Rain can't stop our Center Township supporters -- Joe spent time firing up this group & talking about GOTV efforts. pic.twitter.com/KQcrsbbrut
— Joe Hogsett for Indy (@HogsettForIndy) October 27, 2015
I'm surprised Joe Hogsett would post a photo on his Twitter account of a sparsely attended meeting of Center Township Democrats describing him as "firing up this group" for his GOTV efforts. If this is any indication of the level of support in Center Township for his campaign going into Tuesday's election, voter turnout in Democratic precincts might just be down as much as it has been in early voting to date--nearly 50% below the close mayoral election four years ago. He's going to have to light a fire under someone's feet to turn things around by next Tuesday.UPDATE: A reader forwarded the latest post on Thomas' Cook's Twitter page. He's Joe Hogsett's campaign manager. Perhaps it's an indication of how he's feeling about the campaign five days ahead of the election.
Special thanks to @joelocrat for ordering me my favorite drink from across the bar. It's appletini season! pic.twitter.com/kxINz8RSaK
— Thomas Cook (@thomascarlcook) October 29, 2015
18 comments:
I think it is very possible that Hogsett will lose this election to Brewer. Low voter turnout is always great for Republicans. I predict the next mayor of Indianapolis will be elected by less than twenty-five percent of eligible voters. Sad!
No candidate should be allowed to assume office if the election for the office has less than 75% participation of the electorate.
This has been Hogsett's election to lose from day one. His campaign manager, Thomas Cook, has been very cocky and dismissive towards volunteers who might otherwise go the extra mile for his candidate. As a Democratic Party activist, I am surprised how little Hogsett seems to expect from his campaign manager. The Hogsett I've known over the years drove people who worked for him to do their job or get out of the way. Hogsett has been blessed by the totally ineffective campaign being run by his opponent; otherwise, his fate would be no different than Peterson's was 8 years ago when a goofball, underfunded, poorly-spoken Marine took advantage of the cavalier attitude the candidate and his campaign staff took towards the election. Hogsett will likely win, but it won't be by the wide margin he could and should win this election by.
Hogsett is already thinking about his future campaign for the U.S. Senate. Either way, this campaign is a launching pad for his self-serving ambitions.
Anon 3:33, I think you have an interesting idea. Make the politicians make a vast majority of voters care enough to go out and vote. Even party activists on both sides in this city don't care any more. So sad, this place we find ourselves.
You would have thought Hogshitt's handlers and Crony-Capitalist sponsors would have told the proles that work for them - You better be there and look happy. Perhaps Hogshitt is thinking there is no way the Bumbling Ballard-Brewer can beat me.
Come to think of it Ballard has not exactly come out swinging for the Republicans. Did he get the word to keep his head down and mouth shut??
3:33 by your standard we'd never have an elected official. Not even the heavy turnout 2008 Obama election approached 75% turnout.
Hogsett will win easily. The only issues are margin and turnout which is critical to the Ds winning in a number of marginal R districts.
I believe Paul is correct that Joe Hogsett will be the new Mayor of Indianapolis and that Mr. Hogsett will win "handily".
If Republicans got fired up about this Democrat committee letter about tattling to neighbors if you voted or not, they could swing the election to Brewer. It's no less angering than the alleged 'vote suppression' charges related to opposing satellite voting, voter ID, early voting.
Republicans just don't get mad enough to get to the polls, it seems.
Ballard, Walker, and their cronies (including Jen) have ruined the R brand. No Republicans except those on the take have much interest in this election.
Downtown Indy... you know what this now-former Republican grass roots worker and voter;... and thousands like me.. are fired up about? A partial list for you to consider---
Fifty years of parking meter chains in a special interest deal to ACS and all the Marion County taxpayer money lost for a conversion we could have accomplished "ourselves" and with local resources and talent, road clogging bicycle lanes- especially in Broad Ripple- that push traffic into the neighborhood streets making them unsafe and noisy, give-aways of public property to Ersal Ozdemir's Keystone Construction donation group (can you say (unsightly) Br. Ripple parking garage for starters?), Vision Fleet, Blue Indy, a prickly, cold Emperor Republican Mayor who breaks criminal and civil laws to even more fill the pockets of billionaire corporatists like Bollore, laws that mean absolutely nothing to politicians but that we little people are expected to obey down to the letter, the Disneyization of Downtown Indy to the detriment of the suburban counties, cheap looking and cheaply built millennial housing congesting the Center Township core, crony TIF deals that steal money from taxing districts for special interests, a City where crime seems to grow by the hour, a corrupt MCRCC and a corrupt mayoral administration.... no... Mr. Greg Ballard's corrupt rein and lawlessness has [IMHO] tainted and damaged all Marion County Republicans for years and years to come.
Not for a moment do we believe Mr. Hogsett is much different but it IS time for a change and I say that in light of Joe Hogsett's inevitable win, we remain watchful and hopeful better days are ahead. All Kyle Walker offers through his back-room, hand-picked "Greg Ballard III" candidate is more of what we are tired of... including a Council that is unable to stop the ramrod illegalities now part of the public record.
As an often-R voter and s long time observer and sometimes-participant to "the political scene"... Anon 6:58 is dead on correct. When even our Councilors are impotent and incapable of stopping a thoroughly lawless and corrupt mayor, 'we the people' have very little hope of honest and transparent municipal governance.
And we are tired of it.
My gf sent in an app for an absentee ballot one week ago today. The Indiana voters website shows it was received Monday the 26th. To this day the absentee ballot hasn't arrived. Of course, she has a republican primary voting history. Maybe she will get it today. The turnaround for her primary absentee ballot was very quick. When I read about low early voter turnout per the clerks office, I chuckle.
I was at the Marion Clerk's office this morning just before 10am. It was packed with early voters.
I just left the Marion Co. Clerk's office at 11:00 a.m. There was no line--just a steady stream of people walking in to vote.
Democrats never worry about voter turnout. They just stuff the ballot boxes, and have plenty of "absentee ballots" to win their races.
Believe me I know full well the grass-roots aspect and was in there swinging 8 years ago. Getting shit on by the victor was a wake up call. I don't really expect to be living here through the next full term so I almost don't care who ends up winning. I just know Hogsett will be a huge mistake. It's sad that there really is no good candidate on either side of the fence. But that's a function there being nothing but self-serving greed merchants all around.
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