V18, N42 Thursday, July 11, 2013 Coats skeptical of Obamacare repeal Implementation fiasco and calls for repeal will find obstinate President By BRIAN A. HOWEY and MAUREEN HAYDEN INDIANAPOLIS – There is no question about it, U.S. Sen. Dan Coats is an ardent proponent for the repeal of Obamacare. Indiana’s senior senator believes it is crimping the economy, costing jobs, and places undue bur- dens and taxes on employers and medical device makers. He also knows that many of his Democratic Senate colleagues are petrified of the political impact. On Wednesday, Coats joined 44 other GOP senators in asking Presi- Stutzman and Luke Messer see as a distinct possibility in dent Obama to “permanently delay” the implementation of the next year or so as Obamacare is implemented and pub- the Affordable Care Act. “While your action finally acknowl- lic support in the polls plummets. This was fueled last week edges some of the many burdens this law will place on job when the Obama administration made a Friday evening bad creators, we believe the rest of this law should be perma- news dump on the U.S. Department of Treasury website nently delayed for everyone in order to avoid significant that it was delaying implementation of the employer man- economic harm to American families,” they wrote. “We date until 2015, after the mid-term elections. implore you to listen to the American people.” The repeal is something U.S. Reps. Marlin Continued on page 4 The millennial mayors By BLAIR MILO LaPORTE – There seem to be very few things that Republicans, Democrats, Independents and others can agree on, but across the country there “I don’t think Ivy Tech is a is one resounding message from all political backgrounds: The political failing institution. You’ve got gridlock has to end. many legislators saying, ‘What Pundits, party leaders and every- one in between have offered differing gives here?’” suggestions on how to curb the grid- - State Sen. Luke Kenley lock, but most of these recommenda- tions are ultimately based on sup- to Ivy Tech’s Tom Snyder porting a particular ideology which only contributes to, rather than al- on the school’s deficits HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 2 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, July, 11, 2013 leviates, the current problem. I would campus that will help train a workforce like to offer a radical solution to end to meet the demands of Frankfort’s political gridlock: Support candidates growing industries www.HoweyPolitics.com and elected officials who embrace the • Perceived “negative” characteristics that generational schol- attribute: Entitled to access to is a non-partisan newsletter ars have held their noses about and information and the Internet based in Indianapolis and assigned to the Millennial Generation. Why this is actually good: Nashville, Ind. It was founded Joel Stein’s cover article of a Fosters a mindset more accepting of May Time magazine issue detailed the differing opinions; willing and able to in 1994 in Fort Wayne. downfalls of the Millennial Generation, research and contemplate multiple It is published by characterizing us as “lazy, entitled nar- perspectives. WWWHowey Media, LLC cissists who still live with our parents.” Example: Columbia City 405 Massachusetts Ave., He concludes the article by claiming Mayor Ryan Daniel routinely engages Suite 300 “…they’ll save us all.” As Stein indi- with his city council to discuss and cates, there are numerous academic encourage deliberation on legisla- Indianapolis, IN 46204 surveys to support the arguments tive issues. When asked how he has made for assigning the characteristics managed such a successful relation- Brian A. Howey, Publisher to the Millennial Generation, but more ship with the council leading to great Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington convincing than any survey are the progress in Columbia City, Daniel said, Jack E. Howey, Editor interactions that we have with those “By respecting each other’s roles and born from 1980 to 2000. various opinions, even if they differ, Mary Lou Howey, Editor You have seen the attach- we research, debate and arrive at Maureen Hayden, Statehouse ment to social media, the Internet successful policies that will grow our Matthew Butler, Daily Wire and cell phones that has empowered community.” and emboldened the generation, while • Perceived “negative” simultaneously making us the bane of attribute: Addiction to social me- Subscriptions many institutions’ existence. You have dia; need for constant feedback. $599 annually experienced the Millennials who think Why this is actually good: Ray Volpe, Account Manager they could be the next Mark Zucker- Creates an opportunity for leaders (not ' 317.602.3620 berg or Sean Parker and are building always just their staff) to directly and email: [email protected] their own company instead of working routinely engage with citizens; con- their way up a corporate food chain. tributes toward team and consensus So what is it about these character- building. 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Photocopy- new and innovative ways of doing • Perceived “negative” ing, Internet forwarding, fax- things. attribute: Ambivalent about the ing or reproducing in any form, Example: Frankfort Mayor past whole or part, is a violation of Chris McBarnes is setting the example Why this is actually good: for public and private partnerships in Inspires results-oriented leaders to federal law without permission workforce development. By partnering tackle big challenges instead of being from the publisher. v with Ivy Tech and multiple local indus- intimidated by their size, or the fact tries, the city of Frankfort is establish- that they “couldn’t be done” in the ing a downtown community college past. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 3 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Thursday, July 11, 2013 Example: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was It is not a foolproof system to simply elect Millenni- undaunted by his city’s challenge of abandoned homes and als to public office to solve gridlock. Millennials still display launched an initiative to address 1,000 properties in 1,000 less civic engagement and lower political participation than days. Quoting Leonard Bernstein he stated, “In order to any previous group, so many have yet to use their powers do something great you need two things: A plan and not for good government. quite enough time. And that’s where we’re at right now by Generational traits can only be loosely applied to setting this ambitious goal as a community of addressing members of a generation. Not all Millennials embody these 1,000 properties in 1,000 days.” traits and individuals of other generations can certainly of- • Perceived “negative” attribute: Decreased fer positive attributes. attention span; need for diverse projects/interests The takeaway here is two-fold: Millennial traits Why this is actually good: Makes multi-tasking can be forces for good in both business and government, a routine behavior and allows leaders to thoughtfully ad- and in the case of the latter, can solve the largest challenge dress multiple issues. that is strangling governmental progress. By supporting Example: Rising Sun Mayor Branden Roeder bal- innovative, results-oriented individuals who can effectively ances his full-time position as an elementary school teacher multi-task, engage with the public and, most importantly, during the day, then heads to city hall after school to lead show a willingness to evaluate all possible aspects of an his city and finally goes home to his wife and year-old issue, we will begin to loosen the gridlock and get back to daughter. Amid his balancing act he has spearheaded an the business of effectively governing. We might even inter- interactive new website for the city, more closely aligned est the Millennial Generation in participating in it. members of the city council and continues to manage the budget for a new hotel aligned with the successful Rising Milo is mayor of LaPorte, Indiana. v Sun Casino. by the partisan polarization in Washington. Power moving from Brooks cites the book “The Metropolitan Revolu- tion” by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley of the Brookings Institution, saying: As the federal government becomes Washington to our cities less energetic, city governments become more so. Katz and By BRIAN A. HOWEY Bradley describe a country that is segmenting slightly into ANGOLA, Ind. – These past few weeks, we’ve seen divergent city states. Demographically, society is clustering. yet another example of sclerosis in Washington, this time In an era when the nuclear two-parent family was the key with the farm bill. On a topic that begged for compromise, demographic unit, it made sense to think of America as a everyone dug in, and there was celebration in some quar- suburban economy with common needs. But now two-par- ters even as they were spitting the ent nuclear families account for only a fifth of all house- ashes out of their mouths.