about 73 percent. The vote totals are … Andre Carson – 223 (he wins with more than 50% of the vote) Carolene Mays -26 Stephanie McCabe – 1 David Orenlichter – 123 Randle Pollard – […]

It’s 11 a.m. and the first round of voting is still going on.  There are several more rows of delegates left.  There is some talk that Andre Carson may make it on to the second round, however I just saw supporters of Randle Pollard convince a delegate to not for Carson.  I’ll report back when […]