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Mayors Henry, Bennett Do Four More GOP Picks up 70 City Halls, Dems Make Suburban Gains by BRIAN A V25, N12 Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019 Mayors Henry, Bennett do four more GOP picks up 70 city halls, Dems make suburban gains By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – It would be trite to say the 2019 municipal elections were status quo, not with 17 defeated incumbents. But there are solid trendlines: Democrats domi- nated in the big cities, coasting to wins in Indianapolis by Joe Hogsett and Fort Wayne by Tom Henry and picking up Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry (left) and Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett win historic fourth council seats terms, the former by landslide, the latter by edging out an independent. in Evansville without a credible mayoral nomi- onto the big cities and college towns. nee. The suburban areas continue to take a purple hue, Republicans did extremely with Democrats making gains with Emily Styron upsetting well in the auto belt, picking up Mayor Tim Haak in once-ruby red Zionsville, along with Kokomo, Logansport and Muncie. It helped them forge a two council seats in Carmel and Fishers. This comes a year historic 70-seat night, which underscores how the Repub- after gay Democrat Sen. J.D. Ford won his suburban In- licans are dominating in the prairies (they hold 80% of Continued on page 4 county commissioner seats), while Democrats are holding Our civic health dilemma By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – Next Monday morning, Hoosiers will be getting a biennial report card on civic engagement, presented by Lee Hamilton, Randall Shepard and Greg Zoeller. The state’s social “fabric” will be measured by the “Now that our local elections are “Civic Health Index” and it won’t be pretty. over and Congressman Pete has Past reports have come and gone since 2011 without announced his intentions not to a mechanism to enhance voter seek reelection, I want everyone participation, voluntary civic and religious assembly. That will to know that I am a candidate change with the establishment for this office in 2020 and that I of “The Indiana Citizen” website. Created by Bill and Ann Moreau with the support of board members Bob Grand, intend to be NW Indiana’s next Jeanne Kelsay, Michael Goldenberg, Russell Cox and Trevor Foughty, this non-partisan, non-profit platform described congressman.’’ as “The Crossroads of Civic Engagement” will seek to - Hammond Mayor McDermott Page 2 increase 2020 voter participation by create a center where people can 20%, or 500,000 votes, next year. register to vote, check on their regis- “That would move Indiana tration, learn who represents them in from the bottom 10 to the top 10,” Congress and the General Assembly, Moreau told HPI Tuesday as he pre- and follow official voting records and viewed his Indiana Citizen message. campaign finance. Howey Politics Indiana It was recorded on March 15, a day Bill Moreau has incorporated WWWHowey Media, LLC after his former boss and mentor, U.S. TurboVote and Follow The Money c/o Business Office Sen. Birch Bayh, died. API into the website. The project PO Box 6553 Another goal will be to has raised $200,000 from an impres- increase civics education, beginning sive, bipartisan group of “Founding Kokomo, IN, 46904 with elementary schools. Funders” and he hopes to extend www.howeypolitics.com Not only is voter participation coverage of Congress and the Gen- down, but there are a range of other eral Assembly into local levels, such Brian A. Howey, Publisher factors fueling what is becoming a as streaming city council meetings. Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington critical lack of engagement. The press, Moreau, a former reporter, particularly Hoosier newspapers, is in worked on the staff of U.S. Sen. Birch Mary Lou Howey, Editor atrophy with massive layoffs and clo- Bayh, then served as chief of staff Susan E. Joiner, Editor sures. The state has been crippled by for Evan Bayh when he was secretary methamphetamine and opioid crises of state and governor. He currently Subscriptions that have killed, maimed and impris- serves of the Board of Advisors for oned thousands. the Center on Congress at Indiana HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 The 2017 Indiana Civic Health University and the National Advisory HPI Weekly, $350 Index revealing “patterns of our civic Committee of IU’s Center for Civic Lisa Hounchell, Account Manager engagement and the commitment of Literacy and was a founding advisory (765) 452-3936 telephone Hoosiers to building a civically en- board member of Purdue University’s (765) 452-3973 fax gaged Indiana” found some reason Institute for Civic Communication. He [email protected] for encouragement. The 2017 report is retiring as a partner with Barnes & observed: Contact HPI “Indiana was [email protected] ranked 32 in Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 volunteering in 2010, 18th Washington: 202.256.5822 in 2012 and 22nd in 2016. Charitable Thornburg LLP in December. Business Office: 765.452.3936 giving activity placed Indiana 45th in Ahead of the release of the 2010, 22nd in 2012 and 27th in 2016. 2019 Civic Health Index, HPI con- © 2019, Howey Politics Voting and registration show a simi- ducted this interview with Moreau at Indiana. All rights reserved. lar pattern of improvement. In 2010, Barnes & Thornburg Tuesday after- Indiana was ranked 48th in voting in noon: Photocopying, Internet forward- the nation. We rose to the rank of 38 HPI: What was the aha! ing, faxing or reproducing in any in 2012 and fell slightly to 41 in 2016. moment behind this? Was it the 2014 form, whole or part, is a violation Despite the overall improvement dur- mid-term election where we had the of federal law without permission ing this period, Indiana still remains worst turnout in America? from the publisher. ranked in the bottom 50% of all states Moreau: It had to do with in voting.” planning for retirement from the In 2017, former congress- practice of law. My wife and I said Jack E. Howey man Hamilton observed, “In a de- we just can’t go on vacation for the editor emeritus mocracy, it is not enough just to let rest of our lives. What can we do to 1926-2019 politicians set the rules of engage- take everything we’ve learned to add ment. As citizens, we need to know something, and we decided it’s time how to cultivate our own skills; to stay for us to try and bring some focus on informed, volunteer, speak out, ask dismally low levels of civic participa- questions, make discriminating judg- tion we’re seeing in Indiana. ments about politicians and policies, HPI: What are you trying to and improve our neighborhoods and do with the Indiana Citizen website? communities.” Moreau: We’ve got some The IndianaCitizen.Org will big, big goals for this platform. We’re Page 3 trying to create a single place where Hoosiers can get reg- perpetuate our common values. istered to vote, check out their registration, find out who HPI: The other sobering thing I keep pointing out represents them, and find out every bit of public informa- is that about every 80 years since 1776, this nation has tion we can load there about the candidates and the issues gone through a political and cultural convulsion, with the as we head into 2020. American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression HPI: You became politically involved with Sen. and World War II, and now we’re 74 years from Hiroshima Birch Bayh when? and Nagasaki. So we’re due for a comeuppance and all Moreau: In the fall of 1974 and he was running the ingredients of Washington gridlock – income inequal- for reelection against Dick Lugar. I was the editor of the ity, artificial intelligence and the fact that we’ve ceded our Purdue student newspaper, I was not sole super power status – are gathering raised in Indiana so it was the first time I to create this next cataclysm. Time may met him and in short order I was follow- be running out for us to have a rational ing him to Iowa and New Hampshire in conversation and bring more stakeholders his presidential campaign and then went into the process. Any thoughts? to work for him in Washington. Moreau: I don’t know I’m that HPI: Over the arc of your career, pessimistic. I realize in the last couple you’ve witnessed the rise and fall of the of years that I’ve become a born-again Indiana Democratic Party. Talk about idealist. I’ve spend much of my time in what things were like at the beginning law and politics and government and you and where we stand now. get pretty cynical. We need a place where Moreau: I’m not sure I’ve come idealists can rally and that begins with a to any great insights why Indiana is source of reliable information. When we where it is today, except that Hoosiers came up with the name Indiana Citizen, themselves have turned the process over it was our daughter, Katie, who came up to those who understandably want to with the slogan, “The Crossroads of Civic perpetuate it. I think Indiana needs a healthy dose of new Engagement.” My first version was, “The Indiana Citizen: voters and engaged citizens. I came of age in the age of Where Hoosier Idealists Meet.” Fortunately that was shot the war in Vietnam and Watergate and in a time of great down. We have to figure out how to tap into the innate ferment, and here we are today in 2020 and we seem to idealism of young people. be bombarded by all this political information. What I’m HPI: So on Monday morning, we’re going to hear afraid of is the way people are responding is to just shut it Lee Hamilton, Randy Shepard and Greg Zoeller give a pret- out, to keep some sanity in their lives.
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