Archive for the ‘Jill Long Thompson’ Category

From Gov. Daniels’ campaign twitter feed:

Governor Daniels agrees to 3 debates. 9/16 in Merrillville, 9/23 in Jasper, 10/14 in Bloomington.

I find this rather interesting. He’s agreed to do this in two Democrat strongholds - Places where the Governor isn’t exactly the most loved political figure - Northern Lake County and the People’s Republic of Bloomington. Northern Lake County of course because of Steelworkers support of Jill Long Thompson and their perceived “sale” of the Toll Road to “furriners”. Never mind that King Richard II of Chicago “sold” his Skyway - which connects the Toll Road to the Dan Ryan Expy - to the very same “furriners”. The People’s Republic of Bloomington is upset at the Governor for any reason from the War in Iraq to the Interstate 69 south extension to Evansville (Psst! Gov. O’Bannon plotted that route with the FHWA, not Gov. Daniels. Gov. Daniels is just seeing that construction gets started).

“No polyps today, Miss Jill.”

(Previously, of course, he routinely told Speaker Pat “The Hair” Bauer that.)

From the Indy Star:

An Indiana State Fair exhibit promoting education about colorectal cancer includes a 40-foot model of the human colon that visitors can crawl through.

The free exhibit at the Clarian Healthy Lifestyles Pavilion on Aug. 6-17 is dubbed “Colossal Colon” and depicts healthy colon tissue as well as tissue with hemorrhoids, cancerous and non-cancerous polyps, Crohn’s disease, diverticulosis, ulcerative colitis and various stages of colon cancer.

Colorectal cancer is the third-most common cancer and will cause nearly 50,000 deaths in the United States this year, according to the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, which is co-sponsoring the exhibit with Clarian.

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Well, here it is. It’s not quite as negative as some had initially implied; more like a ham-fisted attempt to run the 2004 My Man Mitch campaign in reverse, but with the optimistic parts surgically removed and replaced with far-lefty liberal talking points.

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From the opinion page of Terre Haute’s Tribune-Star comes this delightful letter:

Dem candidate a disappointment

I am disappointed with Jill Long-Thompson’s campaign games. While Indiana’s economic situation is clearly an important political issue, she fails to list her positions on social issues like abortion and gay marriage on her Web site.

Could it be because she wants to avoid advertising that large portions of her campaign funding come from Emily’s List, an organization that supports candidates who favor abortion-friendly policies?

Thompson’s runningmate, Dennie Oxley, has been called pro-life and voted in favor of an amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. He should be ashamed of himself, having compromised his own values to jump onto the ticket of a candidate who refuses to stand against gay marriage and who will be looking for ways to return the monetary favors from Emily’s List in the form of pro-abortion political action.

— Carly Robbins, Terre Haute

It’s an interesting point. Nowhere on Long Thompson’s website does it say a word about her positions on various social or traditional values issues.

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Earlier, I pointed out the differences between the Republican Governors Association giving money to Mitch Daniels (a small proportion of his total campaign war chest), and Jill Long Thompson receiving three quarters of her money from out of state (and from hyper-liberal special interests that are diametrically opposed to the beliefs of most Hoosiers, at that).

If you don’t see the difference between getting one dollar in eighteen of your campaign funding from a big out of state group, compared to three dollars out of every four, then you’ve really been spun.

Moreover, if you don’t understand the difference between the Republican Governors Association (whose only mission is to elect more Republican governors) and far left special interests like the pro-abortion group Emily’s List or the SEIU labor union, then you’ve also really been spun.

The RGA isn’t giving Mitch Daniels money to own him.

Emily’s List and SEIU pretty much now own Jill Long Thompson; they seem to be giving her unlimited money in clear expectation of a return on their investment in the form of the enactment of far left policies if she is actually elected (unlikely as that might seem).

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When Mitch Daniels has raised almost $13 million so far for his reelection, an additional $725,000 from the Republican Governors Association is not a big deal.

It ends up being less than one eighteenth of the total amount that Mitch has raised, not that the Democrat Governors Association has yet made a similar investment in the Long Thompson campaign.

By contrast, some 75% of the total money raised by the Long Thompson campaign has come from far-left special interests from outside of the state of Indiana.

I’ll grant that $725,000 is a lot of money. So is the $1.25 million that came from the pro-abortion group Emily’s List and the labor union SEIU.

The difference is that money from out-of-state groups like Emily’s List represents an overwhelming majority–three dollars in every four–of the money given to the Long Thompson campaign.

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This is a bit more than just finding some loose change under the sofa cushions, no?

INDIANAPOLIS — The state has ended the latest fiscal year with its third consecutive balanced budget.

State officials closed the books on the fiscal year that ended on June 30 with revenues exceeding spending by about $321 million. That was in part due to spending restraints ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels that included some agencies not filling vacant positions and delaying some capital projects.

The state ended the year with nearly $600 million in its main checking account. That combined with savings accounts left the state with a budget surplus of about $1.4 billion.

State Auditor Tim Berry said Thursday that Indiana is on firm financial ground, while 29 other states — including the four surrounding Indiana — are facing fiscal woes.

Democrats, interestingly, think that the money should be given back to the people of Indiana.

This is a novel concept for Democrats; I am sure they will shake themselves out of it soon.

Jill Long Thompson should probably be careful what she asks for. Nothing would turn this election into a shattering and party-destroying two-to-one thumping like the Governor deciding to use the budget surplus to help alleviate gas prices by temporarily doing away with the sales tax on gasoline (or calling a brief special session and asking to get that authority, since the AG’s office doesn’t seem to think that he has it already).

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From the Freedom @ Work blog:

Jill Long Thompson, the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, is campaigning on the promise that her first action as chief executive of the state would be to impose union monopoly bargaining on Indiana state employees (and ultimately compel them to fund unions against their will, I presume). Her reasoning could even be viewed as sacrilegious by some:

“I think (collective bargaining) is a God-given right,” she said.

For the record, union monopoly bargaining is not even a constitutional right, but rather just a controversial statutory privilege granted by certain legislatures.

I must have missed that in the Ten Commandments.

Reminds me of the time that Baron Hill said that the Constitution contained a right to health care.

That was a declaration he was later forced to retract and replace with a pledge to make health care a constitutional right.

That pledge, in turn, he retracted and replaced with the idea of creating yet another commission to merely study health care. (more…)

Tony Bennett issued this press release today.

Bennett Criticizes Long Thompson’s stance on ISTEP Republican State Superintendent candidate says standard of accountability is needed   (Jeffersonville) Republican candidate for Indiana State Superintendent Tony Bennett criticized Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jill Long Thompson’s stance on the ISTEP test Wednesday, noting that standardized testing provides a measure of progress being made in Indiana classrooms.   “How she can say she is against the ISTEP test in particular, and against standardized testing in general is beyond me,” said Bennett. “In an era of our state’s history when it’s clear voters want to see more accountability and clearly defined progress, for her to say she is against measuring success in education is unthinkable.”   Bennett’s comments came in response to a story in the Evansville Courier-Press about Long Thompson and running mate Dennie Oxley, which pointed out that “they don’t agree with ISTEP and standardized testing.”   “Governor Daniels and Dr. Suellen Reed have done a great job at making our schools better, and moving the ISTEP test to the spring as they have done will provide an even better metric for accountability in the classroom,” said Bennett. “It’s one thing to say we have work to do to make our schools the best in the nation-which we clearly do-but to completely undo so much of the work that has been done by eliminating a useful measuring tool as Jill Long Thompson wants to do is an irrational and irresponsible thing to do for our children.”

Besides the fact that all of her money is coming from outside of Indiana and from super-liberal groups like the pro-abortion Emily’s List, of course.

From the Journal-Gazette:

INDIANAPOLIS – Republicans last week pushed Democratic governor hopeful Jill Long Thompson to post her campaign donations online for public viewing as contributions come in – a la GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels.

“Hoosiers deserve to know who is funding campaigns, and any donations to Jill Long Thompson should be made accessible to voters without delay,” Indiana Republican Party Chairman Murray Clark said.

Daniels has a running list on his campaign Web site – www.mymanmitch.com – of 2008 donations. It isn’t always up-to-date – the latest donation reported is from June 30 – but voters can page through and see who is giving what.

I’m not thinking that voters in the heartland of the Hoosier state are going to buy anything Jill Long Thompson says, the more they hear about her liberal Congressional voting record and the leftist special interests that are financing her gubernatorial campaign.

No window-dressing by Dennie Ray Oxley II is going to conceal the essential truth that the candidate at the top of the state Democratic ticket is the most liberal major party nominee to ever seek the governorship in the entire history of the state of Indiana. (more…)