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It appears that as Indiana Democrats give up on Jill Long Thompson they are turning to the courts to wage their war against Mitch Daniels.

A while back (yeah, we are a little behind on this one) Shaw Friedman, a former chief counsel to the state Democrats, former Edwards campaign chair, and former Democrat county chairman announced he was suing the state over FSSA modernization.

Is this an attempt for Democrats to impede Mitch Daniels agenda via the courts after failing to do so electorally or legislatively? We think so. And there’s a history of it.

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Too funny!

(H/T - Hoosierpundit)

Well, if you played a drinking game with every mention of George W. Bush, the toll road, or Daylight Savings Time, you would be plenty tipsy right now. And it’s safe to say that Jill Long Thompson could give Nancy Pelosi a run for her money in a blink-off and Barack Obama a run for his in an uh-off. Even her references to the issue of the use of state planes were ham-handed, mangled, and ineffective.

The long and short of it is that this debate changed absolutely nothing. Jill Long Thompson landed no blows upon Mitch Daniels and she made no attacks on him that have not already been made–often more articulately–by Democrats over the past four years. Those failed arguments have left Mitch with a 15-20% lead in polling, and nothing that happened tonight will change that position.

Indeed, Mitch made convincing and persuasive arguments in favor of his policies and ideas, at least as much as he could given the time restrictions (which are at least more generous than those of his many paid television spots).

You had to love Mitch’s line in response to Jill Long Thompson of “so many falsehoods, and so little time.” She was a fountain of negativity in the debate, and continued to dredge up the past (slightly less focused on the past, Mitch entertainingly noted, than Andy Horning).

Perhaps the killer line of the debate was Mitch’s contention that we have seen all of Jill Long Thompson’s policies and ideas before; we have seen them in Indiana for the past sixteen years and we have seen them in our neighboring states. And we have seen that they do not work. They have caused Indiana to fall behind, a lag that we are only now, with four years of hard work and good government (sometimes bipartisan), starting to overcome. To go back to them now would be foolhardy.

The advantage, and the initiative, clearly and unquestionably remain with Mitch.

Hoosier Access will host an interactive live blog of the Governor’s debate this evening, just  like the ones we host on the days we record the Hoosier Access Radio podcast.

Make sure to come back tonight to check it out.

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OK - you have 15 seconds to get on the floor safely, roll around, and laugh your a** off.

Frugal Hoosiers posted THIS presser of the JiLTed one demanding the Governor hand over travel records fishing for using state resources for “political purposes”. I work with a few very skilled fishermen and their advice was: “Forget the worms. Try crankbait”. Funnier yet on that presser was there was a fouled up copy and paste and some of the lines were not relevant to the remainder of the presser.

A couple of suggestions for the Governor’s Staff:

1. Send her everything even down to copies of Post-It stickies. By the truckload. By the time her and her campaign staff (is there one?) get through all that information it’ll be November 2010.

2. When I worked in PC repair for a certain computer store chain that has since gone bankrupt, we worked on laser printers and a common malfunction and print out solid black pages. We jokingly called these “Government Records Printers” printing out redacted government records. You see where I’m going with this, right?

As I read, it appears JLT has pulled her ads from the airwaves. I’ve not seen one in the past couple of days. Not since the one where she was promoting the Governor and the RV.

Yesterday Hoosier Access posted Governor Mitch Daniels’ latest campaign TV ad with Republican Candidates for Supt. of Public Instruction Tony Bennett and Attorney General Greg Zoeller showing unity and leadership in discussing important issues like restoring discipline in the classroom.  Bennett and Zoeller have both actually weighed in on the Governor’s proposals on education issues and just a couple of weeks ago Bennett and Zoeller joined together to stump across the state to affirm the Governor’s proposals and education platform.

Juxtapose that with this classic quote from Democrat Candidate for Supt. of Public Instruction Dick Wood in today’s Louisville Courier-Journal responding to Jill Long’s education proposals she released yesterday of which she ignored Wood’s input.

Thompson outlined her proposals at a news conference at the local office of the Indiana State Teachers Association. She was joined by several elected Democratic officials, including state Rep. Bill Cochran, state Sen. Connie Sipes, New Albany Mayor Doug England, Floyd County Clerk Linda Moeller and New Albany City Clerk Marcey Wisman.

Richard Wood, the Democratic candidate for superintendent of public instruction, said later that he had provided information for Thompson but was not involved in drafting her education proposals. He added, however, that “I think it’s a very well thought-out position, very positive,” and that he supports it.

My guess is that Hoosiers will want a ticket who will work together to get things done, especially when it comes to reforming Indiana’s failed public education system.  Even Jill Long agrees that something must be done.  Governor Daniels knows how to pull his team together while Jill Long apparently has problems communicating and working with her own team.  No doubt here which ticket will succeed in building progress in reforming public education in favor of Indiana’s students.

Always colorful, former Democrat Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives John Gregg definitely lays claim to the quote of the day in the Indy Star this morning regarding Senator Evan Bayh not receiving the vice presidential nod:

Former House Speaker John Gregg was blunt as he grimly joked about his disappointment: “Let me get the noose off of my neck.”

“I’m sad for him. I’m sad for the Hoosier state. I’m sad for the Democratic Party,” Gregg said.

In the same article, Gregg later acknowledges his lack of enthusiasm for the Biden pick.

I wonder how Indiana Democrats feel about this concession that Bayh’s non-pick it not good for their chances in the November election for statewide and legislative races. Jill Long will have a hard time boosting the spirits of her base after so much was staked on the Bayh announcement that did not happen.

Even Jill-Bob knows Dennie Ray II got his heiny handed to him by Becky Skillman at the Fair Debate.