Comments on Advance Indiana™: Hogsett Handily Wins Indianapolis Mayor's Race, Democrats Hold Council

How many votes did Melyssa Hubbard get for Mayor?

2015-11-04T18:24:47.581-05:00

How many votes did Melyssa Hubbard get for Mayor?

I voted for Jared Evans. Lutz was an incumbent. Th...

2015-11-04T10:05:53.826-05:00

I voted for Jared Evans. Lutz was an incumbent. Those that were members of the worst council in America needed to go. The entire county is rotting away while the downtown mafia keep demanding AND RECEIVING more monies and TIF districts for their Potemkin village DT.

MikeC: when one is usually plied full of brew and ...

2015-11-04T10:03:00.419-05:00

MikeC: when one is usually plied full of brew and chew...

Looks like Brooks outsmarted himself again

2015-11-04T09:54:32.742-05:00

Looks like Brooks outsmarted himself again

Anon 8:49 testifies to reasons the Marion County G...

2015-11-04T09:25:00.040-05:00

Anon 8:49 testifies to reasons the Marion County GOP lost the people... When you come right down to it, it is Kyle Walker, Greg Ballard, and GOP operatives like Jen Hallowell (Mrs. Kyle) Walker who gave Indianapolis its new Democrat Mayor and the Democrat City County Council majority.

But I caution 8:49... while it was and is time for a change from the GOP sponsored corruption... remember that IT IS ALL STILL THERE! Vision Fleet, Blue Indy, those awful parking meters we are chained to for yet another five decades, a mishmash of downtown junky housing and faux modernistic crap, the give away of IUPUI sports venues to multimillionaire immigrant Ersal Ozdemir ... and wait til you see what the favored GOPO donor-developer will do with the corner at College and Mass Av... something you will probably be paying for as well...

Stay vigilant, 8:49, but keep in mind... it really does not matter who won these seat... or was retained... no matter how they crow about their personal/political "vindication". Those who claim to have fought have been totally ineffective in creating consensus to root out the corruption- so where is the glory in being "right" but in being ineffective in leading for a change?.... so it could be that Indianapolis will get more of the same corruption but in different forms under different names.

Time will tell but with the past being prologue to the future with so many our our CC Councilors, I will keep the jaundiced eye wide open.

I live in 19. Ben Hunter has represented us for y...

2015-11-04T08:49:32.308-05:00

I live in 19. Ben Hunter has represented us for years. David Ray really moved us with his flyers. He showed us pictures of vacant east side strip malls and reminded us how bad we feel about that. The old eastgate mall/Regional Operations Center does bug us. And now our church at Mitthoefer is boarded up. What has Hunter done to help us with the downward spiral of the property? This Ray guy is new, but he's a Scecina/Lady of Lourdes eastsider and seems to really care about this part of town. Hunter seems like he's all about downtown now, and out here we are really sick of this attention and tax dollars spent downtown. We want our neighborhood fixed. Not Meridian Kessler. Not a new westside justice center. And definitely not any more building projects/cheap apartment buildings for downtown. And Mr. Hogsett, if you just become another cog in some big law firm's plans like our current mayor, you will be one term. We want our utility bills brought under control. Our streets made safe. Big law firms and developers put in their place. Get rid of the damn TIF that sucks our tax dollars into downtown. And bring some business to the eastside factories and strip malls that are vacant. Ray just said the right things.

We have the perfect impending catalyst to bring fo...

2015-11-04T03:29:36.170-05:00

We have the perfect impending catalyst to bring forth an election upset in just four years that will make what we did in 2007 look super boring.

Mark my words.

--Melyssa Hubbard
#CulturalActivism
#LibertariansRising

Does this election make Abdul irrelevant in Marion...

2015-11-03T22:52:23.641-05:00

Does this election make Abdul irrelevant in Marion County?

Thank God that piece of **** Hunter lost.

2015-11-03T22:35:08.335-05:00

Thank God that piece of **** Hunter lost.

Hey, City-County workers, Start packing up your ...

2015-11-03T22:32:54.248-05:00

Hey, City-County workers,

Start packing up your desks. Hogsett can't leave anything form this dirty Barnes & Thornburg administration around to do him harm.

Bye-bye!

"If Walker has a job tomorrow they should fir...

2015-11-03T22:07:45.951-05:00

"If Walker has a job tomorrow they should fire the state chairman"

State chair can't do bumpkus about any county party official. Only thing that could remove a sitting chairman is a PC/WC uprising which won't happen due to the number of chairman's appointees. Now if the big money donors (McAllister, Hubbard, et al) were to threaten to withhold donations until certain officials resigned that would bring about change.
Now some might say with the transition from TJ to KW the MCGOP jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Gary Welsh @ 9:12: Exactly. Beyond Ironic. Anon 9:...

2015-11-03T21:49:41.268-05:00

Gary Welsh @ 9:12: Exactly. Beyond Ironic.
Anon 9:23- Regardless of Kyle Walker having a job tomorrow [which he certainly should not), Jeff Cardwell should still be fired.

A number of far east folks were upset at Hunter ab...

2015-11-03T21:41:22.659-05:00

A number of far east folks were upset at Hunter about the church they felt he turned his back on them.
http://www.ibj.com/articles/53537-council-declines-to-rehear-cumberland-church-proposal

They will keep Walker and the state chairman of th...

2015-11-03T21:40:43.520-05:00

They will keep Walker and the state chairman of the GOP! The GOP needs to abandon Marion County they are irrelevant now there!

Incumbents usually get defeated when they act more...

2015-11-03T21:30:51.091-05:00

Incumbents usually get defeated when they act more towards the interests of their party instead of their community, not because of re-drawn districts, Ben.

To the courageous voters of District 19, I applaud...

2015-11-03T21:29:42.651-05:00

To the courageous voters of District 19, I applaud you. As a reminder of Ben Hunters (and David Brooks) legacy, you only have to look no farther than that bomb shelter call the ROC (IMPD Regional Operations Center) on Shadeland Ave. And reflect, that could have been the site of the new Community East Hospital.

If Walker has a job tomorrow they should fire the ...

2015-11-03T21:23:56.052-05:00

If Walker has a job tomorrow they should fire the state chairman.

Wow, Lutz and Hunter really underperformed. I tho...

2015-11-03T21:18:42.310-05:00

Wow, Lutz and Hunter really underperformed. I thought the D's would win the council, but not because Lutz and Hunter lost.

Anon 8:24, I don't know where you get that Hun...

2015-11-03T21:16:41.525-05:00

Anon 8:24, I don't know where you get that Hunter's district is a "traditionally a very conservative Republican district." That was only about a 52% Republican district and no more conservative than any other district.

Yep you're right. Precincts are all in for Way...

2015-11-03T21:13:21.571-05:00

Yep you're right. Precincts are all in for Wayne and Decatur.

JARED EVANS (DEM). . . . . . . . 1,868 54.11
ROBERT B. LUTZ (REP). . . . . . . 1,584 45.89

The irony of Ben Hunter losing under the David Bro...

2015-11-03T21:12:17.873-05:00

The irony of Ben Hunter losing under the David Brooks-drawn council map. Hunter is David and Susan's favorite Republican on the council.

The Indy G-O-Pee'd itself to promote special r...

2015-11-03T21:05:42.507-05:00

The Indy G-O-Pee'd itself to promote special rights that appear to have just been repealed in Houston: http://www.chron.com/politics/election/local/article/HERO-results-6608562.php

I thought I saw where Lutz believes he'll lose...

2015-11-03T21:04:55.898-05:00

I thought I saw where Lutz believes he'll lose by about 200 votes. The party has the totals for all of the precincts before they're inputted into the central database.

Gary I think it's still too close on Bob Lutz....

2015-11-03T21:00:55.748-05:00

Gary I think it's still too close on Bob Lutz. There's still six precincts out and it's less than 50 votes out of 2000 total cast.

D's - Robinson, Simpson, Gray, Oliver, Lewis, Osili, Johnson, Clay, Jackson, Adamson, Ray, Mascari -12
R's - Fanning, Scales, McQuillen, Coats, McHenry, Pfisterer, Miller, Cordi, Holliday, Kreider, Sandlin, Freeman - 12

Tossup - Lutz or Evans

It's all coming down to the West side to make it 13-12 just depends on which way

Hunter's constituents must not have felt so go...

2015-11-03T20:52:33.807-05:00

Hunter's constituents must not have felt so good about his Regional Operations Center project.