Comments on Advance Indiana™: Election Board Hires Two Law Firms To Defend Mulholland Lawsuit, Angering Beth White

OMG - this is really going to cost us. Taxpayers ...

2012-07-20T09:15:53.050-05:00

OMG - this is really going to cost us. Taxpayers are going to have to pay the exorbitant legal fees of two law firms in a case that could easily be handled by a single law firm AND, we will have to pay the legal fees of the ACLU because what the same two attorneys on the election board did regarding Mulholland is unsupported in the law.

I agree, Pat, that the two parties should have sou...

2012-07-20T08:04:25.679-05:00

I agree, Pat, that the two parties should have sought to intervene and pay their own attorneys if they were concerned the board's attorney wasn't going to adequately represent their interests. These law firms weren't hired to represent the people's interests; they were hired to represent the political parties' interests.

Its past time that the parties pay for the cost th...

2012-07-20T07:50:49.453-05:00

Its past time that the parties pay for the cost they deliberately run up in the City-County budget. These lawyers should be paid by the two County Parties as well as the entire Voter Registration office budget.

There is a federal court judgment against enforcin...

2012-07-20T07:37:26.001-05:00

There is a federal court judgment against enforcing the law because it's unconstitutional. Yet the Board votes to enforce it anyway and Democratic thugs are dispersed to Mullholland's precincts to seize his literature. The attorneys (i.e. officers of the court) who were involved in this thuggish behavior and blatant disregard of a court order, should be investigated by the Disciplinary Commission. According to the Star, one of those individuals seizing Mulholland's materials was attorney Kip Tew. Tew knows what a federal injunction against the enforcement of a law means, yet he deliberately disregarded in helping to carry out the Board's order. There need to be real consequnces for that.

It's a shame that now private, politically-connected law firms are going to make money off the obviously illegal action taken by the Board to ignore the federal court order about enforcement of the law. Let's remember, it's not just the taxpayers paying these law firms, but they also have to pay Zach Mulholland's legal bills thanks.

My guess is Mellon told them the truth - the Board should admit it screwed up and pay the price. It will be cheaper now than later.