Porter County Indiana Politics - Latest Comments

Re: United States Senate Primary Poll

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Re: Iowa, A Close Race, and the Three Legged Stool

Furniture Shops — Sat, 12 May 2012 05:26:53 -0000

Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are tied in a very close race to win the you want to be the ”three legged stool of conservatism” that Ronald ...

Re: United States Senate Primary Poll

Leanne HoaglandSmith — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:13:03 -0000

What I thought was interesting in that the poll was identified as being independent even though 2 of the 3 entities behind the poll had already come out supporting Lugar. I am still scratching this old Swedish head to understand how they can claim being independent.

Leanne Hoagland-Smith

Re: Right to Life and Richard Mourdock...from a resident of a Flyover State

1mom4Christ — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:50:18 -0000

Thank you for this post.

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

daltonsbriefs — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 -0000

Buzz, there's definitely more value in FB right now agree. But I can see that a candidate with an engaging youtube or twitter profile can have an effect too. The key is engaging, just pushing out posts or links to email blasts is real boring for readers.

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

buzzcut — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:23:21 -0000

So I'm on Facebook (and there is some "vile blog" with some connection to me too).

Is there value in also doing twitter and a website? I have to admit, I just don't get twitter, and I didn't feel I got a lot of value out of my website last time.

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

buzzcut — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:21:10 -0000

Thanks for doing this, Steve.

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

daltonsbriefs — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:13:12 -0000

Thanks Ed, got it and added.

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

Ed Morales — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:44:14 -0000

Missed my website www.edmorales4council.com
Thanks Steve

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

Eric Olson — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:38:10 -0000

Thanks Steve!

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

daltonsbriefs — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:33:36 -0000

Thanks Eric, changing now

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

Eric Olson — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:06:40 -0000

Steve, no complaints., just an update my website address is olsonforindiana.com

Thanks

Re: Region's Social Media Politics

daltonsbriefs — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:31:15 -0000

Ok bring on the complaints about order of listing, missing links, misspelling candidates names, and all the other snide remarks please. Would like to have a more complete list by end of day tomorrow.

Re: Right to Life and Richard Mourdock...from a resident of a Flyover State

Eric Olson — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:41:22 -0000

Great job on this posting K...You summed it up well how evil planned childkillers is and how a great man like Mr. Mourdock deserve our support.

Keep up the good work!

Re: School Funding Fairness - Ghosting Be Gone

Stew Serendra — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:16:27 -0000

Mitigating expenses on public school funding should never be the core of education reform during fiscal bad times. Just throw in the numbers against military spending to justify these cutbacks!

Re: Purdue censoring a blogger?

Concerncitizenv — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:08:59 -0000

Purdue University is once again investigating Professor Eisenstein's free speech (this time, his blog) because someone has filed a formal complaint that it constitutes harassment/discrimination and/or retaliation. Any Purdue keeps investigating this nonsense even though their policies explicitly state that it will not investigate anything that is considered free speech. Purdue and its administrators are lying to the taxpayers of the State of Indiana as well as its students, faculty and staff -- and using tax dollars to violate Eisenstein's civil rights.

Re: Democrats for Mourdock?

Radarbinder — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:20:11 -0000

A desperate attempt by Democrats to help Lugar get elected, as he tends to vote with them in non-election years and is a yes-man for Barack Obama. The rabbit is begging NOT to be thrown into the briar patch.

Re: Political Blogs in Indiana today

Evan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:55:02 -0000

I just saw this on Red State about Mourdock. Looks like he is in some real trouble...

http://www.redstate.com/starza...

Re: Political Blogs in Indiana today

Jared — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:34:54 -0000

I know the state of Indiana is not a huge hotbed of racial
tension, but, as an individual of color, racial equality is an issue that
matters to me. I am not an ideologue, and would consider myself a moderate. The
primary between the Republicans has largely been uninteresting to me. Why
should I care about two old white guys arguing? That all changed when Mr.
Mourdock wore a tie sporting the “stars and bars” of the old, racist south.

At first, I shrugged it off as a coincidence. I really get
annoyed when people play the race card right off the bat. Then I began asking around to other people I
know, both white and black. It seems Mr. Mourdock does not have a good record
of hiring minorities during his time in office – one acquaintance actually used
the word “abysmal”. A few more questions turned up that he spends a lot of time
at libertarian conventions where state’s rights, nullification and disunion are
advocated…

I write this with as much objectivity as possible, but I
feel like there is more to the story on Mr. Mourdock. I won’t judge a man for
one slip up, but when the evidence starts coming together I can’t ignore it.
Unless he makes some big changes, the black community needs to be wary of Mr.
Mourdock, and his ties.

Re: Democrats for Mourdock?

buzzcut — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:04:15 -0000

You could very well be right, I had not considered that.

Re: Democrats for Mourdock?

daltonsbriefs — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:57:04 -0000

Well said Buzz, Donnelly has no chance of winning in this cycle barring some kind of major scandal on our side. This is merely a scare tactic late the game by the front runner to shore up his supporters. I don't dislike Lugar as much as many, and will vote for him of course in November if he wins the primary ... but it would be nice to see him step aside and let a new face into the Senate on our behalf.

Re: Democrats for Mourdock?

Bobbbyrttr — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:30:52 -0000

Donnelley does have a chance to win...Something that the talking head pundits are missing is this....If Lugar wins the primary, this republican and many like him will be voting for Donnelley, he's more conservative than "Dick" Lugar.

Re: Democrats for Mourdock?

buzzcut — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:43:41 -0000

You know, I'm not the most knowledgeable guy on Howey, I just know of him because I have read his column every Sunday for the last 5 years. But he seems REALLY in the tank for Lugar. Why is that?

I have been to fundraisers for both Lugar and Mourdock this year, I have shaken both mens' hands, but only Mourdock took the time to speak for me for 10 minutes (about shale gas and the opportunities it brings to Indiana). I believe that if you speak to Mourdock supporters, it is this personal touch that sways them his way.

I don't believe for a minute that Donnelley has any chance. Indiana has become a solid Republican state, it is actually trending more Republican, as we will see after this election. Obama has done what no one else could for generations, turn Southern Indiana Republican.

Re: End of Another Embarrassing Era? Can we have a US Senator who LIVES in Indiana this time?

Starz — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:22:25 -0000

Interesting choice of words, Jfultz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: Porter County Courthouse

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:50:15 -0000

I think rebuilding the dome (or something similar) would be a great idea. Did you know that before Porter County had a courthouse, court sessions took place in someone's home and the residents back then knew that wasn't right, so they banded together and raised 1250 dollars. I would definitely consider starting a donations fund to build the dome--did Doc Brown try to raise funds to save the clock tower in BTTF?? Just saying.