Apparently the Live Blogging Does Stop….

…or in this case never starts when you can’t get a wireless signal that you were told would be available. Truth be told, one was available to us, we just weren’t given a password to access the signal. C’est la vie! On a positive note, we were able to record a podcast of the days events and even came away with some great interviews.

Anyway, it was a great convention! It was so much better than I could have expected. To be honest, my hopes weren’t all too high consider all that was on the slate were Superior Court and Circuit Court races in addition to the HD 86 & 89 races. While the contested HD races were interesting, the judges races took the show.

For the announced 430 voting delegates that showed up, the judges races went to multiple ballots with four incumbents losing, total, losing in the slating and the Circuit Court race ending in a statistical tie between Alicia Gooden and James Joven because one voter used green ink to mark a ballot which was against the rules. That caused there to be a tie since the ballot was thrown out. This was announced after many of Joven’s supporters had left. Who won? You’ll have to listen to the podcasts.

Not to give too much away, we were able to get interviews with slated winners Chris Swatts in HD 89 and Adam Nelson in HD 86. We also got to spend some time with Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, who is a voting precinct committeeman himself.

So stay tuned for the podcasts as they become available over the course of the weekend.

UPDATE - Below the fold are the winners in today’s Marion County GOP slating convention.

-Marion County Coroner, Dr. John Pless*
-Marion County Surveyor, Erika Pugh*
-Marion County Treasurer, David Moscrip*
-Indiana Senate, District 30, Teresa Lubbers*
-Indiana Senate, District 32, Patricia Miller*
-Indiana Senate, District 35, R. Michael Young*
-Indiana Senate, District 36, Brent Waltz*
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 86, Adam Nelson
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 87, Cindy Noe*
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 88, Brian Bosma*
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 89, Chris Swatts
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 90, Michael Murphy*
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 91, Robert Behning*
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 92, Phillip Hinkle*
-Indiana House of Representatives, District 93, David Frizzell*
-Marion County Circuit Court: Jim Joven
-Marion County Superior Court: Cynthia Ayers
-Marion County Superior Court: David Certo
-Marion County Superior Court: Kurt Eisgruber
-Marion County Superior Court: Robyn Moberly
-Marion County Superior Court: Marilyn Moores
-Marion County Superior Court: Timothy Oakes
-Marion County Superior Court: Marc Rothenberg
-Marion County Superior Court: Ted Sosin

(* denotes candidates was unopposed for slating)