Comments on Advance Indiana™: Charlie White Indicted For Vote Fraud

Under the state constitution, the governor has to ...

2011-03-03T21:27:44.504-05:00

Under the state constitution, the governor has to have a residence at the seat of government. If he wants to sleep at a home in Hamilton County and call the official residence in Indianapolis his residence for this purpose, the court decisions on residency are very loose as I've pointed out before. Evan Bayh grew up in D.C. and only moved back to Indiana to run for Secretary of State. S.C. said his intent of having a residence here overruled the overwhelming evidence of his lack of a residence her for the requisite period of time when he ran for governor 2 years later.

WTF is "my party?" Saw this comment on ...

2011-03-03T20:19:56.038-05:00

WTF is "my party?"

Saw this comment on the Star forums. Any truth to it?

"How is what Mr. White did any different than the Governor voting in Marion County while living in Hamilton County. He uses the Governor's Mansion as his address but does not live there. He rarely spends any time there except to get away from his wife."

In the realm of election law, it is precisely the ...

2011-03-03T18:45:46.036-05:00

In the realm of election law, it is precisely the case, IP. Over and over again we see Rs hammered over minor violations of election law while Ds are given a complete pass. Hell, Barry's campaign for president did not even have a mechanism for determining the identity of people contributing to his federal campaign and there were dozens of documented cases of foreign citizens illegally pumping money into his campaign. We don't know how many tens of millions of dollars were illegally funneled into his campaign from foreign sources because his campaign made sure there wasn't any paper trail the FEC could ever follow even if they had the resources to investigate it. Same thing with the Clintons. Case after case of deliberate fundraising from Chinese and Indonesian nationals and yet no accountability for the folks who made that happen. Election laws are a total joke in this country. Ds knock off people from the ballot for council for not filling out a form completely because it was a candidate the party didn't endorse, while they let a guy they knew didn't live in his district live, run for office and draw a salary in clear violation of the law.

"Democrats are complete hypocrites on this po...

2011-03-03T18:23:54.774-05:00

"Democrats are complete hypocrites on this point".

You should have stopped right there, but you had to add

"as they are with respect to the enforcement of all laws."

This is so predictable and it ruins your argument every time.

No, Jon, it is not different. I learned after the ...

2011-03-03T16:37:26.797-05:00

No, Jon, it is not different. I learned after the fact it was common knowledge among Democrats long before I pointed it out that he did not live in his district. One councilor gave him a ride home one night after a council meeting and realized he wasn't living anywhere near his district. By all accounts, he never lived in the district unlike White, who moved out of his district long after he was elected to it. More sickening is the fact that State Rep. Win Moses has lived up in Broad Ripple in a luxury home instead of the Fort Wayne district he claims to represent for years. Both examples are a complete joke and mockery of the system. Democrats are complete hypocrites on this point as they are with respect to the enforcement of all laws.

Gary- Do you think it would have mattered when the...

2011-03-03T16:27:44.334-05:00

Gary-
Do you think it would have mattered when the issue was raised? Charlie White could have been Freddy Krueger and gotten elected as a Republican in 2010.

As far as the Abduallah situation, it's different. White moved MILES out of his district and tried to game the system by switching his voter registration back and forth.

To compare the two cases is ridiculous. While they have similarities, the scale is completely different.

Sorry, Cato, your party blew it by waiting until t...

2011-03-03T16:22:23.596-05:00

Sorry, Cato, your party blew it by waiting until the eve of the election to raise the charge.

Daniels needs to hold a special election. The SoS ...

2011-03-03T15:29:32.565-05:00

Daniels needs to hold a special election. The SoS is to be a separately elected office, but allowing Daniels to appoint a puppet for a four-year term gives the Governor de facto control over a separate office.