Comments on Advance Indiana™: Richard Lugar Files Yet Another Statement of Candidacy Falsely Claiming To Reside At 3200 Highwoods Court

As you've noted, Mike, numerous Fishers Town c...

2012-02-09T08:49:34.823-05:00

As you've noted, Mike, numerous Fishers Town council members had moved outside their districts during their term without similarly being charged. You note that the council altered the district boundaries to accommodate them, but those new district boundaries were applicable to the next election; it didn't resolve their problem of living outside their district during the term to which they were elected because district boundary changes can be prospective only. It was deemed not a big deal because each of the town council members are elected at-large in Fishers. Even if they had changed the boundary to accommodate White's move, it would not have changed the fact that he didn't live in the district that was drawn for the term to which he had been elected.

Paul, as a Fishers resident myself, I was much mor...

2012-02-09T08:14:05.287-05:00

Paul, as a Fishers resident myself, I was much more unhappy with White being out of his district as regards the Town Council seat than I was for his Secretary of State run. He was clearly still an Indiana resident.

But, if the law is the law, and it's important that one live where he says he does, are you saying White is guilty?

Mike, I think it's important that our elected ...

2012-02-08T22:40:25.426-05:00

Mike, I think it's important that our elected officials actually live where they say they live. With White the issue was murky and a one time thing. With Lugar, he's being doing this blatantly for 35 years. He has no argument that he actually lives at that address or has been in the house in 30 years. Yet he continues to sign documents under oath, as does his wife, that he lives there. There is no excuse for that. And I wouldn't say that it is a "victimless" crime. The integrity of our political system is undermined by what Lugar is doing.

And slapping people with felonies is ridiculous, b...

2012-02-08T22:33:20.527-05:00

And slapping people with felonies is ridiculous, but the law should be equally applied to all.

Perhaps White is just the first domino to fall. T...

2012-02-08T21:13:06.041-05:00

Perhaps White is just the first domino to fall.

That said, I don't like these kinds of ticky-tack laws, because a)there isn't a victim, and b) they just encourage people to check up on filings in a game of gotcha, which I don't find especially healthy. I know White believes in victimless crimes as just and valid, having expressed exactly that to me on several occasions. I wonder if his mind is changing at all? And, I find it curious that not once has he called for the laws to go away on the basis of injustice, but rather, says "Lugar & Bayh are as guilty as me!" Seems senseless.

Check out page two of the candidacy form. He had ...

2012-02-08T16:21:51.077-05:00

Check out page two of the candidacy form. He had his signature notarized in Washington, DC. He's so out-of-touch with Hoosiers.

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