V26, N23 Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 Census data delay stalls redistricting The U.S. HPI analysis reveals 2011 maps Census Bureau said it plans to produced non-competitive deliver popula- tion figures IGA, congressional races used for con- By BRIAN A. HOWEY gressional re- INDIANAPOLIS – By this point in time in apportionment 2001 and 2011, U.S. Census data was in the hands by the end of of Hoosier legislators and their computer-assisted April, with leg- consultants, creating new congressional and General islative district Assembly maps. information This year, because of the pandemic and the sometime after Trump administration’s late decision to demand data July. The cen- on illegal immigrants, Indiana’s new maps will be sus data was delayed until late summer after the first special ses- supposed to be sion of the Holcomb era is called. It promises to stall ready by the the informal start of the 2022 cycle. end of 2020. In 2001 and 2011, the reapportioned maps were “At the end of the day, it means we’ll be here after passed by the April 29 sine die and signed shortly thereaf- July, trying to figure out redistricting, what those districts ter by Govs. Frank O’Bannon and Mitch Daniels, setting off look like,” Senate President Pro Tem Rod Bray said last the traditional spate of candidacies during the summer and Friday. fall months heading into the next cycle. The delay this year While Indiana Democrats had spent much of the means that potential candidates won’t know what district last decade pushing for an independent redistricting com- they are in for an additional four months or so. Continued on page 4 The GOP civil war By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – Donald Trump has been retired to his Florida estate for all of 15 days now. In his void, there is a power struggle for the soul of the national Republican Party, with a vote scheduled today where “I was hospitalized for 18 days, GOP members will be forced to either defend or rebuke QAnon with 11 of those days spent in Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who received a standing the ICU. I was literally unable to ovation from the caucus yester- breathe. COVID-19 is real. If you day. Five years ago, there don’t want to go through what I wasn’t a single GOP establish- went through, take this virus se- ment figure who was actively backing Donald Trump for the riously. Wear a mask.” nomination in Indiana. Gov. Mike - State Rep. Vanessa Summers Pence was backing Sen. Ted Cruz. Republican National Com- Page 2 mitteeman John Hammond III had course people in her congressional called Trump “unfit” for office. Sen. district, it’s their prerogative if they Dan Coats was for Sen. Marco Rubio. want to debase themselves by voting Trump’s strength came from to an elect someone who indulges in the grassroots and it wasn’t realized anti-Semitic and conspiracy theories Howey Politics Indiana until he won the Indiana primary with and all manner of other nonsense. 53%. From that point on, the GOP I’ve got no tolerance for people like WWWHowey Media, LLC establishment was on board, and fully that.” c/o Business Office so by mid-July when Trump brought Young’s comments came on PO Box 6553 Gov. Pence onto his ticket. the heels of those by Senate Minority Kokomo, IN, 46904 President Trump failed to Leader Mitch McConnell, who cited www.howeypolitics.com win the popular vote twice, winning in a Senate floor speech on Monday in 2016 via the Electoral College. In Rep. Greene’s “loony lies,” calling her 2018 Republicans lost the House ma- a “cancer for the Republican Party.” Brian A. Howey, Publisher jority. 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All rights reserved. pressed belief in the Democratic space not remove her from committees on Photocopying, Internet forward- alien pedophile conspiracy, that school Wednesday, saying that her inflam- ing, faxing or reproducing in any massacres in Florida and Connecticut matory statements came before she had been staged “false flag” events, was elected. form, whole or part, is a violation and that a Jewish laser conspiracy Cheney called for Trump’s of federal law without permission was the cause for California wildfires. impeachment on Jan. 12, saying, from the publisher. She backed pumping a bullet into the “The president of the United States head of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. summoned this mob, assembled the This divide reached Indiana mob, and lit the flame of this at- Jack E. Howey on Tuesday, when in a conference call tack. Everything that followed was editor emeritus with reporters, U.S. Sen. Todd Young his doing. None of this would have 1926-2019 joined a growing list of senators who happened without the president. The have expressed concern that Greene president could have immediately could become the face of the party and forcefully intervened to stop the heading into the 2022 mid-terms. violence. He did not. There has never “There should be no debate been a greater betrayal by a presi- about Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Young dent of the United States of his office said. “She’s nutty. She’s an embarrass- and his oath to the Constitution.” ment to our party. There is no place Joining Cheney, who survived for her in the Republican Party. Of a secret ballot caucus vote 145-61 Page 3 last night, and eight other Republicans was U.S. Rep. campaign “autopsy” memo, “Biden had a clear edge over Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who described what’s at stake POTUS on being seen as honest and trustworthy. POTUS for the national GOP: “The biggest danger right now is suffered his greatest erosion with White voters, particularly that we’ve become a party that dabbles – not just dabbles White men in both state groups. However, he made double – we traffic in conspiracies and we traffic in lies.” digit gains with Hispanics in both groups, while his perfor- He described Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrec- mance among Blacks was virtually the same as 2016. PO- tion as a “wake-up call” for the GOP. “Republicans must TUS lost ground with almost every age group in both state say enough is enough. It’s time to unplug the outrage ma- groupings. In 2016, Trump won Independents by double chine, reject the politics of personality, and cast aside the digits in both the flipped and held groupings. They shifted conspiracy theories and rage. It’s time to turn back from against him significantly in 2020.” the edge of darkness and return to the ideals that have Former vice president Mike Pence, who had stood long been our guiding light. It’s now or never. The choice with Trump for more than four years supporting just about is ours. I’ve made mine, and I hope every Republican, and anything he said, finally parted with the president leading every American who shares our values, will choose to join up to Jan. 6. He resisted taking part in what would have me. Let’s take back our party.” been a coup d’etat, which prompted the mob to Sen. Young acknowledged Trump’s chant “Hang Mike Pence” as he and his family legacy of 30,000 lies, half-truths and misrep- were taken to a secure location. resentations that led to the U.S. Capitol mob, In the early months of his tenure on the saying Sunday on Fox59’s INFocus, “I think national ticket, Pence often compared Trump we need to name and shame members of to President Ronald Reagan. But there was no the media who were out there perpetuating real comparison and Pence eventually stopped. mistruths and deceiving individuals. I think the Reagan was a beacon of optimism and conser- same applies to politicians who are out there vative common sense who won two landslide perpetuating things that are completely false elections, had broad coattails and reshaped the and deceiving constituents.” world through policy while preaching GOP unity On that same show, U.S.