Posts Tagged “Evan Bayh”

Poised for a Showdown?

Is the Indiana General Assembly positioning itself for a showdown with the federal government? Yesterday afternoon I attended a four-hour presentation at the State House hosted by Senator Mike Delph. The symposium featured one of the nation’s foremost Constitutional legal authorities,Professor Herb Titus, a founding Dean of the College of Law and Government at Regent University. Also on the panel was Dr. Paul Jehl, Director of the Plymouth Rock Foundation and an author of curricula on the US Constitution.

A dozen legislators attended the forum on “Interposition.” This term concerns the proper roles of various branches and levels of government and the checks and balances set forth by our founding documents. Many legislators had questions about how states in previous generations asserted their rights and how interposition might be practiced today. Read the rest of this entry »

By Micah Clark

Indianapolis Candidate Forum this Friday

There will be a candidate forum on the East side of Indianapolis at Crossroads Bible College this Friday evening at 6:00 pm. The college is located at 601 North Shortridge Road. The event is freeand will include several state and federal candidates. Read the rest of this entry »

Micah Clark’s weekly Update
The Foxes Are Guarding the Hen House

As if you need more evidence that every election matters or that the 2012 election will also be of vital importance, it is clear that the Obama Administration is systematically undermining the Judeo-Christian roots of our nation. Last week California federal Judge, Virginia Phillips, ruled that the 1993 military policy banning open homosexuals from the military was unconstitutional. Overlooked in most media reports is that every other federal court has upheld “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and that there has never been a constitutional right to serve in the military. To the contrary the US military has the right and the obligation to set standards which best ensure unit cohesion and effectiveness. Read the rest of this entry »

This just came out.

Newly chosen Republican nominee Dan Coats earns 51% support while his Democratic rival Brad Ellsworth’s attracts 36% in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Indiana Senate race following Tuesday’s GOP Primary.

More here.

UPDATE: we’ll post the questions that were asked in a bit.

A recent SurveyUSA Poll show Dan Coats trailing two of his opponents in the Indiana US Senate race.

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By Micah Clark – American Family Association of Indiana

Of all the times in which one might think that Republicans might actually start to “get it” and see that Hoosiers are fed up with liberalism and political parties that mirror each other, this might be that year. Yet, in spite of political earthquakes in Massachusetts and now one here in Indiana this week, the Indianapolis Republican party leadership seems to be living on another planet right now.

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From Hoosier Pundit

Who, you say?

Tamyra D’Ippolito, who was attempting to mount a primary challenge to Evan Bayh. According to the Indiana Daily Student, she only needs 1,000 or so signatures. On a Bloomington political discussion forum, she says that she needs signatures in particular from the 8th District.

The form to get her signatures is available here.

You do not need to be in contact with the campaign to get signatures. Just print the above form, get signatures of registered voters on it, and get it turned in to your county clerk’s office by noon tomorrow (February 16).

There is not a lot of time. Bayh declined reelection at the last possible minute so that no Democrat would be on the ballot for Senate in Indiana, and thus Democratic Party insiders (largely Bayh cronies) would pick who is on the ballot in November.

If Tamyra D’Ippolito is on the ballot, then that’s all she wrote. They can’t pick anyone else. She will be their nominee, period.

Sen. Evan Bayh will not run for re-election, a decision that will shock Democrats and Republicans alike in Indiana.

In prepared remarks, Bayh, 54, cited excessive partisanship that makes progress on public policy difficult to achieve as the motivation for his decision.

Holy crap!

Evan Bayh, Marlin Stutzman and John Hostetler walk into a bar.

They belly-up and the first one says, “I’m Marlin Stutzman and I’m running for Senate, give me a drink.”

The second one says “”I’m John Hostettler and I’m running for Senate, give me a drink”

The third one says “Hmm.. I’m Dan coats and people tell me that sounds like a good idea. Me, too.”

In the next seat was the RNSC representative. “Great, so it’s official!”

Rumor mills are blazing about the Indiana Senate race and Dan Coats recent entry. Some have been saying the state GOP asked Marlin Stutzman to drop out. I asked Marlin, it’s not true.

Hi Marlin,

Kevin Tracy wrote today that the state GOP has asked you to step aside from the race.

True?

Regards,
Dan

From his blog: http://www.ktracy.com/2010/nrsc-knows-best-indiana/

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Since this happened, the state party has supposedly asked Marlin Stutzman (and probably the others) to step aside and let Coats take the primary without a fight.

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from Marlin Stutzman
to Dan Turkette
date Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM
subject Re: confidential

Not true at all…have actually had a lot of encouragement from party folks.

So if you think you have a beef with the folks in Indy, you’ve got the wrong people. Try National Republican Senatorial Committee, (NRSC) in Washington.

I’m not buying the crap floating around the blogosphere, Twitter or Facebook that say we need to stand by the party and support Dan Coats. I have serious issues. What say you?

I will have an analysis, hopefully tomorrow.