Archive for the ‘General Politics’ Category

We’ve all heard of the Blue Dog Democrats, they’re the Democratic candidates that ran on relatively conservative platforms in 2006 and unseated Republican members of Congress. In a large part they’re responsible for the current Democratic control of Congress. Although they gave the Democrats the majority, they sure haven’t been very excited about forcing their party to recognize the fact that they come from conservative districts were San Francisco style policy proposals are not welcomed.

With conventional wisdom saying that 2008 would be a year for the Democrats, it was to be expected that if the Blue Dogs did a fairly good job, most of them would win re-election. Fortunately for conservatives, the Blue Dog’s have not done anywhere near a good job holding to their campaign promises. This means that instead of facing a weak Republican opposition, they may have a really tough battle on their hands this fall.

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In this special presentation, Hoosier Access Radio brings you a conference call with bloggers interviewing GOP Attorney General candidate Greg Zoeller. Note: Hoosier Access is not endorsing an AG candidate at this time.

 

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Imagine taking a short drive on the weekend and seeing in your mirror a formation of motorcycles with some of the meanest looking bada**es you’ve ever seen in your life all riding Hogs, crotchrockets, Beemers, and Gold Wings. Don’t panic it’s probably just the Indiana Republican Riders heading to a fundraiser supporting Republican candidates throughout the State of Indiana. The Riders support two goals: Helping Republican candidates meet fundraising needs and increasing awareness of motorcycles on Indiana’s roads.

There is just one rule for becoming an Indiana Republican Rider: Be a Republican.

If you don’t ride, you can follow in your vehicle. If you want to learn to ride we can point you to an ABATE course so you can learn to ride properly and earn your endorsement.

You can click on the website and learn more about Republican Riders.

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Late last week, a number of blogs (notably Frugal Hoosiers and Wilmette) began to draw attention to the unusual actions of the Obama campaign with regard to the “free” concert that it arranged for Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds to put on in Bloomington on Sunday, April 6.

The Obama campaign was giving out “free” tickets to this concert to anyone that came by their offices (with registering to vote and encouraging the attendees to vote for Barack Obama tending to factor into this picture).

Your humble correspondent has not blogged about this until now, as I was in the process of researching the issue as much as possible in preparation for filing a letter of complaint with the Indiana Election Commission in my capacity as an Indiana voter who is impacted by what the Obama campaign has done, and as Chairman of the Harrison County GOP.

That letter, the text of which follows below, should be reaching the IEC this morning.
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Tony HVFVGPD Zirkle, a Republican candidate for Congress in Indiana’s 2nd District, recently spent an hour and a half debating with fellow Republican candidate Joe Roush before an audience of 6 citizens. One of those audience members was Republican congressional candidate Luke Puckett’s campaign manager. It is unclear at this time if that figure also includes the South Bend Tribune reporter who must have had a falling out with management to get an assignment like that.

Today comes the news that Roush, a low budget candidate who advocates the elimination of the Federal Reserve system, will not be joining Zirkle, who has made insulting racial remarks, for any more debates. This has not deterred Mr. Zirkle at all since he has scheduled at least one more debate to take place at the Logansport High School. Since he will not be facing any opposition, it is presumed that he will debate with himself.

One interesting point about Zirkle’s candidacy is his strange choice of a middle name to appear on the May 6th ballot. The unpronounceable word “HVFVGPD” will show up between his first name and his last name. According to Zirkle, the word is “a mystery, wrapped in an enigma and couched in a riddle.” In a Hoosier Access exclusive, I heave learned from an un-named source what these letters mean.

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Granted, we at Hoosier Access typically don’t quote this blogger, but he finally makes a case against a cause which he typically fights ferociously in favor. I’m referring to Gary Welsh’s advocacy for hate crimes laws. While I don’t speak for the directors of HA, most I believe agree with me that “hate crime” laws are ripe for abuse and criminalize anything non-politically correct and stifle free speech. Is Orwell’s “Thought Police” not too far in the future with these “hate crimes” laws?

Gary Welsh wrote today about a Hispanic woman near Chicago that was a Obama superdelegate to the DNC. This Hispanic woman saw her neighbor children [who happen to be black] playing in a tree and she yelled at the kids to get out of the tree and quit acting like little monkeys. The use of the word “monkeys” drew fire from her neighbor and the Hispanic woman was cited and issued a fine for violating some ordinance, likely associated with a hate crimes law. As a result, B. Hussein Obama tossed her under the bus and removed her as a supporting superdelegate. Sounds like one more vote for Hillary.

Mr. Welsh wrote “The misapplication of [hate crimes] laws feeds into the hands of the opponents who claim hate crime laws infringe upon a person’s free speech rights. You could certainly make that argument in this case.”

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Lt. Governor Becky Skillman was a special guest on Hoosier Access Radio this past week. I was able to spend some time with the Lt. Governor and we discussed, property taxes, the session that just ended, her trade mission to Mexico, the upcoming election and host of other issues. Many thanks go to Lt. Gov. Skillman’s Chief of Staff Chris Crabtree and Press Secretary Angela Coats for making this happen. Thanks guys!

The interview is also available on iTunes.

 

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My below post on Joe Donnelly and pro-life issues has generated more discussion than I had anticipated. So in the same vein of pro-life issues, and with an eye to the upcoming Democratic Presidential primary in which Hoosier Democrats will finally have some relevance and be forced to choose between a proven liberal and a proven liberal, I am humbly submitting this video of Barack Obama recently expounding on his view of the life issue.

So Barack Obama believes that babies are a “punishment” and STDs are an undeserved consequence of irresponsible behavior? Look, we all mess up sometimes, but there are some things that are really important in life and you can choose to either do the right thing or the wrong thing but once you make that choice you have to live with the consequences of that choice. You are free to choose the path; you’re not free to choose the outcome of the path.

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Reading the article on former Congressman Lee Hamilton endorsing Barack Obama, got me thinking. At the height of the abolition movement in America, in a speech accepting the Republican nomination for Senate in Illinois in 1858, Abraham Lincoln uttered one of his many famous quotes, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Since George Bush won in 2000 (electoral votes, not popular votes matter liberals, so get over it) all the political rhetoric I’ve heard is that we are a divided nation. In fact, Lee Hamilton used the phrase when giving his endorsement of Obama.

From the Indy Star:

“I begin by asking myself what kind of leadership the country needs at this juncture and I think, for me at least, the answer is that you want a candidate that will try to bring together a country that is very evenly divided, a country in which partisanship has been very sharp and to try to get a candidate who will create a new sense of national unity and will try to transcend the divisions within the country,” (emphasis mine)

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The dead fish, that is. The ones wrapped in newspaper and left on the doorstep.

From Taking Down Words:

I have decided, after overcoming the general resistance to change that they beat into you in law school, to join Jim Schellinger’s gubernatorial campaign as Communications Director. This means that TDW as you know — and either love or hate — it will exist no more.

My guess is that she’ll be back in about forty days and forty nights, when Schellinger has lost the primary to Jill Long Thompson.
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I love to brag on my friends. I really do. In the past I’ve bragged about Jim Banks and his wife Amanda, and now I have the chance to brag on another Northern Indiana pal in Chris Faulkner and his family.

Via GOP Grunt where Chris is too humble to brag about his wife elsewhere.

South Bend Tribune: BUSINESS PEOPLE: “GRANGER — Angela Faulkner, president of Granger based Faulkner Strategies, has been selected to sit on the board of the newly formed Indiana Women Business Owners PAC. Established in 2007, the IWBO PAC’s goal is to support the economic development of women-owned businesses within the state.

The nonpartisan PAC committee will target and talk with state legislators about several initiatives, including the possible MBE/WBE designation of nonprofit organizations and affordable health care for small businesses.”

Congratulations Angela!

“Today is a great day for Indianapolis!”

-Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard

I briefly saw the Indy Mayor and his wife Winnie today while waiting for the start of Governor Daniels press conference after the official passage of the property tax legislation.  After I waived to them from across the hall, he came over, shook my hand and with a big smile shared with me those words.  He too was pretty elated with today’s victory for tax payers.