V23, N14 Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 Young latest senator to arrive in tumult when he arrived Sen. Young threads the to his seat in 1999 needle with Trump as with President Bill Clinton, even U.S. faces a nuclear war, though the term is surfacing in topical intelligence service news and TV ads these days. questions, and controversy Three months after Sen. By BRIAN A. HOWEY Dan Quayle took INDIANAPOLIS – Freshman the oath in 1981, Indiana senators have had their share of President Ronald initial tumult after joining the world’s most Reagan was nearly exclusive club, and assassinated, with U.S. Sen. Todd Quayle helping to Young is no excep- pass his historic tion. U.S. Sen. tax cuts several Birch Bayh came months later. off an election And during the Cuban Young is not facing Missile Crisis din 1962 to his first year as vivid a prospect with the assassination of President John of a government F. Kennedy, setting him on a path to draft U.S. Sen. Todd Young questions former officials on shutdown as U.S. Sen. Joe the 25th Amendment a year later. Young’s presidential power to launch nuclear war during a not facing an impeachment trial of a sitting Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. U.S. president, as U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh did Continued on page 4 Following our mayors By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS – The contrast between the iner- tia in Washington and what’s being accomplished in cities across Indiana is striking. Traveling throughout the state this past year, I “Actually, we haven’t peaked. found fascinating pockets of innovation and growth from the There are no quick solutions to new parks and amphitheaters forged by Hammond Mayor it. There are no perfect solutions Thomas McDermott Jr., and Joe to it. And if we wait for perfect Stahura of Whiting, the creation of new city centers in Mayor Jim solutions, we’re never going to do Brainard’s Carmel, Scott Fadness anything.” in Fishers and Andy Cook in Westfield. Kokomo Mayor Greg - Drug Czar Jim McClelland, Goodnight and Fort Wayne’s Tom Henry have evolved and gauging the state’s opioid renewed their downtowns with pandemic. Page 2 Howey Politics Indiana WWHowey Media, LLC 405 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 300 Indianapolis, IN 46204 www.howeypolitics.com Brian A. Howey, Publisher Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington Ivy Tech President Sue Ellspermann talks with Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight, Shelbyville’s Tom DeBaun and Richmond’s Dave Snow at a Leadership Indianapolis confer- Jack E. Howey, Editor ence. Below is Bedford Mayor Shawna Girgis. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey) Mary Lou Howey, Editor Mark Curry, photography stadiums and the type greater enunciation of amenities that at- on the 25th floor of tract a younger work- the Indianapolis City- Subscriptions force. Mayor Lloyd County Building on HPI, HPI Daily Wire $599 Winnecke is trans- Monday, where four HPI Weekly, $350 forming downtown mayors – Democrats Ray Volpe, Account Manager Evansville with a $380 Joe Hogsett and Bart million transfusion Peterson and Republi- 317.602.3620 bringing a new con- cans Greg Ballard and email: [email protected] vention hotel, one of Stephen Goldsmith the state’s first land- – gathered to honor based casinos, several former mayor and Contact HPI new businesses, and a senator Richard Lugar [email protected] medical education and by naming the new Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 research facility. civic plaza in his honor. Washington: 202.256.5822 These are If there was irony in a Business Office: 317.602.3620 Republican mayors leading Democratic national context, the plaza is a block majority cities, and vise versa. away from City Market; at the behest We see this in smaller of Eli Lilly Jr., Mayor Lugar in the early © 2017, Howey Politics Indiana cities, with mayors like Tom days of his administration was urged Indiana. All rights reserved. DeBaun in Shelbyville working to bol- to save the historic building. Lugar Photocopying, Internet forward- ster the education opportunities of his did, the market bustles today, and ing, faxing or reproducing in workforce; Bedford’s Shawna Girgis, he would launch his presidential bid who forged a Stellar City plan and has there in 1995, on the same day of any form, whole or part, is a been cited by Indiana University for the Oklahoma City bombing. It was violation of federal law without advancing public health care in rural a campaign that was aspirational, if permission from the publisher. communities; former Franklin mayor ultimately unsuccessful. Joe McGuinness (now INDOT commis- There were two subtexts sioner) who has revamped the entry to this gathering. The first echoed to his city off I-65 through downtown; an Indianapolis Progress event at to Nashville Town Manager Scott the University of Indianapolis several Rudd, who is pushing everything from years ago, sans Hogsett and including broadband expansion to a civic per- the late Mayor Bill Hudnut. “They lined forming arts center and trails linking up all of us as mayors in sequence the town to Brown County State Park. and we went through our experiences The power of locals took on and one of the things that almost Page 3 every citizen grasped was that each one of us built upon flow, strong progress all the way through.” what one had done before,” Lugar said. “I remembered Hudnut took Lugar’s initial amateur sports plan that very favorably.” and Market Square Arena and expanded it to include the Lugar talked of the mentality afflicting Wash- RCA Dome, which brought the Colts. Goldsmith com- ington this generation, where candidates were “elected to pleted the Circle City Mall despite being a critic of the correct all of that, to rectify all the misdeeds of my pre- plan, forged the Artsgarden, and expanded the Indiana decessor.” It was thus when Barack Obama took the reins from President George W. Bush, and today when Donald Trump followed President Obama. There’s a “tear it down” men- tality that has gripped the national capital, and it becomes problematic when there isn’t a clear alternative to replace what’s been removed. This oc- curred in Iraq after Obama pulled out, leaving a void filled by ISIS. We’ve seen this in health care, with Repub- licans allowing Obamacare to sink instead of evolving; the Paris climate accords, with Syria and Nicaragua signing on, the U.S. is the only nation not on board; and the Trans Pacific Partnership, where the void left by the Americans is quickly being filled by China with its currency and rule of law. At a Leadership Indianapo- lis conference last month, DeBaun was asked by Ivy Tech President Sue Ellspermann, “What keeps you up at Indianapolis mayors Stephen Goldsmith, Richard night?” The Democrat DeBaun, work- Lugar, Joe Hogsett, Bart Peterson and Greg Bal- ing in a conservative county, said that lard look at the new civic plaza on Monday. (HPI over the past four decades 14 Japa- Photos by Mark Curry) nese companies have invested in his community. Specifically, he said, “My Twitter feed and reading commentary Convention Center and canal, built Bank- from the Japan Times. It says that the ers Life Fieldhouse (with the help of Gov. Japanese government and the Japa- Frank O’Bannon), while creating enduring nese people are not confident the U.S. commissions on youth and human services. government can keep up with its com- Peterson took the Goldsmith blueprint on Fall mitments. That terrorizes me. That’s Creek Place to create a vibrant near-north- beyond my control.” side neighborhood, built an award-winning At the same event, Mayor international airport and Lucas Oil Stadium Goodnight was asked who inspired (iwith the help of Gov. Daniels and taxpayers him as a leader. The Democrat an- in seven suburban counties), and embraced swered, “Gov. Mitch Daniels.” A Re- charter schools. Ballard completed EPA sew- publican. age/clean river mandates, forged the new Clay Robbins of the Lilly Foundation, which has Cummins and residential tower on the long vacant Market invested $2.2 billion in the city in a relationship forged Square Arena site, and was responsible for the “greening” by Lugar, observed, “When you look around the country of the city with bike lanes and bike/auto sharing platforms. now, there’s not a lot of civil dialogue taking place in a lot In essence, there was continuity. of places. The way you all have conducted yourselves as There was a hard tack political reality within our leaders, I think we’re all very, very proud. The success this group. It wasn’t always a “we are the world” set of re- we’ve had here in this community is due to the capable lationships. The ambitious Goldsmith chafed under Hudnut and caring and principled leadership you all have shown.” and didn’t attend Peterson’s inauguration. Ballard upset Lugar added, “The fact is, we had a very clear Peterson. Page 4 This leader arc came by ex- clearly dedicated to the better- ample, often with small gestures. As ment of all he served, a leader a member of the Indianapolis School who reached across the aisle, not Board, Lugar wrote Goldsmith after because it was the occasional ac- he was elected president of the Broad complishment he could tout, but Ripple High School Student Council, because it would yield the best re- urging him to consider a career in sults for the people he was elected public service. “I wanted to become to serve.” mayor because of Dick Lugar,” Gold- The momentum in leadership is smith said, working his way up from occurring in American cities big and the first floor clerk’s office to the 25th floor.