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Pro-Life: Indiana Political Juggernaut 40 Years of Roe V V18, N23 Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 Pro-Life: Indiana political juggernaut 40 years of Roe v. Wade shows emphatic impact despite polling By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – In the past 40 years there have been 55 million abortions in the United States. With Indiana at 2.1% of the U.S. people, the math produces a startling statistic: Approximately 1 million Hoosiers didn’t make it into the popula- tion. “We’ve screwed up the population pyramid,” observed Curt Smith, who heads the Indiana Family Institute. “Forty years later, we do not have the adult work force to make the system work. The Social Security system would be different. There’s probably been a million Hoosiers aborted. We’d have 14% more population and they’d be coming into their peak earning years and peak productivity.” crime rates in major U.S. cities, the statistics rolled off the It’s not the first time the post Roe v. Wade demo- table. Crime took a deep dive and some demographers graphics have been probed to explain a social phenom- enon. In the mid-1990s after crack cocaine spiked violent Continued on page 3 Donnelly tabs John Zody By SHAW R. FRIEDMAN LaPORTE – Let’s face it - we don’t have the luxury as Hoosier Democrats to be debating the choice of the next chair. Frankly, if it hadn’t been for Joe Donnelly and his ‘‘You must act. Be bold. Be exceptionally disciplined and well-run campaign winning a U.S. Senate seat and plaudits pour- courageous. Americans are ing in from around the country for that counting on you” campaign, we’d be facing a wilderness - the likes of which we hadn’t seen since - Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords pre-Evan Bayh days. Our ranks have been so sorely depleted in both the legislature and U.S. congressional seats that our caucuses can hold their meetings in HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 2 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 a phone booth. As Chairman Dan every success he’s accomplished in Parker rightly points out, even though politics through hard work, sweat and Hoosier Democrats won 42% of the tears. Nothing was ever handed to vote statewide, because of brutal par- this guy. I know of no more indefati- www.HoweyPolitics.com tisan gerry-mandering, we are reduced gable campaigner than Donnelly and to just 31 seats in the Indiana House even though he’s been able to go to and an equally abysmal number left in Washington, D.C. and will govern in Howey Politics the Senate. Our ranks of Democratic a bi-partisan fashion, he bleeds as a Indiana House members has also been re- Democrat and holds Democratic values is a non-partisan newsletter duced. close to his heart. based in Indianapolis and We all can have our opin- This is a blue collar Demo- Nashville, Ind. It was founded ion on who best might serve as state crat who will barnstorm our state at chairman but at the end of the day J.J. dinners and county fairs and who in 1994 in Fort Wayne. it was always up to Joe Donnelly to has the common touch that we saw It is published by make a recommendation. He’s cho- with the likes of former Senator Birch WWWHowey Media, LLC sen John Zody who cut his teeth as a Bayh. He’s got an everyman appeal 405 Massachusetts Ave, Young Democrats organization state that is infectious and that will continue Suite 300 leader and then paid his dues working resonating with voters and we need for the likes of Governors O’Bannon to do what we can to build campaigns Indianapolis, IN 46204 and Kernan and other key Democrats. around him. In one of the bluest John’s impressed me with his diligence counties in northern Indiana (LaPorte Brian A. Howey, Publisher and work ethic and will do a fine job. County) we’ve successfully run cam- Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington Frankly, Dan Parker’s last year paigns around the Donnelly team Jack E. Howey, editor in office may turn out to have been concept. He understands the essence his best year as state chair. In many of team play and has never hesitated ways, after surviving a close call to helping local candidates in their ef- Subscriptions depose him back in December 2011, forts. $350 annually HPI Weekly Parker became a better state chairman Donnelly understands what $550 annually HPI Weekly and reaching out to segments of the party it takes to help build party and his that he had previously not included putting his stamp early on state party HPI Daily Wire. or consulted. He brought on a highly with the selection of Kelly Norton as 'Call Adrian France motivated and talented professional Executive Director was a good move. 812.455.4070 or email staff in recent years that moved the Joe Donnelly well understands and [email protected] ball both in fundraising and in voter respects the role that Evan Bayh has contact. Parker leaves the state party played in building the modern Demo- in very good shape for his successor cratic Party in Indiana to a position Contact HPI considering the tough cards he had where we can compete and win and www.howeypolitics.com been dealt with redistricting. I suspect he wants to replicate much [email protected] Hoosier Democrats interest- of that success. I have no doubt that 'Howey’s Cabin: 812.988.6520 ed in party growth and development Joe Donnelly wants to build on the need to defer to our senator’s choice winning Bayh legacy and I am confi- 'Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 for state chair. Having served as Don- dent that considerable thought went 'Washington: 202-256-5822 nelly’s campaign chair in 2006 and as into this pick. Hoosier Democrats are 'Business Office: 812.455.4070 his debate sparring partner readying likely to rally around this choice and him for debates against Chris Chocola the future bodes well for us. Like © 2013, Howey Politics Indiana. that year (yes, he mopped the floor many, I want us to be in position to All rights reserved. Photocopy- with Chocola and, as it turned out, compete and win for a governorship in needed very little coaching!) I know 2016 and with Joe Donnelly’s help, we ing, Internet forwarding, fax- the intense fire and competitiveness might just get there. v ing or reproducing in any form, that exists in Joe Donnelly. whole or part, is a violation of In Sen. Joe Donnelly, we Shaw Friedman is former legal federal law without permission have someone who understands the counsel for the Indiana Demo- from the publisher. v nuts and bolts of politics. He’s earned cratic Party. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 3 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 Right to Life Endorsed 2012 Winning Candidates Federal U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski CD2 U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman CD3 U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita CD4 U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks CD5 U.S. Rep. Luke Messer CD6 U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon CD8 U.S. Rep. Todd Young CD9 U.S. Sens. Dick Lugar in 1976, Dan Coats in 1988 and Dan Quayle in 1980 established the Indiana State executive pro-life legacy in the Indiana U.S. Senate delegation. Lugar’s election came three years after Roe Gov. Mike Pence vs. Wade. Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann Atty Gen. Greg Zoeller If there is a political flaw in the Pro Life, from page 1 pro life juggernaut, it’s that the leader- Indiana House ship is male dominated, which makes pointed to the fact that scores of babies in Rep. Ed Soliday HD4 some pro-life women nervous. And single parent and lower economic classes Rep. Dale DeVon HD5 there’s a perception that once you’re were never born, depopulating a section of Rep. Richard Pfeil HD8 in the club, a pro life advocate can say what would have been the criminal class Rep. Rick Niemeyer HD11 just about anything and the movement most active in the 17- to 23-year-old range. Rep. Sharon Negele HD13 will rally around, as was the case with In the four decades of Roe vs. Rep. Hal Slager HD15 Mourdock. Pence defended him in the Wade, Indiana has been impacted not only Rep. Douglas Gutwein HD16 final weeks of the campaign, and in in a demographic sense, but politically as Rep. Timothy Harman HD17 doing so, came shockingly close to an well. Rep. David Wolkins HD18 upset. Gov. Mike Pence’s new admin- Rep. Tom Dermody HD20 Sen. Dan Coats, who emerged istration is the most overtly pro-life in Rep. Timothy Wesco HD21 as Dan Quayle’s 4th CD district direc- the state’s history. The Republican super Rep. Rebecca Kubacki HD22 tor in 1981 – eight years after Roe majorities of the Indiana General Assembly Rep. Donald Lehe HD25 vs. Wade – sees abortion more of a are overwhelmingly pro-life, as is the 10-3 Rep. Randy Truitt HD26 personal decision than a political one. Republican advantage in the congressional Rep. Jeffrey Thompson HD28 “In the 1980 election it became one delegation. U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly contin- Rep. Kathy Richardson HD29 of the two or three key issues,” Coats ues a trend of Indiana’s U.S. senators, all of Rep. Michael Karickhoff HD30 said. “There was still a lot of reac- whom have been pro-life since Birch Bayh’s Rep. Kevin Mahan HD31 tion to Roe v. Wade and a lot of effort defeat in 1980 by Dan Quayle.
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