Comments on Advance Indiana™: Early Voting Still Down Significantly From Four Years Ago In Marion County

I can't argue with that. There's a handful...

2015-10-30T14:06:29.036-05:00

I can't argue with that. There's a handful of downtown insiders who pick the candidates for both parties each election cycle. Unless you are beholden to their self-serving financial interests, you are barred from public service in this county. Indianapolis can pretend all it wants to be something great, but it is easily one of the most corrupt cities in America. There is a reason the money launderers, Ponzi schemers and organized crime figures are relocating to Indianapolis. They can't believe how easy it is to engage in criminal activities here with immunity that would be prosecuted anywhere else. Their favorite prosecutor is about to become our city's next mayor. They're all contributing to his campaign. Why would crooks be making campaign contributions by the tens of thousands of dollars each to a former federal prosecutor? Think about that.

So the Marion County Democrat Party "lost the...

2015-10-30T13:59:07.468-05:00

So the Marion County Democrat Party "lost the mayor's race with a higher voter turnout in 2011, but it captured control of the council with that higher turnout vote..."

Interesting to note that the Marion County Democrat Party- in control of the City County Council since 2011- was in wholesale fashion utterly "unable" or perhaps unwilling (?) to stop a lawless, corrupt Republican mayor from cramming through deals often termed (and accurately so in many cases) "illegal", "unethical", "self-serving", "pay to play", "insider", or all of the above.

The two major political parties are indistinguishable from each other. I fail to see any reason to vote. There is really no "choice" because many of these politicians are essentially "the same".