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That's the message from the Times this morning, which looks at a trio of region politicos who are reportedly looking to stoke the rumor mill over their potential candidacies in 2012. Lake County Sheriff Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez has been patrolling the Hoosier state in recent weeks in search of community leaders willing to talk to him about who should be the next governor. [...] Hammond Mayor ...
Blue Indiana - 8:28 a.m.
Letters to the editor | The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind. Are some of these people on drugs or something? What else would explain their complete lack of anything resembling logic? ...
Left-Hand Play - Sun 12:29 p.m. - 7 clicks 
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) signed a bill yesterday that allows same-sex couples to register as domestic partners and thus gain certain rights like hospital visitation and survivor benefits. As an erstwhile Cheesehead, who met my now-spouse while we were both graduate students at UW-Madison, this comes as happy news. Wisconsin is, in fact, the first state to offer such benefits after enacti...
bilerico.com - Sun 12:29 p.m. - 4 clicks
The Indiana Senate Democrats launched a new video today touting everything they've done this year to support military service members and public safety officials. One of the super awesome laws they passed this year was HEA 1258; it allows motorists with a former POW specialty license plate to park in a metered space without cost or length of time limitations. Here's a fun game! ...
bilerico.com - Sat 6:58 a.m.
With Mike Pence seemingly convinced that he's going to personally save the Republican Party, it's worth remembering some of the reasons that the Republican Party was summarily rejected by voters last year. Namely, Mike Pence. ...
Blue Indiana - Thu 9:21 a.m. - 7 clicks
All of this excitement at the legislature, and we're not even in an election year. Kind of makes you wonder what next year will be like, eh? One hint of what's to come can be found in the statements made by Governor Mitch Daniels yesterday, as he seemed to lay the groundwork for a renewed fight over local government reform. "I hope we make more forward progress next year," he said. "We'll be b...
Blue Indiana - Thu 9:21 a.m. - 5 clicks
State Sen. Marlin Stutzman is currently the only Republican candidate in the not-so-crowded field looking to take on Senator Evan Bayh next year. And if the fundraising pitch he made via email last night is any indication, he's going to be fun to watch over the next year or so. Here are some of my favorite snippets: Senator Bayh's votes for the banking bailout, against the nomination of Supreme C...
Blue Indiana - Wed 11:22 a.m. - 7 clicks
This time we get a story from Jeff Parrott of the South Bend Tribune , who looks at the potential candidacy of city controller Catherine Fanello. Fanello, a Democrat who was a Vanderburgh County commissioner from 2001 through 2004, said she is considering a run for secretary of state, an office now held by Republican Todd Rokita. The office next comes up for election in November 2010, but Rokit...
Blue Indiana - Tue 9:22 a.m. - 6 clicks
With the news of a budget compromise came news of an apparently agreed-upon fix for the fiscal woes of the Capitol Improvement Board. And once again, it looks like Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard didn't get anything he wanted. State lawmakers late Monday ignored Mayor Greg Ballard's calls for fewer spending cuts for the Capital Improvement Board and granted him only one of the three tax increase...
Blue Indiana - Tue 9:22 a.m. - 7 clicks
President of what, you ask? Yeah, he's just that delusional : Indiana Republican Mike Pence, a rising leader in the U.S. House who has been mentioned as a presidential prospect, plans to visit Iowa on July 24, state GOP leaders said Monday. Pence is the House Republican Conference chairman, the third-ranking member of the minority caucus. He plans to visit the Cedar Rapids area, although details...
Blue Indiana - Tue 9:22 a.m. - 7 clicks
With all parties involve striking a positive tone on the likelihood of an afternoon or early evening vote on the so-called compromise budget proposal, details have emerged on the major concessions both sides offered up to get a workable deal on the table. Niki Kelly of the Journal Gazette fills us in . Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, said the two sides agreed to put a...
Blue Indiana - Tue 9:22 a.m. - 3 clicks
Via South Bend Tribune columnist Jack Colwell, we get his take on state treasurer Richard Mourdock: Alas, that Hoosier politician who is a real clunker when it comes to saving automotive jobs can't be junked in the program. The clunker is Indiana's state treasurer, Richard Mourdock. Both Donnelly and Upton point out that the treasurer's effort to kill the bankruptcy transaction that is bringi...
Blue Indiana - Jun 29 - 6 clicks
I went looking for the definitive statement on where Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard stands over the controversial bail-out of the city's Capitol Improvement Board. Thirty minutes later, I was so dizzy I had to sit down. As it stands, Greg Ballard has managed to turn one of the most visible, powerful public offices in the state into one of the weakest, most irrelevant positions of power we've eve...
Blue Indiana - Jun 29 - 4 clicks
Mitch Roob helped push the "modernization" of our Family and Social Services Administration, funneling millions toward the company he worked for prior to joining Mitch Daniels' team. After months of struggle and failure, he was promoted by the Guv to his current position as the head of Indiana's Economic Development Corporation. But the more things change, the more they stay the same : "If you...
Blue Indiana - Jun 29 - 5 clicks
Make no mistakes: the shutdown of our state government is not an issue to be taken lightly or brushed off as irrelevant. It would have a huge impact on the lives of thousands across the state, and send the political atmosphere in Indiana toward total toxicity. That being said, am I the only one a little disgusted to see Governor Mitch Daniels touring the state with blame-fingers pointing wildly a...
Blue Indiana - Jun 29 - 6 clicks
There's a lot going on right now in the state and elsewhere. Some say the General Assembly is hurtling toward a government shutdown. I've seen snippets from the latest Indiana Legislative Insight -- a really indispensable publication -- and Ed Feigenbaum seems to be striking a more hopeful tone. Regardless, there certainly are a lot of unknowns. On top of that, Mark Sanford looks to have been ...
Blue Indiana - Jun 26 - 4 clicks
