Thursday, January 12, 1995 • Volume 2, Number 1 Page 1of8 Is MayorGoldsmd:h having it both ways7 =:..:.=.r Modisett's 'out' creates an opening; e.u-u. THE c may spill GOP blood in primary INDIANAPOLIS - Mayor Goldsmith? Gov. Goldsmith? No, this is not a scenario painted by the mayor's evil twin brother. It's very real and credible, particularly with Jeff Modisett's pre-Cambrian­ HOWEYT style (very early) withdrawal from the 1995 mayoral race. Sources tell HPR that Modisett found pre-Nov. 8 polling numbers to be extremely positive •• Jor not only Modisett, but Goldsmith. POLITICAL Sources say that Goldsmith's own poll in December revealed an 80- percent favorable rating overall and 45 percent in black wards - the same area where Modisett's unsuccessful1994 re-election effort for prosecutor went off the cliff. Political, as well as personal realities (the REPORT '94 race against Scott Newman was grueling) led Modisett to take a job with Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan as an environmental and white The Weekly Briefing On Indiana Politics collar crime specialist Modisett's decision not to enter the race creates a unique oppor­ tunity for the one-term Indianapolis mayor. While the mayor has yet to do what Joe Hogsett promised in 1990 - to serve a full term - the The Howey Political Report is published by The issue of whether someone could run for one office with the intention Newsletter Center,a subsidiary of Nixon Newspapers Inc. of campaigning fulltime for another office the following year is very The Howey Political Report is an independent, non­ real It was that scenario that ultimately dissuaded popular Allen partisan newsletter analyzing the political process in County Sheriff Joe Squadrito from challenging Fort Wayne Mayor Indiana. It neither endorses candidates nor advocates positions of public policy Paul Helmke in the May primary. Modisett would have posed a credible challenge to Goldsmith, Brian A. Howey, editor Office/Fax: 219-420-0909 1707 N.Anthony Blvd. Mobilenet: 219-438-5105 despite the early polling numbers. He would certainly have pressed Fort Wayne, IN 46805 CompuServe: 75141,51 Goldsmith for a commitment to serve a full term, although that strat­ egy didn't work in Tllll Jeffers' run against Secretary of State Sue Anne For Subscription information call: 317-473- 3091 Gilroy. Modisett's exit leaves Indianapolis Democrats with the © 1995, The Howey Political Report prospect of Marion County Chairman Thomas O'Brien making the challenge. Such an event, in the eyes of many Democrats and continued on page 8 "QUOTE" OF THE WEEK INSIDE F E A T U R E S • Cartoonist Bob Lang debuts, page2 "It's easy to promise things when • Columnists size Connie Chung, Bobby Knight, page3 you're in the minority••.. " • Indiana mayoral elections start to heat up, pages4-5 Don Michael,lobbyist for the Indiana • HPR Interview: State Sen.Jean Leising, pages6-7 Commissioners Association, on Democrats • Speculations: new column by Morton Marcus, pages Thursday, January 12, 1995 Page2of8 C~DNGRE,1SS W A T C H • Here are staff ajppointmients and key numbers for Indiana's three freshmen congressmen: JOHN HOSTETTLER Curt Smith, chief of staff; Nancy Juday, legislative directLJ-T; Harold Gutzwylller dis tr 1ct director, Evansville; To nru Washburne, counsel; D1enise Anew dayfo:r Hoosie~r ment as a sea ofbieg.e ,·•11th a "drabvi•ew of a Crum, office manager and Congressmen parking lot and office brnilding?' scheduler; Susan Mille1, The excitement over mundane tilings Bloomington o:ffice. DC "Very strange." quickly gave way to th 1:: huge task ahead. office 202-225-4636; fai:: :sf o, that wasn't the Beatles •;in~~ng the Mcintosh is expecte,iJ 1to be cast near the center 202-225-3284. song "Penny Lane:' It was U.S. Eep. Steve of the Revolution ollllc:1; Congress mov:es from Buyer's comment on the mood in Washington tax cuts to deregulatirn11, where the Mllilde MARK SOUDER Ziadl as the "Republican Revolution" began taking Republican will chair <i .mbcommittee. Ojakli, chief of staff; Dkgo root in Washington. Thursday of th.Ji; '•,:eek, Souder would be • Ruiz, deputy cbief of Hoosier Republicans movedl front stage joining Senate collea gm:s to begin discussing staff/policy dirt!ctor; &r1bin center last week, with tlle local news media unfunded mandates. Bertsch, special assistant; focusing primarily on the three freshmen - Hostettler was dei>cribed by Stuteville as Dawn Gerson, scheduler/ U.S. Reps.John Hostettler, David Mclntcs_1 the Hoosier who wo11 ld cast the fust irote for office manager; Holly Harle, and Mark Souder - altlbough JBuyer and U.S. Speaker Newt Gingr tel 1. Like Souder, Hostettler senior legislative assistant; Rep. John Myers received plenty of ink as made the day of revolution a family affair with Patty Mackin, legislative well. kids in tow. "You kno·i~ :>omeone asked me if assistant; Amy .Adair, legisla­ The Indianapolis Stars George St111t1~ville there was anything nw1re importmt than this tive assistant; Mark recounted how Mdntosh.'s day began befor,e event:' Hostettler tol :l .,1 uteville. "I to.Id him Wickersham, district diJr,ec­ dawn, when he and wi£e Ruthie "prayed there was nothing m1m: important than having and caring for a family; That's th,e only reason tor; Marilyn Waffle, dir1~ctor, together" and "asking only that the Lord's will constituent service. DC be done:' Then it was off to the barbe1· be.:ore I'm here?' office 202-225-3021; fair he put on his favorite ti,e with a gold silb.nu­ Not \that all the a11t1:ntion went to, the fresh­ 202-225-3479; Fort Wayne ette of President James Madiso:1. Upon arriv­ man. U.S. Rep. Lee Hamiilton, who can justly office 219-424-3041. ing at Capitol Hill, Mcintosh wz.s g1ee[ed by claim to be ahead oJ tl1 ~· curve on reforming former Attorney General Edwm Meese lII, Congress, urged his colleagues to make the DAVID McINTOSH Devin who had hired Mcintosh at the Justice happenings of Jan. LJ a111 on-going thing. Anderson, chief of s1taJff; Department years before. "We ought to take it up every year;' Mark Epley, legislative dlirec­ Sylvia Smith of the Fort TiJ,~yne ]cunw1 Hamilton told Davicl l.. --faase of tthe tor; John Steel,e, legisla1 J1'e Gautte also zeroed in on the persona[ aspects Indianapolis News."[ was very disappointed assistant; Angie Orem, staff of Souder getting set. It was described as a that we didn't vote on ·1Jhese things fast year. We assistant; and Steve Au.:1tin, pinch to end a dream. "I said, 'Cm ·ro11 ac:u1al­ should have. I regre1i that we did nof' district director.DC oflice ly believe this is happening and 1thcy'r1: not "If you stop and th. nk about it, that's really • 202-225-3021; fax 202-225- taking this away? It's all been so surreal,"' at the heart of people' 1, complaint todlay, that 3382; Muncie, 317 -282 .. Smith quoted Souder. the government does;d't work too wen:· 4613; fax 317-747-558<5. Smith described Souder's situdio ar art- Hamilton said. Not so :strange. Page 3of8 Thursday, January 12, 1995 COLUMNISTS 0 N IN DIANA TICKER T A p E Hevrdejs &: Conklin, Chicago Tribune - We've the prosecutor: He was serious. I told him that's NBC's Tom Brokaw spent time in been assured by those close to Bobby Knight impossible. So he and I have never hit it off Muncie (Middletown USA), talking that the tempestuous Indiana coach sympa­ since then:• to three families about the looming thized with Newt Gingrich's problems with polltica I changes in the nation. He CBS-TV's Connie Chung. When she was with Deborah Sederberg, Michigan City News­ also dld astintfor"Late Show with NBC-TV several years ago, Chung taped an Dispatch- When U.S. Sen. Dan Coats spoke to David Letterman. 0 Brokawstood interview with Knight in which he made a dis­ steelworkers at Bethlehem Steel, he seemed on the Ball State campus and said, tasteful remark about rape.Afterward, appar­ none too anxious to cozy up with the Newt "Whatever you do, David, just send ently realizing his mistake, the coach asked her speaker, at least on the Head Start issue. Coats money." to please edit out the comment. She didn't, and ·apparently believes independent studies that the interview touched off a national furor. We say Head Start works. The speaker says he Thls week's "Periscope" section of were tempted to call Knight for a reaction wants to cut Head Start funds, but Coats says Newsweek explores the political Thursday, but his team lost to Iowa by 19 he'll urge Republican colleagues to "not throw impact of former Vice President Dan points the previous night and, as one of his out the baby with the bath water?' Quayle~ health problems. It notes friends said, "Even on a good day the mention an "unreported" leg dotting episode of Connie Chung will touch him off.' Jack Colwell, South Bend Tribune - Tim "late in his vice presidency, n about Roemer isn't with it. He'll probably show up at with phlebitis in 1993,andthe David L Haase, Indianapolis News- U.S. Rep. an embassy reception in Washington wearing a tumorous appendectomy. While it John Myers let it out that his rotten relations lime green double-knit leisure suit. What's hot says the health problems shouldn't with House Speaker Newt Gingrich go back to and what's not in '95? A tax cut is hot. Just hurt his'96 presidential run, it quot­ 1989 and the ethics investigation of former about every Washington politician from the ed aGOP pol as saying, "If some­ Speaker Jim Wright.