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Two words: no connectivity!

My lessoned learned from moving to a different location?  To scout the new place out to make sure I have a signal so the live blog will actually work.

My deepest apologies to those who stopped by the blog to participate in a live chat that never was.   These are the little kinks that we’re working out as we try new things.  But I promise you, it will work better next time as we will be at a place with a signal.

That said, we still recorded the podcast and the segments will be up in the coming days.

Click the link below to participate. It works just like instant messenger.

Take part in the interactive podcast.

It’s that time again folks! It’s time for a little Hoosier Access Radio. Normally we do these podcast recordings the first Saturday of every month, but since last Saturday was the last weekend to campaign, we put off the show a week so we could talk about what happened Tuesday night.

The Blogger Roundtable will include discussions on:

• What are JLT and the state Democrats to do now?
• Why won’t Hillary turn her key?
• What can Republicans do to minimize losses nationally
• ….and of course, talk about what happened Tuesday night (including Tony Zirkle getting 6,000 votes?!?!?)

We’re also going to try an experiment on making this interactive. So we’re going to open this podcast up as an interactive live blog as well. It works like Instant Messenger. So here are the details:

• We’re recording at a new location (Ft. Harrison VFW Post 7119)
• We’re recording at a different time starting at 6:30pm (b/c of pole day at the track)
• We’re live blogging right here on HA while recording so everyone can participate
• If you can’t participate in the live blog, just leave your questions in the comment section in this post.

Catch it all tomorrow night!

Anybody tired of hearing the mantra of “change” over and over without ever hearing what that change would be? For the last month we’ve heard the same empty message of change from presidential candidates and gubernatorial candidates, all of them Democrats, but have we ever asked ourselves what that change would be other than a different person in that particular office? So what is “change” exactly? Republican State Representative Jackie Walorski discusses in her recent blog post on Capitol Letters, what that represents.

It’s been fascinating to watch and listen to the Presidential candidates talk about “change”. Barack Obama is basing his entire campaign on “change”. I’m not sure if he’s talking about “change” for the sake of “change” or what, because he’s never really spelled out what exactly he would do to “change” anything in this country.

But, it’s equally interesting to read the editorials of several newspapers around Indiana. In Northern Indiana, the newspaper tone has been instructing it’s faithful readers to “embrace change” and to vote against Hoosier incumbents in November. Is that “change” for the sake of “change”? As a legislator, I’ve been involved in helping move Indiana forward in many areas. Indiana now leads the Midwest in job creation, we have our own “Big 3″ auto makers, employing thousands of Hoosiers. Our State has gone from bankrupt to having a cash balance on hand. We went from one of the worst child abuse States to one of the best in child protection. These “changes” weren’t easy.

Read the rest of Representative Walorski’s post here.

This is off the political trail a bit, but I wanted to throw this out to our readers and fellow bloggers. Fellow blogger and friend, Mark Warner, is running his first marathon in Chicago, but is doing so to help in the battle to fight leukemia and lymphoma.

It’s a good cause and I would ask that you consider helping Mark out. The information is below in an email Mark sent out.

Hi there!

I am starting an amazing journey. I have committed to run my first full marathon (26.2 miles) in Chicago this October. To make this an easier experience for me and to help others, I am raising funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a participant in their Team In Training program, and I’m asking you to help by making a donation to my fundraising campaign.

Team In Training will support me as I train and even during the marathon with encouragement and people to literally run alongside me. In turn, I am helping them fight the battle against Leukemia and Lymphoma by raising money. Would you be willing to help me accomplish the huge goal of running a marathon along with fighting these awful diseases?

See my web page here.

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS’s mission.

I hope you will visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!

Mark Warner

Guys and Gals,

Hoosier Access hopes to be your one stop shop for election day coverage tomorrow!  But as you may have been able to tell, we each have our own races we are working on tomorrow.  So I wanted to give a plug to a group that is going to be in town tomorrow doing their own coverage as well.  Consider them partners in crime.

I’m talking about Election Journal.  They’ve been all over Indiana the last few days looking covering the goings on, but they’ve also been on the prowl for shenanigans.

So tomorrow, check Hoosier Access and Election Journal and help keep us up to date with what you’re seeing as we keep you up to date with what we’re seeing.

Holy cow, I quoted Vanilla Ice! (click the link. You know you want to. It’s like watching a car wreck, you can’t turn away!)

What’s this world coming to? I’ll tell you what it’s coming to. Your’s truly is going to back on Abdul in the Morning on 1430 WXNT tomorrow at 8:00am battling the liberal forces that are Thomas Cook of Blue Indiana and Bil Browning of the Bilerico Project. What’s that? Why yes, to make it fair two liberal bloggers need to take me on this time! Who knew?
Of course, we’re going to be discussing the primary next Tuesday. It’s going to be fun as we talk about all the Democrats feasting on each other.

So tune in tomorrow morning to 1430 WXNT, 8:00am to Abdul in the Morning or check out the live stream on their website.

(No, that’s not meant to be a fat joke.)

The conservative blogosphere is growing by leaps and bounds folks. Part of that growth includes Brian Jessen’s (of Circle City Pundit fame) new blog Indy’s Conservative Hardball. If you’ve ever met the guy, he does remind you of Chris Matthews, except..well..conservative. Plus, it includes commentary on something close to my heart and that’s baseball! Politics and baseball - as American as apple pie.

Also, check out a blog I just stumbled upon (thanks to the Burton Blog) also located, I’m guessing, here in Indy. It’s called “Call Me Ahab” (yeah, that’s where the whale part of the joke comes in) and he appears to have been around a while. He’s also a gun toting, coffee drinking conservative. All caffeine related trigger finger jokes aside (all to be coming from liberals I’m sure), this guy is alright!

Another fun filled Monday night at the City-County Building. You can find the Uhgender HERE. Check back after 7:00 PM for the commentary.

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Coming up at 7 PM will be a debate for the Democrats running for the Congressional nomination for the 7th Congressional District.

I think we’re in for a “Bush Bashing” session when the President isn’t even on the ballot. Don’t you just love those “Bush’s Last Day” bumper stickers?

Check back here for commentary.

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…who won the “blog off”.  In case you missed it, Thomas Cook of Blue Indiana and I were on Abdul in the Morning last Friday.  If you were not able to catch our spirited debate, it’s available as a podcast download.  It’s just over 30 minutes long, but it’s pure verbal pugilistic goodness.

No, really, despite our political differences, Thomas and I get along pretty well, but this the most back and forth we’ve ever had.  Lot’s of fun!

Also, fellow HA Director, Scott Fluhr (aka The Hoosier Pundit) has his interview with Abdul about the Obama complaint available for download as well.   It’s just over eight minutes long.

Make sure to check it out here or here.  (As a side note, it’s not necessary, but it’s strongly recommended you have iTunes)

Hoosier Access Radio presents an interview conference call with several statewide bloggers with Valpo mayor Jon Costas, candidate for Attorney General.

This was a recorded conference call so the audio quality isn’t quite high fidelity but you can hear what’s being said.

*Update #1* - We were pleased to have the opportunity to meet with Mayor Costas, but Hoosier Access is not supporting an AG candidate at this time. We hope to be conducting a conference call with all three candidates still running for Attorney General.

*Update #2* - Mayor Costas referred to an article from the Post-Tribune. Here is the link to that article.

 

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