tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post45091768394707107..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40584149937339635012008-03-30T20:04:00.000-05:002008-03-30T20:04:00.000-05:00USA is a democracy, not a monarchy. No kings, queens, princesses, or princes. Julia Carson did not OWN the congressional seat, and therefore had no rights to bequeath it to her grandson.<BR/>These are very important, challenging times. Therefore, 7th district voters need to COMPARE the Democratic candidates and choose who is best qualified to represent them. As a 7th District resident, Dr. Myers looks best to me, followed by Orenlicter, Mays, and lastly, Carson.Rudyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01280137160450822377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86876830132287973282008-02-01T23:41:00.000-05:002008-02-01T23:41:00.000-05:00I'm glad you gave Tully an out-being muzzled by the brain impaired would explain a lot of his lame columns. I had been thinking that Tully was just lightweight and lazy but I can now act with more charity towards another gannett prisioner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-64516941872691180302008-02-01T23:06:00.000-05:002008-02-01T23:06:00.000-05:00In the unlikely event that Elrod would get elected, how long before he started running for some other office. That is his pattern. Get elected and then run for some other office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-72980807649517788912008-02-01T23:02:00.000-05:002008-02-01T23:02:00.000-05:00Is Danny Burton ready for congress...apparently the republicans think so...they keep sending him backAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-81040474959993073132008-02-01T20:14:00.000-05:002008-02-01T20:14:00.000-05:00OK, Wilson, let's say Elrod has one and a half legislative sessions under his belt. <BR/><BR/>That's one and a half more than Andre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-3731250333972589002008-02-01T15:53:00.000-05:002008-02-01T15:53:00.000-05:00What a pitiful site and sight - the poor guy can't even spell "Israel" correctly yet he claims to be so concerned about that country. Try reading the Bible and Dr. M. L. King to learn how to spell ISRAEL right (for starters)...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-54610792268921606572008-02-01T15:40:00.000-05:002008-02-01T15:40:00.000-05:00Hey!Wilson have you read the new blog:"buildingourcommunity.blogspot.com" it is a very interesting piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-25224117954041636192008-02-01T14:53:00.000-05:002008-02-01T14:53:00.000-05:00"Plenty of candidates use their family name to get elected to Congress. Why should André not be afforded the same opportunity?" - varangianguard<BR/>--------------<BR/>The better question is "why should anyone be afforded that opportunity?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-20835389120987491452008-02-01T14:43:00.000-05:002008-02-01T14:43:00.000-05:00Other than being on the family payroll, Elrod has not worked in his life. He was on the advisory board but resigned to be in the legislature. When he was just in his first year there, the announced he wanted to be in congress. Would you hire someone with that work record? Where does he stand on the Iraq war?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-81617304156760091672008-02-01T12:34:00.000-05:002008-02-01T12:34:00.000-05:0010:28--step back from your bad ole self. Excise police stopping terrorists. Hilarious.<BR/><BR/>When Evan Bayh was elected governor, he'd clerked for one of the nation's busiest US Judges for three years and been Secretary of State for two years, which combined is about four times the experience Andre has.<BR/><BR/>I can't support him because of his lack of experience. In four years or so, maybe. He seems nice enough. It has nothing to do with his grandmother, for whom I voted. In contrast with her grandson, she richly earned her spot in Congress.<BR/><BR/>Elrod has been a state rep for two sessions, and was a township board member two years before that.<BR/><BR/>By a small bit, Elrod has more worthwhile experience, all blog bloviating about the Excise Police notwithstanding.<BR/><BR/>But I kinda side with varan...can someone put up or shut up about the alleged re-test for Andre, and related nonsense? His grandma is buried. He got where he is because of her. He'll get where he needs to go based on that and the voters' ability to pay attention.<BR/><BR/>It's called democracy.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't have to be pretty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-80298429542365195462008-02-01T12:18:00.000-05:002008-02-01T12:18:00.000-05:00Speaking of the special election:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q5uLbHKkX4Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-47135900786951101232008-02-01T12:00:00.000-05:002008-02-01T12:00:00.000-05:00Only five years in his fathers law office is hardly oodles of experience for Jon Elrod to crow about, is it now?Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27999473050461478992008-02-01T11:56:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:56:00.000-05:00"It takes a real commitment to think and act for those who don't have a voice."<BR/><BR/>Yea, but what about the other 60% of the district. Why can't WE get any representation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-48263830209130467702008-02-01T11:40:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:40:00.000-05:00The same thing applies here. Pampered or not, André Carson is hardly the first politician to arrive with a silver spoon in his mouth. Or, to have previous jobs paved in advance for him (see Dan Quayle).<BR/><BR/>Find something substantive to nitpick about, or get off the bus. There should be plenty to talk about without dragging up his grandmother's name every time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-38840016365546759942008-02-01T11:28:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:28:00.000-05:00Carson bragging about the job his granny got him with the state?<BR/><BR/>OK, it's time to open the door. Make a public records request for Andre Carson's test scores and also for the state standards to pass the Excise Police Academy. You will likely notice that some exams were miraculously passed after private re-test in which only one person knows if cheating took place....and were more re-tests given than academy standards allow?<BR/><BR/>What did he do on Excise? Did he get by because of his grandmother, rather than merit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27593203836787726512008-02-01T11:14:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:14:00.000-05:00and JOn Elrod is qualified because....????? The highest score obtained on the final exam of this last class at the Law Enforcement Academy was scored by an officer from the Animal Care and Control and the second was a firefighter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-80068714192885098002008-02-01T11:06:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:06:00.000-05:00Chelsea Clinton: Yes, I jbiw she's not met the AGE requirement yet...Bart Lieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294734264133374462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-10438392426377867722008-02-01T11:05:00.000-05:002008-02-01T11:05:00.000-05:00Is Chelsea Clinton therefore qualified to be President?Bart Lieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294734264133374462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-7417189222478284432008-02-01T10:54:00.000-05:002008-02-01T10:54:00.000-05:00I don't know about AI, but I didn't think Sen. Bayh had the credentials or oomph to be governor when he was first elected. And he proved me right with his dithering when the state House ended up divided 50-50, as well as his "finger in the wind" political reckonings.<BR/><BR/>That said, there's a difference between the state's chief executive and the 7th district's representative, and the main qualities of each are significantly different. As varangianguard pointed out, all that matters is who the 7th district majority (of those who vote) wants casting our vote in Washington DC. <BR/><BR/>The founders' stated desire to avoid a political class calls for excise cops and exterminators to go to Washington. Else we'd have generation upon generation of Kennedys, Bushes, Bayhs, Romneys, and even Carsons going to Washington.<BR/><BR/>Oh wait. We do. Oops. Quick, someone find an exterminator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-88355073563470379532008-02-01T10:28:00.000-05:002008-02-01T10:28:00.000-05:0010:02-<BR/><BR/>Excise also ensures that terrortist organizations are not illegally profitting from skirting tax laws and other regulations. <BR/><BR/>For instance, while living over seas a few years back, I often heard of cargo ships full of untaxed cigarettes- yes tobacco- being seized entering countries. Terrorist groups would ship untaxed, unregistered cartons of cigarettes in to a county, sell them at a huge discount (due to no taxation) and turn around to use the profit to fund their activities.<BR/><BR/>So, yes, excise does more than bust college kids trying to buy beer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-71247814792559860472008-02-01T10:25:00.000-05:002008-02-01T10:25:00.000-05:00Gee, AI. Did you pick on Evan Bayh this much when he first started out on the political silver spoon?<BR/><BR/>Doesn't really matter what André Carson says or believes about his experience (Wilson either, before he starts in). Nor does it matter what you or I think about André's experience.<BR/><BR/>It only matters what the 7th District voters (who come out to vote) think. If the name "Carson" is all they need, then there you go.<BR/><BR/>Plenty of candidates use their family name to get elected to Congress. Why should André not be afforded the same opportunity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-75410855039277343542008-02-01T10:02:00.000-05:002008-02-01T10:02:00.000-05:00Excise officers go into bars<BR/>looking for minors, gambling<BR/>machines and trivial violations. They also go into convenience stores looking for 19 year old clerks selling smokes to the 17 year old friends and raid parties<BR/>on college football weekends in <BR/>Bloomington and West Lafayette. Even though they do graduate from the law enforcement academy, their<BR/>jobs are viewed as lower end <BR/>wanna-be-real-cop jobs, a level barely above overtime parking enforcement and animal control<BR/>officer.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how many times he visited<BR/>Washington, DC to observe and<BR/>learn how Congress operates when his grandmother held the seat?<BR/>Did he ever go to any committee meetings there? When she held <BR/>town hall meetings in Indy on a weekend day, was he there to learn and observe? <BR/><BR/>Merely because his grandmother was<BR/>an astute political campaigner does not result in him having the<BR/>qualifications by osmosis to replace her. <BR/><BR/>Then again, Tom Delay had a<BR/>pest exterminating business before<BR/>he was elected to Congress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com