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V24, N33 Thursday, May 2, 2019

Hoosier Senate lions rest in peace Lugar’s passing following ’s death leaves us wondering whether new, bipartisan leaders will emerge By BRIAN A. HOWEY – The Senate lions, and Birch Bayh, rest in peace now. They join Thomas Hendricks, Oliver P. Morton and the tall sycamore of the Wabash, Daniel Voorhees. And Charles Fairbanks, Albert J. Beveridge and , all past Hoosier senators who left enduring legacies. But there may never again be a tandem as productive or insightful as the two farmers Richard Lugar and Birch died in March at age 91. That Dick Lugar would leave this Bayh. earthly clutch on Sunday is the Hoosier version of John When we gathered Wednesday at the

Statehouse, the send-off was to be for Sen. Bayh, who Continued on page 3

RGL: Right makes might By CAMERON CARTER INDIANAPOLIS – It’s just a little over 48 hours since the call came early Sunday morning that “RGL,” as Senator Richard Lugar was known to his staff, had passed “Since the process was estab- during the night. The news is still sinking in while accolades lished 13 months ago, it has for the great man, many and varied, accumulate from nearly been a master class in govern- all quarters. ment inefficiency and plagued by With his death, a mighty titan of Indiana politics and maddening inconsistency.” global affairs passes from the - U.S. Rep. , scene. More than a few have remarked that Lugar’s pass- expressing concerns about ing marks the end not only the tariff exclusion process to of his life, but of his kind of bipartisan politics. Maybe so Commerce Sec. Wilbur Ross Page 2 – supporting evidence abounds – but people. because Dick Lugar was quite simply (One of the more engaging the public servant, the ideals conversations I had with him was he embodied will live on alongside his about an amateur racquetball league many accomplishments. Archetypes I had joined at Fort Myer in Virginia. never die; they endure to be emu- He wanted to know all the details. lated. The conversation occurred while I was I’m not sure that any recita- driving him and another aide to the tion here of his accomplishments adds Pentagon for a briefing. I missed the much to the current remembrances of Pentagon’s exit; Lugar was nonplussed Howey Politics Indiana his life or leads to an understanding of as always but did glance down at his WWWHowey Media, LLC him as a statesman and leader. They watch.) 405 Massachusetts Ave., range in impact from the personal, His interest in and impact Suite 300 Indianapolis, IN to the political, to the local, to the upon the personal lives of others was national, and finally to the truly global. substantial. The Lugar alumni network 46204 However, I might humbly offer is real and tangible. With the excep- www.howeypolitics.com that they are all rooted in one, plain tion of remaining high school and truth: Right makes might. college friends, I can honestly say Brian A. Howey, Publisher Lugar’s power Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington in life and his legacy in death lay in his Cam Carter, copy editor drive to be in the Joel Weyrauch, copy editor right and to do the Mary Lou Howey, Editor right thing by and Jacob Curry, Statehouse for his fellow man in Jack Howey, editor emeritus any given “situation” (his oft-used crutch word). This altruistic Subscriptions motive married to a HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 brilliant intellect and an exhausting work HPI Weekly, $350 ethic was the key to Ray Volpe, Account Manager his success. 317.602.3620 Lugar’s ap- email: [email protected] proach to political leadership was first that nearly all of my lasting, meaning- to arrive at the best possible public ful friendships have been because of policy through thorough study and or made through Dick Lugar. These Contact HPI analysis, and then to advance that personal relationships have lasted de- [email protected] policy while gracefully engaging its op- cades, enriching my life immeasurably. Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 ponents. Only then would he address The senator was a great connector of any political fallout. I observed this people and ideas. Washington: 202.256.5822 principled yet all too rare approach to Among Dick Lugar’s Business Office: 317.602.3620 public service time and again while greatest attributes were his sense working for him in the U.S Senate of equanimity and a wise prescience © 2019, Howey Politics (1988-92) and on his 1996 presiden- developed through deep and thought- Indiana. All rights reserved. tial campaign. To have served this ful study. Having had to carry his servant was the highest honor. briefcase on occasion (and briefly Photocopying, Internet forward- His humility stands out, as misplacing it in transit on one Indiana- ing, faxing or reproducing in well. Dick Lugar was a very impor- to- campaign swing), any form, whole or part, is a tant person who never found anyone I can attest that its heft matched violation of federal law without else unimportant or unworthy of his that of the man. He read voraciously permission from the publisher. time or attention. Presidents, heads – books, briefs, newspapers, newslet- of state and random strangers were ters, weeklies, studies, white papers, greeted with the same engaging smile actuarial reports, People magazine and gentlemanly, diplomatic style. He – you name it and it was crammed in was invariably, in today’s parlance, there. The senator was renowned as “present” in his interactions with a runner but schlepping around that Page 3 briefcase likely enhanced his physical fitness, as well (that primary to on a glum May evening in of his aides, too). 2012 that served as a harbinger of our diminished, tribal His leadership in global affairs culminated with politics of today. the passage of the Nunn-Lugar Act in 1991 and no single May we have many more such sinners who place policy or piece of national security legislation has had a public service above political self-preservation or aggran- better return on investment than this wise, but at the dizement. But I’m afraid there was and always will be only time counter-intuitive and controversial, effort to pay an one Dick Lugar, beloved and missed and yearning to be adversary to disarm itself. Entire nations are denuclearized emulated if never equalled. today and the threat of myriad weapons of mass destruc- Thank you, Sen. Lugar. It is a cliché, but you liter- tion greatly diminished as a result of Lugar’s efforts. His ally made the world a better place. It feels a lesser one internationalist perspective and willingness to work with without you in it. v erstwhile opponents, both foreign and domestic, actually led to greater American security and prosperity. Cameron Carter is a contributing editor at HPI, Dick Lugar’s greatest political sin was his eager- founder of the strategic communications firm Con- ness to engage and work with Democrats such as Sam tent by Carter, and former aide to the late Senator Nunn. It caught up to him when he lost the Republican Richard G. Lugar.

fate of Supreme Court nominees, save auto companies, Senate Lions, from page 1 open up new energy strategies and address a growing Adams and Thomas Jefferson dying on the same day, July thirst and hunger spreading across a rapidly growing 4, 1826. For many of us, recognizing their towering legacy populace on a planet under duress. They would work to that played out far beyond the Wabash and rivers, protect intellectual property and combat juvenile delin- beyond the Dunes, into the national and global realm, is quency. both reassuring and, yet, troubling by the void they leave There would be two ill-fated presidential cam- behind. paigns. Both men would lose their final campaigns after A sense of loneliness now prevails throughout decades of triumph. But it was clear during the Bayh the warrens of power. Tens of thousands of , perhaps even hundreds of thou- sands, connected with one another through the nexus of Bayh and Lugar’s public ser- vice. These came through programs like the Lugar Series or Bayh’s pinpoint knowledge of where every Dairy Queen in the state was located, giving him access to soft ice cream and scores of voters. Their political organiza- tions spawned a wave of talent, from and Larry Conrad to and , that pervades the state’s power structure to this very day. For a half century, a Lugar and a Bayh would serve together in the U.S. Sen- ate, with extending the latter family dynasty. We know in our hearts that Hoosier mothers and fathers still produce men and women of epochal fortitude. Yet, we fret as the Bayh and Lugar lights flicker out, asking whether such men and women of durable stat- memorial service on Wednesday that these two opponents ure will continue to come and lead the way through the had forged the kind of steadfast friendship that we’ve seen inevitable darkness and crisis over the horizon. in other rivals, perhaps most notably from Bill Hudnut and Combined, Richard Lugar and Birch Bayh compiled Andy Jacobs. legacies on a scale befitting a Founding Father, whether “He was a remarkable man,” Jim Morris said at it was Bayh’s two amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the Richard G. Lugar Plaza Monday as Mayor Joe Hogsett his ability to establish Title IX, or Lugar’s work to render and Gov. laid a wreath in the Republican harmless the most potentially devastating weapons stock- senator’s honor. “He saw his opportunities in the largest piles known to mankind. The pair would determine the context. He had high aspirations for this community, with Page 4 genuine affection for talked of the mental- young people who were ity afflicting Washington sad, lonely, at risk. He this generation, where treated everyone the candidates were “elected same. He would do to correct all of that, to anything for anyone. rectify all the misdeeds of He would write a letter my predecessor.” It was for a student wanting thus when to go to the military took the reins from Presi- academy. Or he would dent George W. Bush, and write the letter for the today when student who wanted followed President Obama. to go to IUPUI, or he There’s a “tear it down” would write the letter mentality that has gripped to the president of the the nation’s capital, and .” Many of it becomes problematic us have files filled with hand-written letters from Lugar on when there isn’t a clear alternative to replace what’s been an array of topics. removed, Lugar warned. Morris continued as tears streaked his cheeks, “He That hasn’t happened in Indianapolis. Among was a perfect gentleman, yet there was not an ounce of the mayors in 2017, Lugar observed, “The fact is, we had big shot-itis in his veins.” a very clear flow, strong progress all the way through.” In 1974, Mayor Lugar challenged Sen. Bayh, with Mayor Bill Hudnut took Lugar’s initial amateur sports plan the Democrat winning his biggest plurality in four Senate and Market Square Arena and expanded it to include the races by 4.3%. In the days after Bayh’s death, Lugar told RCA Dome, which brought the Colts to town. Mayor Gold- John Krull of Franklin College that he didn’t want to chal- smith completed Hudnut’s Circle City Mall despite being lenge Bayh, but said he was “almost drafted” by a Republi- a critic of the plan, forged the Artsgarden, and expanded can Party deeply wounded by President Nixon’s Watergate the Indiana Convention Center and downtown canal, built scandal. Lugar called Bayh “a great shoe-leather politician” Bankers Life Fieldhouse (with the help of Democrat Gov. and added, “I cannot recall an occasion when Birch and I Frank O’Bannon), while creating enduring commissions on had reason to be angry with one another.” youth and human services. No one can remember Lugar ever getting angry Mayor took the Goldsmith blueprint with anyone or losing his temper, though I saw him get for Fall Creek Place to create a vibrant near-northside testy over press coverage of his presidential campaign in neighborhood, built an award-winning international airport Muscatine, Iowa in the summer of 1995. A tale closest to and Lucas Oil Stadium (with the help of Gov. Daniels and paramount frustration was told by Andy Fisher, his Senate taxpayers in seven suburban counties), and embraced press secretary, who described Lugar and Chief of Staff charter schools. Mayor completed Peterson’s Marty Morris eating a late dinner on an arduous journey. initial work to comply with EPA mandates on combined Lugar grabbed a couple of packages of saltine crackers sewer overflows and river water quality, forged the new and crumpled them in his fist, saying, “You either eat ‘em Cummins HQ and residential tower on the long vacant or destroy ‘em.” Market Square Arena site, and was responsible for the When the five living Indianapolis mayors gathered “greening” of the city with bike lanes and both bike and in November 2017 to announce the Lugar Plaza, this lead- auto sharing platforms. Mayor Joe Hogsett worked with ership arc that commenced with Lugar became evident. As the Gov. Holcomb to get the CIB/Pacer deal done this ses- a member of the Indianapolis School Board, Lugar wrote sion. after he was elected president of the In essence, there was continuity across genera- Broad Ripple High School Student Council, urging him to tions and across party lines. No one was tearing something consider a career in public service. “I wanted to become (or someone) down unless it was to build something up on mayor because of Dick Lugar,” Goldsmith said, working foundations forged by others. his way up from the first floor clerk’s office to the 25th floor mayor’s office. Mayor Bart Peterson recalled meeting Birch Bayh’s legacy Lugar at a Pacers game with his father, Howard, where The memorial service to Sen. Bayh was the classic the mayor autographed an ABA basketball. “I only met the bittersweet moment. Sen. Lugar’s passing on Sunday lent mayor once and it was at that moment,” Peterson said. “If a more distinct “end of an era” aura. Master of ceremonies he had been in a bad mood ... I would have remembered Bill Moreau told the packed South Atrium audience, “Let’s that my whole life.” share a moment of silence for Richard Lugar. He and Sen. After Lugar lost the 2012 Republican primary, he Bayh were truly best friends.” fretted about the future of American leadership. Lugar Page 5

The entire gathering was a display in bipartisan- graduation from his university helped him forge two of ship so lacking in Washington. Seated next to Evan Bayh the great legislative achievements of his career. He noted was U.S. Sen. Todd Young, who defeated Bayh in 2016. that there were only two women in Bayh’s agriculture Republican House Speaker , Purdue President classes. “It gave him the idea that all was not right,” Dan- Mitch Daniels and Gov. Eric Holcomb all paid homage. iels said. It gave him background understanding when he Mayor Hogsett gave some early levity when Birch inserted the epic Title IX legislation to the Higher Educa- Bayh told the young operative on a swing through south- tion Act. “He might be pleased today that in the College ern Indiana, “Here’s the deepest secret that can possibly of Agriculture we have 57% women studying.” be shared: Whatever you do, don’t ever take on the town- Daniels noted the Bayh/Dole Act. “He passed a ship trustees.” bill across the aisle with another great still with us, Sen. Bosma recounted a theme that came up consis- Robert Dole.” Daniels read from an article that called it tently through the service: The young law clerk was sent “possibly the most inspired piece of legislation enacted by Dan Evans to pick Bayh up at the airport, he introduced in America over the past half century. This single policy himself to Bayh at the bag- measure helped reverse America’s gage claim, with Bayh saying, precipitous slide into industrial “Oh hell, Brian I know your irrelevance. Because of that act, dad. Call me Birch.” Bosma the products of genius on Ameri- said the next “20 minutes was can campuses are moving out all about me. Not one word into the world in a way they about Birch Bayh.” would not have in the past.” That was another Bayh’s widow, Katherine, common thread between noted that Sen. Russell Long had Lugar and Bayh: Both focused been blocking the bill, but after much of their energy to young Bayh lost in 1980, allowed it to people. Former congressman pass, telling him, “You deserve it.” talked about one of Daniels noted that he his interns working in his office. An “old man” came in for was on the “losing end” of Bayh’s 1968 defeat of Bill a meeting and helped her stuff envelopes and “asked me Ruckelshaus, and again when Lugar lost to the Democrat about the internship for 30 minutes. That was Birch Bayh.” in 1974 working on those campaigns. “Even then when U.S. Rep. Andre Carson noted that Sen. Bayh I saw him as an opponent, one had to have a profound voted for the landmark and the respect on the way he conducted himself in office. This is Voting Rights Act of 1965 “which helped our access to the someone who won three major close elections. He was a ballot box.” person of such principle, but he took his chances. Those “Birch Bayh, a white man from a state that was who take that chance, and whose wins are narrow ones” once the epicenter of the , fought discrimina- make for the best leaders. tion in the halls of Congress with every fiber of his being,” Gov. Eric Holcomb said Bayh left his mark across Carson said to wide applause. the state and added, “If ever there was a Mount Rush- Purdue President Mitch Daniels noted that Bayh’s more of Indiana public figures, surely and certainly, Birch Page 6

Bayh would head that list. There has got to be a quarry daily lives. And so he set out attempting to do just that.” down near Lawrence County somewhere.I can just see his The program for Bayh’s memorial service included limestone smile right now in my mind.” a quote from the late senator: “My life here on earth may Evan Bayh described his father’s last campaign have come to an end, but sense my presence in the hand in 1980 when he lost to U.S. Rep. . They had of a friend, who labors on in our common task, please, no flown down to Warrick County late in the afternoon after tears for me, of him I ask. the polls had closed across most of Indiana. Bayh greeted “Picture me on some small plot of land, with a Alcoa workers at the end of their shift, and then hopped bit of warm rich earth in my hand, there joyously work- back on the plane to Indianapolis. He showered, got a ing away in the loam, for more bounty and beauty in our read-out on the polls and knew he was losing. heavenly home.” The Bayhs went to his west-side Indianapolis cam- paign headquarters where 2,000 to 3,000 people awaited, Richard Lugar’s mark many in tears. “There were banks of cameras there, all Lugar’s career was dense and rich as the soil he the national media, and Washington would work on his Decatur Township farm. Any reporter Post to see how the grand man would handle his political interviewing Lugar would struggle to find the simple adversity. My father came out and said, ‘I’d like to thank soundbite. A question could yield a 10-minute reply, com- more than a million of my fellow citizens for encouraging plete with a thorough history, footnotes and asides. Lugar me to take up the practice of law.’” was a consistent supporter of a free press, and he was “The tears dried up, the frowns went away,” Evan the first subscriber to what began as the Howey Political Bayh said. “It was just an election. There are more im- Report in 1994. portant things in life than that.” The next morning, Sen. Lugar’s impact on Indiana and the world were pro- Bayh went to a Ford plant to shake hands. “The election found. He collected 7,135,898 votes in U.S. Senate races, was over, he lost, there was nothing to be gained. He was a record that may never be broken, with a 7-2 win-loss there to say thank you. Elections come and go, but friend- record. He ran statewide for reelection in 2006 without a ships and loyalty never die.” Democratic opponent, one of the few times that’s occurred Evan Bayh paid tribute to his wife, Susan, who is north of the Mason-Dixon Line. He had 227,442 votes in battling brain . He told the former First Lady that he his two Indianapolis mayoral races. He cast more than and his sons could handle the ceremony. 13,000 roll call votes in the U.S. “She said, ‘If I weren’t sick, would we all Senate. He mentored more than go?’ I said, ‘Yes, sweetheart, we would.’ 1,000 interns. She said, “Well, then I’m going.” University of Indianapolis Bayh talked about his last conver- President Robert Manuel noted that sation with the senator via Facetime. “I more than 20,000 Hoosier students asked him how he was doing, and he said came through the Lugar Sympo- fine, Kitty and Chris were taking excellent sium for Tomorrow’s Leaders at care of him. I asked him, ‘Dad, you can the university. “We have benefited get some ice cream. I hope it’s good ice greatly by his presence on campus cream.’ He paused for a moment and said, over the past 42 years,” Manuel ‘Well, I never had any bad ice cream.’” said. “In many ways, these records The former governor and sena- will ensure that his leadership style, tor ended on a philosophical tone in what approach to public service and might be his greatest speech. “What impact will be remembered. Sena- makes a life worth living? How do we tor Lugar’s life example served as define a race well run? There are many an- a model for our students. He was a swers to that question, and no one right.” constant reminder that all indi- He cited a 6th Century BC attack vidual talents should accrue to the on Rome. A company of soldiers was sent to defend a benefit of others, and he believed that civic engagement bridge on the approach to Rome. “It was a suicide mis- was a cornerstone of a meaningful life and the bedrock of sion,” Bayh said. The commander “looked at his soldiers a civil society.” and spoke about their impending fate. His name was Many of us know the Lugar legacy well, that he Horatius and this is what he said, ‘Death must come to ev- helped engineer a bailout of Chrysler Corporation in 1979, eryone, be it soon or be it late. How can a man find death saving hundreds of Hoosier jobs. His monitoring of a taint- in facing fearsome odds for the ashes of his followers and ed election in the marked the beginning of the the temples of his gods?” end for , convincing President Reagan to “My father devoted his life often against fearsome abandon his support of the strongman. And Lugar went odds,” Bayh said. “The fundamental responsibility of an against the popular President Reagan and led the effort to elected official is to get things done to help people in their Page 7

pass sanctions to oppose in , paving nondescript room painted pea green, two television moni- the way for ’s freedom and rise to power. tors sat on a table at the front of the room as about 50 Purdue President Daniels, who worked for Lugar people gathered. On the long table where the Americans for 14 years both at city hall and in his Senate office, sat rested three small boxes with red knobs. summed up Lugar best: “Dick Lugar was not just the finest “Have there ever been three button-pushers?” public servant I will ever know, he was the finest person. Lugar asked, and then, shortly after 5:30 p.m., a translator He embodied all we can hope for in our leaders: Brilliance from the U.S. Department of Defense said: “Please prepare of mind, purity of motive, stainless in character, tireless in to put your fingers on the buttons.” A few minutes later, the pursuit of duty. Incomparably knowledgeable about the trio did just that, and almost immediately there was a the world, he was first and always a patriot, utterly dedi- loud roar outside, akin to an airliner taking off. The walls cated to the security and wellbeing rumbled. Inside the burn cham- of his fellow Americans. His voice is ber a mile away, the temperature now silent, but he is still with us.” soared to 1,000 degrees centigrade His greatest legacy is the as the SS-25’s propellants burned, Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat destroying the missile motor. The Reduction Program that passed in Americans sat, transfixed. The pitch 1991 after the col- and tenor of the roar grew, began lapsed. The communist implosion to fade, grew once more, and then and scattering of the Soviet repub- finally faded away with the rainbow. lics left unpaid nuclear scientists, It lasted about two and a half min- huge stockpiles of nuclear, biologi- utes. For the first time in history, cal and chemical weapons with no Americans had destroyed a Soviet- inventory controls, some even “protected” by nothing era missile on Russian soil. more than chain-link fencing and padlocks. It could have About 20 minutes later, the cinder-and-cement been a terrorist’s treasure trove. walls of the burn stand were still warm. There was the I described in my 2007 Indianapolis Monthly stench of fuel exhaust. All that was left was the hollow article “A Farewell to Arms” why it was one of the most shell of a motor that could have transported a nuclear war- quietly significant pieces of legislation ever crafted in head into an American city. One would think that after 15 Congress. Ever. With American funds flowing despite vivid years of work, Lugar would be jubilant — or at least have animosities between Washington and Moscow, it expressed some satisfaction. But he was low-key. I asked deactivated 7,191 Soviet strategic nuclear warheads and what he was feeling, and he answered with little emotion. destroyed 662 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 485 ICBM “This used to be carried by rail,” Lugar explained. “It could silos, 110 ICBM mobile launchers, 615 submarine-launched not be pinpointed by our bombers like an ICBM. This is ballistic missiles, 30 nuclear submarines, 155 bombers, true progress.” and 906 air-to-surface missiles. That evening at a big feast with the Russian and In 2007, I traveled with Lugar, Nunn, and U.S. American delegations, Nunn put it into biblical context: Ambassador William Burns, along with Sergey Nikolayovich “The Old Testament talks of converting swords to plough- Shevchenko, to the Geodeziya facility outside of Moscow shares. And that’s what we’re doing.” to destroy a warhead motor. They entered a building about The Fissile Material Storage Facility at Mayak, with a mile away, from which the demolition was directed. In a walls 23 feet thick, was built for $309 million to round-up Page 8 and store much of the Soviet era highly enriched uranium. Much of this work came before the Sept. 11, 2001 Nunn-Lugar has upgraded security at 12 nuclear-weapons terror attacks on New York and Washington. The idea facilities and built nine biological-monitoring stations. It that someone like Osama bin Laden would seek highly has safely transported 363 nuclear weapons. “Perhaps enriched uranium or weaponized anthrax was the stuff of most importantly,” Lugar told me, “, Belarus, and “spy magazines,” Lugar said. Even when the U.S. became Kazakhstan are nuclear weapons–free” as a result of the aware of the huge Soviet pathogen-production facilities, program. It probably had the best return on investment had there not been moments of alarm? “There should of any Cold War era or post-Cold War national security have been,” Lugar said. “But this was seen as interesting, expenditure. not life-threatening. The preoccupation was with how cit- Former Washington Post foreign editor David ies could be blown up and the fear that New York might be Hoffman, writing in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The obliterated.” Dead Hand,” observed, “It was never going to be easy One of the most chilling chapters occurred when for a country so turbulent as to accept the hand of Lugar and Nunn toured a Soviet-era ICBM site. Taped to a rich and powerful rival, and it wasn’t. Suspicions, de- the wall in a kitchenette of the facility was an aerial photo lays, misunderstandings and errors were so abundant in of one of the facility’s targets: Indianapolis, Indiana. the years after the Soviet collapse. But overall, given the Nunn, who sought out Lugar as a partner knowing immense size of the Soviet military-industrial complex, he would need Republican support in an era when there and the sprawling nature of the dangerous materials, the was much gloating over the Soviet collapse, said Sunday, Nunn-Lugar gamble paid off. The world is safer for their “Our nation has lost an extraordinary statesman who made vision and determination.” the world a safer and better place. I have lost a wonderful “It was also a bargain,” Hoffman wrote. “The friend and trusted partner. Dick Lugar treated every person yearly cost for all facets of Nunn-Lugar was about $1.4 with dignity and respect. This generation and future gen- billion, a tiny sliver of the annual Pentagon budget of more erations can learn much from his example in the political than $530 billion.” world and in life.” Page 9

President Obama called the Nunn-Lugar program overnight. Providing the right conditions and incentives to “one of the country’s smartest and most successful na- eliminate poverty is a long-term endeavor,” Lugar wrote in tional security programs.” As Lugar prepared to depart the a 2014 op-ed. Senate, Obama told an audience at the Pentagon in late Agri-Pulse’s Jim Webster reported that in 1994 as 2012, “Early in the Cold War, Einstein warned of the dan- Lugar was preparing to become chairman of the Agri- ger of our wisdom not keeping pace with our technology. culture Committee, he spoke and fielded questions from And with Nunn-Lugar, our wisdom began to catch up.” reporters for 90 minutes “referring only on a few occa- “And, Dick,” Obama added, “I want to take this op- sions to the handful of papers before him, demonstrating portunity to say something else. At times, we’ve disagreed a grasp of details and effects of farm programs few other on matters of policy. But one thing we’ve always shared members of Congress even knew by name. He distributed is a notion of what public service should be. That it ought a nine-page interrogatory to the standing-room news to be more than just doing what’s popular in the moment. conference in the committee’s hearing room, questioning That it ought to be about what’s right for our nation, over almost every facet of farm support and income transfer the long term. It ought to be about problem-solving and programs.” governance, not just how we can score political points on Former Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who co- each other or engage in obstructionism.” chaired the advocacy group Farmers for Free Trade with Lugar, said the Hoosier senator “leaves behind an un- Agricultural impact matched legacy of bipartisan achievement on everything Another key part of the Lugar legacy dealt with from nuclear nonproliferation to food and agriculture pol- hunger and nutrition. “He actually got his start in public icy. At a time when trade policies that keep many farmers life when he ran for the Indianapolis afloat have come under fire, Dick Public School Board,” Jim Morris told stood up with me to ensure their HPI on Monday. “It was at a time when voices were being heard. It was a Indianapolis had not ever accepted any typically brave stance from a man federal aid.” who has always been guided less For school lunches? by politics than by doing what was “Or for anything,” Morris right for his constituents.” explained. “He said, ‘This is ridiculous There was also the Lugar that we don’t have the school lunch farm system, with staffers like and breakfast program for kids in India- William G. Lesher, who became napolis who are hungry.’ He knew the an assistant USDA secretary and importance of feeding a child so that headed the Global Harvest Initia- the child could be successful in school. tive, and Chuck Conner, another So he brought the school lunch program to Indianapolis. deputy secretary at USDA. That was a piece of who he was every day of his public life. When he was mayor he did school gardens and com- Epilogue munity gardens, (and was) very instrumental in starting In his Senate floor farewell in December 2012, Gleaners (Food Bank). Clearly, he was one of my big sup- Lugar departed, saying, “In my experience, it is difficult to porters when I went to the United Nations food program.” conceive of a better platform from which to devote oneself “He made a huge commitment to young people. to public service and the search for solutions to national He always started the summer running with high school and international problems. We do our country a disservice students at the Tech High School track,” Morris said. if we mistake the act of taking positions for governance. In his 1974 race against Bayh, Argi-Pulse noted They are not the same thing. Governance requires adap- that Lugar advocated policies to “encourage the farmer to tation to shifting circumstances. It often requires finding move toward full production by assuring him that freedom common ground with Americans who have a different to market his products will not be hampered by the federal vision than your own. It requires leaders who believe, like government.” After taking office in 1977 with his defeat of Edmund Burke, that their first responsibility to their con- Sen. , he became a persistent critic of quota stituents is to apply their best judgment.” programs for tobacco, peanuts and sugar. As chairman of Lugar continued, “My hope is that Senators will the Senate Agriculture Committee, he was able to achieve devote much more of their energies to governance. In the abolition of the first two, but not sugar. a perfect world, we would not only govern, we would Agri-Pulse added that Lugar championed inter- execute a coherent strategy. That is a very high bar for national agriculture development and the U.S. “Feed the any legislative body to clear. But we must aspire to it in Future” initiative, and he also urged other countries to ac- cooperation with the President because we are facing fun- cept agricultural biotechnology. He saw both U.S. aid and damental changes in the world order that will deeply affect genetic engineering as critical to feeding a growing global America’s security and standard of living.” v population. “Agricultural productivity does not turn around Page 10

lery, they went in while the Capitol Police pulled me aside to have a talk about the keychain mace I was illegally A life altering turn: carrying, following my mom’s orders. I couldn’t go to bars with any of the other interns – all college students, impos- Interning for Lugar sibly older – and though they treated me with absolute politeness, none of them became friends. I spent most By RYAN NEES weekends going to museums alone and reading the new NEW YORK — The first time I visited Wash- Harry Potter book. ington, D.C., was in elementary school, when my uncle But I was never left lonely at work, and recogniz- took me on a road trip: Just him, me, and my cousin. I’d ing what I saw to be Special Intern Status, I whiled away never gone anywhere without my parents. We stayed at untold hours solicitously loafing about the offices of his a downtown Holiday Inn. The first chief of staff, press secretary, legislative director, executive sightseeing I did was across the assistant, and a half-dozen others, all of whom appeared street from our hotel: A drab 1960s to me sincerely interested in talking about what I could concrete structure known to the expect in college, and how to think about a career, and government as Federal Office Build- the importance of government service. Sometimes after ing – FOB – Number Six, home to these conversations Marty Morris would pass articles I’d part of the Department of Educa- discussed with him to Lugar. He inscribed the first – some tion. I was so star-struck I took a piece I’d read in a psychology journal, somehow about picture of the sign outside it. Islam – with “RGL, Fix This!” For weeks after, I thought The second time was not about the next thing I could find that might be worthy of long after, to begin an internship RGL’s attention. with Richard Lugar. I had been on Every couple of weeks, Lugar would stay late an airplane only once before, and and have dinner with the interns: Hours-long, ponderous I remember the woman I talked to conversations about his fraternity, his fatherhood, his cam- who was seated next to me, the paign for his high school class presidency, his campaign $70 my ticket cost, and the view I had of the National Mall for the real presidency. He took multiple courageous votes landing at DCA. I was 17 years old, and about to live on that summer: In favor of expanding the state children’s my own in a city a lot bigger than Kokomo (albeit in the health insurance program, and in support of compre- guest room of one of Sen. Lugar’s longest-serving staff- hensive immigration reform. He gave a tough, hour-long ers, just a few blocks from Capitol Hill, a setup Lugar had speech challenging the Bush administration’s strategy in arranged). Iraq. He discussed all this with us first. Our conversations I’d ended up working for Sen. Lugar that sum- were so frequent and intimate that years later I would mer because I’d spent much of the previous year writing boastfully advise college friends that, if they weren’t going in these pages about Indiana politics, columns I would to intern with a senator who treated their interns the way surely wince at today but which Lugar treated with charity Lugar treated his, why, then they shouldn’t bother working and, I’d have to imagine, wry amusement. Maybe he too in the Senate at all. had been a cocky, hot-headed teenager with misdirected Though he surely knew how easily dazzled I energy. Rather than treating me as I was – a politically op- could be that summer, Lugar posed, ambitious, combustible, never acknowledged it to me. impending public relations Pretending I had worthwhile threat ready to blog about things to say, he sent me off the pettiest shortcomings of to bother the many talented his public service, seen up people around him, people close – he instead invited me like Paul Foldi and Neil Brown, to work for him, without worry whose jobs were to actually or reminder that my time there know things, with memos I should be off the record. wrote on topics like Roma- My first week of nian adoptions. As though we work, I led a group of visiting were colleagues, Lugar had Hoosiers – barely more tourists several of us to lunch in the than me – on a guided walk Senate Dining Room. I had around the Capitol, mostly just crab cakes. pointing out the senators I ex- In retrospect, the signs of citedly recognized in the halls. Lugar’s political defeat were When we got to the security already flashing. Lugar kept check outside the Senate Gal- up a busy public schedule, Page 11 but he also saw it as part of his job to close his office door that summer. He told me that, when he applied for the and spend hours reading the books stacked upon his table. Rhodes, a administrator had dismissed I saw one, published six months earlier: “Palestine: Peace his ambition, calling it born of thinking he had “mystical Not Apartheid.” Here he was, Indiana’s senior Republican powers.” — still deeply conservative, to be sure — befriending leftist “You and I have faced many of the same obsta- teenagers and reading . cles, occasional skeptics, and sometimes straight-forward It’s impossible for me imagine a more power- opposition,” he once wrote me. “If my memories gave you ful intervention at a more important moment in my life encouragement to persevere, I am delighted.” He sent pe- than the mentorship Richard Lugar gave me. He cracked riodic notes, handwritten, to let me know he was keeping open my small world and showed me I could stick it out in an eye on me. a much bigger one. He demonstrated the humbling, hard, “More power to you!” the last one read. v never-ending work of a life of learning and open-handed generosity. Ryan Nees was an intern for Sen. Richard Lugar in Lugar and I exchanged letters for years after the summer of 2007.

dominated by domestic policy and health care in 1991, Lugar joined then-Sen. , D-Ga., to author the Lugar often rose Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act, which led to the destruction of thousands of nuclear weapons in the above partisanship former Soviet Union. Lugar’s partnership with Nunn was the most By MARK SCHOEFF JR. prominent of countless examples of his ability to reach WASHINGTON — When I would return home to across the aisle. In his post-Senate career, he launched Fort Wayne from Washington while working for Sen. Rich- the Lugar Bipartisanship Index to assess how lawmakers ard Lugar, I would frequently find myself talking politics the work with the opposite party and to encourage more of it. moment I mentioned my boss. In the days since Lugar died, many people have Folks would express frustration praised the example he set. I was reminded of what with what was happening in the Gene Robinson, a former Episcopal bishop, once said in a capital and, occasionally, blame it sermon at Foundry in Washing- on the Republican Party. I politely ton. He pointed out that it’s one thing to be an admirer of reminded them that I worked for Jesus. It’s much harder to be a follower of Jesus. Lugar, not the GOP. During his 36 years in the Senate, Lugar was a Repub- lican and conservative stalwart. He voted with President more than 95% of the time and was a reliable ally of each Republican occupant of the White House as well as GOP Senate leaders. But Lugar was a brilliant and independent thinker who would defy his party – and political conven- tion – when it was necessary to achieve policy break- throughs to benefit the country and the world. Despite his strong backing of Reagan, Lugar veered away from him on the issue of applying sanctions on the government of South Africa. Lugar played a key role in enacting sanctions, which ended apartheid. He drew Republican ire when, as chairman of Let me be clear: I am not comparing Lugar to the Senate Agriculture Committee, he pursued reforms of Jesus. But the tension that Robinson illustrated applies to the Department of Agriculture that included streamlining its Lugar’s legacy. It’s a lot easier to be an admirer of Lugar sprawling field office structure. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Ia., than a follower of Lugar. If you’re a follower of Lugar, you decried Lugar as a “Lizzie Borden.” I remember Lugar’s have to be politically courageous and have the ability to uphill battle against USDA bloat because I was his Senate put aside politics. press secretary at the time. Those who aspire to be the next Lugar have their In the midst of a political atmosphere that was Page 12 work cut out for them. votes are a requirement for followers of Lugar. In a touching Senate floor speech, Hoosier Re- You also need to rise above the bitter partisanship publican Sen. Todd Young, a former Lugar aide, called that often grips Washington. Lugar “the gold standard.” “He was a very successful politician, but the rare “We should all look to Dick Lugar,” Young said. one who managed to come to work every day not think- “We should all learn from his example.” ing about politics,” Dan Diller, a longtime key Lugar Senate Young’s counterpart, GOP Sen. , said aide and policy director at the Lugar Center, said in an in a floor speech about Lugar, “I do intend to do what he NPR interview the day Lugar died. “He really be- did. He stuck his neck out. He led.” lieved the United States could be governed with civility and But a couple months before his death, Lugar with compassion.” joined 24 other former GOP lawmakers in signing a let- In a similar vein, an April 29 Washington Post ter to congressional Republicans urging them to vote in editorial said: “In today’s environment of ‘weaponizing’ favor of a joint resolution to end President Trump’s border every issue to advance party and ideology, Mr. Lugar’s ex- emergency declaration. They argued that Trump was ample should remind all that public service ought to mean circumventing congressional authority. rising above personal consideration in the interests of the “We who have served where you serve now call country and the world.” on you to honor your oath of office and to protect the Perhaps followers of Lugar will emerge and make Constitution and the responsibilities it vested in Congress,” Americans proud of their government again. But no one the letter states. will be exactly like him. Young and Braun both voted against the reso- “I’m not sure we’ll ever see another Dick Lugar,” lution and in support of the border emergency declara- Young said. v tion. Becoming the object of Trump’s wrath – or the wrath of the party base he controls – can be painful. But tough Schoeff is HPI’s Washington correspondent. Page 13

popular belief, doesn’t always require certainty. It requires a more nuanced and altogether rarer acknowledgment Lugar’s genuine that one cannot ever know everything – but trying all the same. statesmanship I mentioned evenhandedness – that’s an accurate description of Senator Lugar, but it mustn’t be confused By JAY RUCKELSHAUS with unprincipledness. He won the kind of policy victories OXFORD, England – The first time I heard of Sen. that are only possible when a leader is not afraid to back Lugar, I was in middle school. My dad was driving me back down from what he or she believes, after careful study from swim practice with some political show on the radio and deliberation, is right. I can only imagine how difficult it (to my grand protestations). A story about the senator was to navigate the conflicting interests involved in pass- aired, and I asked who that was. ing something like , but he did it. Indy would be a “A true statesman,” my shadow of itself had he not. dad immediately replied, with an That’s what made his emphasis on bipartisan- air of reverence I associated with ship, especially through his leadership at the Lugar Center, only a few other figures. His dad, so genuine. He knew well that Americans disagree. Of his uncle. The Pope. Ronald Rea- course we do. The essence of bipartisanship is not, despite gan. what many pundits and moralizers would have you believe, Sensing I still didn’t know some attainment of consensus that papers over differ- who the man was, my dad contin- ences. ued, “He’s one of our U.S. sena- The statesman knew that bipartisanship is a hardy, tors, serves in Washington. Each sometimes grudging, but nevertheless sturdy, respect for state gets two. And he’s about the others despite principled disagreement, and a willingness best you could ever ask for.” to continue the conversation, always. Learning about Senator Lugar was one of the first I feel the pull to resist canvassing Senator Lugar’s ways I learned about politics, which is a little like learn- ing about basketball by following Michael Jordan. Learning the rules of the game was inseparable from falling in love with it. Small wonder I’ve spent my whole academic career, and hope to devote my professional one, to learning about that thing he did so well while remaining so good. I’ve thought about that word a lot over the years: Statesman. How it’s made to bear so much weight, the weight of a career’s achievements, of a sterling character maintained while achieving them, of the political observer’s estimation of what it means to represent a whole people, and not just those who voted for you. I had only recently started to seriously fol- low politics when he was defeated, a victim of his own party’s excesses, but never subdued by them. If anything, the opposite; the magnitude of just how much the Senator did seems all the more impressive – legacy for practical political lessons so soon. But I also almost mythically so – in an era of legislative gridlock and feel that calling on his example is a way of honoring it. our tournaments of smallness. Especially when the stakes are so high, as tolerance for I saw him speak at Duke University my fresh- nuanced policy discussion wanes, as appetite for smart man year. Although I had by then already drifted to the international cooperation around arms control – a hallmark other side of the aisle, he loomed as large as ever in my of the Senator’s career – has all but disappeared from the mind, answering every question with keen intelligence and right. care, and revealing the smiling evenhandedness that made There is time enough to argue about such issues him the enemy of ideologues everywhere. in a state and a country made safer and more humane by And that curiosity! He was always reading, always this consummate statesman. Thank you, Senator. v learning. He forged a reputation as one of America’s most respected foreign policy voices through the strength of his Jay Ruckelshaus is a Rhodes Scholar from India- quest to understand what he did not. napolis and a graduate student in politics at the He reminds us that being a statesman, contrary to . Page 14

second biennial budget, insisting that “Indiana is on a roll.” In signing the $34.6 billion budget, Holcomb said, Myers eyes challenge “Hoosiers will benefit from the legislation advanced by our Next Level agenda, including a balanced budget, increas- to Gov. Holcomb ing funding for education and improving school safety. We made these achievements while maintaining responsible By BRIAN A. HOWEY reserves and our AAA credit ratings. I applaud lawmakers INDIANAPOLIS – The most likely gubernatorial for completing another productive legislative session.” The scenario appears to be former health commissioner Woody two-year state budget provides $763 million in new money Myers challenging Gov. Eric Holcomb. Indiana Democrats for K-12 including paying down a $150 million teacher pen- tell HPI that beyond Myers, John Gregg and , sion liability that will free up funds that can go into teacher others are gauging potential runs, though party sources paychecks. It is the eighth straight balanced budget and were reluctant to reveal who they are. Other names maintains at least 11% in reserves. surfacing include former congress- A Morning Consult poll released last week revealed man Baron Hill, State Rep. Karlee 49% of registered voters in Indiana approved of Holcomb Macer of Indianapolis and State in the first quarter, 22% disapproved and 29% had no Sen. Eddie Melton of Gary. opinion. There was little change from the same polling in Myers told HPI last week, late 2018. “I’m thinking about it very seri- Those are decent numbers for an incumbent, bol- ously. I haven’t made an irrevo- stered by an unemployment rate of 3.4% and a campaign cable decision, but I’m leaning in that direction. I’m doing war chest of more than $4 million at the end of last year. all the preliminary stuff, but I’m not quite there.” Holcomb and Indiana Republicans have thus far perpe- In an email to supporters, Myers added, “Today I trated an aura of invincibility. was interviewed by Brian Howey (a senior political report- Myers isn’t buying it. “Indiana has been lagging in er, Howey Politics Indiana), and I confirmed to him that I so many areas,” Myers said. “There’s an illusion that things am strongly considering, and close to making the decision, to become a candidate for governor in 2020 in Indiana, my home. As most of you know, I’ve been encouraged by many Hoosiers (and a surprising number of “non-Hoosiers”) to rejoin the Public Sector and to fight daily and directly to bring better public educa- tion, better jobs, and of course better healthcare (with better “health”) to the wonderful people of our state. I appreciate your words of encourage- ment and your expert counsel. This is a big decision and I am making it as thoughtfully as I can.” Gregg, the 2012 and 2016 Democratic nominee, did not return phone calls, though he continues to tour the state, some of that appears Former health commissioner Woody Myers chats with former Evansville mayor Jonathan to be associated with his work at Ice Weinzapfel at the Birch Bayh memorial on Wednesday, while John Gregg addresses Jackson Miller. Democratic sources tell HPI that County Democrats last Saturday. Gregg still feels a call to serve, but realizes there has never been a three-time gubernatorial are going great for us, but we are losing ground quickly.” nominee. He cites public education, “integrity in office” and keeping He appeared at the Jackson County Democratic talent in the state as top priorities. Dinner Saturday night and tweeted Wednesday, “Great Former Democratic chairman Robin Winston also group of Democrats fired up for the 2019 election!” mentioned Gregg, Hale and Myers, but pushed back on Hale hasn’t ruled out a gubernatorial race, but is the notion that 53 weeks before the primary, Democrats being recruited to challenge U.S. Rep. in the are losing the opportunity to adequately fund a campaign. 5th CD. Winston said that in the days of Frank O’Bannon, a can- This all comes as Gov. Eric Holcomb signed his didate needed a big war chest to fund TV and direct mail Page 15 campaigns. Social media has changed that, as well as the tigieg has 55% approval, 10% disapproval and 35% have ability to directly target specific TV audiences. Look no fur- never heard of him. ther than President Trump’s historic 2016 campaign where In a CNN Poll, Biden leads with 39%, followed by he was vastly outspent by on TV. Trump and Sanders at 15%, Buttigieg at 11% and Sen. Warren at his media partners at Indianapolis-based Prosper Group 8%, Beto O’Rourke at 6% and Harris at 5%. In a Quinnip- used social media to target voters effectively. iac Poll released Tuesday, Biden had 38%, Warren at 12%, “It’s not as byzantine as it used to be,” Winston Sanders at 11% and Buttigieg at 10%. said. “I’m not so sure you need the direct mail. Television The upshot of all this is Mayor Pete is firmly in the is cutting the data for you. I can go after a specific seg- top tier of candidates and Biden is showing some early ment. You may need to assuage donors who were accli- strength. Whether he follows other “frontrunners” like Wal- mated” to older campaign styles. ter Mondale and , who were able to close the deal, is the big question. Biden is directly training his sights and President criticism on President Trump, while other Democrats are talking specific issues and not making the campaign about Trump approval a net 3% in Indiana the president at this point. President Trump has a net approval of just 3% in Buttigieg is polling only 2% among black voters a new Morning Consult poll. Indiana is the only Big Ten in the Morning Consult Poll and could find resistance from state giving Trump a positive approval. He stands at -12% black evangelicals as a married gay man. Beyond Biden, in Michigan and Wisconsin, -9% in Iowa, -5 in Ohio and that appears to be his biggest obstacle to the nomina- -14 in Minnesota. tion. That’s why he met with Rev. Al Sharpton in Harlem Former vice president has a 36-22% on Monday. “I thought he was very much authentic. He lead over Sen. in the latest Morning Con- seemed firm in who he was and what he represented,” sult Poll. Sen. is third at 9%, Mayor Pete Sharpton said. “I challenged him on some issues of con- Buttigieg is at 8% and Sen. is at 7%. But- cern like firing the black police chief when he was mayor Page 16 of South Bend. He was very forthcoming and said if the almost fetishized fighting,” [the mayor] explains, sitting tapes come out, that was the question of why this person in his living room between an antique British musket and was terminated, the police chief. I asked him about re- an old Soviet spying device, both relics of old and painful moval of black homeowners, he said they were abandoned wars. “There is a point where you become so absorbed in homes. So, he talked forthright. I thought he was well fighting that you begin to lose track of winning.” received. He actually insisted on going to every table in Buttigieg released his past 10 years of tax re- the restaurant, shake hands with people. He was very well turns on Tuesday. In 2018, Pete and his husband earned received if not enthusiastically received.” $128,630 in taxable income. After their marriage, asked for advice for running in South and Chasten filed jointly as a married couple. In 2017, Carolina, a key early voting state where black voters will be Pete earned $117,973 in taxable income. Buttigieg pivotal. “The thing that is more important than anything is received a $30,000 advance to write his book, “Shortest that people can tell if you’re sincere or acting and playing Way Home.” In 2016, Buttigieg earned $94,573 in tax- a certain role for a vote,” Sharpton said. “I think if you’re able income. In 2015, Pete earned $105,394 in taxable committed to more than just the candidacy, if you’re run- income. In 2014, Pete earned $34,133 in taxable income. ning for a higher purpose, it gives you energy … people In 2010, Pete earned $21,317 in taxable income. Butti- need to feel that you’re representing something bigger.” gieg left his job to run for state treasurer and had a lower Buttigieg continued to make national media taxable income than previous years. In 2009, Buttigieg rounds. He told Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” on Monday, “I earned $136,129 in taxable income. think Day One you launch a package of democratic reforms to strengthen our democracy. Some things that I think we Mayors could achieve in the first year, the kinds of things that were in HR1 that the House passed but that’s going to go to Fort Wayne: RTL endorses Smith the Senate and die there: Making voter registration easier, Indiana Right to Life Political Action Committee making it easier to get to the polls. But also launching (PAC) announced its endorsement of Tim Smith for Fort things that are going to take years to achieve: Launching a Wayne mayor in the May 7 primary election. “Tim has reform to the Electoral College based on the idea that you been a long-time advocate for the unborn and their moth- might say is simplistic, that we ought to give the presiden- ers in Fort Wayne,” said Mike Fichter, chairman of the cy to the one who gets the most votes, launching a com- Indiana Right to Life PAC. “He will ensure the sanctity of mission to propose measures that would depoliticize the life is protected in Fort Wayne. Make no mistake, abortion Supreme Court – big, deep structural reforms that need to policy matters at the local level. Fort Wayne’s long-time happen.” abortion doctor ceased operations in part due to a county Appearing on WGBH-TV in Boston on Tuesday, But- ordinance. Over in South Bend, Mayor Pete Buttigieg tigieg said the U.S. is at a “watershed moment,” explaining, stopped Women’s Care Center from offering pro-life preg- “We’re in this tectonic moment where things are changing nancy services next door to a proposed abortion center. around us. I think it’s as big a We urge Fort Wayne voters to vote for pro-life candidate, moment as the beginning of Tim Smith, for mayor.” Informed and reliable sources tell the FDR era, and I mean not HPI that internal polling shows Smith leading Council just his presidency, but the 30, President John Crawford. Primary Horse Race Status: 40, 50 years of the New Deal Tossup. consensus — or, for that mat- ter, the beginning of the Rea- South Bend: Sheriff endorses Critchlow gan era ... and now something St. Joseph County Sheriff Bill Redman endorsed completely different is com- Jason Critchlow in the Democratic primary for mayor of ing. It could be enlightened. South Bend. Sheriff Redman stated, “The people of South It could be ugly, and people Bend need a mayor who listens, has deep roots in our are looking for leadership that community, and focuses on the issues affecting families. takes the long view.” Jason Critchlow will continue the progress we’ve made And he will be on the over the last several years with a renewed focus on our cover of TIME. Charlotte Alter neighborhoods, schools and the people of South Bend.” writes from South Bend: In a primary divided between candidates who want to fight Trump and candidates who talk about uniting the country, [Mayor Pete] Buttigieg is Early voting low in the latter camp. That puts him out of step with the Without a strong Republican opponent in the No- party’s activist base, who clearly want a fighter. Warren, for vember 2011 election, in a city that has had Democratic example, used the word ‘fight’ 25 times in her announce- mayors for decades, Pete Buttigieg was effectively elected ment speech; Buttigieg didn’t mention it once. His husband mayor of South Bend in that year’s Democratic primary says he’s never heard him raise his voice in anger. “We’ve in May. He needed only 7,663 votes to become the city’s Page 17 leader. The vote total represented 54% of the nearly 14,000 Lake County Assessor Jerome Prince; City Councilwoman votes cast among five candidates that year. But it was only LaVetta Sparks-Wade; Mildred Tinye Alcorn; Kerry Rice about 12% of the city’s voting-age population in a city of Sr.; Carl “Doozie” Jones; Eddie Tarver Jr.; Joe L. White; 101,000 (Parrott, South Bend Tribune). This year, with five and James “Sirmack G.I.” Edward McKnight II. Only Gary’s candidates actively campaigning in the May 7 Democratic Freeman-Wilson faces multiple opponents this spring, but primary, an even smaller number of votes could win the she has received the most donations among the contested mayor’s office. Voter turnout will be critical, and the num- mayors — more than $156,000 this year, according to a bers so far suggest a weak showing. By the end of the day campaign finance report she submitted last week to county Tuesday, two weeks before the election, 599 people had election officials. That includes a $10,000 donation from turned in early ballots — counting in-person early voting Gary Property Development, $5,000 from U.S. Rep. Pete and mail-in ballots — about 30 percent fewer votes than at Visclosky and $1,250 from Gary Material Supply, which the same point in 2011. Mayoral candidate Lynn Coleman recently received $2.95 million from City Hall to demolish said the city would “probably be lucky” if 16,000 votes are the Delaney West and Concord Village housing projects. cast. “That’s a sad commentary on our democracy, that that Her campaign has taken in more than twice those of few people are interested in the process,” Coleman said. Prince, who has received $66,296, and Sparks-Wade, who “We’ve tried to engage new people who have not registered has received more than $13,300 in donations. The mayor to vote before. Fifteen to 20 votes could make the differ- and her opponents spoke Wednesday of the challenges ence.” Another mayoral candidate, Jason Critchlow, attribut- and promise of the city of Gary (Dolan, NWI Times). Carl ed low voter interest so far partly to the focus on Buttigieg’s “Doozie” Jones told an audience of nearly 100 at Indiana presidential campaign. Primary Horse Race Status: University Northwest he is running for mayor because, Leans Mueller. “This city is practically disappearing.” Kerry Rice Sr. said, “Our city is going in the wrong direction. I’ve been looking Carmel: Brainard has big money lead for answers for 26 years. I’ve decided to be that answer.” Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard has raised $167,000 Freeman-Wilson said, “It has been an honor to serve the since Jan. 1 (Quinn, IBJ). He spent even more, $251,000, city and I want to continue my service, not for myself, but leaving him with about $58,800 cash on hand, according to for the hopes and aspirations for the city.” They spoke at a recent campaign finance report, which covers the period the second mayoral debate in two nights in the Savan- between Jan. 1 and April 12. Brainard’s biggest donor was nah Center auditorium of Northwest in DPBG Political Action Committee, which lists engineer- the city’s Glen Park neighborhood. Primary Horse Race ing firm American Structurepoint as its address. The PAC Status: Leans Freeman-Wilson. has donated $21,000 to Friends of Jim Brainard since Jan. 1, campaign finance reports show. Pedcor Cos. donated Fishers: Fadness leads in funding $10,000 to Friends of Jim Brainard, with Pedcor CEO Bruce Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness began running Cordingley donating an additional $5,000. Hamilton County broadcast TV ads this week, touting his city’s growth and Councilman Fred Glynn has raised about $94,800, with coming transformation. As of April 12, the end of the filing notable donations from the Election Campaign, period for pre-primary campaign finance reports, Fad- which gave $3,000, and Seidensticker for Council, the com- ness had spent about $187,000, leaving him with about mittee of former Carmel City Councilor Eric Seidensticker, $356,800 on hand. Fadness received several donations which gave Glynn $500 (IBJ). He also received $5,000 from of $5,000 from well-known executives, firms and PACs. Huntington-based The Fund for American Exceptionalism. Primary challenger Logan Day has raised $9,694 and has Glynn loaned his campaign about $50,000. Primary Horse spent all but $20. Primary Horse Race Status: Safe Race Status: Likely Brainard. Fadness. v

Gary: Mayor raises $156K Karen Freeman- Wilson goes into the May 7 mayoral sweepstakes with more opponents and more campaign cash than any con- test in Lake County (Dolan, NWI Times). The mayor is running for her third term in office in the May 7 primary. She is challenged by eight Democrats. They include Page 18

Could one of them come up through the middle of the Mueller-Critchlow battle and win? There are plausible Five Dems viable in scenarios for just that. The three other viable mayoral candidates are: South Bend mayoral Lynn Coleman, a past Democratic nominee for Congress, who is well known from his congressional race By JACK COLWELL and decades of involvement in city government. He is well MUNCIE – Democratic primary election voters on liked and admired for his congressional campaign effort in May 7 will likely pick the next mayor of South Bend, the a hopeless race. He was the leader in an early poll taken successor to Mayor Pete Buttigieg. There are nine candi- for Mueller. His name recognition was a big factor early, dates for the Democratic nomination, five of whom are and it still could be. viable. Regina Williams-Preston, 2nd District coun- The winner almost certainly will be elected mayor cil member, who emerged as the anti-Pete in national in the general election this November. A Republican hasn’t news stories about whether South Bend really has turned won the mayoral election since 1967, and recent GOP around. She is highly critical of what the mayor cites as a efforts in city elections have major achievement, fixing up or tearing down over 1,000 been pathetic. unoccupied and deteriorating houses in 1,000 days. She The leading contenders has support in progressive Democratic ranks. based on their ability thus far Oliver Davis, 6th District council member, who to get out their messages and has name recognition from his years on the council and attract significant support are: involvement in citywide issues. His message is out on a James Mueller, Buttigieg’s flurry of yard signs, a campaign approach he hails and former chief of staff, who has believes he has perfected. He would have been a favorite the most significant support for reelection as councilman but decided instead to pursue of all, an endorsement from his goal of mayor. Mayor Pete. He also has the The endorsement by Mayor Pete looms large in most funding, according to this race. But it’s difficult to transfer popularity in politics. campaign finance reports, en- While Buttigieg is at the height of his popularity abling him to continue to send here in his eighth year as mayor and quickly rising presi- out his message widely in mailings and on TV. Television dential prospect, that doesn’t automatically mean that advertising could be especially effective this time. Mueller, his choice to carry on his programs, will win. Jason Critchlow, former St. Joseph County Buttigieg took a risk in endorsing and channeling Democratic chairman, who has significant support from campaign resources to Mueller. The national news media prominent Democrats who admire ability he showed as and presidential primary opponents will take note if his chairman. He is second to Mueller in campaign funding. choice is rejected. Mayor Pete’s name isn’t on the primary He surprised Mueller by getting on first with effective TV. election ballot this time. Or is it? v Whether he can continue to match Mueller on TV is impor- tant. Colwell has covered Indiana politics over five de- Why the significance of TV this time? cades for the South Bend Tribune. It’s because viewers haven’t been turned off al- ready by myriad TV ads for presidential, congressional, or gubernatorial races or all kinds of other state and county offices. Those offices aren’t up this year. So, there has been no blizzard of political ads to annoy viewers and cause them to tune out political messages. Also, with Mayor Pete’s presidential campaign capturing such attention, there has been little oxygen left for the city candidates. Many are upset about lack of voter interest and awareness as the election fast ap- proaches. Voters will take more interest now, with many learning about the candidates from their TV messages over the last week of the campaign. But money isn’t everything in campaigns. Neither are TV ads. Three other candidates are viable, with followers and messages of their own. Page 19

enough people could land. And I think it was pretty widely supported here in the Senate.” Holcomb mulls signing Even Speaker Brian Bosma, who expressed reservations about the bill earlier this year before recus- the gaming bill ing himself from the matter when it came to his chamber, noted the margins of its victorious votes last Wednesday. By JACOB CURRY “It was such a massive bill, I didn’t think it was going to INDIANAPOLIS – With the General Assembly now go anywhere. Clearly not the case; overwhelming support well out of town, the only piece of the legislative puzzle in both [the House and Senate].” left in 2019 is Gov. Eric Holcomb’s review and potential Neither Bray nor Bosma rejected the idea of signature of the enrolled bills. coming back to the subject of the bill in later sessions, The governor’s office has been at however. In particular, they both relayed some reluctance it since late March, and Holcomb within the General Assembly on the hold-harmless pay- has signed more than half of the ments. The timeline for those payments won’t kick in until legislative acts up for his consider- the Gary casino is able to move to Vigo County (assuming ation, including most of the prior- it wins the bidding process), which means lawmakers will ity bills on the budget, education, have time to take a look next session. The same applies the CIB, infrastructure, and more. to most of the other money exchanges within the bill. In One enrolled act currently still under review, that case, Holcomb could always sign the bill under the however, is the controversial gaming bill. That bill passed assumption that the legislature will be taking a look at the on the final day of session, and on top of the long-running stickier parts of this year’s product in later sessions. controversy you’d expect when it comes to casinos, some Beyond gaming, Gov. Holcomb has signed multiple further eyebrow-raising changes were made during that key agenda bills into law in the past week. The governor final week. Although Holcomb had been largely absent placed special emphasis on education as he signed the from discussions on the issue in the first half of session, budget bill Monday afternoon. “Hoosiers will benefit from the governor found himself inserted into the legislation advanced by our Next Level the picture by an IndyStar article which agenda, including a balanced budget, raised ethical questions over his taking a increasing funding for education and im- flight courtesy of an Indiana casino owner. proving school safety,” Holcomb said. “We Combined with the other controversial as- made these achievements while main- pects of the bill, you might not be blamed taining responsible reserves and our AAA for thinking there could be something more credit ratings. I applaud lawmakers for to the governor’s delay. completing another productive legislative But the governor is telling reporters session.” that’s not the case. The delay, he says, isn’t In the days following sine die, related to those concerns as much as it is Holcomb has also highlighted jobs and due to the complexity of the legislation and workforce programs, rural broadband ser- its impact. “I want to make sure Indiana is vice development, veteran tax deductions, the winner. And for me to be sure of that, and efforts to improve the state’s infant I have to read the bill. Word for word. And mortality rate. we’re not there yet” Holcomb explained Monday. He add- The governor signed a campaign finance reporting ed, “Nothing specific raises a concern for me but I haven’t law, HEA1597, and an election cyber-security bill, SEA570, read the bill, and I’m going to. We have 200-plus bills to last week. Other election bills, such as the one concerning read and sometimes we get 30 down here in one day.” Porter County’s election board, are still under consider- The gaming legislation, which is now contained ation. within House Enrolled Act 1015, is technically not quite Other bills still pending include the school expendi- ready to reach Holcomb’s desk for signature and is still in a ture targets measure, a school safety bill, new school bus review phase. Once it is officially “on his desk” the gover- safety regulations, underground carbon dioxide storage, nor will have seven days to sign it. hemp regulation, and more. So, there’s still plenty of time for the governor to Overall, Holcomb unsurprisingly sounds very get his reading in, and going by the expectations set by pleased with the products of the work by his fellow Repub- GA leaders, Holcomb will indeed likely end up signing the licans in the House and Senate this year. In his reflective bill. Both the pro tem and the speaker offered some fairly remarks on the 2019 session, Holcomb said he was proud positive thoughts on the gaming bill after sine die last of the accomplishments and praised both Bosma and Bray week. Senate President Pro Tempore Rod Bray reasoned for their leadership roles. The governor also repeated a that despite the controversy the bill hit the right marks: “At phrase that he has employed often since assuming office: the end of the day I think we found a spot where at least “Indiana is on a roll.” v Page 20

Carol Giacomo, New York Times: I last saw racist. I have acted and spoken in ways I now consider Sen. Richard Lugar in March, at a conference on “America’s sexist. I consumed alcohol when I was under the legal age Role in the World” at the Hamilton-Lugar School of Global and smoked marijuana when I was a college student. I and International Studies at Indiana University. Over have viewed women as sexual objects and at times treated dinner on the night before it started, he spoke fondly of them as such. I have embraced hundreds of people — continuing to oversee the 604-acre and corn farm both men and women — without asking permission or in Indiana that his father bought in the 1930s. The conver- even considering the idea I should. These five admissions sation became darker but no less animated when do not cover all the misdeeds throughout my life, it segued to the arms control system that he but I think they are the main ones I will be asked worked decades to help build and which President about during my media interviews in the event of Trump seems to be abandoning. Mr. Lugar told a run for office. v conference attendees the next day that he wor- ried that Mr. Trump had no plan on that and other David French, National Review: It’s hard central foreign policy issues. There was no enmity in his to think of a single prominent American Christian who bet- voice, just deep concern for the nation and the world. ter illustrates the collapsing Evangelical public witness than One of Mr. Lugar’s most heralded contributions was Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s son. His commitment to the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Pro- the Christian character of American public officials seems gram that he pushed through Congress with Senator to depend largely on their partisan political identity. Let’s Sam Nunn, a Democrat from , then chairman of look at the record. In 1998, at the height of ’s the Senate Armed Services Committee, after the fall of sex scandals, the younger Graham wrote a powerful op- the Soviet Union. Over the years, it has provided millions ed in combating Clinton’s assertion of American dollars to secure and dismantle weapons that his affair was a “private” matter. Clinton argued that of mass destruction and related technology inherited by his misdeeds were “between me, the two people I love the former Soviet states of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the most — my wife and our daughter — and our God.” Kazakhstan. The concept of having America pay to destroy Graham noted that even the most private of sins can have an adversary’s weapons was so controversial that it met very public, devastating consequences, and he asked a opposition from Mr. Lugar’s own Republican Party. One of simple question: “If [Clinton] will lie to or mislead his wife his closest foreign policy partners, former Representative and daughter, those with whom he is most intimate, what Lee Hamilton, a Democrat and fellow Hoosier, told the will prevent him from doing the same to the American conference attendees in March that voting for the program public?” Graham was right: Clinton, it turned out, wouldn’t was his toughest vote ever. “You think that was popular in just lie to mislead his family. He’d lie to influence courts, southern Indiana, giving money to the Russians? … They Congress, and the American people. Fast-forward 20 thought I was nuts,” Mr. Hamilton said as Mr. Lugar, seated years. By 2018, Donald Trump was president — and help- nearby, grinned. But it was worth it: More than 7,500 stra- ing to win important policy victories for religious conser- tegic nuclear warheads were deactivated, and more than vatives — and Graham’s tune had changed dramatically. 1,400 ballistic missiles that could be launched by land or He actively repudiated his condemnations of Clinton, call- submarine were destroyed. v ing the Republican pursuit of the then-president “a great mistake that should never have happened,” and argued Bud Herron, Madison Courier: I have decided that “this thing with Stormy Daniels and so forth is no- not to run for president of the United States in 2020. The body’s business.” Graham was wrong: Trump, it turns out, decision was not made easily, because I believe I have doesn’t just lie to mislead his family. He lies all the time many attributes that would make me a president who to influence courts, Congress, and the American people. would be no worse than … say … or So is this the “new normal” for Evangelicals? Is politics Warren G. Harding. Yet, several dark corners in my past entirely transactional now? Do we evaluate politicians make me doubt I could pass the public scrutiny that comes only on their policies and leave the sex discussions to the with such a run for office in 2020. I am now in my sev- privacy of their own bedrooms? Apparently not, according enth decade. In each of those decades I have done things to . . . Franklin Graham. Now that the Democratic primary I now see as wrong. I look back and recognize many of is gaining steam and a gay candidate is surging forward, these shortcomings and regret most of them — certainly Graham has rediscovered his moral voice. Yesterday he the ones that hurt other people — but I can’t change the tweeted this: Mayor Buttigieg says he’s a gay Christian. As fact that they happened. These hurtful acts were wrong, a Christian I believe the Bible which defines homosexual- even the ones I did not recognize as wrong at the time. ity as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to And, if I should change my mind and run for president, I be flaunted, praised or politicized. The Bible says marriage suspect much of my past will return to haunt me during is between a man & a woman—not two men, not two the campaign. So let me clear the air with some confes- women. v sions: I have acted and spoken in ways I now consider Page 21

fairly. Walorski has not yet received a of me saying I wanted to leave and 2 Clark judges response to her letter dated March 11, I wanted to go.” Wohl and Burkman 2019, that raised questions about the are refuting Kelly’s statements saying shot in Indy product exclusion process. “Since the that he was not coerced in anyway to

process was established 13 months accuse Buttigieg of rape. INDIANAPOLIS — Two judges ago, it has been a master class in from a southern Indiana county were government inefficiency and shot and wounded in Susan Bayh plagued by maddening incon- an overnight shoot- sistency,” Congresswoman thanks Hoosiers ing in downtown In- Walorski wrote. “There are dianapolis, police said ways to fix the process and, INDIANAPOLIS — Former First (IBJ). Indianapolis as has always been the case, Lady of Indiana Susan Bayh attended police spokeswoman I am raising these myriad is- a memorial service Wednesday honor- Officer Genae Cook said sues in hopes of working with you to ing her late father-in-law (WTHR-TV). two Clark County judges were shot improve its fairness, transparency, and She was diagnosed last year with early Wednesday in the parking lot efficiency for all.” the same kind of brain cancer that of a White Castle restaurant at 55 W. claimed the life of Senator John Mc- South St. Brad Jacobs of Clark Cir- Man was coerced to Cain — glioblastoma. Her husband, cuit Court 2 was in critical and stable Evan Bayh, said she is responding to condition Wednesday morning, the In- frame Buttigieg her treatments including radiation, diana Supreme Court public informa- chemo and immunotherapy. She said tion officer said. Judge Andrew Adams SOUTH BEND — The recent she is thankful for everyone who is of Clark Circuit Court 1 was in stable accusations of sexual assault against praying for her. “I think I’ve gotten condition. Indianapolis police initially South Bend Mayor and Democrat more prayer letters from Indiana. And said the judges were at the nearby presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg good, because they are pretty close Red Garter Gentlemen’s Club shortly are “completely false,” says his ac- to God here, so that’s good. And it before they were shot, but later said cuser (WIBC). Hunter Kelly is a college really doesn’t matter what religion it they had visited other area bars, but student at Ferris State in Michigan. is, just as long as people are praying not the strip club. He’s an openly gay Republican who and keeping me up in somebody’s Cook said the men were attending says he follows conservative activist thoughts,” Susan said. the Spring Judicial College confer- Jacob Wohl on and that ence in Indianapolis when they were Wohl was someone he looked up to Biden says China shot around 3:25 a.m. following a as a conservative. Kelly told WOOD in disturbance. She said detectives found Michigan that he had gotten a mes- is not a threat no evidence suggesting they were sage on Instagram from Wohl about targeted because they are judges. possibly coming to Washington, D.C. IOWA CITY — Former vice “Our judges across the state are Wohl told him he’d like to get Kelly’s president Joe Biden on Wednesday heartbroken to learn of this violent act perspective as a gay conservative dismissed the notion that the United against our colleagues,” Indiana Chief for a new piece he was working on. States should be worried about China Justice said in a writ- “I had three days off and I was like, as a geopolitical competitor, prompt- ten statement. “We send our prayers ‘Yeah’,” Kelly said. “I’ll come get some ing criticism from some congressional for a speedy recovery for both Judge experience in politics and come do Republicans who argued that Biden is Jacobs and Judge Adams and our love some research with you guys. It underestimating the world’s second- and support to their families and the sounds great.” Kelly flew out to D.C largest economy (Washington Post). Clark County community.” and met up with Wohl and Jack Burk- The argument is one Biden has fre- man at Burkman’s mansion. He said it quently made in speeches throughout Walorski presses was not long after that he saw an arti- the years, but it is drawing increased cle online that said Kelly was accusing attention due to his status as the ap- Ross on tariffs Pete Buttigieg of sexually assaulting parent front-runner among Democrats running for president. At a campaign WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. him in a hotel. They even forced him to sign papers confirming the accusa- stop in Iowa City, Biden pointed to his Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) this week sent years serving as vice president and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross tions, he said. “I didn’t want to put up a fight and get thrown out on to as chairman of the Senate Foreign a second letter in as many months Relations Committee, telling the crowd to outline her growing concerns that the street in the middle of Arlington, Virginia at 3:30 in the morning where that there’s not a “single solitary” U.S. manufacturers and small busi- world leader who would trade the nesses seeking relief from steel and I had no way to get anywhere,” said Kelly. “It had been about 45 minutes problems the United States faces for aluminum tariffs are being treated un- those confronting China.