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By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS - The pre- dictions have been dire for Hoo- !"#$%&#'()$*+!%,*)"-.%+/#"$%[$!+% mid-term election with President Obama in the White House. The President’s approval numbers in Indiana are in the low 40th per- centile. The campaign of Republi- can Senate nominee Dan Coats is baiting U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth to invite the President back to the state. Presidential adviser David Axelrod is the man behind the curtain when it comes to White House The Cook Political Report message and political ops. He is shown here backstage at Concord HS in Elkhart in February noted, “Whether Mr. Ellsworth will 2009. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey) ask Mr. Obama to stump for him is a popular topic in Indiana. On his Or as Ellsworth told HPI on Tuesday, “If the Presi- website, the Republican candidate, former Sen. Dan Coats, dent of the United States - Republican or Democrat - wants has repeatedly dared Mr. Ellsworth’s campaign to invite to come to Indiana, I’d welcome him. I’ve not had any dis- the commander in chief, pointing to disapproval numbers cussions with the White House about the President coming among voters in the Hoosier State that are higher than in and campaigning for me. This isn’t about endorsements the national average. The Ellsworth campaign has told local or people coming in for a visit. It’s about two candidates. media outlets the President is welcome at any time.” Continued on page 4
Obama tried to talk Bayh out of retirement
By BRIAN A. HOWEY FRANKLIN – Evan Bayh and family spent part of UWe canXt let people like this 1*!+%23.3!+%\(*+"-.%5(6-%+/#%7(1($*5(%8"9#$%5##:%"-%+/#% Grand Canyon pondering his future. scare us. WeXre going to take “No television, no cell phones,” Bayh told me Wednesday afternoon. “It care of business.V was great. Just a time to get away and think about life and the future. This had ! Gs Fsw ws been on my mind for quite awhile. This usw Us s t Rsvw had been on my mind since January - not this January but a year ago January.” Just as President Obama was tak- HOWEY Politics Indiana
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"-.%+/#%(*+/%(,%(,[)#E%;*F/%6*!%+#11"-.% vince me to seek reelection. I felt like I Majority Leader Harry Reid and Demo- owed it to him to take that seriously.“ cratic Senate Campaign Chairman Bob Even in the midst of the Mendendez that a reelection bid was health reform drama, the White House “not a foregone conclusion.” tried to keep Bayh in the Senate fold. It had been a whirlwind During the blizzard last December that of two years with his own presidential closed down Washington, Bayh met Howey Politics campaign, the abrupt rise of Barack with Emanuel at the White House and Indiana Obama, the entrenched Hillary Clinton Obama popped in to see if he had is a non-partisan newsletter campaign. Bayh dropped out of the changed his mind. presidential race in December 2006, “It was just a hard decision based in Indianapolis and backed Clinton in the pri- published on the campus of maries, and after Obama Franklin College. It was founded secured the nomination, in 1994 in Fort Wayne. the junior Hoosier sena- tor streaked atop the veepstakes lists. When Brian A. Howey, Publisher the nomination went to Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington Joe Biden, Bayh’s chanc- Jack E. Howey, editor es of returning to execu- Beverly K. Phillips, associate tive governance faded. editor When the sena- tor returned to the Grand Brittany Brownrigg, intern Canyon rim, he had decided to end his U.S. Subscriptions Senate career. $350 annually HPI Weekly Upon his return to Washington, Bayh was $550 annually HPI Weekly and scheduled to meet with HPI Daily Wire. President Obama in the !Call 317.627.6746 <9*1%<,[)#%+(%+*1G%*H(3+% +/#%!#-*+($R!%+(:%:$"($"+F%J%5#[)"+%*-5% for me. I love what I’ve done. I love debt reduction. “He had read my piece serving the people of Indiana. I just Contact HPI in the Wall Street Journal and I had concluded that 12 years in Congress Howey Politics Indiana been governor and he wanted to talk was enough,” Bayh said. 6255 N. Evanston Ave. to me about it,” Bayh said. “During He had fashioned the classic Indianapolis, IN 46220 that meeting I asked the President if pros/cons list. But when the President www.howeypolitics.com I could have two more minutes of his is asking for reconsideration, it chang- +"'#A%K/"!%6*!%+/#%[$!+%6##G%"-%L#: - es the dynamic. [email protected] tember and I told him I had decided “I felt that with respect to !Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 that I was not going to run for reelec- the President I should think about it. !Washington: 703.248.0909 tion.” M+%6*!%*%5",[)31+%5#)"!"(-%*-5E%,$*-G1FE% !;3!"-#!!%<,[)#=%>?@ABC@AB@DB Obama was surprised. “He I procrastinated. I would decide by asked me, ‘Are you 100 percent sure?’ Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving came and I said, ‘I’m 98 percent sure.’ And and went. I’ll decide by Christmas 2010, Howey Politics Indiana. that was my mistake. and then Christmas came and went. All rights reserved. Photocopy- “He seized upon that 2 Finally it was the deadline that forced ing, Internet forwarding, fax- percent over the next - oh, however me to make the decision and I did. So ing or reproducing in any form, many months that was until February that’s how it all transpired,” Bayh said. whole or part, is a violation of - I must have talked with him and met “There was no master plan to time with him a number of times. I met my decision in a way that was go- federal law without permission with his Chief of Staff (Rahm Emanuel) ing to prevent a Democratic primary. from the publisher. ! a number of times. They tried to con- There could be nothing further from HOWEY Politics Indiana
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+/#%+$3+/A%M+%6*!%*%5",[)31+%5#)"!"(-%+(%'*G#%*-5%+/#%,*)+% that on a whole host of things” he was being pressured that the president was trying to change my mind led me to to fall in line. “Things that if I were calling the shots, procrasinate until there was a deadline. After I made my we would not be doing. The caucus system really works 5#)"!"(-%M%6#-+%"-%*-5%+(15%+/#%N$#!"5#-+%[$!+%*-5%+/*+%1#5% against independence. You run the risk of constantly going to more meetings and more procrastination and the deci- your own way.” He said the caucus demands his support !"(-%6*!%[-*11F%H#"-.%'*5#%6"+/%*%5#*51"-#A%K/#F%6#$#%O3!+% “not just 80 percent of the time, but 100 percent of the very hopeful that I would change my mind.” time. That is just a system I found increasingly to be un- Bayh said that it was the assessment of the comfortable.” Obama team that he had the best chance at reelection. And Bayh disputes recent reports that he hand- P9#-%6"+/%+/#%5",[)31+%:(1"+")*1%#-9"$(-'#-+%,*)"-.%&#'( - picked U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth to replace him when the crats, Bayh’s pollster was telling him he had “more than a Indiana Democratic Central Committee chose his replace- 90 percent chance to win reelection.” ment on May 15. “I was scrupulously neutral,” he said. What it really came down to was where his heart He called U.S. Rep. Baron Hill who was in Afghani- was. As a young man who had faced the early death of his stan at the time and also Ellsworth, urging both to consider mother, Marvella, Bayh had been driven to achieve much at a Senate run. a young age. As for his future, Bayh is keeping an “open mind.” Now after two terms as governor, two in the U.S. He resisted the notion that a decision has been made to Senate, Bayh has reached middle age. “I’ll be 55 in De- run for governor in 2012. cember, which I’m still young enough to do other things, “It’s only June,” Bayh said. “Let’s get through the including doing more than one thing,” is how he puts it. “I CQ?Q%#1#)+"(-!%[$!+AP%2!%,($%CQ?CE%/#%!*"5E%OM%6(-R+%G##:% )*-%/*9#%*%!".-"[)*-+%"':*)+E%6/#$#*!%",%M%6*"+#5%3-+"1%M% people waiting,” suggesting he will make any political deci- was 61 or 67, which isn’t that old, but sion before the end of the chances of really being able to fash- year. ion a second career are just not as As for Ellsworth, great. Those were all the things going Bayh was asked if he might through my mind, but even so, it was do what former congress- a very close call. I love public service. man Lee Hamilton did in M%[-5%"+%"-)$#5"H1F%$#6*$5"-.%+(%/#1:% 1998 when he spent the other people.” [-*1%+6(%6##G!%(,%+/#%)*' - There is no doubt that be- paign shoulder to shoulder tween his time as governor and that in with Baron Hill, who pulled the U.S. Senate, it is the former rather out a close victory. than the latter that brings out the bet- “I’ll do whatever ter side in him. they ask me to do,” Bayh “I haven’t thought about this said. “I’ve turned over my in a long time and don’t read into this mailing list to him, my do- but one of the things that’s been on my mind was that I nor list. I had a fundraiser for him in New York City. I’ll be was a governor and I felt more comfortable being an ex- happy to help any way I can.” ecutive making decisions and people said, ‘Oh, he’s running As for dispersing some of his $12 million for governor,’” Bayh said. “That’s not what I mean. I was warchest to other Hoosier Democrats, Bayh said that the accustomed in public service to making decisions and tak- $1 million he sent to the state party that will go to Ells- "-.%*%'($#%!".-"[)*-+%$(1#%"-%+/#%5#)"!"(-%'*G"-.%:$()#!!% worth is the “largest” contribution any candidate has ever as opposed to be merely one out of 100. So the satisfaction made in Indiana history. I derived came out of making a bigger impact on people’s % 2!%(3$%)(-9#$!*+"(-%6*-#5E%;*F/%/*5%!('#%[-*1% lives was simply as an executive.” thoughts. He said there are an “incredible number of peo- With his Senate career, the Democrats have no ple” in Indiana and the Democratic Party who can lead. term limits on chairmanships like the Republicans do. He “I always tell my sons that life is a team sport and was not in line for a chairmanship or leadership “any time that is especially true in political life. If you say anything soon.” nice about me in your article, I want to share the credit And he was a moderate in a Senate that lurched to with a whole host of people who stood by me in the begin- the left as Obama rose to the White House. ning and all the way and without them a lot would have “My views are just more moderate than many been impossible.” ! members of my caucus,” Bayh acknowledged. “That means HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 4 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010
Ellsworth’s Senate campaign - they would rely on long-time Organizing, from page 1 allies like the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers and the ISTA and NEA PACs. But according to Matt Bai, writing That’s what they vote for, the names on the ballot. I want in the June 13 edition of the New York Times Magazine, the to win this because people think I’m the best to represent Obama White House is intent on changing the way con- them up here.” gressional campaigns are run. Whether President Obama comes to Indiana or not, “Democrats running for the House and the Hoosier Democrats have a response. Two doors down from Senate, like the party’s presidential candidates, have +/#%(,[)#%(,%M-5"*-*%&#'()$*+")%7/*"$'*-%&*-%N*$G#$%"!% generally relied almost exclusively on the unions and other the redoubt of John Spears, who heads the Organizing for constituency groups to get out the vote, using paid phone America campaign in Indiana for the 2010 election cycle. banks and door-knockers,” Bai wrote. “Starting out, Obama Spears worked for the Obama campaign in northeastern didn’t have that option. His party’s existing organization Pennsylvania during the epic 2008 campaign. He is now structure was largely beholden to Hillary Clinton through )/*$.#5%6"+/%+$F"-.%+(%$#*)+"9*+#%*H(3+%>>>EQQQ%[$!+J+"'#% the 2008 primaries, so Obama recruited an army of volun- Hoosier voters who came out in 2008, many of them voting teers, many of them previously uninvolved in any kind of for Obama. party politics.” This cycle’s endeavor is to try and get these That was certainly the case in Indiana when U.S. voters enthused about Ellsworth, U.S. Reps. Baron Hill Sen. Evan Bayh, former Gov. Joe Kernan, Hammond Mayor and Joe Donnelly, and 3rd CD Democratic nominee Tom Thomas McDermott, Speaker B. Patrick Bauer, Hayhurst. The Obama campaign spent Chairman Dan Parker and dozens of their sup- $5.2 million in Indiana in 2008 to lay porters rallied behind Hillary’s Indiana cam- the groundwork. On June 6, OFA began paign. At the climax in the May 2008 primary, the process of reengaging these vot- Clinton escaped with a .5 percent victory ers nationwide. Across the U.S. and +/*+%6*!%[-*11F%5#)1*$#5%6#11%*,+#$%'"5-"./+A% /#$#%"-%M-5"*-*E%+/#$#%"!%*%[9#J'(-+/% Obama, dogged by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright campaign underway to bolster these story during the Indiana primary battle, almost congressional Democrats who stuck pulled off that upset. Seven their necks out politically on the health months later, Obama did it, moving Indiana into reforms, the 2009 stimulus package, +/#%;13#%)(13'-%,($%+/#%[$!+%+"'#%!"-)#%?TBD% and the cap and trade legislation that with his defeat of Sen. John McCain. Between conventional wisdom suggests has Obama campaign manager David the primary loss and the November victory, made them all vulnerable. Plouffe transformed OFA to a
nal Democrats running this year is that if they don’t adopt the congressional campaigns and OFA, the Senate race and the tactics of the Obama campaign, they’re probably going OFA.” to lose.” Parker also insisted that Gov. Mitch Daniels’ edu- Third Way has noted that Obama carried 54 cation reforms (which, ironically is in line with President percent of independent voters in 2008, but in 2009 and Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan) will moti- 2010 elections in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts, vate teachers to get involved. Parker notes that the local only a third voted Democratic. Pew Research polling shows Uniserv PACs are independent from the ISTA parent group Obama’s independent support has dropped from 63 percent embroiled in securities fraud allegations. to 47 percent, according to the New York Times Magazine. Parker said that OFA will bring Democratic “That would seem to leave only one way for Democrats campaigns a variety of contact methods, “Through phone, to avoid being swept away on the receding tide and that’s mail, door to door, and community teams. The teams from +(%+3$-%(3+%!('#%!"V*H1#%:($+"(-%(,%+/(!#%[$!+J+"'#%9(+#$!% ‘08 will be rebuilt for 2010. It is going to be a lot of com- from 2008 - the surge voters,” Bai wrote. While Democratic munity-based teams. There will be many touches.” National Chairman Tim Kaine has made a $50 million com- On Rep. Hill’s campaign, Nick Buis is managing the mitment to congressional campaigns, only $20 million will effort. The son of Tom Buis, a former staffer for U.S. Sen. come in cash. The rest, Bai reports, will come with OFA Birch Bayh, Buis took over OFA in Indiana in 2009 before organizing and volunteers. joining the Hill campaign. The link between Hill and Obama OFA has picked up where the Obama presiden- is important. It was Hill who in late April 2008 endorsed tial campaign left off. On June 21, OFA volunteers got an Obama against not only the Bayh machinery, but counter email from Mitch Stewart, who heads the national effort. It to the wishes of many 9th CD chairs and party activists. included a video “special message from President Obama” Buis was not made available for this story, with Hill cam- on the BP oil spill crisis. “Hello everybody,” Obama began. paign communication director Daniel Altman telling HPI he “Today I wanted to speak directly to OFA volunteers about was traveling to Washington. The campaign was circum- one of the most important challenges facing us in a nation.” spect on the involvement of OFA as well as the traditional He went on to describe the “worst environmental disaster 1*H($%.$(3:!%+/*+%/*9#E%*+%+"'#!E%/*5%[+,31%$#1*+"(-!/":!% in history” and said that “stopping it has tested the limits of with Hill over issues such as trade with China. human technology.” “Baron’s always had the support of volunteers,” Obama then tried to rally the OFA volunteer base: Altman said. Asked for the numbers of OFA in regards to “If we’re honest with ourselves, the days of cheap and his campaign, Altman declined, saying, “Baron has a robust easily accessible oil are numbered. This is a painful and network of volunteers. It’s been a varied group in the past. powerful reminder yet the time to embrace clean energy is He’s got volunteers from a lot of different areas.” now. We also know that only real change is possible when Ellsworth may be the candidate who could we organize from the bottom up. If we refuse to heed H#-#[+%'(!+%,$('% When it comes to the midterm elections, the Re- Obama’s numbers publican Party still appears to have the edge heading into [(9#'H#$A%W($+FJ[9#%:#$)#-+%:$#,#$%*%\ Democratic Party, is running for state auditor this fall where K/#%.$(3:%(,%[!)*11FJ)(-!#$9*+"9#%&#'()$*+!R%;13#:$"-+E%(,% he will challenge Republican Tim Berry. Locke is hoping to which I am an active member, outlines an extensive list of "':1#'#-+%!('#%)/*-.#!%+(%+/#%(,[)#%",%#1#)+#5A%]()G#%!*"5% legislative priorities aimed at cutting spending and balanc- +/*+%/#%/*!%+6(%'*"-%.(*1!%,($%+/#%!+*+#%*35"+($R!%(,[)#A% ing the budget within 10 years while simultaneously reduc- K/#%[$!+%"!%+(%'*G#%+/#%(,[)#%'($#%"--(9*+"9#%+/$(3./% ing the debt-to-GDP ratio. Item number one on our agenda technology. He said he believes that a new computer has been accomplished – reinstating my pay-as-you-go process called Accounts Payable Recovery and Contract _N2`\ Page 8 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 La-La Land because he had $1 to his name and was look- This is the ballad ing to do what any reasonable American would ... cash in. But his message had the clarity of Rodney King (“Why can’t we all just get along?) when he told the press, of Stanley and Gary “We can’t let people like this scare us. We don’t get scared by people like this, we scare them and that’s what this is “No wonder you’re late. Why, this watch is exactly about. We’re going to take care of business.” two days slow.” - The Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland As God might have asked Howard Beal of UBS News, why him? He responded by saying, “People who By BRIAN A. HOWEY never get out of their chair and away from the TV set need FRANKLIN - The juxtaposition that came Wednes- to do something with their life.” And for his critics? “For all day was so stark, soooooo American. of you out there who have something negative to say, it Around noon, four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sucks to be you.” the U.S. commander of the 9-year-old war in Afghanistan, Dude, you are my personal Ninja hero. was unceremoniously dumped President Obama had a at the White House by Presi- much tougher day. “I don’t dent Obama after he let it all make this decision based on hang out in ... Rolling Stone. any difference in policy with About 10 hours later, General McChrystal, as we are Gary Faulkner, an unemployed in full agreement about our California construction worker strategy. Nor do I make this with kidney disease, landed decision out of any sense of in Los Angeles once Pakistan personal insult,” Obama said (,[)"*1!%$#1#*!#5%/"'%*,+#$% in the Rose Garden. “Stan detaining him during a private McChrystal has always shown mission to bring Osama bin great courtesy and carried out Laden to justice. my orders faithfully. I’ve got McChrystal was a great admiration for him and proud, 30-year career military for his long record of service man who convinced Obama to in uniform.” send in some 140,000 Ameri- But, the once “liv- cans and allies to try and get id” Obama continued, “War a grip in a country that has is bigger than any one man or a reputation for devouring woman, whether a private, a empires. It hasn’t been pretty. general or a president.” McChrystal’s signature of- ABC News reported that in fense at Marja has since been President Obama dresses down Gen. McChrystal last Decem- their terse meeting in the Oval described by the general as a ber aboard Air Force 1 in Copenhagen. <,[)#E% with AARP two weeks ago and there were 5,000 people on Ellworth talks health the phone and they seemed a lot more comfortable with it. They still have a lot of questions but there are a lot of :1*)#!%6/#$#%:#(:1#%)*-%.(%*-5%[-5%+/#%,*)+!A%2!%'($#% reforms, bailouts and people learn about the bill, the more they like it. HPI: Republicans seem to be concentrating on the his Senate campaign various bailouts, from Wall Street to the auto makers to the stimulus. How are you going to frame that debate over the By BRIAN A. HOWEY -#^+%[9#%'(-+/!d INDIANAPOLIS - The phone rang Tuesday and Brad Ellsworth: It’s not about framing for me. I want Ellsworth abruptly said, “It was a whole lot simpler when I to tell you the process I went through to make a decision. O3!+%:")G#5%3:%+/#%:/(-#%*+%+/#%!/#$",,R!%(,[)#%*-5%"+%6*!%Z% ]#+%'#%+*G#%+/#%*3+(%H*"1(3+%[$!+A%U/*+%M%!+*$+#5%+(%5(% o’clock in the morning.” was calling people back home. There were people I knew But this was U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth, now a U.S. in the business. Probably the most convincing call I made L#-*+#%-('"-##E%:$#:*$"-.%,($%/"!%[$!+%M-5"*-*%&#'()$*+")% was to Toyota, which has a plant in my district at Princeton Convention this Saturday. We talked for about 30 minutes and I asked them what their opinion was. They said we and this is what he had to say: had to do this. I asked them why and they said you have HPI: What has been the reaction to understand that their suppliers were also the suppliers to the health reforms now that more to GM and Chrysler and if they went out of business in an details are beginning to come out? abrupt manner, and the suppliers went down, they would Ellsworth: I’ve had mixed reac- go down also. That was pretty convincing. Also, our auto tion. I have had no less than hun- industry in Indiana is one of the biggest in the USA. While dreds of meetings and thousands of it didn’t stop the bankruptcy, what it essentially did was the phone calls and correspondence going difference between doing a Thelma & Louise going off the back and forth. I’ve got to tell you it cliff and crashing at the bottom or putting a parachute on was a diverse response: people who were all for it, people +/#%H*)G%(,%+/#%)*$%*-5%\(*+"-.%5(6-%!1(61F%"-%*-%($5#$1F% who were all against it. And so that became my manner. It allowed them to adjust. goal to dissect it and make the best decision I They slowed down. They still went could on what I felt was best for the state and into bankruptcy, they formulated that the country. That being said, I can remember and then they came back up. GM has when I ran for Congress starting in 2005 and the paid back their loans. I don’t think Medical Alliance said, “You guys have to start there’s any question that it saved doing something on health care.” And so I think jobs. Toyota is getting ready to call everybody agrees that something needed to back. That’s the auto bailout. I just /*::#-A%M+%6*!%*%.((5%[$!+%!+#:A%M+R!%-(+%:#$,#)+A% don’t think the people realized how K/#$#%6"11%H#%+6#*G!E%+/#$#%6"11%H#%[^#!%*!%6#%.(% +/#%[-.#$!%*-5%*$+#$"#!%(,%+/"!%)(3- - along. I would have liked to have seen something try spread out into the suppliers. more incremental. When you have something HPI: How about the stimulus? that big it becomes ripe for misinformation and Ellsworth: This country was on when people get misinformation they get scared. the verge of a depression. Everybody As more people dissect this they are more satis- agreed we needed to do something. [#5A%M+R!%-(+%+/#%#-5%*11%HF%*-F%'#*-!A%U#%/*9#% Nobody wanted to spend that much to work toward a healthier country. money. But look at what it did. A third of that - and most HPI: Do you see a shift in public reaction when people don’t bring this up, they talk about the $780 billion they learn the details? - were tax cuts that went right back to American citizens. I Ellsworth: I think so. There will be some people have no problem giving tax cuts back to businesses. A third who won’t shift at all. Those are the partisans who want of it was propping up the states, including Indiana. It was to use it as a tool to win political races. I can’t do that. My G##:"-.%3-"-!3$#5%H#-#[+!E%/#*1+/%)*$#%H#-#[+!A%2%+/"$5% !(1#%.(*1%"-%+/"!%"!%+(%[-5%*%.((5%:"#)#%(,%1#."!1*+"(-%+/*+% was projects. Nobody is going to argue against tax cuts. makes health care more affordable for Americans. Where [(H(5F%"!%.("-.%+(%*$.3#%*.*"-!+%G##:"-.%:(1")#%*-5%[$# - I’ve seen the biggest shift is with seniors. Early on they [./+#$!%(-%+/#%O(HA%`(3%'"./+%5"!*.$##%6"+/%+/#%:$(O#)+!E% were talking about death camps and panels, but now they but I heard a lot of people agreeing with passing out the are talking about closing the donut hole and pre-existing )/#)G!A%M+%5#[-"+#1F%)$#*+#5%O(H!A%U/(%G-(6!%/(6%'*-F%"+% conditions and things that it will do. I did a tele-townhall created? It was nothing we wanted to do. A lot of people HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 10 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 complained that it wasn’t big enough. Democratic president around Indiana. I accompanied the HPI: And TARP? N$#!"5#-+%3:%+(%P1G/*$+%(-%(-#%(,%/"!%[$!+%+$":!%+*1G"-.%*H(3+% Ellsworth: Again, we have to put this in context. +/#%8e%*-5%*3+(%"-53!+$"#!A%U/#-%F(3%!##%!('#+/"-.%[$!+% This was when President Bush came to Congress and hand, see the looks on the faces, that hits home. I’ve not said the economy was going off the cliff and we had to had any discussions with the White House about the Presi- do something to prop it up. That’s pretty convincing. My dent coming in and campaigning for me. This isn’t about constituents had all their 401Ks, all of their investments, endorsements or people coming in for a visit. It’s about in peril. What I started to do was call people back home. two candidates and their stories. That’s what they vote for, M%)*11#5%:#(:1#%6/(%6($G%"-%+/#%[-*-)"*1%6($15%$"./+%H*)G% the names on the ballot. I want to win this because people home in Terre Haute and Evansville. They said this thing think I’m the best to represent them. They’ll make that call was more critical than we knew. I trust those people. I in November. didn’t call one soul on Wall Street. I called people in down- HPI: Afghanistan has been a huge issue today. Is town Evansville. When small businesses couldn’t get loans, this a major concern for you? I was getting calls every day. They were locked up, frozen Ellsworth: Absolutely. I was in Indy at a Blue up, and that was costing jobs. That’s what they have me Star event with families of people who have served. It )('#%/#$#%+(%5(E%*-5%+/*+R!%+(%'*G#%5#)"!"(-!A%M%+$F%+(%[-5% drives home that we’ve have thousands of young men and people back in the state who are directly affected. They 6('#-%/*1,%6*F%*$(3-5%+/#%6($15%[./+"-.%,($%(3$%,$## - gave me good advice on that. doms. When kids are taking shrapnel and losing their lives, HPI: It’s been a tough year listening to the infor- that’s the No. 1 thing in my book. Sure it is a concern. I mation and the disinformation in a polarized atmosphere. think we went there for a reason. It was the right reason. It’s been very tough to navigate. I can imagine it’s been Al Qaeda had used it as a safe haven and a staging area very tough for you as a Member and now a statewide Sen- for attacks on our soil. One thing I stress is Afghanistan is ate candidate. How have you personally gone through this kind of like people in recovery. You can’t help people who '"-#[#15d don’t want help. Soldiers and the Afghan government and Ellsworth: This is something you’re going to ask the Afghan people are going to have to stand up. We can’t me anyway: Am I running away from being a congress- do this forever. They have to be willing to train and take '*-d%2H!(13+#1F%-(+A%K/#%[$!+%+"'#%M%)*11#5%F(3%M%6*!% care of themselves. If that proves to be impossible, we may !"++"-.%"-%'F%!/#$",,R!%(,[)#A%M%5"5%+/*+%,($%CD%F#*$!%*-5% have to hand it back to them. eight months, and when you’ve spent almost half your HPI: You’ve been quoted recently that Sen. Bayh life, it’s in your blood. Think about what I did in my three asked you to run for the seat. Can you put that in perspec- and a half years in Congress. I never asked anybody what tive? their politics was when I was sheriff. I never asked if they Ellsworth: He encouraged me to think about were rich or poor, black or white. I just went out and tried running. I found out about it that Monday (Feb. 15). I was to resolve their problems. I didn’t take everything at face just beginning my 18-townhall tour and it was right after value. I separated people and interviewed them separately. +/#%[$!+%(-#A%<-#%(,%'F%*"5#R!%;1*)GH#$$F%H3VV#5%*-5%!*"5% I tried to get to the real story. If I had someone who came Politico was reporting that Bayh was going to resign. We "-%*-5%.*9#%'#%(-#%!"5#%(,%+/#%!+($FE%MR5%.(%[-5%!('#(-#% all kind of chuckled. Then about an hour after the second on the other side. It’s like an investigation. It’s trying to town hall we heard he had a press conference scheduled get down to the truth and make a decision. If that means and we knew that was a tell tale sign. I’m sure he was call- going against my party, I will. Cap-and-trade was a great ing a lot of folks to tell about his decision. During that call example. The President of the United States called me and /#%#-)(3$*.#5%'#%+(%+/"-G%*H(3+%$3--"-.A%M%[-*11F%5#)"5#5% said, ‘Can you vote with us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not. It pe- on Friday morning about 8:30 during a phone call with my nalizes us.’ To me, this isn’t about party, it’s what’s right for wife, we decided to do it and take myself off the ballot in the people in my state and country. So my law enforcement the congressional race. I’d be proud to have Sen. Bayh background, looking at these things like an investigation, campaign with me in this state. We really haven’t talked 1((G"-.%,($%+/#%+$3+/E%"!%*%.((5%+/"-.%*-5%*)+3*11F%H#-#[+!% about a schedule like that yet. I think he’ll be supportive. I me in this job. will certainly ask him. HPI: There has been political speculation on HPI: Do you like where your campaign is at this whether you would like to have President Obama come point? back and campaign. Ellsworth: Certainly. But I can’t always campaign. Ellsworth: “If the President of the United States I have to stay here and protect Hoosiers. There’s just not - Republican or Democrat - wants to come to Indiana, I’d #-(3./%+"'#%"-%+/#%5*FA%MR'%9#$F%)(-[5#-+%*-5%)(',($+*H1#% welcome him. I’d love to show a Republican president or a where we’re at. ! HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 11 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 companies that have either not performed or underper- Bauer claims victory formed are receiving state tax credits, “ Roob said, adding that to provide the tax credits, the actual performance is in showdown with IEDC reported to the Indiana Department of Revenue. If a company misrepresents its perfomance data By BRITTANY BROWNRIGG and claims tax incentives it has not earned, the company INDIANAPOLIS – House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer opens itself to a civil claim and/or criminal prosecution by said today that information released by the Indiana Eco- the Indiana Attorney General.” nomic Development Corporation this week “shows we were Roob said the agency secured 637 decisions by right.” companies to locate projects in Indiana from 2005 through Bauer discussed the letter he received from Com- 2008. When the agency closed the books on 2009, it found merce Secretary Mitch Roob Tuesday explaining the tax 66 of those projects weren’t providing the jobs promised. breaks that are being given to com- Roob said only $13,000 in tax credits and panies which establish jobs in the about $125,000 in training dollars were state with taxpayer funded incen- deemed unrecoverable from those proj- tives. Bauer said that the information ects. shared with him was helpful, but that Bauer explained that out of the 18 +/#%"-,($'*+"(-%\(6%-##5!%+(%)(- - provisions that allow the government to tinue and the secrecy needs to end. provide assistance to businesses the report “The report in itself shows discussed three. that we were right,” Bauer said. “I want to thank the beacon, as “Things weren’t being reported cor- small as it was, of light shed by the admin- rectly and not at all, so I hope this is istration, because we’ve been asking for a new day to have light shine on all information in many areas for quite some our laws.” time,” Bauer said. “We did get some back In late May, WTHR-TV inves- from IEDC and it was based mainly on one tigative report Bob Segall reported particular incentive, the EDGE credit, which that up to 40 percent of all jobs IEDC House Speaker B. Patrick Bauer claimed is a good one.” /*5%*--(3-)#5%/*5%.(-#%3-[11#5A% victory in a showdown with IEDC on Bauer said that the laws put in Roob sent a “Dear Pat” letter “claw back” information he received the place were good but that it needs to be to Bauer Tuesday discussing Indiana agency. He also described a culture of executed in a way that shows Hoosiers Economic Development Corporation “secrecy” with the Daniels administra- where their tax money is going. “I think “clawback” information on tax breaks tion. (HPI Photo by Brittany Brownrigg) many of the things we’ve done in a bipar- and jobs creation. The letter came a tisan way were good but they do not need day before Gov. Mitch Daniels chaired to be kept secret and I’m glad we have a an IEDC board meeting in Roanoke, which did not draw little light shining on this,” he said. media coverage. Bauer also discussed other places where In his letter, Roob explained, “Following a /#%,##1!%1"./+%-##5!%+(%H#%!/#5A%X#%!:#)"[)*11F%5"!)3!!#5% company’s commitment to locate in Indiana and hire education cuts and a study done by the Associated Press X((!"#$!E%+/#%MP&7%[-*1"V#!%+/#%"-)#-+"9#%)(-+$*)+%6/")/% looking into the timeliness of food stamps. !#+!%+/#%)#"1"-.%,($%+/#%*'(3-+%(,%+*^%H#-#[+%*%)(':*-F%"!% “There seems to be a pattern throughout the eligible to receive, While some projects commence immedi- whole administration on this,” Bauer said. “In this culture of ately, others require years of construction before a com- silence it is not just in IEDC it is in every agency as I have pany hires a permanent employee (IEDC does not count tried to point out: Department of Education (and) FSSA. jobs created by construction). Clearly, there is no way for Is this a wall of secrecy, a veil of secrecy or a complete !+*+#%.(9#$-'#-+%+(%.3*$*-+##%+/#%!:#)"[)%:#$,($'*-)#% shroud?” Bauer asked. “This is taxpayer money and we projections of companies that commit to do business in our need to know the facts.” state.” Bauer believes that there is money in the “claw- Roob reminded Bauer that in 1994 he was the back” process and it should be considered valuable. “primary sponsor” for the EDGE tax credit that is still the “If you deal in trillions you don’t think millions are state’s most commonly used and effective economic devel- a big deal,” he said. “I deal in hundreds and I think thou- opment tool. “Your letter, however, expresses concern that sands are a big deal.” ! HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 12 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 Lugar is all for development of a realistic shield Lugar remembers the +/*+%)(315%:#$/*:!%5(6-%*%'"!!"1#%[$#5%HF%!('#%$(.3#% nation such as North Korea. And he says there is nothing in the treaty, not a word, that would prohibit this develop- Cold War days ment, even though Russia continues to be suspicious about any shield deployment. By JACK COLWELL He prefers a treaty to eliminate hundreds of WASHINGTON - Sen. Richard G. Lugar is remind- nuclear warheads now rather than count on some future ing opponents of the New START Treaty about the Cold “Star Wars” to somehow render them harmless much later, War days when Soviet missiles armed with 13,300 nuclear if ever. warheads were aimed at us. The Foreign Relations Committee has held numer- No more aiming, thanks to past agreements. In ous hearings on the treaty, with testimony both in public fact, thousands of those warheads *-5%"-%:$"9*+#E%,$('%5#,#-!#%(,[)"*1!E%+$#*+F%-#.(+"*+($!% and missiles have been dismantled or *-5%+(:%*5'"-"!+$*+"(-%(,[)"*1!%!3)/%*!%L#)$#+*$F%(,%L+*+#% destroyed through Nunn-Lugar Coop- Hillary Clinton. erative Threat Reduction programs. Committee Chairman John Kerry and Lugar are in The programs, carrying the bipartisan agreement on a vote on the treaty by the com- name of Lugar, the six-term Repub- mittee before the August congressional recess, with hope lican senator from Indiana, brought (,%$*+"[)*+"(-%HF%+/#%,311%L#-*+#%F#+%+/"!%F#*$A deactivation of 7,519 strategic nuclear Action is important, Lugar says, because the old warheads from the old Soviet Union START agreement expired last December and he wants to through 2009 and elimination of mis- get back to those “boots on the ground” inspections. siles, silos, submarines and bombers So far, Lugar is the only Republican to support as well. $*+"[)*+"(-A%2-5%"+%+*G#!%*%+6(J+/"$5!%9(+#E%B@%9(+#!E%,($% Lugar noted over breakfast in the $*+"[)*+"(-A Senate Dining Room that all this Nunn-Lugar success in Democrats and their two independent allies have making the world safer came over opposition from “groups 59 votes, so support from at least eight Republicans is on the far right that found it outlandish to trust agreements needed. with the Russians.” Part of the problem with Republican support, Now, Lugar views the New START Treaty with Lugar knows, is reluctance to support a treaty negotiated Russia negotiated by President Obama as a “modest step” by Obama. Also, there are the questions raised by those but a vital one for further reduction of nuclear arsenals “groups on the far right” that distrust both the Russians and also for better relations as Russia’s help is sought in and Obama. containing threats from Iran and North Korea. But respect for Lugar’s foreign policy expertise Modest step? and his role in eliminating those warheads once aimed at Some of those same “groups on the far right” that us could help to sway enough support ]3.*$%)"+#5%(::(!#%$*+"[)*+"(-%(,%+/#%+$#*+FE%!3. - ,($%$*+"[)*+"(-E%*+%1#*!+%"-%+/#%O1*'#% gesting that it is a dangerous step and promoting duck” session expected after the Nov. instead the old “Star Wars” fantasy of a missile 2 election. defense shield to ward off even a barrage of mis- Also, Lugar’s voting record siles rather than reducing arsenals and providing for as a solid supporter of conserva- !+$")+%9#$"[)*+"(-%*-5%6/*+%]3.*$%)*11!%OH((+!%(-%+/#% +"9#%[!)*1%:(1")F%'*G#!%"+%5",[)31+% ground” inspections.” for treaty skeptics to portray him as “Just madness,” Lugar says of reliance some kind of ungrounded liberal. on non-existent “Star Wars” technology to down And Lugar is likely to be thousands of missiles if they were again aimed at around for a lot longer as top GOP targets all around the United States. spokesman on foreign affairs. He held At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations a fund-raising breakfast Tuesday, Committee, where Lugar is the top Republican, he works 12-hour legislative days at age recalled those bad, old days of Cold War, telling of Sen. Lugar and Ambassador 78 and shows every intent to run for “the chilling experience” of inspecting a deactivated Burns outside of Rosatom in a seventh term in 2012. He won with Soviet missile silo where he found posted pictures of Moscow in August 2007. (HPI 87 percent of the vote in Indiana in 10 American cities once targeted by the 10 nuclear Photo by Brian A. Howey) 2006. ! warheads in the horrible place. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 13 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 better shape than the country, but we also beat out Ohio, Federal programs Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, the other four states of the Great Lakes region.” “Since when did you join the Daniels’ administra- deserve credit for tion?” Horace asked. “The facts are the facts,” I said. “What we should economic uptick be asking is: How did all this come about?” “So,” he asked, “how did all this come about?” By MORTON J. MARCUS “The big, bad federal government,” I responded. INDIANAPOLIS - Horace Heliotrope sees the world “They pumped $6.3 billion into the Indiana economy "-%+#$'!%(,%:#$!"!+#-+%!*5-#!!A%MR'%-(+%f3*1"[#5%+(%!*F%/#%"!% through higher unemployment compensation and increased clinically depressed, but he isn’t Social Security and Medicare payments. This offset entirely a happy fellow. the decline of workers’ earnings from 2008 second quarter “The economy is +(%+/#%[$!+%f3*$+#$%(,%+/"!%F#*$AP as bad as we’ve seen in our “Yeah,” Horace admitted, “but that wasn’t the lifetimes,” Horace said to me as stimulus money.” we stood in line at the super- “The fact is that it stimulated our economy,” I said. store checkout. “You know, I’d like to see somebody put a label on every “No,” I said as cheerfully can of beans bought with unemployment compensation. as I could. “The recession is MR5%1"G#%+(%!##%#9#$F%+#*)/#$R!%($%[$#%[./+#$R!%:*F)/#)G% over. The downward movement stamped ‘Stimulus Money Used Here’. How about detailing in the economy, the contrac- just how many dollars went to doctors, nurses, pharmacies, tion in employment, output, and hospitals in the state from added Medicare and Med- and income is yesterday’s story. icaid funds paid out by the federal government? Without That does not mean we are out knowing it, many thousands of Hoosiers kept their jobs of the ditch or that we are back to where we were before because of added direct federal spending or added federal the recession. Now is a time of slow upward movement, a ,3-5!%\(6"-.%+/$(3./%!+*+#%*-5%1()*1%.(9#$-'#-+!AP period of recovery.” “Just as I thought,” Horace said as he paid for his “Won’t last,” Horace intoned with a funereal cer- purchases, “things could have been much worse, which tainty. “We going to have a double or triple dip; the worst means things were much worse than most of us realized.” is yet to come.” “That’s right,” I agreed, stacking my purchases “I don’t think so,” I said. on the checkout counter. “Without the stimulus money and %%%%%%%%%% OM-\*+"(-%"!%)('"-.EP%/#%*--(3-)#5%+(%(-#%*-5%*11% the on-going federal income and health maintenance fund- without raising his voice. ing, we would have been in a terrible mess.” “Maybe,” I said, “but it may not be serious this time Horace looked at me with his Bassett hound eyes. around.” “No matter how well things seem to be going, you have to “Our state economy is ruined; Indiana will never be anticipate the lurking danger.” the same,” Horace proclaimed. I returned his visual challenge and said, “At mini- “Not so,” I said. “Indiana has fared fairly well in mum, we should give Uncle Sam the credit he is due.” ! +/"!%$#)#!!"(-A%K/#%:#$!(-*1%"-)('#%[.3$#!%$#1#*!#5%1*!+% week by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that Mr. Marcus is an independent economist, speaker, M-5"*-*%/*5%*%?AC%:#$)#-+%"-)$#*!#%"-%+/#%[$!+%f3*$+#$%(,% and writer formerly with IU’s Kelley School of Busi- this year compared to a 0.9 percent pick-up in the nation. ness. That put us in 16th place among the 50 states. “Furthermore,” I continued as Horace unloaded his cart onto the checkout conveyor belt, “we also ranked 16th over the past year in personal income growth (2.6 percent for us, 1.9 for the nation). In fact, if you look at where we are now and where we started into the recession (2008 second quarter); we’re just 0.4 percent off our peak level of personal income. The U.S. as a whole is 0.9 percent off "+!%:#*G%_-(+%*))(3-+"-.%,($%"-\*+"(-aA%[(+%(-1F%"!%M-5"*-*%"-% HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 14 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 Lesley Stedman Weidenbener, Louis- However, Lugar chose to formally present his version of a ville Courier-Journal: My favorite e-mail of the 2010 bill two weeks ago, amid unrelenting headlines and top- election campaign so far came last week from the folks of-the-newscast coverage of the Gulf Coast scourge. The with U.S. Rep. Brad Ellsworth’s campaign for the U.S. Sen- timing might have been coincidental, but the subsequent ate. It touted internal polling results, fundraising numbers news coverage was not. Bill introductions ñ especially bill and other info meant to show that Ellsworth’s race with introductions by a senator who is not the chairman of a Republican Dan Coats will be competitive. The data will committee that has jurisdiction over the issue ñ are notori- explain “why we believe Hoosiers will be sending a sheriff ously unattended. But because of the backdrop of the Gulf to the Senate in November,” wrote Ellsworth spokeswoman oil spill, Lugarís bill introduction pulled in a crowd. Obama Liz Farrar. Now, what’s funny to me is not the idea that even called Lugar last week with a ìway-to-goî message. ! the race will be competitive. I don’t have a clear sense of that yet but assume that both parties and candidates are Rich James, Post-Tribune: You da man, Mitch. capable of raising enough money that either one will have I don’t know that you can save the Republican Party all a chance of victory. But I love that the people represent- by your lonesome, but at least you got the ball rolling ing Ellsworth are acting as if he’s not a two-term member last week. And it only took one sentence. You called for a (,%7(-.$#!!A%P11!6($+/%[$!+%6#-+%+(%U*!/"-.+(-E%&A7AE%*,+#$% “truce” on abortion and other social issues while the fed- the 2006 election, when he defeated long-time eral government focuses on tackling the nation’s incumbent Republican John Hostettler. Before economic problems. Essentially, governor, you told that, Ellsworth did serve two terms as Vander- fellow Republicans to cut the crap and focus on burgh County sheriff. But he’s a member of the what ails the nation. And some of those Republi- U.S. House right now -- not a sheriff. Being a cans -- the ones who embrace the issues of God, congressman is his job. Certainly, his experi- guns and gays -- are beside themselves. I knew ence as a lawman is important but so is his time you were right, Mitch, based on the reactions of as a lawmaker. I’m really not trying to pick on U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, a fellow Hoosier, and former Ellsworth. This kind of thing is not unique to his campaign. 2$G*-!*!%\(9A%c"G#%X3)G*H##A%L"-)#%H(+/%*$#%3-(,[)"*11F% After all, the folks with the Coats campaign like to refer to running for president, it isn’t surprising how they reacted. the Republican as a former senator and a former ambassa- Not surprising, but disconcerting. Unlike you, Mitch, the dor. They don’t call him a Washington lobbyist, which is the two Mikes put politics above policy. Pence last Sunday on job he held just before he decided to move back to Indiana CNN called Barack Obama “the most pro-abortion president to run for the seat he vacated years ago. ! in American history.” I think that is a bit unfair for a couple of reasons: 1. He’s not out campaigning for more abortions, Sylvia Smith, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: but strongly believes in a woman’s right to choose. 2. And Some critics said they were appalled that President Obama the last I checked, abortion is legal. The Supreme Court used his update to the nation on the Gulf oil spill last week said so. And if Roe v. Wade is ever overturned, Pence and to remind us that an over-reliance on oil carries many Huckabee won’t want to see what happens to this country. negative consequences, both inevitable and potential. But Pence blubbered on, saying, “I believe with all my heart when better to focus on a problem than when a tragedy +/*+%8#:3H1")*-!%-##5%+(%)(-+"-3#%+(%[./+%,($%+/#%!*-)+"+F% has captured our attention? Would Amber alerts have of life and the sanctity of marriage with everything we’ve come into being without the anguished impetus of the got in 2010 and in 2012.” Sanctity of marriage? Since half parents of an abducted child? Flame-retardant baby clothes of them end in divorce, perhaps Pence ought to go into the if children hadnít been burned? Shoulder straps in the back marriage counseling business. I’m not so sure that Pence seats of cars if passengers hadnít been nearly cut in half by believes what he said about “with all my heart.” But when lap belts? Obama was right to link the oil spill disaster to you are pandering to the religious right, I guess you have the need for action, and the scolding from chronic com- to use words like “heart” and “sanctity” and, well, you get plainers was off base. In fact, Washington can multitask. the drift. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get politicians The president and congressional committees can put the out of the pulpit. Pence on Sunday did a tap dance around !)$#6!%+(%;N%(,[)"*1!E%,($)#%+/#%)$#*+"(-%(,%*%)1*"'!%,3-5% the question from CNN’s Candy Crowley as to whether he and discuss restrictions on future deep-water drilling while agreed with Mitch Daniels’ call for a truce. Rather than at the same time working on an energy policy. Sen. Richard answer the question, Pence went on, saying, “To renew this Lugar certainly thinks so. He has been discussing the out- nation, we must renew the institutions that strengthen her 1"-#!%(,%*%)(-!#$9*+"(-J%*-5%#,[)"#-)FJH*!#5%*::$(*)/%+(% character. We must stand for the sanctity of life.” Yeah, see reducing fuel consumption for months (in fact, for years). how much bread that puts on the table. ! HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 15 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 Aw w tsuw Gw" Vwsw WASHINGTON - America’s Af- ghan and international allies embraced the choice of Gen. David Petraeus to run the war in Afghanistan, hoping the architect of the Iraq surge will seam- lessly pursue the strategy laid down by his predecessor and smooth over divisions that led to his dismissal (As- sociated Press). By naming Petraeus, President Barack Obama managed to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal with- out derailing the mission at a critical juncture in the war, when casualties are rising and public support in the West is waning. Still, the jury is out on whether the counterinsur- stan will provide “seamless continuity.” ment in response to this afternoon’s gency strategy “He’s up to speed on the situation, announcement that Army General that Petraeus used to turn around the won’t need a period of time to get David H. Petraeus is taking direct Iraq war will show results in Afghani- educated about what’s going on in the command of U.S. Armed Forces in stan by July 2011, when Obama wants country,” Bayh said of Petraeus. “Given Afghanistan: “General David Petraeus to begin withdrawing U.S. troops. The his lengthy experience with counter- is a man of tremendous demonstrated split between the U.S. civilian and mili- insurgency, most recently in Iraq, he’s talent and I believe Americans can tary team in Afghanistan has not dis- ideally suited to most effectively carry /*9#%)(-[5#-)#%+/*+%6#%*$#%!#-5"-.% appeared with McChrystal’s departure. out the mission.” Bayh, a member of +/#%[-#!+%'"1"+*$F%(,[)#$%6#%/*9#%+(% K/(!#%[!!3$#!E%1*"5%H*$#%"-%5"!:*$*."-.% the committee that recommended the 1#*5%*%5",[)31+%H3+%)$3)"*1%'"!!"(-A%%M% remarks to Rolling Stone magazine, Senate approve McChrystal’s nomina- have met General Petraeus on several led to McChrystal’s dismissal Wednes- tion to oversee the war in Afghanistan occasions and he has impressed me day. a year ago, said he was surprised at with his intellect, thoughtfulness, and the comments McChrystal and his ability to inspire and lead our men aides made but doesn’t think they will and women serving in harm’s way. Bs s Uts s have lasting reverberations. “When General Petraeus proved his ability to there are disparaging remarks made succeed in Iraq, and I cannot think sv uuw about members of your own govern- of anyone else more deserving of our ment or other leaders, it doesn’t help support and trust than he.” WASHINGTON - President "-%5#*1"-.%6"+/%,($#".-%(,[)"*1!A%;3+%M% Obama had no choice but to dis- think this will be viewed in hindsight miss Gen. Stanley McChrystal for his as a minor tempest in a teapot that (& u sw “obvious insubordination,” but the will be quickly forgotten,” he said. change in command won’t affect the sv sw ustsu mission in Afghanistan, Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., said Wednesday (Smith, Dw u w SOUTH BEND - There have Fort Wayne Journal Gazette). He said been 42 companies found to be out of Obama’s decision to replace McChrys- Vwsw compliance with EDGE requirements tal with Gen. David Petraeus as the WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Joe since the program started in 1994, U.S. military commander in Afghani- Donnelly issued the following state- Commerce Secretary Mitch Roob said (Allen, South Bend Tribune). Recov- HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 16 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 24, 2010 ering those credits after a company (Public Law 110) that included both Wednesday gave differing accounts of )1(!#!%/*!%H##-%5",[)31+%*+%+"'#!A%K/#% provisions. Starting on July 1, the In- what role, if any, Monte Murphy played state has tried to “claw back” more diana Department of Labor must begin in their casting of absentee ballots than $10.5 million in EDGE credits, to develop guidelines for investigating in the November 2007 city election according to the IEDC. The agency is 6($G#$%'"!)1*!!"[)*+"(-%)(':1*"-+!A% (Muncie Star Press). Today, six jurors still pursuing more than $5 million in will likely wade through that testi- payments and has written off nearly mony when they begin deliberations $1.6 million. Evwuw sys in the Delaware Circuit Court 3 trial of Murphy, a Muncie City Council member Vstw v wv )/*$.#5%6"+/%[9#%)(3-+!%(,%$#)#"9"-.% EAST CHICAGO - Prosecutors a ballot. A local grand jury indicted Twyv s x want to present conspiracy statements Murphy on the Class D felony charges, at Monday’s corruption trial for East each carrying a standard 18-month w st w Chicago Mayor George Pabey and prison term, in May 2009. SOUTH BEND - On July 1, state a city department supervisor while 1*H($%(,[)"*1!%*$#%#^:#)+#5%+(%!+*$+% prohibiting “hearsay” statements that +/#%:$()#!!%(,%)1#*$1F%5#[-"-.%.3"5# - could support the defense (Times Four similar charges were dismissed lines and procedures for investigating of Northwest Indiana). According to by prosecutors shortly before this )(':1*"-+!%*H(3+%6($G#$%'"!)1*!!"[ - U#5-#!5*FR!%[1"-.%HF%:$(!#)3+($!E% week’s trial began. cation across Indiana, according to Pabey spoke with the owner of a <-1F%(-#%(,%+/#%[9#%9(+#$!%)*11#5%+(% State Rep. David Niezgodski (D-South construction and landscaping company the stand Wednesday by Ian McLean ;#-5aA%%OW($%F#*$!E%6($G#$%'"!)1*!!"[ - about covering up work East Chicago -- a deputy attorney general acting cation has victimized many hard-work- employees did while on city time on a *!%:$(!#)3+($%"-%+/#%)*!#%JJ%+#!+"[#5% ing men and women across Indiana, house in Gary’s Miller Beach neighbor- that Murphy ever touched her 2007 as well as our state’s taxpayers, simply hood. Pabey allegedly voiced concern absentee ballot. And that witness, because some bad apples do not want to the business owner about Cama- 73-year-old Henrietta Williams, said to live up to their obligations,” Niez- cho telling others of the work being the city councilman had done no more godski said. “This year, the Indiana done at the home and of allowing than place her ballot, already sealed General Assembly passed a plan that city employees to drive city-marked in an envelope, in her own mailbox, at starts us on the road to establishing vehicles to the property. Court records her request. “(Murphy) came by and a process that will enable the state allege Pabey asked the owner to do I said, ‘Monte, put this in the mailbox +(%$#!:(-5%f3")G1F%*-5%#,[)"#-+1F% some work at the house so that city for me,’” Williams said. As for the 6/#-%*%)*!#%(,%'"!)1*!!"[)*+"(-%"!% employees would not be seen at the (+/#$%6"+-#!!#!=%#&*$-#++*%2H$*'E% $#:($+#5AP%c"!)1*!!"[)*+"(-%+*G#!%:1*)#% site. Pabey’s attorney, Scott King, and 38, maintained she had mailed her when employers treat their workers as William Padula, one of Camacho’s at- own absentee ballot in the 2007 city independent contractors, rather than +($-#F!E%!*"5%+/#%[1"-.!%6#$#%$(3+"-#A% election. “After I voted I did put it in waged or salaried employees. Desig- Prosecutors believe Pabey will try to +/#%'*"1E%*+%+/#%5(6-+(6-%:(!+%(,[)#EP% nation as an “independent contractor” present evidence “... that Camacho, she told jurors, adding that Murphy, a means that workers – rather than their while outside the Miller residence longtime friend, had earlier provided employers – must pay for health insur- and speaking to an East Chicago city her with an application to receive the ance, unemployment, Social Security employee, stated that George Pabey absentee ballot. Abram also acknowl- and payroll-related taxes. “When the was on vacation in Puerto Rico at the #5.#5%!".-"-.%*-%*,[5*9"+%JJ%H#+6##-% business community asked the Legis- time, and that if Pabey knew what Ca- the 2007 and 2008 general elections, lature this year for a one-year delay in macho was doing, Camacho would be she said -- that made Murphy her instituting increased premiums to help in big trouble.” King said that efforts “attorney in fact,” making him eligible make Indiana’s unemployment insur- to remove that evidence would be “ad- to handle her ballots in some circum- ance trust fund solvent again, many dressed substantially with the court.” stances. The witness said Murphy of us sought something in return: “gave (that document) to me and I recognizing the ongoing problem that signed it. He took it with him.” 6($G#$%'"!)1*!!"[)*+"(-%/*!%)*3!#5% bw wx in our state, and doing something about it,” said Niezgodski, who played S s a crucial role in passage of legislation MUNCIE - Five voters on