Thursday, July 22, 2004 Volume 10, Number 47 Page 1 of 9 he Seven Hoosiers in T prime time roles Howey Will help shape dramatic 2004 election By BRIAN A. HOWEY in Indianapolis The election of 2004 will likely be determined by events yet to occur. As this compelling drama plays out, Political seven figures with vivid Hoosier ties will be cast in promi- nent roles on issues such as terrorism, security, and marriage. Today’s release of the 9/11 Commission Report put Report the spotlight on former Indiana Congressmen Lee Hamilton and Tim Roemer. They will be “fanning out across the coun- The Howey Political Report is published by NewsLink try” in the coming weeks pushing reform of U.S. intelligence Inc. Founded in 1994, The Howey Political Report is capabilities, CNN reported. “Authority and responsibility are an independent, non-partisan newsletter analyzing the political process in Indiana. too diffuse,” Hamilton said of Congress and the federal bur- eaucracy. “We need stronger oversight for our intelligence.” Brian A. Howey, publisher On the Congressional front, U.S. Reps. John Host- Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington writer ettler and Mike Pence are in the vanguard of the marriage Jack E. Howey, editor issue, seen as a wedge element that President Bush hopes will propel him to a second term. The next “most important The Howey Political Report Office: 317-254-1533 PO Box 40265 Fax: 317-254-0535 speech” of Bush’s career will be written by Michael Gerson, Indianapolis, IN 46240-0265 Mobile: 317-506-0883 a former aide of U.S. Sen. Dan Coats. The Bush-Cheney [email protected] campaign spokesman is Terry Holt, the Elkhart native long www.howeypolitics.com active on the Hoosier congressional campaign scene. And the press secretary for Vice President Dick Cheney is Kevin Washington office: 202-775-3242; Business office: 317-254-0535. Shaw Kellems. Here are some thumbnail observations on the Hoosier Seven and the impact they will likely have in the Subscriptions: $350 annually via e-mail; coming months. $550 annually including the HPR Daily Lee Hamilton: 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Wire. Call 317-254-1533 or 254-0535. Kean called Hamilton “one of the most decent and thought- © 2004, The Howey Political Report. All rights ful men I have ever had the pleasure to know.” Hamilton reserved. Photocopying, Internet forwarding, faxing or pressed for a wide range of reforms this morning. “This reproducing in any form, in whole or in part, is a viola- commission doesn’t have all the answers but we have tion of federal law and is strictly prohibited without thought about what to do with our global strategies and how consent of the publisher. Ticker: Pew has Kerry up by 2% p. 2 “Don’t believe the papers. They run an inter- Wander: Marriage perspectives p. 3 view like it is an obituary!” Columnists: Smith, Gerard, Neal p. 4 - U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, on the state of her Horse Race: The Vargus/Massie poll; health after missing more than 100 votes since Tarrance has Hostettler with June, to the Indianapolis Star big lead over Jennings p. 8 Thursday, July 22, 2004 Page 2 of 9 to do it. This strategy must be balanced they're going through.” and embrace all the elements of national Michael Gerson: He provides power. There is no silver bullet for the many of the most profound words for decisive blow that can defeat the Islamic President Bush, including the “Axis of terrorists. We need to play offense to kill Evil” phrase Bush used in his 2002 State or capture the terrorists,” he said. of the Union address, and his remarkable LUGAR COMMENDS 911 Tim Roemer: The former 3rd CD Sept. 14, 2001, National Cathedral speech COMMISSION: U.S. Senate Democrat told the Fort Wayne Journal in the wake of 9/11. Bush’s most critical Foreign Relations Gazette in today’s editions, “I know we’re speech in making a case for a second term Committee Chairman Dick will come at the Republican National Lugar made the following not postured appropriately for the next statement today on the 9/11 attack I keep coming back to a story of a Convention in New York City in Septem- Commission report: "The widow, sitting in my congressional office ber and Gerson will play a key role. 9/11 Commission report when I was writing the legislation to cre- Rep. Hostettler: He is playing a provides a useful historical ate the 9/11 commission. She handed me key role this week in the marriage debate. record. More importantly, her wedding ring and asked me to hold it He explained in today’s Evansville the President, the Congress, in my hand, and I did. She said, ‘That’s all Courier & Press, “The government's and all U.S. and internation- I have left from my husband who died at imprimatur in changing the definition of al institutions engaged in the Trade Towers. They found this ring at marriage is potentially the most devastat- the war on terror, must ground zero several weeks afterward with ing thing the government can do to the focus on the future. The Commission makes many a part of his finger in it.’” It is that type of fabric of society.” Hostettler said during recommendations - includ- experience that will allow Roemer, the news conference on Capitol Hill that ing expansion of the Nunn- Hamilton and the eight other commission the intent of his bill was not “homopho- Lugar Cooperative Threat members to find riveting audiences as bic,” but he had reservations about Reduction program -- that they fan across America. Roemer called expanding marriage to same-sex couples. will need to be considered, for “revolutionary changes” with a nation- Rep. Pence: The Columbus along with steps already al intelligence center and director. Roemer Republican has been at the GOP vanguard taken since 9/11, and rec- stressed the need to “rebuild our human in the House, both reveling in President ommendations made by intelligence.” Bush’s social agenda and his expressed others. Topping our priori- ties must be to make certain Terry Holt: A veteran of Indiana anxiety about the cost of his government. that all weapons and materi- congressional campaigns (John Hiler, who Last week, Pence was rallying Congress- als of mass destruction are was defeated by Roemer; Mike Pence, ional support to defend Israel’s right to identified, continuously Chris Chocola), Holt is now one of the build a security fence, and tried to cut guarded, and systematically key voices and faces of the Bush-Cheney Egyptian aid, a move that was thwarted by destroyed, so to keep them campaign. On CNN’s Inside Politics on Secretary of State Colin Powell and out of the hands of terror- Wednesday, Holt was preparing to blunt National Security Adviser Condoleezza ists. Expanding and global- the Kerry-Edwards convention push, say- Rice. Politically, Pence was pushing for izing the Nunn-Lugar pro- ing, “We’re going to be 24/7 next week. more conservative speakers at the gram can help accomplish Republican National Convention, deliver- this.” We're going to be out building our grass- roots team, our Rapid Response Unit, ing a petition to President Bush on PEW POLL HAS KERRY UP RMC, will back up in Boston, This is Wednesday calling for Henry Hyde to BY 2 PERCENT: Sen. John going to be a big theatrical production to speak. The irony there is Hyde, a long- Kerry is heading to his try and make John Kerry more palatable time pro-life activist, became known for party's national convention to the voters. Well, gosh, I hope he'd do it. an adulterous affair he described as a with Democrats faring better But you kind of anticipate he might final- “youthful indiscretion” in his late 40s. with the public on both ly say how he would fight and win the Kevin Shaw Kellems: He’s the domestic and international war on terror what with supporting Iraq fourth press secretary for the secretive issues, according to a poll and going in but then not supporting the Cheney and has become a lightning rod released Wednesday Associated Press). But troops. We feel like we have to be there to for Democratic critics who are concentrat- tell a little truth under all the majesty of ing on Wolfowitz and the information that Continued on page 3 this theater and image makeover that was dispensed prior to the Iraq War II. Page 3 of 9 Thursday, July 22, 2004 A column on marriage; marriage card as a classic wedge issue. two reader responses; Like most issues, this is not simply black and white. There are also sorts of grays Kerry remains locked in a Pence & Rice stances out there. tie in the presidential race. When people are asked President Bush said last week, Dear Reader: which party would do a bet- “What they do in the privacy of their ter job of handling a given Last week, I wrote a column house, consenting adults should be able to issue, Democrats are now about the marriage issue that ran in about do. This is America. It’s a free society. 12 points up on handling 25 Indiana newspapers. That column is But it doesn’t mean we have to redefine the economy and have an reprinted below, followed by two of the traditional marriage.” even larger lead on issues many thoughtful e-mails I received from So what is “traditional marriage?” from education to health readers. This column accomplished one of The defenders of marriage would have care and the environment, according to the poll by the my most important roles as a journalist, you think that it’s been with us since the which is to inform and stimulate discus- Pew Research Center for time of Jesus.