Archive for November 9th, 2008

Just saw the blurb about it on Fox 59. The Muncie Star-Press has this:

“Dozens of election poll books used in Tuesday’s general election were thrown out by local Democratic Party workers, left in a Dumpster behind the party’s downtown headquarters.

The books have names, addresses, dates of birth, and a copy of signatures for voters who cast ballots in Tuesday’s election. While some of the copied signatures are illegible, others are not and could be reproduced.

Bob Wolf was tossing campaign yard signs into the Dumpster on Wednesday when he found the poll books. Wolf is the husband of Delaware Circuit Court 3 Judge-elect Linda Ralu Wolf.

“This is reprehensible,” Bob Wolf told a reporter, pointing to names and dates of birth.”

My question is what are election poll books doing at Dem HQ anyway and not turned into the County Election Board or County Clerk’s office? Something fishy about this scenario ….

UPDATE by Me: (after the leap)

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A US Map of Red and Blue at the County Level. While it is difficult to see the borders - You can tell major metropolitan areas in Red States - Marion County for example, and the swath of blue that runs along the industrialized south lakeshore of the Great Lakes from roughly Buffalo to Detroit, along I-94 to Benton Harbor and along the south lakeshore of Lake Michigan to Chicago. Large swaths of rural areas are still quite Republican, however the turnout wasn’t enough to counteract the more liberal metropolitan areas.

BTW, look at that blue tip of Southern Texas. Isn’t that Congressman Ron Paul’s home district?

H/T Hoosier Illuminati

On our local site Porter County Politics the comments and debates have actually increased in this week of dismal election results.  Here’s the rundown:

• We lost two more seats on the County Council to Democrats running “against” practically everything
• We once again lost any chance of controlling the County Commissioners, returning our most moderate Republican and losing the south county seat
• We didn’t even touch the sitting Democrat judge
• Mitch Daniels lost Porter County, even though winning the entire state by 18 points, and Greg Zoeller actually got more votes in Porter County than Mitch did
• Obviously from the red-blue county maps all over the web today, Porter County went to Obama, and thus we find ourselves stuck in the NW Indiana Region mentality.
• The unions privately backed MItch Daniels for Major Moves jobs, but publicly campaigned for straight ticket Democrat voting, with the results being 3,500 more D straight tickets than R
• In the week prior to the election the Regional Development Authority (RDA) which was established by the legislature for NW Indiana, was supplied tax dollars from Lake and Porter County, announced that a South Shore Extension could go to Lowell (in Lake County) but that Valparaiso (Porter County) was off the table.  This got little coverage due to election news … but
• The day after the election our County GOP chair announced that Porter County’s membership in the RDA should be reviewed.  His rational?  That the voters obviously voted for Democrats, who’s campaign was based on being “against” RDA, new taxes, South Shore Extension, Illiana Expressway, and a whole host of other growth initiatives.  He said the voters have spoken.  This won’t play well in Indianapolis.
• There is now a brewing undercurrent of dissension in the ranks, with those outside Valparaiso feeling that the rest of the county has not been represented well by the power brokers in Valparaiso.
• Oh yeah, and the Ron Paul people are still out there trying to pick up enough precinct chairs that they can “reorganize” the party at the local and state level

That’s proabably a good start for now.  We have some rebuilding to do, we lost big.  We made mistakes locally just like nationally.  We need to learn from Mitch and his team, and give taxpayers a sense of protection from local and state government largess.  We need more grass roots involvement and less top-down orders.  We need to raise money in $100 increments instead of going to the power brokers for $10,000 and allowing them too much access in return.

Ok not directly, but from this article by Erika D. Smith she’s discussing Twitter similar to a new invention. Hate to break the news to the MSM but we’ve been Tweeting for quite some time. How does IndyStar plan to use Twitter? Not to send you headlines or things of any importance. No, they are going to inform readers of lines at the stores on Black Friday (day after Thanksgiving).

If you recall Twitter and bloggers broke the news of “Dontgo” when US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prematurely shut down Congress, turned off the lights and the C-SPAN cameras to avoid discussion of energy policy and drilling in ANWR.

Those of you who do Twitter you can follow us at “HoosierAccess” to find out the latest in the conservative movement happenings in the State of Indiana.