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Pence Cash-Strapped Gregg Campaign Seeks to Tag Pence on Social Issues by BRIAN A V17, N38 Thursday, June 14, 2012 The defining of candidate Pence Cash-strapped Gregg campaign seeks to tag Pence on social issues By BRIAN A. HOWEY GREENWOOD, Ind. - What do you do when the money is trickling in, your opponent is flush with cash, and there are significant policy details that have evaded the public’s attention? If you’re John Gregg and Vi Simpson, the Democratic guberna- torial ticket, you hit the road and pump up the earned media. That’s exactly what the Democrats have done over the past two weeks, high- lighting their version of the verge of an era of growth and opportu- the “Pence Plan” that nity like no other in the history of the state, focuses not on jobs, as and if we meet this moment with the right Gregg repeatedly stated leaders and right ideas, Indiana will take should be the top priority her rightful place as the leading state in the of the 2012 campaign with the Indiana unemployment rate Midwest and one of the fastest growing state economies in hovering around 8%, but the Pence record on social issues. America. My vision is clear: To make Indiana the state that Pence is tacking in the opposite direction, focusing works.” almost exclusively on jobs. At the Indiana Republican Con- vention last Saturday, Pence said, “I believe Indiana is on Continued on page 3 Statistics unworthy of us By BRIAN A. HOWEY NASHVILLE, Ind. - We live in not only the richest, most powerful nation in the world, we live in perhaps the wealthiest and most influential country in the history of civilization. ‘‘Reagan would have, based on his So it should trouble us all when record of finding accommodation, a study released earlier this month finding a degree of common ground by the organization Feeding America revealed that 22.7% of Hoosier chil- ... a hard time if you define the dren – an estimated 358,000 – don’t Republican Party.” know where their next meal will come from. In Miami and Starke counties, - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush the statistics are even more troubling with 26.9% of children on the verge HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 2 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 14, 2012 of hunger. reported that the number of homeless “As summer begins and Hoo- U.S. military veterans surged by 34%. sier kids do not have access to school These are the people who served their meals, we must take this information country and have been discarded onto as a call to action,” said Emily Weikart the mean streets. www.HoweyPolitics.com Bryant, executive director of Feeding On June 30, the Regional Bus Indiana’s Hungry. “It is unacceptable Authority in Lake County will be on for nearly a quarter of all children to the verge of suspending public transit Howey Politics be at risk of hunger in Indiana. There to Hammond, East Chicago and Gary. Indiana is no reason any child should be faced While the percentage of people living is a non-partisan newsletter with the grim option of going without below the poverty level in Indiana is based in Indianapolis. It was meals.” 13.5%, in Hammond it is 14.3%, in founded in 1994 in Fort Wayne. Why is this happening? Gary it is 25.8% and in East Chicago it A new report by the Federal is 33.1%. The question that should be Reserve shows that between 2007 and asked is: How are these people going Brian A. Howey, Publisher 2010 – a period spanning the final two to a job or the doctor’s office once bus Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington years of the George W. Bush and the service is cut? Jack E. Howey, editor first two years of the Barack Obama In 2009, the U.S. Census Bu- Beverly K. Phillips, associate presidencies – American family median reau reported that 43.8% of Hoosier net worth declined by 40%. The last children were born out of wedlock, editor time we saw such a fall was during the compared to 5.4% at the end of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Median Baby Boom in 1964. Some 39.4% of Subscriptions net worth dropped from $126,400 single mothers with children are poor $350 annually HPI Weekly in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010. Overall, compared to 6.1% of married couples median net worth fell 38.8% and the with children. It prompted the Heri- $550 annually HPI Weekly and mean fell 14.7%. The median income tage Foundation to observe, “Marriage HPI Daily Wire. for all American families fell 7.7%. is a highly effective institution which 'Call 317.627.6746 American families are get- greatly decreases parental and child ting hammered. They are seeing their poverty while improving long-term home values decline. A home I own outcomes for children. Conversely, the Contact HPI in Broad Ripple is now worth $30,000 absence of marriage greatly increases Howey Politics Indiana less than what I paid for it in 2005 welfare costs and imposes added bur- 6255 Evanston Ave. (and that’s after making $40,000 in dens on taxpayers.” Indianapolis, IN 46220 improvements). In 2010, the rate of teen www.howeypolitics.com The Fed said in its Survey of births was 37.3 per 1,000 population, Consumer Finances: “Although de- compared to 34.3 for the U.S. aver- [email protected] clines in the values of financial assets age. The Indiana infant mortality rate 'Howey’s Cabin: 812.988.6520 or business were important factors per 1,000 stood at 7.8%, compared to 'Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 for some families, the decreases in 6.8% nationally. 'Washington: 703.248.0909 median net worth appear to have Finally, the Pew Research Cen- 'Business Office: 317.627.6746 been driven most strongly by a broad ter reported this week that as Ameri- collapse in house prices.” cans head to the polls this November, Here’s another stunning their values and basic beliefs are more © 2012, Howey Politics Indiana. statistic: While the FBI’s Preliminary polarized along partisan lines than at All rights reserved. Photocopy- Annual Uniform Crime Report for any point in the past 25 years. Unlike ing, Internet forwarding, fax- 2011 showed that violent crime had in 1987, when Pew began the series ing or reproducing in any form, declined nationwide by 4%, in small of surveys, the values gap between towns with populations under 10,000, Republicans and Democrats is now whole or part, is a violation of the murder rate jumped 18.3%. greater than gender, age, race or class federal law without permission In Indianapolis, a survey divides. from the publisher. v of the homeless revealed an increase Overall, there has been much of 5%, from 1,567 in 2011 to 1,647 more stability than change across this year. But the Indianapolis Star the 48 political value measures that HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 3 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, June 14, 2012 the Pew Center has tracked since the deep mess we are in – who right off 1987. But the average partisan gap the bat pronounced the stimulus plan has nearly doubled over this 25-year as unworkable. How could they possibly period, from 10 percentage points in know? And I am equally disenchanted 1987 to 18 percentage points in the with congressional Democrats who just new study. Nearly all of the increases couldn’t resist loading up the stimulus have occurred during the presiden- bill with their social agenda, attempting cies of George W. Bush and Barack to steer money into contraceptive pro- Obama. During this period, both par- grams and the National Endowment for ties’ bases have often been critical of their parties for not the Arts. All it did was to throw up a barrier to Republicans, standing up for their traditional positions. Currently, 71% the very people President Obama says he wants to receive of Republicans and 58% of Democrats say their parties input from, and ultimately votes. And then comes Wednes- have not done a good job in this regard. day night. The stimulus bill that will bring $4 billion dollars Pew adds that the growing partisan divide over the next two years to our state, passed by a straight over political values is not simply the result of the declin- party line vote. Folks, if this is the way it’s going to be, we ing number who identify with the party labels. While many are in deeper trouble than I thought. Americans have given up their party identification over the After U.S. Rep. Mike Pence invited President past 25 years and now call themselves independents, the Obama to meet with them in January 2009, the President polarization extends also to independents, which mostly said, “The main message I have is that the statistics every lean toward a political party. Even when the definition of day underscore the urgency of the economic situation. the party bases is extended to include the leaning inde- The American people expect action. They want us to put pendents, the values gap has about doubled between 1987 together a recovery package that puts people back to and 2012. work, that creates investments that assure our long-term In contrast to the widening partisan gap, the new energy independence, an effective health care system, an survey finds neither growing class differences in funda- education system that works; they want our infrastructure mental political values, nor increasing class resentment. rebuilt, and they want it done wisely, so that we’re not As in the past, a substantial majority of Americans agree wasting taxpayer money.” that “the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer.” Yet So here we are more than three years later, with there are no indications of increasing hostility toward the Obama and Pence on the ballot.
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