V17, N18 Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 HPI Power 50: Can we figure it out? The ‘rubber match’ in 2012 comes as real doubt festers on the political process By BRIAN A. HOWEY in Indianapolis and MARK SCHOEFF JR. in Washington The 2012 Howey Politics Indiana Power 50 is the most troubling compilation this publication has brought into the public purview in the 18 years we’ve existed. The political process is so utterly broken, we are not sure the nation can survive in a way we know and recognize it today. We’ve read a steady stream of commentary - ranging from Gov. Mitch Daniels and President Obama shake hands, then talk in May at the sober Mitch the Indianapolis International Airport. The two could still be on opposite Daniels, to the tickets in what could be an epic election this November. wild-eyed Pat Buchanan, to the globe-trotting thers and grandmothers - to the stewardship of my g-g-g- Thomas Friedman - warning of a financial cataclysm that generation, the Baby Boomers. will leave a very different America for our children and grandchildren. We’ve gone from a nation created by the Continued on page 4 “Greatest Generation” - our father and mothers, grandfa- An open letter to Dan Parker

By SHAW R. FRIEDMAN LaPORTE - This is an open letter to Indiana Demo- cratic Chairman Dan Parker. Dear Dan: “We refuse to let the most It’s clear you’re going to be around this year and those of us who desperately wanted a controversial public policy bill change in state party leadership and those who were satisfied with the sta- of the decade be railroaded tus quo are going to have to find a way through and the public denied a to “peacefully co-exist” if we are going to elect a Democratic governor in 2012. fair and adequate input.” As Joel Miller, who was the choice to be state chairman by 12 of the 18 elected - House Minority Leader district chairs and vice-chairs put it so B. Patrick Bauer HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 2 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

diplomatically in the Indianapolis Star consistent issue positions over the right after the December 17 state years. Stop pulling punches and start committee meeting, this was a fight demanding that the wealthy and big “within the family” and we Democrats corporations do their fair share. Our generally have a way of patching base and independents want to feel www.HoweyPolitics.com things up, pulling together and work- that Democrats will stand with Main ing for a common cause. Street. The state party has been all One thing both sides can too willing to focus on “process” rather Howey Politics agree on is the stakes couldn’t be than “policy.” Whether it’s standing Indiana higher. We’ve got to erase Republican up to the big utilities that want to hike is a non-partisan newsletter gains in the legislature and win this Hoosiers’ utility bills or demanding that based in Indianapolis. It was governorship back. John Gregg is a the big banks that took bailout money founded in 1994 in Fort Wayne. personable candidate who well rep- start lending to small business again resents mainstream Hoosier values. or insisting that insurance companies He’d be a common-sense governor give a fair shake to their customers, Brian A. Howey, Publisher willing to ensure that state govern- our state party needs to stand up for Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington ment works well for Main Street, the “little guy” again. Eighty-six per- Jack E. Howey, editor rather than Wall Street. Mike Pence, cent of respondents in a recent Time Beverly K. Phillips, associate on the other hand, is an extreme ideo- magazine poll think that “Wall Street logue who is bankrolled by the same and its lobbyists have too much influ- editor wealthy interests who helped crater ence.” Dan, voters will support and our economy in 2008. The choice for reward candidates who are seen as Subscriptions voters couldn’t be clearer. Assaults on standing with average working fami- $350 annually HPI Weekly the wages of average Hoosier families lies. like Right to Work will become the 3. Stop being afraid of $550 annually HPI Weekly and norm if we can’t restore balance in talking about needing revenues HPI Daily Wire. state government. to run state and local govern- 'Call 317.627.6746 Hopefully, Dan, what amount- ment to deliver basic services. For ed to a razor-thin win on a vote of no instance, why should multi-state and confidence (15 to 13 ½) sent you a multi-national corporations be allowed Contact HPI message about some changes you’ve to weasel out of paying their fair share Howey Politics Indiana got to make to position the state party of Indiana taxes? The Multi-State Tax 6255 N. Evanston Ave. as an organization effective in helping Commission estimates that Indiana is Indianapolis, IN 46220 elect Democrats. losing a third of a billion dollars an- www.howeypolitics.com Here, in no particular order, nually to tax shelters and tax dodges. are my Ten Tips to you, Mr. Chairman, Sixty-eight percent of respondents in [email protected] on action you should be taking in that same Time magazine poll believe 'Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 2012: “the rich should pay more taxes” and 'Washington: 703.248.0909 1. State party needs to be 73% of all respondents favor rais- 'Business Office: 317.627.6746 at the beck and call of the gover- ing taxes on millionaires. Let’s talk nor’s campaign. When John Gregg’s about how services are being cut for campaign manager calls needing help, Hoosiers like schools, police, fire, and © 2012, Howey Politics Indiana. give it. It’s not up to you to design local libraries and how those who have All rights reserved. Photocopy- strategy or push your favored consul- done well over the past decade, in- ing, Internet forwarding, fax- tants, vendors or suppliers. Let the cluding high-paid execs and profitable ing or reproducing in any form, experienced team that John Gregg has corporations, need to pay their fair whole or part, is a violation of built around him do that. share. That’s what we are supposed to 2. Your Republican coun- be about as Democrats, Dan; the no- federal law without permission terpart took some tough shots at tion that we’re all in this together and from the publisher. v you when you announced your we have obligations to one another to resignation. Some hit pretty close help build strong communities. to home, like the charge that the 4. Don’t play sophomoric state party hasn’t really taken any political games that undermine HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 3 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

our brand. A good example: when you spent $20,000 of mer senator and governor led us from “the wilderness” and state party money sending a mailing to Libertarian voters built the modern Democratic Party in Indiana. He was our in 2010 trying to push the Libertarian candidates for Con- “franchise player” and now he’s practicing law in D.C. and gress in the 2nd and 8th districts. All it did was make us we are going to have to develop a new bench and groom look silly and infuriate both Republicans and Libertarians. future candidates and build party without him. Remember Worse yet was that you used state party funds for a mail- that scene in “Cool Hand Luke” where Luke finally begs his ing to attack the President’s health care plan by making it fellow prisoners to stop living off of him. We can’t look to look like it was a Libertarian mailing. Voters can’t stand Evan anymore and regrettably neither Nick nor Beau Bayh that kind of sneaky politics. Don’t do it. are ready to run for office, so we better be making other 5. Same with being so obsessed with politi- plans in the meantime. cal tactics that are out of step with the public. A 8. You’ve got to be more inclusive than con- good example: political robocalls. I know you think they’re sulting the same three state committee members a useful tool. The problem is they are most often used to you’ve consistently leaned on for years. There’s a viciously cut down candidates at the 11th hour with anony- reason that two-thirds of the elected district chairs and vice mous, hurtful information and many of our candidates chairs gave you a vote of no confidence. You’ve not been have been on the receiving end of the attacks. Voters good at taking advice or insights outside of an immediate can’t stand getting automated, negative phone calls. In inner circle. There are some terrific staff at state com- fact, both Steve Carter and Greg Zoeller rode the issue of mittee like Emily Gurwitz and Peter Hanscom and others campaigning against unwanted phone solicitations into the who need to be given authority to reach out to district and attorney general’s office. We had no business as a state county chairs. Let’s see the state party figure what help party signing onto that lawsuit designed to bring back ro- and assistance can be provided to local parties in 2012. bocalls. The Indiana Supreme Court just backed the AG’s (Another bright spot: attorneys Bill Groth and Karen Horse- efforts to stop these annoying automated phone calls and man with their legal challenge to Secretary of State Charlie it’s time we as a party align with the voters on this issue White.) Look at the Republican state party website for rather than a few cynical political consultants. ways on how to showcase local party activity. No need to 6. Stop resorting to negative tactics that reinvent the wheel. are unfounded or malicious. Negative advertising only 9. Make amends and do so quickly with both works if it’s fact-based and evokes feelings or concerns al- the Lake and Marion county chairmen. These are ready there with the voters. The state party’s involvement the most populous Democratic counties and the two chairs in the 2011 Mishawaka mayor’s race is a perfect example were rightly incensed when you suddenly withdrew your of how use of false or resignation and pulled a parliamentary maneuver so that malicious mailings can the full committee would cast ballots on the no-confidence actually backfire and hurt vote, not just the district chairs and vice chairs. Even with a campaign. State party the full committee voting (several of whom you appointed), mailings sent into Misha- you barely survived. Cut off the smack talk from your waka alleging the Repub- closest supporters about how they “pulled off a win.” Dan, lican mayor had “hired Colts coach Jim Caldwell has more wins this year than a child molester” were you’ve had statewide in seven years. There’s no reason for demonstrably false and an end-zone dance. Time to show a little humility. backfired terribly on the 10. The sooner you position the state party Democrats. While our as the voice of the little guy again, as a force fight- candidate for mayor had ing for jobs and a level playing field for Hoosier fam- issued a thoughtful 20-page plan for Mishawaka and was ilies, the more the state party will be viewed as an starting to get traction in his campaign, you outraged Mish- asset in state and local campaigns. If that means you awaka voters with two mailings sent from the state party. taking a pay cut or demonstrating some sacrifice to show Dan, we’re talking careers and reputations here. You had commitment to party, then I hope you’ll do it. Hoosiers better be right before you launch negative mailings and the who trust the Democratic brand have put their faith in us fact that Republican Mayor Dave Wood won an unheard- and it’s up to us to deliver a principled, quality and effective of 76% of the vote in a Democratic city was the strongest campaign for governor and the legislature in 2012. Let’s repudiation I’ve ever seen of unfounded negative campaign not let them down. v tactics. 7. Start recognizing that we have to move Friedman is a LaPorte Democrat and former legal beyond the Bayh Era, golden though it was. The for- counsel to the Indiana Democratic Party. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 4 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

term, identified improving Indiana’s per capita personal Power 50, from page 1 income (PCPI) relative to the nation as one of his economic goals for the state. When that goal was set, the latest data My g-g-g-generation is conducting its leadership in we had was 2002. Now the latest data are from 2010. How ways that would have been unfathomable just a genera- have we fared over that period? Indiana ranked fourth from tion ago. We’ve seen the current Congress repeatedly come the bottom in growth of PCPI over those EIGHT years. We to the brink, with rogue elements flirting with a national have seen our PCPI drop from 90 percent of the national default and a series of government shutdowns. We have average to 85 percent of that average. Where, in 2002, we faced national budget deficits in the $1.3 trillion to $1.5 ranked 33rd in the nation, our PCPI was 41st in 2010. trillion range, which is the approximate tab of the American Troubling still is a reemerging culture of corruption war experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan and the so-called War ranging from our embattled chief elections officer, Charlie on Terror. We’ve seen Republicans focus on the deficits and White, to indicted financiers Tim Durham and John Bales, austerity while the public is demanding jobs. The austerity to the two Indianapolis councilmen measures employed by European who have been either indicted counties like Ireland appear to or convicted, to the very public be backfiring. humiliation of State Rep. Phil We’ve gone from the Hinkle. idyllic 2008 when Barack Obama The continuing dilemma ran on the broad themes of was succinctly summed up in “hope” and “change.” Republi- a Christmas Day column by cans like Mitch Daniels and Dan the Washington Post’s Robert Coats like to conjure the image J. Samuelson: “There are mo- of a swooning public caught up ments when our political system, in the romantic rhetoric of an Af- whose essential job is to mediate rican-American man who steered conflicts in broadly acceptable through the Chicago political and desirable ways, is simply not junkyard to light up our ideals. up to the task. It fails. This may The missed point is that the be one of those moments. What America under Republican rule of we learned in 2011 is that the a unified Congress and President frustrating and confusing budget George W. Bush cratered the debate may never reach a work- economy and plunged us into able conclusion. It may continue ill-advised wars, little sacrifice indefinitely until it’s abruptly from the public while they were ended by a severe economic or kept off the books and unpaid-for financial crisis that wrenches control from elected leaders. tax cuts, creating an untenable national position just as the We are shifting from ‘giveaway politics’ to ‘takeaway poli- Baby Boom began to retire. tics.’ Since World War II, presidents and Congresses have President Bush would “save” Wall Street with a been in the enviable position of distributing more benefits three-page $780 billion bailout, though the credit on scores to more people without requiring ever-steeper taxes. Now of Hoosier Main Streets remains elusive. President Obama this governing formula no longer works, and politicians face would “save” General Motors and Chrysler with carefully the opposite: Taking away — reducing benefits or raising orchestrated bankruptcies, keeping Indiana from its second taxes significantly — to prevent government deficits from Great Depression. We find a widely regarded “successful” destabilizing the economy. It is not clear that either Demo- governor presiding over a persistent 9% jobless rate. crats or Republicans can navigate the change.” Economist and HPI columnist Morton J. Marcus Thus, we enter the “rubber match” year nationally, writes on the eve of the big Right to Work showdown: Over with Obama and the Democrats prevailing in 2008, the Re- the past year, personal income grew nationwide by 1.2 publicans in 2010. This will be the year where the course of percent after adjustment for inflation. Oil-rich North Dakota the country and state will be determined, and whether the led the pack at 4.7 percent, followed by drought-stricken flawed Affordable Care Act will continue. We find the status Texas, flood-stricken Oklahoma, and dysfunctional Cali- quo under consistent challenge, whether it is the education fornia. Where was Indiana? We grew by only 0.8 percent. reforms and abortion restrictions passed last spring, or the Personal income is one of the most widely used indicators labor and local government reforms that are on the agenda of economic well-being. Gov. Daniels, very early in his first today. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 5 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

We see a citizenry that is losing faith in the system, are the same people fearful of the budget deficits, though and a potential volatility unseen since 1968. former Washington Post Foreign Editor David Hoffman, in As in past years, the HPI Power 50 is a list based his Pulitzer Prize winning book “The Dead Hand,” calls the on who is likely to determine the course of events in the Nunn-Lugar program one of the best bargains in the history coming year, and not necessarily what their laurels or er- of national security. In the television age of Indiana political rors were in the past. history, no sitting U.S. Senator has faced a credible primary 1. U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar: When the senior sena- challenge. After Mourdock surfaced, it appeared as if Lugar tor was reelected in 2006 without a Democratic opponent, was highly vulnerable. The conduct of the insurgent cam- he appeared as if he had ascended into the realm of states- paign and fundraising of Mourdock have somewhat abated manship that so many supporters around the state had as- that threat, though Lugar and any other Congressional signed to him. The emergence of the Tea Party movement incumbent should be very wary of the voters’ perception of in 2009 and 2010 created a new dynamic that has subse- Congress. quently led to the primary challenge by Treasurer Richard 2. Gov. Mitch Daniels: The most popular gov- Mourdock. Lugar demonstrated his legislative creativity ernor in modern times has one more chance at reform- this fall on agriculture and energy policy. He teamed with ing Indiana’s 19th Century local government system. His U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman embrace of the Right to Work to write a farm bill proposal legislation could jeopardize that would achieve about $40 that, along with a statewide billion in program savings smoking ban. Some of the over 10 years. The move golden political touch was reminded voters that Lugar tarnished this past week continues to be a leader on when the administration ag issues and aligned him sought to cap the number of with Stutzman, a Tea Party people having access to the favorite. The Lugar-Stutzman Indiana Statehouse to 3,000 partnership may undermine on the eve of the rancorous attacks by Mourdock, which debate over Right to Work. may be appealing to the Tea On Wednesday morning, af- Party faction. Just before the ter intense criticism, Daniels congressional holiday recess, wisely lifted the cap. He is to Lugar’s bill that would force be admired for publicly ac- President Obama to make knowledging his mistakes and a decision on the Keystone rectifying them. The access XL Pipeline was included in cap seemed to run counter to the measure that extends Sen. Lugar greets Gov. Daniels at the latter’s second inaugural in the title of his book “Keeping the payroll tax deduction for January 2009. the Republic: Saving America two months. The rap within by Trusting Americans.” This Republican circles is that will be a very nostalgic time Lugar is more preoccupied with world affairs than attending for the Daniels’ era as it passes before our eyes, and more Lincoln Day Dinners. And clearly, the Lugar office let the than a modicum of wist. It is a prevalent notion that had statewide political operation slide. In Lugar’s key interest Daniels entered the Republican presidential race, most of area, Americans should be thankful that he has stayed the press corps and many GOP activists would be in Iowa engaged. There have been recent news reports of highly this week and New Hampshire next, pushing his presiden- enriched uranium smuggling in Russia and the Caucasus re- tial campaign over the top. Daniels certainly would have gion. There are now hundreds if not thousands of Manpads been one of the front-runners. By next June, Daniels will (shoulder fired missiles) unaccounted for in Libya. Iran is almost certainly be on most veepstakes short lists. He bats bellicose and on its way to attaining nukes. If anyone can away that likely prospect with an aw-shucks demeanor, but claim responsibility for placing the lid on a Pandora’s Box we think it’s a distinct possibility, particularly if Mitt Romney of nukes, biological, chemical and conventional weapons, wins the nomination. it is Lugar, and it may have saved an American city or two 3. U.S. Rep. Mike Pence: The congressman in the process. It is stunning that so many Hoosier Re- enters the 2012 gubernatorial race as the early favorite. publicans are so quick to discount the threats and chide But since Indiana achieved statehood in 1816, only 11 of Lugar for skipping out on the chicken dinner circuit. These Indiana’s 47 governors have served in Congress prior to be- HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 6 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

ing elected and most of those occurred in the 19th Century. 4. House Speaker Brian Bosma: Just as Speak- The last one was Gov. James Frank Hanly (1905-09) who er Paul Mannweiler relented to anti-union forces within his served one term beginning in 1894. In modern times, only caucus in 1995 after attaining a distinct majority, Bosma U.S. Rep. David McIntosh attempted to make the move was under intense pressure to use his 60-vote majority to from Congress to the governorship, losing by 14 percent to push Right to Work legislation, then watched as the Daniels Gov. Frank O’Bannon in 2000. That race was instructive, as administration attempted to limit protests inside the State- Indiana Democrats highlighted every vote McIntosh missed house. This ignited a torrent of criticism, prompting Daniels with press releases, keeping a tally. Pence has a strong to rescind the order on Wednesday. During that sequence, base of social conservatives and evangelicals, along with fissures began appearing in the caucus as several major- those who listened to his daily ity caucus members - Reps. Tom radio show from 1993 to 2000 Dermody, Tom Saunders, Ron and his 6th CD constituents. He Bacon and Ed Soliday - told local rose to the third highest position media they would vote against in the Republican conference Right to Work legislation. HPI (as chair) before bowing out in knows of another five or six November 2010. At that point, Republicans weighing the issue, Pence had two options: Run- potentially setting up a dramatic, ning for governor, or president. razor thin edge if Pat Bauer and He decided in January 2010 to the Democrats don’t filibuster or opt for the governorship, where walk, jeopardizing other legisla- supporters believe he can bone tion in Gov. Daniels final session. up his executive skills before Other Republicans in the steel launching a presidential bid, and auto belts are under intense possibly as early as 2016. Pence pressure to vote against the is charismatic, is an excellent “No. 1 priority.” There is talk that orator and instills deep devotion Rep. Pence and Sen. Delph in the Indiana Senate last some may face primary challeng- from his core constituencies. But winter. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey) es if they support the legislation. he is also the most conserva- Bosma and Senate President Da- tive candidate for the office in vid Long appear ready to expend modern times - almost all Indiana governors have been political capital on the issue. Had they not, grumblings and firm centrists - and the key question heading into 2012 is potential challenges to their leadership might have sur- whether he can attract the necessary independent and fe- faced. male support to win. Early internal polling, sources tell HPI, 5. Senate President David Long: Long has shows Pence begins off this race with a decent lead. But done a finesse job in balancing the emerging right wing of his support for legislation cutting off funding for Planned his caucus with the more moderate, seasoned and female Parenthood will make attracting independents and females segments of his legislative family. Still, there were stirrings a challenge. Pence has not run statewide before and lost among the conservatives who seemed to be preparing for two Congressional races in 1988 and 1990. His candidacy leadership challenges, in the 2012 primaries against sitting thus far is based on very general themes, with few policy members such as State Sen. Beverly Gard (who decided to specifics. And he faces a GOP primary challenge from Jim retire). When HPI exposed the budding conspiracy in the Wallace, who told HPI he has budgeted $2 million for the Dec. 8, 2011 edition, potential instigators such as fresh- primary. He intends to challenge Pence’s role in a Congress man Sen. Jim Banks and Travis Holdman denied any such that gets historically low approval ratings. As he runs for intentions. But a number of people in the lobby tell HPI governor, Pence is becoming more constructive in Con- there were rumblings afoot. Some of the freshmen find it gress. Rather than charging the legislative barricades in a hard to contain their contempt for people like Senate Ap- Tea Party frontal assault, Pence has been a reliable backer propriations Chairman Luke Kenley. While Long has been of the cooler heads in his party, namely House Speaker viewed as a more moderate leader, he has also allowed the John Boehner. For instance, Pence was among the lawmak- tax caps, education reforms and abortion restrictions to be ers counseling against letting the country go into default heard in his chamber, making this leadership period one of during the debt ceiling debate over the summer. He also the most conservative in modern Hoosier history. The po- backed a version of the balanced budget amendment that tential insurgency isn’t about the past, it’s about the future. he thought would get the most traction rather than the one If Republicans don’t “overreach” on the labor legislation, that ideological purists were advocating. the state is facing a future with the ardently conservative HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 7 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

“Gov. Mike Pence” and the po- tential for two super majorities, the House possibly joining Long’s 37-member Senate caucus. It’s about who gets to pump the right wing gas during the next admin- istration. 6. John Gregg: The state chairman imbroglio aside, which HPI views as “inside base- ball,” the former House Speaker seems to be making strides both in raising money as he forms a campaign team led by cam- paign manager Rebecca Pearcey who was field director for Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. Gregg’s John Gregg with Sarah Riordan at the Washington Township Democratic Club in Indianapolis larger-than-life personality and last spring and U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly (right). (HPI Photos by Brian A. Howey) his reputation as a “consensus builder” while Speaker could serve him well as he stitches merger at a time when the largest Kokomo employer was together a support base of labor, party regulars/donors and saved by the Italian automaker. Donnelly defended that political activists. That took a hit in December over the fight move and now watches the Euro zone crisis and Chrysler’s for the chair and Gregg has yet to unveil his platform. He resurgent strength propping up embattled Fiat, with its 500 was silent as Pence and Congressional Republicans dallied bust in the U.S. market. A Donnelly-Mourdock showdown - over extending the federal payroll tax, as well as the debt which we view as relatively unlikely at this point - could be ceiling debacle last August. And Gregg did not weigh in on a campaign for the ages. the Statehouse access caps by the Daniels administration 8. House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer: or Right to Work. It may be a strategy of letting the “over- How this session of the Indiana General Assembly goes reaching” Republicans do the work for him. In 1995, Gregg rests largely on Bauer. He led a five-week walkout against poised House Democrats to weather the anti-labor blitz, Right to Work (which was pulled from the table) and edu- then retook the House in 1996. An opening for Gregg may cation reforms (which passed) and hasn’t ruled out that come with Pence’s primary opponent, Jim Wallace, who tactic this session. There is opposition within his caucus plans on spending $2 million to call into question Pence’s for a repeat. After Wednesday’s opener, it appears to be a conservative track in Congress. redux. Bauer has talked about waging a filibuster and other 7. U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly: The three-term Dem- delaying tactics, setting himself on a collision course with ocrat won a razor thin victory over Jackie Walorski in 2010, Speaker Bosma that will play out in the coming days and then saw his 2nd CD severely crimped in redistricting. weeks. This could be Bauer’s last hurrah. He is watching Entering the Senate race was probably the best political key pegs that have kept him in power either go down in move for Donnelly because he is becoming isolated in the defeat (Cochran, Herrell, Pearson, Robertson, Bischoff, Van House. His party has been relegated to the minority, while Haaften, Michael, Blanton) or retire (Grubb, Crawford, Day, his Blue Dog caucus of conservative Democrats is shrink- Barden, Avery) in recent and coming cycles. Whether you ing toward oblivion. The slide started when the Blue Dogs love him or hate him, Bauer’s career goes back to 1970 and lost about half their membership in the 2010 election. Then has been one for the annals of Indiana political history. former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was elected House Democratic 9. Dean White: The Crown Point billionaire has leader despite emphatic votes against her from Donnelly made two unprecedented $100,000 donations to the Pence and other Blue Dogs. Having had no influence in that selec- gubernatorial campaign. Thus, he’s the uber finance guy tion, Blue Dogs slid even further down the power rankings in Indiana politics. Forbes describes him as a “workaholic as many of their surviving members opted not to run for entrepreneur” who built the gleaming JW Marriott Hotel in House reelection. Donnelly tried to wake up the Blue Dog time for Indianapolis’s Super Bowl next month on what was echoes by supporting a balanced budget amendment, probably cash flow. “I’ve missed, at the most, 12 days of which ultimately failed. Donnelly salivates at the potential work since 1946,” White told Forbes. His father challenged of taking on Mourdock, who tried to kill the Chrysler-Fiat HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 8 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

him to “make a million dollars by your 40th birthday.” And legislative undertakings. so he did, much to the pleasure of Hoosier Republicans. 13. Ways & Means Chairman Jeff Espich: The 10. Jim Bopp Jr.: When a 527 group comes into dean of House Republicans, Espich faces an unprecedented Indiana and dumps millions into a Congressional race, you situation. Redistricting placed him in the same district with can thank Terre Haute attorney Bopp for that. He was a State Rep. Dan Leonard. It was Exhibit A when Speaker legal adviser to Citizens United leading up to their victory Bosma said he was intent on creating new districts for in the Supreme Court decision “Citizens United v. Federal voters and not incumbents. So the Uniondale Republican Election Commission.” He has served as general counsel to - elected in 1972 (as a page for Speaker Kermit Burrous, Right to Life since 1978 and special counsel for Focus on Howey remembers Bauer, Dobis and Espich being in the the Family since 2004. Bopp was the editor of Restoring the chamber back in 1973) - faces a potentially tough reelec- Right to Life: The Human Life Amendment. The Republi- tion bid in a non-budget year. This race could come down can national committeeman is also a key backer of Richard to Huntington County. Leonard is well liked and known Mourdock’s challenge to Sen. Lugar. in Huntington County and since it makes up most of the 11. State Sen. Luke Kenley: The Senate Appro- voters in this race, local radio host Gary Snyder believes priations chairman is up for reelection this year and conser- Leonard is favored. “Huntington County likes to vote for vatives have openly been fishing for a primary opponent. their own,” Snyder observed. “When you take a look back One has yet to materialize, but Kenley won’t be out of the at Jim Bank’s race for the Indiana Senate, he lost by about woods until the February filing deadline. After watching a a 60-40 margin to County Commissioner Tom Wall, who succession of incumbent senators lose in primaries (i.e. was a terrible candidate. Banks won the rest of the district Steve Johnson in 2002, Larry Borst in 2004 and Bob Garton by a margin similar or if not better than that, giving him in 2006), that trend has seen a six-year break. But with the race. For Espich to win, he needs to carry the rest of the public’s faith in government flagging and a Tea Party the district by at least a 55-45 and get Huntington County movement established in Hamilton County, Kenley will need as close to 50-50 as possible. I don’t think he can. Dan is a to be on his political A game. He’s been earning headlines very good campaigner. He shows up in a beat up old chevy, going into this session with his push for an online sales give the folksy speech.” tax that would replace the inheritance tax, long a target of 14. Republican Chairman Eric Holcomb: Gov. conservatives. Daniels’ right hand political man helped recruit the House 12. U.S. Sen. Dan Coats: The junior senator is Class of ‘10 and then presided over the GOP as it pushed off to an unremarkable start in his second tour of Senate historic reforms into law. Had Daniels sought the presiden- service. He reliably votes with the Tea Party faction of the cy, Holcomb would have played a key role in that cam- chamber. For instance, he opposed the bill that raised the paign. With Daniels out, Holcomb invited the Republican debt-ceiling last summer and a couple weeks ago voted field to Indiana and hosted Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Jon against the budget bill that prevented a government shut- Huntsman and Mitt Romney. In the last couple of months, down. But he also has shown bipartisan tendencies. For he pressed the case against Indiana Democrats as the instance, he joined Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, in intro- HPI/South Bend Tribune revealed forgeries in Clinton and ducing a broad tax reform bill that could become the basis Obama presidential petitions in 2008, and the voter fraud of a debate to overhaul the tax system if Democrats and case in Jennings County. And he recently issued a “share- Republicans can find a way to work constructively on major holders report” to Indiana GOP donors. He’s running the party like a business. 15. Treasurer Richard Mour- dock: A year ago, Mourdock (pictured at left with Monica Boyer) was preparing a primary challenge to Sen. Lugar fresh off his million vote effort for reelection. And at that point, with the Tea Party at its apex, Lugar suddenly seemed very vulnerable. He still might be if Mourdock had become a sea- soned, wise candidate. Instead, we’ve witnessed one blunder after another. Mourdock was not properly prepared for his Club for Growth HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 9 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

interview and had to push for a redo. His campaign staff Secretary of Hack Charlie White by 344,681 votes in 2010. headed by Jim Holden has been amateurish, evidenced by But the election fraud, perjury and theft indictments of the scheduling conflict on the day Pence kicked off his gu- White prompted Indiana Democrats to contest his eligibil- bernatorial campaign a glaring one, along with the shoving ity for the ballot, and Marion Circuit Judge Louis Rosenberg match Holden engaged in with a blogger that day. His fun- ruled White out of office, though he approved a stay. In draising has been anemic, even though the Tea Party Class the meantime, the Indianapolis architect won a City-County of ‘10 - Sharron Angle in Nevada and Christine O’Donnell Council seat in 2011. Many Democrats view him as a po- in Delaware - were able to raise massive amounts of tential heavyweight in the 2015 mayoral election whether money despite obvious flaws (“I’m not a witch.”) A classic he ascends to the Statehouse or stays where he’s at sev- example was Mourdock’s own “December challenge” that eral blocks east on Market Street. was 27 names short of 100 on Jan. 2, though the campaign 19. U.S. Rep. Todd Young: has become the website tally was later post-dated with a number of ques- most moderate of the Hoosier House Republican freshmen, tion marks instead of photos. While Mourdock landed the relative to Rokita and Stutzman. He worked hard during the endorsement from FreedomWorks, Tea Party Express and debt-ceiling debate last summer to prepare his constituents some of the Indiana Tea Party tribes, that support has not for a vote in favor of a bill that would raise the debt limit. resulted in any financial windfalls and national poll approval He carefully explained how a default would roil the U.S. for the Tea Party has taken a nosedive. While polling has economy, which is still struggling to recover from the 2008 shown Lugar vulnerable, even key supporters of Mourdock financial crisis. Young joined Rokita and Stutzman on the now tell HPI they don’t believe he’s up the task. As for House Budget Committee, achieving the highest profile of press relations, there have been only a couple of press con- the Hoosier trifecta by taking the lead on the portion of the ferences. A HPI records search revealed that Mourdock isn’t Ryan budget that would transform the Medicaid program showing up for his day job, with his attendance of meet- into a block-grant to the states. Young may have gotten ings dropping off sharply since his Senate campaign. And that assignment in part because he’s in a tough district as we’ve covered the moribund Mourdock campaign, the where he’s drawn two Democratic challengers so far. In negative hue of our coverage has prompted them to cut us fact, the fickleness of the 9th CD was analyzed in a Wash- off. This has happened with other campaigns and they all ington Post profile this fall. Young’s membership on the have one thing in common: they all lost. House Armed Services Committee has enabled the former 16. Senate Majority Leader Connie Lawson: Marine to highlight his military background. The loyal lieutenant of President Long will carry once again 20. U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita: He’s the most pugi- the local government reforms that she is coordinating with listic of the Hoosier House Republican freshmen. Ensconced Lt. Gov. Skillman and State Rep. Kevin Mahan, the fresh- in a rock-solid GOP district, he lets his conservative politi- man who heads the local government reform committee. cal id run free without re-election worries at home. This We’re not hearing much - now - about gives him the latitude to throw rhetori- a potential primary challenge now that cal haymakers, such as asserting that the frosh conservatives have been the House GOP “compromised” on the outed. debt-ceiling bill simply by letting Obama 17. Indianapolis Mayor raise the ceiling. Never mind that not Greg Ballard: He is no “accidental doing so would have sent the country mayor” anymore, not after winning a into default. In Rokita’s mind, avoiding tough reelection battle last year that default was the compromise. There- many didn’t believe was possible due to fore, Republicans didn’t have to give the demographic shift favoring Demo- an inch on tax increases. Such a purist crats. Ballard (pictured, right) lurched approach, certain to fire up tea party into power during the early portion of sympathizers in the 4th CD, means that his term, then put together a series Rokita will continue to be a freshman of moves: selling the water company, who gives House Speaker John Boehner forging a parking deal and commenc- fits as he tries to work with the Demo- ing a sprawling rebuild project, all while cratic majority in the Senate. preparing for next month’s NFL Super 21. U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman: Bowl. He is another of the House Republican 18. Indianapolis Council- freshmen who consistently casts votes man Vop Osili: Here’s yet another that are true to his Tea Party roots. Like unprecedented situation. Osili lost to Rokita, he has not drawn a primary or HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 10 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

general election challenger this year, giving him unencum- but Lake County, he would be a contender for statewide bered freedom to demand changes in the way Washington office. In the corrupt climate of Democratic Lake County, works without having to engage in compromises that make McDermott has run a clean administration. He has been change a reality. He was placed on three committees that an innovative mayor, working with nearby Whiting on fire have helped him shape a legislative profile that fits the 3rd protection and uses casino money to pay college tuition for CD well. He’s on the House Agriculture, Budget and Veteran residents. He also faces the problems of being a next door Affairs committees. Those perches have given him the op- neighbor to Chicago and Gary. portunity to co-author a farm bill with Lugar, enhance his 26. Supt. Tony Bennett: Springing off his his- budget-cutting bona fides by working with Budget Chair- toric education reforms and the potential state takeover of man Paul Ryan on the plan to overhaul entitlement pro- more public schools, Bennett will be seeking reelection in grams and address policy affecting Ft. Wayne’s VA hospital. November. His likely opponent is State Sen. Tim Skinner, 22. State Sen. Carlin Yoder: who retired from West Vigo HS in July, saying The first-term senator is very close to the new laws such as Public Law 221 that President Long, is carrying the Right to provides for state takeovers, plus the voucher Work legislation, and is district director for system forced his hand. Bennett has been a U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman. So Yoder finds persistent advocate for reforms and will be a his career at a nexus of state and federal heavy favorite to win reelection in November. politics with a firm base in Northeastern 27. AFL-CIO President Nancy Indiana. Guyott: She became the first female presi- 23. Chris Chocola: The former dent of the Indiana state federation and the Republican congressman heads the Club youngest president to serve in nearly 50 for Growth and could play a significant role years in 2009 and was quickly thrust into if his organization decides to spend a the role of battling the Right to Work million or two on behalf of Mourdock. reforms last winter and again this week. As we mentioned above, the candidate’s Guyott, House Democrats and thou- conduct has not made this decision a sands of labor activists were able to get slam dunk. And if Chocola envisions RTW pulled off the public agenda last himself as a future U.S. senator, his March, but Speaker Bosma has vowed backing of the Mourdock insurgency that won’t happen in 2012. Thus, the won’t help him with the Lugar wing of showdown is set. the party, as he awkwardly discovered 28. Fort Wayne Mayor Tom at Lake Maxinkuckee last summer. Henry: After Mayor Paul Helmke an- 24. Democratic Chairman nexed Aboite Township and other parts Dan Parker: Whew, where to begin? of the Summit City, it was supposed to The events of December were strange. be a Republican city. But with Henry’s As our Dec. 19 analysis indicated, reelection last November and the two Parker has been like the proverbial terms of Democrat Graham Richard, screen door in a severe storm, whipping Democrats now will have 16 years of ex- back and forth between the Bayh and ecutive control. Henry waged a bitterly Daniels legacies. He should get credit AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyott (top) fought reelection last year, in contrast for helping clear the way for Gregg and and Hammond Mayor Tom McDermott Jr.. to an easy win over the indicted Matt Donnelly to avoid primaries this May, Kelty in 2007. but then again the statewide exposure 29. Evansville Mayor Lloyd for both might have been a good thing. And Parker gets the Winnecke: The former Vanderburgh County Commissioner credit for pressing the legal case against Charlie White and became only the third Republican elected as mayor since the Recount Commission. But the fact is that only people 1955 after a 1,600 vote victory over Democrat Rick Davis. named Bayh and O’Bannon have won statewide in the past The former Fifth Third Bank marketing executive exploited dozen years, and somehow, someway somebody needs to deep divisions within the Democratic Party to win the of- figure that out, or Indiana may finally realize its destiny as fice. a very red state. 30. Chris Atkins: The former aide to Gov. Dan- 25. Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr.: iels is now policy director for the Mike Pence gubernato- The mayor and Lake County Democratic chairman has had rial campaign and if the congressman wins, will play a big a fascinating career. In his mind, if he lived anywhere else role in the next administration. Atkins will help develop the HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 11 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

Pence issues, that have not through the domestic automaker been unveiled to date. Atkins crisis. Seybold headed the Indiana also works for the Friedman Association of Cities and Towns Foundation and thus is play- and has reached out to Goodnight ing a role in state and national to form a partnership for regional education reforms. job creation. And, like Goodnight, 31. U.S. Rep. Larry Seybold is likely to find himself on Bucshon: He is the Hoosier lieutenant governor short lists this House Republican fresh- spring. man who faces the biggest 35. Attorney General re-election challenge. He will Greg Zoeller: The first term Re- face former state Rep. Dave publican, facing bright reelection Crooks. Two of his committee prospects this year, was an early assignments aren’t necessarily opponent of President Obama’s reelection friendly – Education Affordable Care Act. At the urg- and Workforce and Science, U.S. Reps. Stutzman and Bucshon at the Mike Pence ing of Sen. Lugar, Zoeller joined Space and Technology. But gubernatorial kickoff. counterparts from other states in he also nabbed a seat on the pressing for a judicial challenge to Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which is a the constitutionality of “Obamacare” with the U.S. Supreme more reliable source of legislation that can help a campaign Court hearing the case in March. effort. Bucshon has not made much impact in his first year, 36. State Sen. Jim Banks: The freshman sena- becoming a traditional backbencher in Congress. He’s also tor from Columbia City is highly ambitious and appeared to been unusually inaccessible to Howey Politics Indiana. His be laying the groundwork for Senate leadership challenges staff did not make him available for an interview in 2011 after traveling throughout the state over the past couple despite several requests. It’s a good thing for him that he of years. Our sources say he played a key role in recruit- does a lot of local radio, according to his Twitter feed. Stiff ing retired Ultimate Fighter Chris Lytle to challenge Sen. arming the media would be a particularly bad idea for a Gard and Rep. David Yarde’s decision to challenge Sen. Sue vulnerable freshman. Glick. Banks denied that he has been instigating challenges 32. South Bend Mayor Peter Buttigieg: The to the Republican “female caucus” that helped bring David former Rhodes Scholar succeeded Mayor Steve Luecke Long to power in a potential path toward a leadership after more than three terms in office. Buttigieg finds a city challenge. With powerful conservative credentials, many losing population and under constraints from the property Statehouse insiders see Banks as potentially more effective tax caps. than fellow Republican Sen. Mike Delph. Banks is also gain- 33. Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight: The two- ing support for a potential lieutenant governor nomination. term Democratic mayor should be on lieutenant governor If he can bridle his vast ambition, he could be a key GOP short lists after winning reelection in a landslide last No- player for the next generation. vember. The win was more impressive given that Kokomo 37. Dan Dumezich: The former legislator from suffered a jobless rate of close to 20% following the near Crown Point is a Chicago power attorney, a member of the meltdown of the domestic auto industry in 2009. Good- Indiana Election Board, and, along with Bob Grand, is Mitt night is a prodigious fundraiser and has been an innovative Romney’s key fundraiser in Indiana. Dumezich makes the mayor, reducing the size of Kokomo’s workforce while ex- list because he’s showing up on early lieutenant governor panding services. Little wonder that he was one of the first lists. A close friend and ally of David McIntosh, Dumezich people John Gregg huddled with in November after declar- has close ties with Pence and would give a GOP ticket fun- ing his candidacy. draising power, regional balance and close ties within the 34. Marion Indiana General Assembly. His legal career is based on tax Mayor Wayne law, another bonus. Seybold: Mayor 38. Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman: While she is pick- Goodnight’s Re- ing up Gov. Daniels’ imprimatur on pushing local govern- publican bookend ment reforms, her decision to bow out of the governor’s is the second term race last year means she is a fading power, even though mayor of Marion, many Republicans would love to see her stay on for a third who like Goodnight term. helped steer Marion Mayors Goodnight (left) and Seybold. 39. Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson: The HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 12 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Monday, Dec. 19, 2011

newly elected mayor is a former appointed Indiana attor- 45. Jennifer Hallowell: In 2006, she was the key ney general and faces huge problems managing the only political force that helped Prosecutor Carl Brizzi win a sec- city to receive help from the Distressed Unit Board. Gary ond term despite the increasingly Democratic demographics faces a rapidly declining population, high crime and steep in Indianapolis. In 2010, she help Luke Messer come within budget cuts as the property tax caps will fully kick in during an eyelash of defeating Rep. Burton. In 2011, she helped her likely tenure as mayor. Mayor Ballard win a second term in an even more Demo- 40. Dr. Woody Myers: The closest thing Demo- cratic county than what it was five years earlier. Now she’s crats have to a Dean White is the former state health on board with Messer’s 6th CD campaign and has proven commissioner. He is also on the Obama For America finance to be one of the true stars on the GOP campaign front. We council. Myers ran unsuccessfully for Congress, losing to see Hollowell as potentially Indiana’s first female Republi- Rep. Andre Carson in the caucus to replace the late Rep. can chair. Julia Carson. He flirted with a U.S. Senate run before back- 46. Evan Bayh: The former senator and governor ing Joe Donnelly. He is wealthy and is a major donor to is still a player, as evidenced by his behind-the-scenes role Democratic candidates. Myers is another Democrat who in last month’s Democratic chairman controversy. Some could make the ticket with John Gregg. committee members denied that Bayh played a role, but 41. U.S. Rep. Pete Vis- others said he did. Bayh is the “$10 closky: He is the longest serv- million” man, given that he sits on ing Democrat in Congress, but a war chest left over from his U.S. recent scandals have lessened his Senate and presidential campaigns. clout. However, due to his role as senior ad- 42. U.S. Rep. Andre viser with Apollo Global Management, Carson: He is the most influential Securities and Exchange Commission Democrat in Indianapolis, but his lack rules forbid him to invest that money of involvement on behalf of Melina in state and local campaigns, though Kennedy’s mayoral campaign was a he can support federal candidates. factor in her loss. That means the big bucks are off 43. U.S. Rep. Dan Burton: limits to John Gregg’s gubernatorial Once again, Burton is facing a peril- campaign. Bayh did donate $1 million ous election cycle. He is being out- to the unsuccessful Senate campaign raised by challengers Susan Brooks of Brad Ellsworth in 2010 and could and David McIntosh. He has lost more be in a position to help Donnelly’s than 35% of his former district. He is Senate race in 2012. And there will be disconnected with the district party persistent speculation that if Gregg infrastructure, not knowing the names can’t beat Pence this year, Bayh might of key county chairs. After winning be in a position to reclaim the gov- the 2010 primary with just 29% of ernor’s office in 2016 once his sons the vote, Burton has to be one of the graduate from high school. most vulnerable Members this cycle. 47. Indiana Chamber Presi- 44. Luke Messer and Jack- dent Kevin Brinegar: The Indiana ie Walorski: Normally candidates for Chamber of Commerce president is Congress don’t make the Power 50. a key advocate of the Right to Work But Messer and Walorski, who have legislation that will define this session a combined three unsuccessful runs of the Indiana General Assembly. for Congress, appear poised to finally 48. Marty Morris: The long-time make the big step in 2012. Messer is Lugar chief of staff is working to sur- in a commanding position to succeed vive a Tea Party challenge. His team Mike Pence in the strongly Republi- of Emily Krueger and David Willkie can 6th CD. Walorski’s new 2nd CD is running and researching for the much more Republican friendly after Friends of Dick Lugar campaign is a she lost to Rep. Donnelly by a mere potent force. But Morris has designed 2,500 votes in 2010. Walorski has an and perpetuated the many Lugar ardent grassroots following and is a networks, which will make the senior heavy favorite against Democrat Bren- senator tough to beat. dan Mullen. Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson (top) and 49. State Rep. Charlie Brown: Jackie Walorski. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 13 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

The long-time Democrat from Gary has been a key ad- hind the Tea Party movement. vocate of a statewide smoking ban. Unless Right to Work Eric Williams: The second-term Democrat Sheriff craters the 2012 legislative session, his time may come to from Vanderburgh County is southwest Indiana’s most pop- get it passed with Gov. Daniels’ support. ular figure and represents its best chance at healing deep 50. State Sen. Mike Delph: Like Sen. Banks, divides in the party. He is warmly received by Democrats Delph has been a key part of the emerging Senate conser- from across the area and gets high marks from Republi- vatives and earned a leadership position from Sen. Long cans. As a pragmatic, pro-life and generally conservative last year. Democrat, he is poised to be successful in whatever office he may seek. Should a referendum to unify city-county Honorable Mention government be successful, he would be the party’s front- Judge Rosenberg & The Supremes: The ulti- runner candidate in the 2015 mayoral elections. mate deciders in the Charlie White debacle. J. Cameron Carter: The Indiana Chamber vice Ken Faulk: His litigation has made a big differ- president was project manager and chief writer for the ence in going after FSSA privatization and stopping cuts Indiana Vision 2025 plan which will guide the Chamber’s to various FSSA programs like those affecting the disabled legislative and policy agendas for the next decade. and those in group homes. The mere mention of Ken Falk’s Robert Enlow: He is President and CEO of the name and potential litigation from ICLU sends the bureau- Foundation for Educational Choice, the school choice legacy crats running for cover. foundation of Milton and Rose Friedman. Under his lead- Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson: Only the ership, the Foundation has become one of the nation’s size of her tiny Senate caucus keeps Sen. Simpson off the leading advocates for school choice, working in dozens main list. of states to advance the issue by disseminating research, Jim Wallace: The former West Point grad, heli- sponsoring seminars, undertaking advertising campaigns, copter pilot and Fishers businessman is waging a longshot organizing community leaders, and providing grants. gubernatorial campaign against Mike Pence. While the Don Villwock: Under Villwock’s leadership, Farm odds are strongly against him, he intends to drop about $2 Bureau has increased its reputation and influence at the million in the primary against Pence, and many of his ideas Statehouse, while building stronger working relationships are innovative and credible. with state agencies and other organizations. Villwock has Susan Brooks: The former district attorney is retained Farm Bureau’s position as the state’s largest agri- challenging U.S. Rep. Dan Burton with the backing of Mur- cultural organization while also establishing it as the pre- ray Clark and Lt. Gov. Skillman. mier private sector voice for the interests of rural Indiana David McIntosh: The former congressman and in general. In addition, Villwock is a nationally recognized gubernatorial nominee is seeking to return to Congress, expert on federal farm programs, conservation, rural devel- challenging Burton in the 5th CD. opment, and agricultural research. As such, he is expected Dave Crooks: The former Democratic state legis- to play a significant role in shaping the next federal farm lator was able to win an 8th CD caucus and clear the field bill. last month in his challenge to Rep. Bucshon. Joe Champion: The Democrat attorney is a key Tim Roemer: Roemer has returned to Wash- adviser to the John Gregg gubernatorial campaign. ington after serving two years as the U.S. ambassador to Bill Smith: He is the long-time chief of staff to India. He’s now senior vice president at APCO Worldwide, a Rep. Pence and will be a key architect on winning the 2012 consulting firm where he’s “focused on helping clients look- gubernatorial race. ing to expand into global markets,” according to profile in Curt Smith: The head of the Indiana Family Insti- National Journal Daily. With his stint in India, Roemer has tute is a key legisltive player and has close ties with Sen. strengthened his economics and diplomatic background. Coats and Reps. Pence and Bucshon. Combine those areas with his House experience and his Gary Welsh: While much of the Hoosier blogo- leadership on national security policy, and Roemer is an at- sphere has disappeared, Welsh’s Advance Indiana blog tractive candidate for a Cabinet position in a second Obama offers up much original reporting and commentary and is administration. Or he could come back to Indiana and run a vital read for any Hoosier interested in politics and public for the Senate in 2016. policy. Joe Loftus and Steve Goldsmith: How success- Howard County Chairman Craig Dunn: We ful would Mayor Ballard have been without the policy brain view Dunn as one of the top Republican county chairs in thrust of these two figures? the state, though he is backing the Mourdock Senate cam- v Monica Boyer: She has been a driving force be- paign. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 14 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

that pays him the $150,000 he gets to be the IDP Chair. A path back for the This plan, however, included Parker taking at job at a PAC run by unsuccessful 2008 gubernatorial candi- date Jim Schellinger. The whole affair of course smells Indiana Democrats and makes one wonder whether a Schellinger comeback By CHRIS SAUTTER in 2016 was also part of the deal. Considering his poor WASHINGTON - The most common reaction among performance as a candidate in 2008, any plan that included rank-and-file Hoosier Democrats to the announcement rehabilitating Schellinger’s political prospects would be that Dan Parker was stepping down as Chairman of the compounding mistakes. Indiana Democratic Party was “It’s about time!” But hopes The Bayh machine, if you will, is coming unrav- for long needed change at IDP eled. Without its charismatic leader around it has lost its were dashed when the State raison d’être. Besides, rank-and-file Hoosier Democrats Committee last month choose have grown weary of the game. Parker’s handpicked successor. The unfortunate part is that Jeffers was also the As the Who used to sing, “meet choice of putative Democratic gubernatorial candidate the new boss, same as the old John Gregg. Jeffers, who worked for Gregg when Gregg boss.” was House Speaker, is generally well regarded. Gregg, as The plan was simple and head of the party by virtue of his uncontested candidacy, straight forward, if not obvious should be able to choose his own state Chair, even if only at first to everyone. Parker and temporarily. At first, Gregg had wanted Baron Hill and the his coterie tried to pull off what former congressman would have been an excellent choice. has become a familiar political Hill was interested but couldn’t make arrangements to maneuver - the quick switch. take the job without severing ties with his employer APCO The quick switch is an unexpect- Worldwide, a public affairs and strategic communications ed announcement of retirement firm. followed in short order by a pre-arranged candidate re- Whether the debacle of last weekend has any last- placement with little time to debate or consider an alterna- ing effect remains to be seen. Democrats have a genuine tive plan. opportunity against right-wing Congressman Mike Pence. It worked (sort of) for Evan Bayh when he an- With Congress’ favorability ratings at an all time low, it nounced in early 2010 he wouldn’t be seeking reelection to shouldn’t be difficult to portray Pence as a part of the prob- the U.S. Senate. Congressman Brad Ellsworth became the lem. Pence seems to be inviting such a characterization anointed one. The plan was for Ellsworth to either win and as he continues to put himself out in front of some of the succeed Bayh in the Senate or run well enough his momen- most extreme and controversial initiatives emerging from tum would carry him into the Governor’s office in 2012. the Republican controlled U.S. House of Representatives. But he wasn’t up to the task. Ellsworth lost so And, while Mitch Daniels remains popular in Indi- badly to Dan Coats he couldn’t make a case for another ana, it would be hard for Pence to argue credibly that his statewide run. That is too bad because Ellsworth stood a administration would be tantamount to a 3rd Daniels term. better chance of holding his seat in 2010 in the 8th con- There is no affection between Daniels and Pence. Besides, gressional district than Baron Hill did in the 9th, a district the economic conditions in Indiana are crying out for a that has been rapidly trending Republican. And, Hill - who change in leadership. wanted to run for Senate - would have been a much better But changes will be needed if Gregg and Parker statewide candidate even in a bad year like 2010. are going to put Democrats back on the road to retaking However, not everyone was sticking to the power in Indiana in 2012. For one, Gregg is going to have plan, which is another way of saying Dan Parker is no Evan to take control of his own campaign and be his own man. Bayh. Tim Jeffers, Parker’s chosen heir apparent, didn’t Both Ellsworth and Schellinger took orders from Parker have the votes. And when it looked like someone outside rather than the other way around. the clique might be chosen, Parker pulled the rug out on Gregg’s campaign needs to embrace inclusion, his own retirement. something that the IDP under Parker has eschewed. Gregg Jeffers couldn’t muster the support because too cannot win if rank-and-file Hoosier Democrats don’t feel much resentment has built up against Parker for seven connected to the cause as was the case with Ellsworth. years of arrogance, manipulation, and exclusion. Yet, the And, Gregg needs to come across as a much more truth is Parker has wanted out ever since Bayh abandoned serious candidate. It’s time to move beyond all the vacuous him two years ago. But he hasn’t been able to find a job talk about his rural roots and his mustache. Gregg needs HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 15 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

to demonstrate he has an attractive and viable vision for ment of Parker’s rescinded resignation. But only if party Indiana’s future. Campaigns are won on the basis of a com- leaders focus on winning rather than protecting control of pelling message and Gregg’s campaign seems to still be in the party. v search of one. Hoosier Democrats can get beyond the embarrass- Sautter is a Democratic consultant based in Wash-

measure while raising the tax burden of households. The Right to Work is cadre of promoters who shill for the state are quick to point out these benefits to firms considering a Midwest location. Our ever-eager promoters dream of being surround- the wrong way to go ed by states without a RTW law. They imagine a flood of By MORTON J. MARCUS businesses leaving Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and even Ken- INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana General Assembly tucky to enjoy lower wages and more control over working would do the state a service by NOT bringing right-to-work conditions in RTW Indiana. (RTW) legislation up for a vote. This is contrary to the posi- RTW is associated with lower wages, fewer tion of the governor and the Republican leaders who see benefits and less employee influence over working condi- a political opportunity to stomp on tions. Indiana has already told its school employees from unions that tend to support Demo- teachers to janitors that they can have a union to represent crats. them on matter of wages but not working conditions. RTW Instead the General Assem- might drive unions into giving up their concern for working bly should spend its time authoriz- conditions in order to concentrate on wages. ing the administration to designate Business sees union influence on working conditions how the Star Spangled Banner as a denial of the firm’s prerogative to have unmitigated should be sung. You laugh? That is control over the work place. Unions have challenged the an actual proposal from a legislator misuse of this power. In some cases, however, unions have who believes in limited government, created and perpetuated work rules that lead to grotesque except when it comes to our national inefficiencies. Ever try to discipline or fire a useless or dis- anthem. ruptive union worker? What are the arguments for Should Indiana favor lower wages for workers? RTW? First, workers in places where there is a union con- Should Indiana favor unilateral control of the work place by tract would not be required to pay union dues. The union employers? Most Hoosiers would say NO, if they thought would still be required to negotiate on behalf of all workers. about it. But mention unions as the countervailing force to Non-dues paying workers would benefit from whatever suc- business power and hackles rise on the Hoosier neck. De- cess the union has in those negotiations. It’s a classic case spite the fact that many Hoosiers are union members and of representation without taxation. many others benefit from their favorable wages, Indiana is Second, supporters of RTW claim that states with at heart anti-union. RTW laws do better in job and income growth than states Why? The answer probably lies back in the 19th without RTW. This claim is based on questionable research and early 20th centuries when we were an agricultural and fallacious assumptions. But on this faulty limb the ad- state with strong anti-immigrant sentiments. As industry ministration rests its argument that Indiana is losing out on moved in, so did foreign-born citizens. Both were resented opportunities to attract new businesses. by native-born workers of the land. Why do businesses locate where they do? Ulti- In effect, the RTW issue is more than complex mately it comes down to the net revenue to be obtained economics. It is a cultural matter where sentiments ride when located in one place versus another. If Indiana has as high as they do about Eastern versus Central time. The the lowest costs of doing business among its competitor legislature should let well-enough alone. v states and the best location for maximizing revenues, firms will locate here whether or not we have RTW legislation. Marcus is an economist formerly with the Indiana Our state is well-known for having low taxes for University Kelley School of Business. businesses. We also excel in denying adequate workmen’s compensation and enjoy stingy unemployment benefits. We eliminated the inventory tax as an economic development HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 16 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

POS Polling for Indiana REALTORS, Dec. 11-13, 2011 HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 17 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

But it isn’t like the big Republican margin before Congress rates below the 2010 election. Republicans had a 9.4 percent lead then in party preference for Congress, and that signaled the GOP landslide that occurred. journalists, telemarketers Even when voters are down on Congress - and By JACK COLWELL they usually are, though not as much as now - they still SOUTH BEND - Telemarketers rang out the old tend to support their own representative as not as bad as year, one during which they rang incessantly at inoppor- the rest. tune times with deals too good to be true. Now, they ring So, it would take quite a backlash against Re- in the new year, accorded more respect for their honesty publicans to knock off enough incumbents to shift control and ethics. of the House. The backlash now seems to be more at all of Well . . . Congress. With more respect than It’s no secret that President Obama will run against accorded members of Congress. the Republican-controlled House as much as against the In the annual year-end eventual Republican presidential nominee. He will hope to Gallup poll on how Americans rate direct the backlash more specifically at the GOP as respon- the honesty and ethical standards of sible for harsh partisanship and resulting inaction. people in different fields, 8 percent That’s one of the reasons why House Speaker John rated telemarketers high. Which Boehner finally forced through a compromise to prevent a means that 92 percent didn’t. tax increase. The situation, as many conservative leaders Yet, telemarketers didn’t were pointing out, was a looming catastrophe for Republi- finish last on the list of 21 profes- can election prospects. sions. Tied for last in high esteem, Catastrophe averted. At least for now. with just 7 percent, were lobbyists, But House Republicans need to avoid giving voters car salespeople and members of Congress. the impression that their only goal is to make Obama look Topping the high esteem list were nurses, with 84 bad. If they can’t avoid that, they will look bad and make percent. Even journalists garnered 26 percent. him look better in the presidential race. Actually, if the total in the “very low” column is The Real Clear Politics poll average for the presi- taken as a tie-breaker, Congress is dead last, with 25 per- dent’s job approval stood just before Christmas at 47.1 cent rating its members in the lowest of categories. percent. That’s not exactly joyous tidings for Obama. His This is right in line with a mid-December Gallup disapproval was higher, 48.1 percent. poll on job approval for Congress. But compared with Congress . . . Only 11 percent approved, while 86 percent dis- There is some good news in the polls for Repub- approved of how Congress is doing its job - a gap of 75 licans. After flirting with some rather strange presidential points. nomination prospects - prospects whose kooky debate per- This is surprising. Who the heck are the 11 percent formances hurt the Republican brand - Republicans could that approve? be turning to the candidate who appears now to have the OK, I suppose they include the members and their best chance to win. That’s Mitt Romney. families and staffs, the lobbyists who have bought some of The Real Clear Politics tabulations indicate that them and anarchists who rejoice at political disorder and Obama would trounce Rick Perry by 12.5 percent, Michele the complete absence of functioning government. Bachmann by 15 percent and Newt Gingrich by 8.9 per- But if Democratic candidates count on big po- cent. litical gains because the Republican majority in the House Romney comes closest, trailing Obama by only 1.6 seems intent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory percent. next November, they could be disappointed. By the way, not all members of Congress deserve Real Clear Politics, which compiles averages from that low rating, although some of the loud-mouthed parti- the major professional polls, found last week that Ameri- sans on both sides do. cans said by only a 2 percent margin that they would like The institution certainly should be rated higher to see more Democrats than Republicans elected to Con- than telemarketers. At least a couple percentage points v gress. more. That’s certainly better than it looked for Democrats at the start of 2011, when they trailed in this generic con- Colwell has covered politics for five decades for the gressional poll. South Bend Tribune. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 18 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

was a sign and thus withdrew. Making sense of Iowa 11. Gov. Rick Perry slunk back to Texas, nar- rowly edging fellow Texan John Connally as having spent By MARK SOUDER more dollars per vote than any other American in political FORT WAYNE - With the first real contest for the history (except perhaps Chicago if you only count votes Republican Presidential nomination apparently done, what from the living). Going “home to reevaluate” is generally an have we learned? expression to ease out of a campaign. But after sleeping on 1. Iowa could use a few Purdue math grads to it, Perry is apparently heading to South Carolina. help count. 12. Perry may be noticing that these early 2. Mitt Romney appears to be as popular in states don’t have a lot of delegates and that they are pro- Iowa as he was four years ago. portionately divided. He may be a bit delusional about the 3. When one party has a more remaining credibility he has, but not about the potential to exciting primary than the other, parti- lead the Texas delegation in a broker convention. sans cross in attempts to strengthen 13. Rick Santorum may be the first candidate their own candidate, in Iowa it was for on the national level to start with a C.S. Lewis quote in his Ron Paul. Was it that they were anti- victory statement. war and anti-Wall Street Democrats 14. Santorum also seems like a gentleman or, who felt a kinship with Paul, just nasty as Piers Morgan said: “He seems like a nice chap.” old dirty politics, or a likely combina- 15. John McCain doesn’t like Rick Santorum. tion? Regardless, it distorts things. When Santorum was asked why he endorsed Romney in 4. By perhaps February ev- 2008, he honestly said: “To stop McCain.” So McCain gave ery single possible negative about the Santorum the bitter morning after pill by flying to New Republican Presidential candidates will Hampshire to endorse Romney. have been aired including the real reason that “Mitt” is 16. As most have noted, it appears that Gingrich named Willard. will play “bad cop” (but in a positive, bitter way) permitting 5. By the end of March, the general public will Santorum to try to stay positive as the media and the op- be so sick of the negatives that they will become immune ponents savage Santorum the next week to eight months. to negative ads against the Republican nominee and actu- 17. Romney needs to hit 40% in New Hamp- ally generate a huge sympathy vote that pushes President shire to keep a “roll” (2012 definition) going. The Union Obama out of office. Or the public could believe the ads Leader, which endorsed Gingrich, could either serve as were the complete truth. One or the other. Newt’s megaphone to proclaim that the people of Hamp- 6. We learned that much of the national me- shire should not be “Massachusetts moderates” or could dia doesn’t know the difference between an “evangelical” switch to Santorum. Either way, it is unclear whether Rom- (Santorum isn’t) and a “Catholic” (Santorum is). ney will drop below his needed 40%. Can Santorum get 7. It was a relief to know that Santorum led 20%? the conservative vote and the Republican vote. Romney led 18. The national media has been pointing out, among those who most wanted to win, getting the same over and over, that there aren’t a lot of evangelicals in New percentage as the last time when he didn’t win. Hampshire. Of course Santorum is Catholic and there are a 8. The “old Newt” is back. He turned his con- lot of Catholics. Italian Catholics. cession speech into a double barreled attack, hammering 19. In my opinion, and even in the opinion of the both “Massachusetts Mitt” and “Scary Ron.” The fact that CNN commentators, Rick Santorum gave one of the great- his words were reasonably accurate was lost because of est victory statements I have ever heard. While CNN soon his rather exceptional skill to seem mean and petty. We tried to backtrack, the personal and emotional statements need his ability to force substantive debate but I think it about his family, his grandfather’s coming to America from convinced any American watching that perhaps he isn’t the Italy, his hard mining life roots, stressing the importance of best guy to have making the nuclear decisions. manufacturing and the Great Lakes region, and his con- 9. Is Mitt Romney ever not a gentleman? gressional victories anchored in ideas that showed he cared 10. Michele Bachmann, who was born in Iowa about all Americans was a breath of fresh air. and who looked early like she would sweep the state, 20. Can Santorum really make it “game on” strangely read a rather impersonal concession speech when as he stated when he arrived on stage Tuesday night? It’s her greatest strength is her passion, and then said she was not impossible. In 2008 Hillary Clinton didn’t look especially heading to South Carolina. After sleeping on it, she decided vulnerable early either. We know only this: It should be that finishing last, in the state she was born in, probably interesting through at least the Florida primary. v HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 19 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

Robert Reich, Business Insider: My political ual protest. Will you be able to get in to talk to state Rep. prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside infor- Sheila Klinker or state Sen. Ron Alting if you want time for mation): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden a Lafayette-specific issue? Your guess is as good as mine. becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently There’s power in large gatherings. They give lawmakers a coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President. So sense of how big the pros and cons are when a thousand the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton. Why do or so -- or even a hundred or so -- people take off work I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the passions and long enough to assemble (remember that word among the enthusiasms of a Democratic base that’s been disillusioned five rights given to us in the First Amendment?) right in with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton front of those who push the button on yea or nay dozens of on the ticket can do that. Moreover, the economy won’t times a day. Or at least those crowds should make lawmak- be in superb shape in the months leading up to Election ers think twice. The three-page directive that came out of Day. Indeed, if the European debt crisis grows worse and the Indiana State Police on Friday smells a bit like fear. if China’s economy continues to slow, there’s a better than even chance we’ll be back in a recession. Clinton would Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, IndyPolitics: I am help deflect attention from the bad economy and put it on confused by the Democrats’ strategy on this one. Instead foreign policy, where she and Obama have shined. The of taking a major win with the Governor’s concession, they deal would also make Clinton the obvious Democratic decide to overreach. I don’t see how they win the court presidential candidate in 2016 — offering the of public opinion by not showing up. If I were Democrats a shot at twelve (or more) years in them, I’d engage in political jujitsu. I’d agree to the White House, something the Republicans had comeback to the floor provided every member of with Ronald Reagan and the first George Bush my caucus gets to give a 5-10 minute anti-right but which the Democrats haven’t had since FDR. to work speech on the floor. After that, we’d vote Twelve years gives the party in power a chance and I would make right to work my 2012 campaign to reshape the Supreme Court as well as put an issue. And use it to raise a ton of money on the indelible stamp on America. According to the promise to repeal “right to work”. If history is any latest Gallup poll, the duo are this year’s most admired indication, they could potentially come out ahead, seeing man and woman This marks the fourth consecutive win for how it was labor issues in 1995 that led them to recapture Obama while Clinton has been the most admired woman the House in 1996. However, this strategy requires you to in each of the last 10 years. She’s topped the list 16 times put your ego on the shelf and stop playing Connect Four, since 1993, exceeding the record held by former First Lady but instead play three-dimensional chess. Indiana House Eleanor Roosevelt, who topped the list 13 times. Obama- Democrats are blowing a major opportunity in their zeal to Clinton in 2012. It’s a natural. v stop right to work, which I frankly don’t think will work. v

Dave Bangert, Lafayette Journal & Courier: All David Coker, Evansville Courier & Press: Per- that’s missing from the new rules about who can and can’t haps the most alarming portrait of the current unemploy- get beyond the bouncers and the new velvet rope policies ment situation was painted by Edward Luce, the Wash- at the Indiana Statehouse is a TicketMaster fee. Sorry, I ington Bureau Chief of the Financial Times of London who don’t see you on the list ... back behind the rope, pal. wrote in mid-December about the structural deficiencies Statehouse police are getting the grief they deserve since that have evolved in the U.S. economy throughout the past Friday’s unveiling of Statehouse security policies, occu- several decades. According to Luce, during the post-World pancy limits and a code of conduct for anyone visiting the War II era, the U.S. maintained a lower unemployment home of the Indiana General Assembly and the heart of our rate than virtually all of Europe and the rest of the devel- state government. Based on policies in place at the state’s oping world. But in recent years, at a time when the vast Capitol, police say, the 3,000-person limit and set rules for income inequality rivals that of Mark Twain’s “Gilded Age” what those who show up can do once they get inside are during the reconstruction period of the early 1870s, the meant to keep things sane in what might wind up being a polarization of the domestic labor force has been sharply rather insane short session. The fun starts Wednesday. accelerating for the past decade. Today, not only is the The problem is obvious, though: With roughly 1,700 unemployment rate higher than most European countries, employees, lobbyists and others there daily, that puts the the problem is intensifying because, in the words of David cap on access at about 1,300. Thirteen-hundred is a big Autor, a leading labor economist at Harvard University, the number -- until you think about everything lawmakers have labor force is suffering from a growing “missing middle.” v put on their plates that is just custom built for rally crowds. The right-to-work debate, alone, is setting up as a perpet- HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 20 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012

him. Muncie Democrat Mike White was told reporters in the lobby of the Bauer calls it sworn in Wednesday to complete the governor’s office. “I think some good a ‘filibuster’ term of Dennis Tyler, who was elected points were made, and having reflect- mayor of Muncie in November. White ed on them, we’re going to operate INDIANAPOLIS - Democrats tells WIBC-FM that his four decades on the traditional basis as long as that were once again absent from the advising Democratic candidates have works.” Indiana House of Representatives as prepared him well for the session that it was called to order for the 2012 began Wednesday. The 61-year-old legislative session Wednesday (WIDH. White says he won’t run for a full two- Connersville mayor Only 60 representatives of the re- year term in the district this year. He quired 67 were present as Republican says keeping a Democrat in the seat declared winner Speaker of the House Brian Bosma will requires a different set of skills, CONNERSVILLE - A special tried convening so he’s endorsing United Auto Work- judge has declared the incumbent the legislative ers member Dave Walker for the seat. mayor of an eastern Indiana city the body at 1:30 Former Democratic state Sen. Sue winner of a cliffhanger mayoral elec- p.m. Wednes- Errington has indicated she also plans tion. The Palladium-Item of Richmond day. At that to run for the seat. reports that special Judge Eugene A. time, a majority Stewart on Wednesday declared Con- of Democratic nersville’s Republican Mayor Leonard members were Johnson to seek Urban the winner of November’s elec- still in caucus, where they were said to tion. The judge has issued an order be having private talks and debating HD100 seat reversing a recount commission’s strategy among themselves. Bosma, INDIANAPOLIS - Long-time decision to throw out 220 absentee R-Indianapolis, turned to social media Democratic activist Sally Johnson will ballots. That panel’s decision had as he chastised the missing Demo- file for slating in HD100, the seat of erased Urban’s slim lead over Demo- crats. “Pat Bauer and his team not retiring State Rep. John Day. “We crat Harold Gordon and made the race on the floor at the appointed time. have been blessed to have a strong a tie. The final vote count was 1,447 Here we go again Indiana. Elected advocate in John Day,” said Johnson. votes for Urban and 1,433 votes for officials need to show up to work!” “I respect his work and the spirit of his Gordon, giving Urban a 14-vote edge. he tweeted . The speaker addressed heart for our neighborhoods, children, the media shortly after his failed 2:30 seniors and disabled and I am dedi- p.m. attempt to call the legislative cated to continue that spirit.” Holdman bill body to order. Bosma told reporters he is counting on Democrats to do what on county reforms is right. The Republican said three Daniels rescinds requests for a private meeting with INDIANAPOLIS - State Sen. minority leader Pat Bauer, D-South Statehouse order Travis Holdman (R-Markle) announced Bend, went unanswered. Meanwhile today he will author legislation during Bauer told reporters that he consid- INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mitch the Indiana General Assembly’s 2012 ers the move more of a filibuster and Daniels has canceled the new set of session to give counties the option not a walkout. He said there are no Statehouse security rules that in- of restructuring the offices of county plans for Democrats to leave the state, cluded the 3,000-person crowd cap commissioner and council. “I believe referencing the party’s weeks-long and different access rules for lobby- these changes would bring greater walkout in 2011. ists and the general public (Bradner, efficiency and fairer representation Evansville Courier & Press). “This may to county government, along with be the only major public building in the potential for cost savings,” Hold- Rep. White won’t the state of Indiana or elsewhere that man said. “Indianapolis should not doesn’t have some kind of a limit on make that decision for the counties; run for seat it. But that’s all right. We’ll treat it as the local citizens should be able to a special case and a special place, and make it for themselves. Not all Hoo- INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana’s we’ll do that unless and until there’s a sier communities are the same, and newest state representative says one problem,” Daniels said. “Let’s go back they don’t all need to follow the same legislative session will be enough for to the previous status quo,” Daniels structure for their local governments.”