Comments on Advance Indiana™: DeLaney Versus Mendenhall

This is not the Aug I know. I served with him in t...

2013-11-09T19:06:54.398-05:00

This is not the Aug I know. I served with him in the military, and became very close friends. I don't think I have ever met anyone with more honor and integrity. This blows my mind. I would trust him with my life. So this is so hard for me to wrap my brain around. Agustus always put everyone before himself, and would literally give you the shirt off his back. He's the guy that would see a homeless guy living under the interstate and invite him to Thanksgiving dinner. So this makes no sense

I agree with Vox. The whole Russian mafia/launde...

2009-11-03T10:33:14.170-05:00

I agree with Vox.

The whole Russian mafia/laundering thing just sounds like a post-arrest smear attempt. Maybe the suspect had just done some homework and thought to throw out some red herrings to try to ruin Rep. DeLaney's reputation, since he couldn't beat it out of him?

Juries will have a hard time buying the suspect's stories. He just looks crazed.

I'm just glad the gun jammed. We could use mo...

2009-11-03T08:21:26.625-05:00

I'm just glad the gun jammed. We could use more jammed guns around here.

Indeed, Doug. "Inconceivable."

2009-11-03T07:32:02.147-05:00

Indeed, Doug. "Inconceivable."

Am I the only one who doubting the suggestion that...

2009-11-03T07:22:39.282-05:00

Am I the only one who doubting the suggestion that a state legislator and established, well-connected attorney would agree to meet someone "representing" the Russian mafia with the express intent of laundering money?

That sounds just as credible as the whole "I wasn't going to kill him, just teach him a lesson" riff.

And regardless of whether the father owned the porn business or owned the building which housed the porn business, I see little difference.

AI, I agree. It was a tenant of Mendenhall's ...

2009-11-02T23:37:49.960-05:00

AI, I agree. It was a tenant of Mendenhall's father not Mendenhall's father, who was running the porno store.

One of Mendenhall's complaints to reporters to...

2009-11-02T23:11:23.235-05:00

One of Mendenhall's complaints to reporters today was that his father was unfairly accused of running a porn business when in fact it was a tenant at the building he owned who operated it. I noticed during an interview on WTHR tonight that Ann DeLaney continued to say Mendenhall's father ran the porn business.

The story feels incomplete to me. DeLaney doesn...

2009-11-02T22:38:06.466-05:00

The story feels incomplete to me. DeLaney doesn't seem like enemy #1 to start with, and the facts I've read so far don't seem sufficient for the Inigo Montoya act twenty-six years later.

Maybe there is something more nefarious than run-of-the-mill, ham-fisted land development and political grandstanding.

Screw Mendenhall -- I don't give a rat's a...

2009-11-02T20:25:06.924-05:00

Screw Mendenhall -- I don't give a rat's ass about his motives. Let him practice beating on Bubba and Gangsta in prison.

This is Twilight Zone material. I wonder if he we...

2009-11-02T20:17:08.192-05:00

This is Twilight Zone material. I wonder if he went into law school intending to obtain skills he thought would help him find a legal remedy and a twig snapped along the way. 26 years is a hell of a long time to plan out your vendetta.