V16, N41 Monday, July 11, 2011 Lugar bucks Mourdock’s June swoon Challenger’s money, operations & scheduling bring scrutiny By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS - As U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar and Indiana Treasurer Richard Mour- dock were making their 11th hour appeals prior to the June 30 FEC report deadline, six people were arrested in Moldova trying to sell more than 1kg of uranium-235 for $20 million. “Police have learned that they had found a potential customer, a citizen of a Muslim country in Africa,” Vitalie Briceag, an Moldovan Interior official, told AFP. These events underscored perhaps the most compelling reason to return a man who will be 80 years old when the next Richard Mourdock at a June 11 Tea Party rally in Kokomo that conflicted with Mike Hoosier is sworn into the U.S. Senate in Pence’s gubernatorial kickoff in Columbus. January 2013. That Lugar had been at the Ukraine/Moldovan border in August 2007 to you can find three stadiums - including NFL and NBA inspect high tech WMD detection equipment, and that his venues - two major interstates radiating out across the staff had been in Moldova in January - just as Mourdock compass, critical Internet and cyber optic terminals, and was gearing up a challenge - to follow up on an uranium one of the largest insulin manufacturing sites in the world. arrest there last year, was the stuff of global intrigue A cataclysmic terror nuke strike in Lugar’s backyard - in the wrapped around the highest stakes in civilization. American heartland - would devastate the American secu- Lugar’s political bulwark is his home city of India- napolis. Within a two-mile radius just south of downtown Continued on page 3 McIntosh will run in 5th By BRIAN A. HOWEY INDIANAPOLIS - Former congressman David Mc- Intosh will file paperwork for an exploratory committee in the 5th CD, putting him on a potential “The American people expect collision course with U.S. Rep. Dan Burton and a growing Republican us to act on every good idea out primary field there. “We have decided to run in there. What they are looking for the 5th and we are opening this week is that we have done everything an exploratory committee which is essentially a campaign committee,” we can. They feel their leaders McIntosh said. His former Congres- sional office chief of staff - Devin have let them down” Anderson - will head his campaign. - President Obama HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 2 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Monday, July 11, 2011 the cover of TIME magazine showing Also supporting McIntosh are former the shredding of the Constitution, it Republican chairs Al Hubbard and Jim shows that everything is at stake. I’ve Kittle Jr. spent my entire life working on things McIntosh talked with Burton like that. I felt I needed to offer a vi- about a month ago. “I felt I needed to www.HoweyPolitics.com sion.” tell him that because we were col- McIntosh noted that he had leagues,” McIntosh said. “He’s very battled President Clinton over the bal- confident he would win. He told me, anced budget amendment and added, Howey Politics ‘I hope you don’t do it, if you do, I’ll “You have to really fight for your prin- Indiana beat you.’” ciples. is a non-partisan newsletter Informed and reliable 5th based in Indianapolis. It was CD Republicans have told HPI that founded in 1994 in Fort Wayne. Burton has considered an 11th hour exit from the campaign just before HPI is taking the rest of this next February’s filing deadline and week off. The HPI Daily Wire will Brian A. Howey, Publisher endorsing State Sen. Mike Delph, a resume on Monday July 18. Watch Mark Schoeff Jr., Washington former Burton aide. www.howeypolitics.com for up- Jack E. Howey, editor Burton spokesman Josh dates. Beverly K. Phillips, associate Gillespie said last week that Burton planned to seek reelection to a 15th editor term. McIntosh said that he will McIntosh was elected to campaign on a Republican Study Subscriptions Congress in the Gingrich Revolution of Group intiative of cutting the budget $350 annually HPI Weekly 1994 and served until 2000 when he in tandem with a balanced budget was nominated to unsuccessfully chal- $550 annually HPI Weekly and amendment. “That essentially says lenge Gov. Frank O’Bannon. Congress won’t extend debt ceiling HPI Daily Wire. McIntosh noted that he ran in unless it’s part of a plan to send bal- 'Call 317.627.6746 a crowded primary - four candidates anced budget to states, along with - in 1994 in what was an open seat deep cuts, and there’s an automatic after U.S. Rep. Phil Sharp decided to Contact HPI cap. If spending increases, it goes retire. It would have been five candi- down automatically to the cap.” Howey Politics Indiana dates but the expected frontrunner - McIntosh said his biggest 6255 N. Evanston Ave. Indiana Auditor Ann DeVore - failed to constrast with Burton comes with the Indianapolis, IN 46220 file her candidacy on time. McIntosh pharmaceutical industry. McIntosh www.howeypolitics.com then defeated Secretary of State Joe favors an acceleration in bringing new Hogsett that November. [email protected] drugs to market. “I worked with Dan McIntosh acknowledged that Quayle on accelerated approval when 'Howey’s cell: 317.506.0883 during their time together in Congress, he was vice president,” McIntosh said. 'Washington: 703.248.0909 he and Burton’s voting records were “On the oversight committee I chaired 'Business Office: 317.627.6746 similar. we pushed the FDA to not over- “This is not a race against regulate new drugs. I have been a big him,” McIntosh said. “It’s chiefly a © 2011, Howey Politics Indiana. promoter of the market area. Dan has question of using the position to drive been a critic of the drug industry.” All rights reserved. Photocopy- the conservative agenda and get Is McIntosh concerned ing, Internet forwarding, fax- things done. What’s really called for is about a crowded primary? Dr. John ing or reproducing in any form, my experience in 1994. I have experi- McGoff has already declared and for- whole or part, is a violation of ences before and after that. I know mer District Attorney Susan Brooks is how Washington works. I’m a fighter. I about to get into the race. federal law without permission know how to keep fighting for smaller v McIntosh said he has talked from the publisher. government. The country is so far off with McGoff, as well as 2010 Burton track with President Obama’s leader- primary challengers Brose Mcvey and ship.” Mike Murphy, neither of whom are McIntosh added, “When I see planning to run this cycle. HOWEY Politics Indiana Page 3 Weekly Briefing on Indiana Politics Monday, July 11, 2011 “Dan Burton had 30 percent of the voters who Burton this time. wanted him back there and 70 percent didn’t,” McIntosh “If you’re looking at someone who got around said. “My approach is I’ll focus on the position and tell 30 percent, there is blood in the water,” said former Marion them what I can do in Congress. Hopefully they’ll say, ‘He’s County Republican Party Chairman Tom John, who is likely the guy.’” to support Brooks. Said Marion County Republican Party Politico surveyed a number of 5th CD Republicans Chairman Kyle Walker, “Based on how the district is re- and found a persistent anti-Burton sentiment. “The reason drawn, if last year’s election was held today, he would no so many people are running against him is because he’s longer be a congressman.” vulnerable,” said Howard County Republican Party Chair- Added former Indiana Republican Party Chairman man Craig Dunn. Dunn endorsed Burton in 2010 when just Murray Clark. “I think Dan over the last several cycles has two of the 11 county chairs did so. Dunn will not endorse lost his base.” v Long Thompson’s extremely low profile after she won the Lugar-Mourdock, from page 1 Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2008. Mourdock’s June swoon went like this: rity psyche far more than the 2001 assaults at the World June 8: In May Mourdock had announced that 10 Trade Center and the Pentagon. of the 18 Indiana Republican Central Committee members The rap on Lugar that prompted a Tea Party- had endorsed his campaign. The Lugar campaign had been induced rebellion at what many believed would be his vale- handed a gift; for within 30 days after Gov. Daniels signed dictory political run into the defining realm of statesman- into law the new Congressional maps, the Congressional ship was that his globe-trotting had eclipsed his domestic Districts had to reorganize. And while numerous sources political operations back home. Many Republicans in “outer said that the Lugar-Mourdock primary battle was not the Indiana” bristle that he hasn’t been to a local Lincoln Day crucial element, the Mourdock campaign emerged with Dinner in years. “There’s an anti-Indianapolis attitude out black eyes. Richard Bramer, his chief-of-staff, lost a race for there to begin with,” said Kevin Shaw Kellems, a former vice chair in Mourdock’s home 8th CD. His campaign grass- Lugar aide, who runs a consulting business in Jefferson roots coordinator Diane Hubbard lost her bid to be chair County and Washington. That Mourdock spent much time in the 9th CD. In all, seven of the 10 Central Committee in places like Corydon, Warsaw, Monticello and other Tea members who endorsed Mourdock were no longer in those Party redoubts during his 2010 reelection campaign cer- positions on June 15.