tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8592317131545273313..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8452550314082110202007-12-27T14:25:00.000-05:002007-12-27T14:25:00.000-05:00Just like Dickerson was going to win? Just like Horning was going to win? Etc, etc, etc...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-26125078283454226532007-12-27T01:51:00.000-05:002007-12-27T01:51:00.000-05:00For the record, Elrod is going to win and does not need a funeral to kick off his campaign and gain sympathy points.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8296453620396263602007-12-24T18:25:00.000-05:002007-12-24T18:25:00.000-05:00I was one of the speakers at Julia's memorial service--gay, Jewish and of European descent. Julia Carson crossed all lines in a multi-cultural way and persons of all views loved her. Look at her voting record to determine what she was really all about--she did not vote the NOI, Jackson, Lugar or Evan Bayh way---she voted CARSON---pro-gay, pro-Jewish, pro-peace, pro-labor, pro-grassroots. That's all that matters now. If you follow the reasoning of some of these folks, why is there not criticism that right-wing Bushite Mitch Daniels was the MOST prominent figure at her funeral..? I am glad for EVERYONE who was there to honor her.<BR/>Futhermore, I would like to know where all the missing Indiana county-city commissioners, state senators and state reps were? both black and white. Guess they were jealous of her success? But short of being on a sickbed, anyone missing has no class in my book. <BR/>Finally, Andre Carson has IT ALL. He is totally his grandmother's grandson. He has the vision, the soul, the experience, the sensitivity, the kindness and the legacy of Julia Carson to carry him through and he will be much much better in Congress than all those other names being bandied about. Like his grandmother, he LOVES Indianapolis and will bring it home like she did, always.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-82720902181591326592007-12-23T18:02:00.000-05:002007-12-23T18:02:00.000-05:00I had thought that it would be fitting for Julia Carson's grandson to sit in her seat in Washington. I was, however, unaware, as it appears many of us were, to his connection with the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. Now, there is absolutely no way I can vote for the man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-15436986198647887582007-12-23T17:28:00.000-05:002007-12-23T17:28:00.000-05:00<I>Honi soit qui mal y pense</I> (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-23291698199922755082007-12-23T16:45:00.000-05:002007-12-23T16:45:00.000-05:00Why did Carson not resign after becoming too ill to perform?<BR/><BR/>From the Indy Star:<BR/><BR/>"One more Carson tribute<BR/><BR/>"The $555 billion spending bill Congress approved before adjourning for the year includes $165,200 for heirs of the congresswoman, who died this month from lung cancer.<BR/><BR/>"It's a tradition in the House for the heirs of lawmakers who die in office to receive one year's salary. Her survivors include two children and two grandchildren."<BR/><BR/>http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007712230351<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Julia...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-256297559563744362007-12-23T12:54:00.000-05:002007-12-23T12:54:00.000-05:00Race relations in Indianapolis are not perfect. They are not in the horrible coflict that you suggest they are. Perhaps if you left your lily white neighborhood and lived and socialized with African Americans then you would realize all of the similarities we have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-33713592433479538302007-12-23T12:27:00.000-05:002007-12-23T12:27:00.000-05:00"they could not support a party that believed in equality so they became republicans!!"<BR/>If they truly believed in equality they would have been republican!<BR/><BR/>I've read from posts on this blog and others that we are what we are.<BR/>Wilson has stated that he didn't choose to be gay. If one can't choose to be gay or straight how can one choose to be a democrat or republican. If one doesn't believe in equality how can one "choose" to believe in it? We can change our minds on decisions but we are or are not racists. <BR/>The democrat party has a long history of hate and distain for those who aren't white Christians. These racist democrats didn't change parties they stayed democrats and became good at hiding their true feelings.<BR/> I learned at an early age that I didn't want to be associated with hypocrites, I knew at an early age that I possessed conservative views, I‘m a republican. So you liberal left twisting lug nuts can keep your race-hating goofs. We in the Republican Party never wanted them anyway.indyerniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03817373902728915873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-66451855359836911552007-12-23T12:11:00.000-05:002007-12-23T12:11:00.000-05:00Anonymous wrote:<BR/>"Jesse Jackson made an off the cuff comment that was not wise but he is not anti semite..."<BR/><BR/>How is that any different than Senator Lott's "off the cuff comment" at Senator Thurmond's birthday party?<BR/><BR/>And noone has explained why two such blatant anti-Semites were invited to speak at the various services.<BR/><BR/>ARAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-34772820440718966762007-12-23T11:37:00.000-05:002007-12-23T11:37:00.000-05:00"Louis Farrakhan was the best speaker there. I am so glad that he is helping Andre Carson gain what is rightfully his families spot in Congress."<BR/><BR/>Wow. That's a (bad) joke, I hope?<BR/><BR/>Monarchies have actual queens and their bloodline has a 'right' to the throne. I didn't know that was the way it worked in this country. Or is that how and why G W Bush got elected?Bart Lieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294734264133374462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-14785343048243624022007-12-23T11:07:00.000-05:002007-12-23T11:07:00.000-05:00Jesse Jackson made an off the cuff comment that was not wise but he is not anti semite...Farrahkan is and I still cannot believe that he spoke at Julia's funeral. He also is a horrible homophobe who thinks all gays are doomed to eternal damnation and are abominations....Wilson, what are your thoughts on his speaking?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-38109090151789035532007-12-23T10:33:00.000-05:002007-12-23T10:33:00.000-05:00AR: you took umbrage at my pointing out that the GOP has just ONE Jewish U.S. Representative. True, 2 U.S. Senators. None whatsoever in the Indiana Legislature.<BR/><BR/>Kinda like Black Republicans: none in Congress whatsoever and none at all in the Indiana Legislature.<BR/><BR/>Face it: the GOP is the Christian white mans party ... why do Republicans discriminate against Jews and Blacks?Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-85781453634544508532007-12-23T10:09:00.000-05:002007-12-23T10:09:00.000-05:001:51, The facts speak for themselves. You obviously haven't lived in Marion County very long.<BR/>Bigoted comments? Hardly. My comments were posted because they are true.<BR/>The hatred of the black community towards whites in this city is the worst I have seen in the 53 years I've lived here and it's getting worse.<BR/>Farrakhan was invited to speak because his dogma is accepted by the black community here and that Carson and her family were influenced and protected by Nation of Islam members.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-54735072627762730742007-12-23T03:57:00.000-05:002007-12-23T03:57:00.000-05:00Louis Farrakhan was the best speaker there. I am so glad that he is helping Andre Carson gain what is rightfully his families spot in Congress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-47683803713457154632007-12-23T01:53:00.000-05:002007-12-23T01:53:00.000-05:00AI,<BR/><BR/>And let us not forget the Rev. Jesse Jackson's comments about "Hymietown."<BR/><BR/>Big tent, eh? I recall Wilson at one time or another challenging republicans to name one jewish republican elected to office. I named several, but of course, the sands of the debate kept changing ("No," said Wilson, "one jewish republican that Indiana sent to Congress.") Whatever.<BR/><BR/>Two anti-Semites spoke at Congresswoman Carson's service or funeral. I don't think that speaks well of her, do you? And it's a shame, really - I gained much respect for her after hearing over the past few weeks the types of things she worked for (particularly as Center Township Trustee.)<BR/><BR/>And then these two anti-Semites are invited to comment? And one of them suggests Andre Carson? You have to be kidding me.<BR/><BR/>I'd laugh at this if it weren't so damn sickening. Just another example of some of the hypocrisy of the left: discrimination isn't okay (unless it's the kind of discrimination we think is okay.)<BR/><BR/>Totally classes. No defense you can raise, Wilson, will clear the taint of these two individuals. And it's a shame, really, to dishonor the memory of a woman that so many people loved so much.<BR/><BR/>Truly a shame, or in Wilson's words, pitiful.<BR/><BR/>ARAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-84225599621825053592007-12-23T01:51:00.000-05:002007-12-23T01:51:00.000-05:00<I>The hypocrisy is more than one can stomach. The Democrats forced Trent Lott to resign as Senate Majority Leader for suggesting America would have been better off if Strom Thurmond had been elected President more than 50 years ago at Thurmond's retirement party. They bring one of the most notorious, race-baiting, anti-semitic, homobigoted religious leaders in the country to speak at her funeral and endorse her grandson as the successor to represent us in Congress and we're supposed to accept that as ok?</I><BR/><BR/>I really doubt that you'll post this, but I have yet to see you repudiate the horrible bigoted comment that you approved to be posted on your blog.<BR/><BR/>The quote in question:<BR/><I>Although they may profess that they are Christian you will not find many blacks in the 7th District that don't share Farrakhan's hatred towards whites, Jews, GLBT's and assortment of others.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-43984584177205536592007-12-22T22:01:00.000-05:002007-12-22T22:01:00.000-05:00As a Democrat I am proud that all of the hating soutern Dems of the 50's and 60's are dead or converted to republicans and their children are republicans.....they could not support a party that believed in equality so they became republicans!! They are your people now, INDYERNIE, and you are welcome to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-68563701379282164492007-12-22T21:11:00.000-05:002007-12-22T21:11:00.000-05:00The hypocrisy is more than one can stomach. The Democrats forced Trent Lott to resign as Senate Majority Leader for suggesting America would have been better off if Strom Thurmond had been elected President more than 50 years ago at Thurmond's retirement party. They bring one of the most notorious, race-baiting, anti-semitic, homobigoted religious leaders in the country to speak at her funeral and endorse her grandson as the successor to represent us in Congress and we're supposed to accept that as ok?Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-43397322491436620912007-12-22T21:02:00.000-05:002007-12-22T21:02:00.000-05:00"and now that D.C. Stephenson has died, you've been made the spokesman for the "white community"?"<BR/><BR/>Wilson Stephenson was a democrat who switched parties so that he could organize the Klan in a republican state. His beliefs and opinion always followed the democrat way of thinking. What were his beliefs and opinions? He believed as did the democrat stronghold in the south that African Americans, Catholics and Jews were lesser humans than white Christians. He believed that the white man should dominate them. If he were alive to day he would be heading the Indiana Democrat Party.indyerniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03817373902728915873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-81083348662063415732007-12-22T20:52:00.000-05:002007-12-22T20:52:00.000-05:00Batteries? I use a Canon Rebel XT S.L.R. and took 854 pictures today mostly indoors on one. I usually carry a spare, just in case! My flash is separate with its own batteries - but I also carry spares for those too...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-42698913723645961502007-12-22T20:48:00.000-05:002007-12-22T20:48:00.000-05:00Actually Ron Dellums was the first African-American elected from a majority white district - Berkeley California in 1968! Most would agree it is a most unusual Congressional District. His successor, Barbara Lee, was at Julia's funeral services today. She is distinguished by being the only member of the House to vote against the so-called Patriot Act.<BR/><BR/>True, Katie Hall was elected from a majority white district in in Indiana in 1982 but it was sort of a fluke. When the normal political processes returned in 1984, she lost the primary...<BR/><BR/>Julia Carson was the first Black to be elected on her own political power in a majority white district and she held it many terms.Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-9701188372521950592007-12-22T20:46:00.000-05:002007-12-22T20:46:00.000-05:00Wilson, what kind of batteries do you use? I can barely get 100 pics out of mine!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-81036403221007853792007-12-22T20:32:00.000-05:002007-12-22T20:32:00.000-05:00Katie Hall from Gary, for one, represented the northwestern Indiana district in the early 1980s. It was a white majority district.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-17484628425216049182007-12-22T20:15:00.000-05:002007-12-22T20:15:00.000-05:00Was Julia really the first African American elected to the house representing a majority white district? Help me out, Wilson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-9054590428555518072007-12-22T20:02:00.000-05:002007-12-22T20:02:00.000-05:00She was actually the first elected black woman from the State of Ohio to serve in Congress.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.com