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Poor Linda Pence.

She’s still trying to run away from her record and from a certain interesting omission about her past history that she made in the first days of her campaign.

Pastrick’s sidewalks-for-votes case has been green-lighted to go to trial, and Pence is still denying that the case matters.

She is still refusing to take a strong stand on prosecuting corruption, even when the corruption might involve fellow Democrats.

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Website.

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(Hat Tip - Dan Turkette of Fort Wayne News. Check out his post that goes with it.)

Attorney General Steve Carter

Secretary of State Todd Rokita

State Auditor Tim Berry

State Treasurer Richard Mourdock

Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Suellen Reed

Senator David Long

Senator Jim Merritt

Senator Teresa Lubbers

Senator Jim Buck

Senator Beverly Gard

Senator Patricia Miller

Representative Brian Bosma

Representative Randy Borror

Representative Eric Turner

Representative Matt Bell

Representative Tom Saunders

Representative Cindy Noe

Representative Tim Neese

Representative Bob Cherry

Representative David Frizzell

Representative Jerry Torr

Cordially invite you to a reception for

Greg Zoeller for Attorney General

Thursday, June 26^th

5pm – 7:30pm

Indiana State Republican Committee

47 S. Meridian St.

Indianapolis, IN

$250 per individual

$500 per host

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Please RSVP by June 25^th to Jennifer Thuma at 317.750.3077

Paid for by Greg Zoeller for Attorney General

Oh boy.

Just when you thought that Linda Pence couldn’t get herself into any more trouble…

First Pence denounced Attorney General Steve Carter for hiring outside counsels to help with important cases.

It turned out that the lead item on her resume (going after a polluter of the White River) was done as an outside counsel for the state of Indiana during the O’Bannon administration, work for which she was quite handsomely paid.

Then Pence demurred on whether she would continue the RICO case against former East Chicago Mayor Bob Pastrick, saying that she did not know much about the case and would have “to examine” it before deciding whether to continue it.

Not only did Pence’s statements show her as soft on corruption in Lake County, but they were shockingly accompanied by a failure to disclose one important fact.

That fact was that Linda Pence had spent more than a year as a litigator in the Pastrick “sidewalks for votes” case representing one of Pastrick’s co-defendants.

Better still, her client settled out of court for so much money that the settlement paid for the fees of the case’s outside counsel (which she had earlier attacked) twice over.

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Two days ago, I wrote about the interesting hypocrisy of Linda Pence with regard to the Pastrick “sidewalks-for-votes” case up in East Chicago and Lake County.

The Democrat AG hopeful criticized Steve Carter for spending taxpayer dollars to hire an outside counsel on the Pastrick case, when it turned out that Pence had herself been hired as an outside counsel by the O’Bannon administration.

Moreover, Pence’s tepid (to put it charitably) response to the idea of continuing the Pastrick case was accompanied with statements that she would need to examine the case more closely.

It was not accompanied with the disclosure that she had spent over a year as a litigator in that very case.

Indeed, the outside counsel Pence was criticizing caused her own client to settle out of court.

One out-of-court settlement alone covered the costs to the taxpayers that Pence was complaining about, twice over, and it was a settlement by Linda Pence’s client.

The story made the rounds of the blogs, appearing on Advance Indiana and a few other places.

That story has now gone mainstream.

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Big post, but worth reading.

The likely Democrat candidate for attorney general, Linda Pence, was asked recently about her opinion of Steve Carter’s fight against corruption in Lake County.

Democrat Linda Pence kicked off her campaign for state attorney general Thursday by criticizing the current GOP administration for reaching across state lines for help in the civil racketeering case against former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick.

Outgoing Attorney General Steve Carter last year went to the Chicago office of Perkins Coie to enlist Patrick Collins, a former federal prosecutor who helped convict corrupt Illinois Gov. George Ryan. Indiana thus far has paid Collins $317,000 to assist in the attempt to hold East Chicago leaders responsible for $25 million in public money diverted to a 1999 sidewalks-for-votes scheme.

“When I’m attorney general, I would review that file extensively,” Pence said. “I’d review that case to see how much money the state has paid for lawyers to represent them. And I would also question why they needed lawyers out of state when we should have very capable lawyers in the attorney general’s office itself.”

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The Greg Zoeller tour across the state continues. After a successful trip to St. Joe county yesterday, Zoeller is taking to Allen County and will be at the Allen County GOP HQ in Ft. Wayne tomorrow at noon.

On Tuesday, 9th District GOP Chairman Larry Shickles will be hosting Greg Zoeller at the Falls Of The Ohio Interpretive Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

If you’re around, make sure to check out these events as we unite behind Greg to help bring him to victory over Linda Pence and the rest of the Democrat ticket in November!

In the spirit of the many of the interesting (and often very rotation-happy; see “the Quayle regime” here, “we have always been at war with Eurasia and were always neutral in the AG race” here, “it’s all the fault of township officials” here, or interesting revisionism here) post-mortems put forward on the outcome of the GOP state convention, I have decided to join in the fun.

On the evening immediately after the convention, the Hoosier Access guys joined Chris Spangle, Adam Longworth, and Mitch Harper at the South Bend Chocolate Company on Monument Circle in Indy for a podcast. We did an “up and down” round table, and my post-mortem is based around that basic concept.

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Kurt Luidhardt of Prosper Group Think has some random thoughts about the GOP state convention.

I’ll have my own list to add in the next day or two. Still thinking about it.

Most enthusiastic: 9th District delegates when Mike Sodrel was announced.

I’m from the 9th, and I must say that the reaction Sodrel got (both in the general session and in the district caucus) was so enthusiastic as to surprise even me. He certainly got the loudest and most rousing cheers of anyone at the entire convention, and that was even with only maybe a ninth of the delegates present cheering for him (and they didn’t have noise-making gadgets either).

This is his year.

Pin Cushion Award: Steve Shine for handling the large delegation of Ron Paul delegates in the 3rd district caucus with class. He may get the Pin Cushion of the year award for getting criticized by both sides of the Republican Party in the 2007 Fort Wayne Mayoral contest.

Strangely enough, there was no trouble at all from the Ron Paul delegates in the 9th District caucus; there were only maybe a dozen of them there.

Best Demonstration: LG Becky Skillman with the drum corps and crew of loud supporters. She actually pulled this off without having to beg delegates from the floor to help.

The Skillman demonstration was impressive; though the Zoeller demonstration (composed of almost three hundred people and easily twice the size of that for Costas) was quite impressive also (doubly so since it had no marching band or noise-making gadgets).

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