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Analysis: Democrats have big legislative hole to climb out of
By Lesley Weidenbener
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS – So what’s the importance of a few more legislative seats when you already have a supermajority?
When Republicans added two more seats to their already huge majority in the House last Tuesday and three more to their huge majority in the Senate, they didn’t gain any real advantage in passing bills or supporting the GOP governor’s agenda.
They already had those tasks well in hand.
Instead the larger majorities simply make it tougher for Democrats to regain a foothold in either chamber. Republicans all but ensured it will take years for Democrats to regain real clout – let alone a majority – in the House or Senate, unless Republicans just absolutely outrage voters.
Already, the supermajorities mean that Republicans can do business without Democrats. That’s because Republicans have enough members in both chambers to have a quorum even if no Democrats show up.
That was true after the 2012 election in the House and has been true for several years in the Senate. Democrats had hoped to pick up a few seats – particularly in the House – to at least eliminate those supermajorities. Instead, the GOP only added to their margins.
Republicans now control the House 71-29 and the Senate 40-10. That’s right. Three out of every four Indiana Senate districts are represented by Republicans. And there are more Republicans in the 50-member Senate than there are Democrats in the entire General Assembly.
House Minority Leader Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, said the numbers are a disappointment. He and his leadership team had hoped to start eating away at the GOP majority in the 2014 election. It’s a job he acknowledges will take time, which means every single election is important.
This year, Democrats took a step back, he acknowledged, despite what he said were good candidates and good organization. But Pelath said given the “carnage†for Democrats nationwide, it’s the results in Indiana may not have been so bad.
That’s certainly true. Democrats lost control of the U.S. Senate while Republicans added to their majority in the House. The GOP picked up three more governor’s seats and gained control of eight more legislative chambers.
Of course, 2016 could be much different. There will be a presidential race on the ticket. And a governor’s race in Indiana. And those are types of races that bring out more voters. Pelath said the 2016 will provide “an entirely different universe of voters.â€
But now, Democrats have an even bigger hole from which to climb. They need to win back five seats simply to end the GOP supermajority in the House and seven seats to prevent a quorum in the Senate. That’s particularly tough since Republicans drew the currently legislative district maps.
And speaking of those maps. Unless Democrats manage to win 22 seats in the House in the next six years and 16 seats in the Senate, the Republicans will draw those maps again in 2021, which would likely wipe out any Democratic gains.
It’s not impossible to imagine that Democrats could make a comeback in the House. They controlled the chamber back in 2010. It’s been much longer since Democrats had a majority in the Senate.
But House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, reminded his caucus on Wednesday that anything can happen. He said that 1905, Republicans held an 85-15 majority in the House. But by 1913, politics shifted and Democrats held a 95-5 advantage.
“I don’t know what happened in those seven years,†Bosma said. “But I’ve cautioned our team we don’t want it to happen again.â€
Lesley Weidenbener is executive editor of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
Move Your Feet So Others Can Eat!
The Rescue Mission’s third annual Drumstick Dash run/walk is now just over two weeks away!
Here are some important details concerning the Mission’s largest fundraiser which benefits our Thanksgiving food basket giveaway for Tri-State families in need, called the Gobbler Gathering.
When:Â Saturday, November 22, 2014
Where: Starting and finishing at the Rescue Mission’s Residence Center (500 East Walnut Street, Evansville, IN 47713)
Two Routes: An 8K (just less than five miles) option through downtown Evansville and a 1 mile route
Cost: $20/person up through Wednesday, November 19th; $25/person on or after Thursday, November 20, 2014
To register online, click here.
Questions: Call 812.421.3800 or email erm@2rescue.org
Move your feet so others can eat!!!
The Evansville Rescue Mission team
TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH TO Disburse $40,000 TO 22 LOCAL COMMUNITY AGENCIES
On Sunday, November 16th at 9:30 a.m., Trinity United Methodist Church will distribute grants totaling $40,000 to twenty-two (22) local community agencies.
The grants will be distributed from Trinity’s Fund for Service to Others (Fund B), which originated from bequests by two members and has since been added to from other bequests and gifts. Fund B distributes grant requests to human service organizations. The fund has been instrumental in the creation and continuation of Aurora, Habitat for Humanity, Patchwork Central, Tri-State Food Bank, Africa University, United Methodist Youth Home, and many others.
Trinity’s Fund B reviewed applications from local agencies (those in, or contiguous to, Vanderburgh County). Twenty-two agencies were selected that align with Trinity’s mission of service to the poor, the disadvantaged, and the community at large.
Throughout its history, Trinity has been home to leading philanthropists in Evansville. Part of this tradition has always been active volunteerism by individual members, as well as individual financial support for human service ministries. When the church’s then-new sanctuary was completed in 1865, its pastor was Rev. Albrion Fellows, whose daughter, Albion Fellows Bacon, was instrumental in promoting services and legislation locally and statewide to help the disadvantaged. Later, Trinity’s congregation led the fundraising efforts to bring Evansville College (now University of Evansville) to Vanderburgh County.
More recently, Outreach Ministries was founded, largely through the leadership of Trinity, and in its early years was housed in Trinity’s facility.
Trinity UMC is located in the historic heart of downtown Evansville, Indiana, at 216 SE Third Street. Trinity is a missional church whose members are working to transform the community and the world. For more information about the church and Fund B visit TrinityEvansville.org.
 EDITORS FOOT NOTE:  WE ARE IMPRESSED BY TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MEMBERSHIP INCREDIBLE AND MOST GENEROUS DONATIONS TO HELP ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY.
THE CITY COUNTY OBSERVER WOULD LIKE GIVE A BIG “THREE CHEERS” TO THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH!
University of Evansville Plans Veterans Day Events
To honor military veterans and active-duty service members, the University of Evansville will host Veterans Day events on Tuesday, November 11. Brigadier General Ondra L. Berry, Harrison High School and University of Evansville graduate, will be the featured speaker at some of these events.
Berry serves as brigadier general and assistant adjutant general for the Nevada Air National Guard. He is vice president of diversity and inclusion, corporate diversity and community engagement for MGM Resorts International. Co-founder of Guardian Quest, a company committed to unleashing the potential of individuals and organizations, Berry has committed his life to inspiring others to realize their hidden potential.
What Are You Doing with What You Know?
7:00-9:00 p.m., Vectren Lecture Hall, Room 100, Koch Center for Engineering and Science
Berry will speak from his own experiences and understanding of a leader’s role, asking the question: what is each person truly capable of? He will talk about realizing one’s full potential and living beyond the definitions of leadership. Free and open to the public.
A Salute to Veterans Concert
7:30 p.m., Neu Chapel
The University of Evansville Wind Ensemble will perform this concert in the style of John Philip Sousa, famous band leader and march composer. Sousa served in the Marines from 1867 to 1875 and joined the Naval Reserve at the start of World War I. Kenneth Steinsultz, UE professor of music, will direct the Wind Ensemble costumed as Sousa.
In addition to events open to the general public, the University will host its annual Veterans Day Service with Brigadier General Berry as the key note presenter in Wheeler Concert Hall starting at 11:00 a.m. At 3:00 p.m. a session titled, “An Honest Discussion About Inclusion†is planned for UE’s faculty, staff and administration. Berry and LaNeeca Williams, UE diversity and equity officer, will lead the discussion on what inclusion is and what tactics and techniques can be used to make all feel included and valued.
For more information on Veterans Day events or to arrange an advance interview with Brigadier General Berry, contact Cherie Leonhardt, coordinator of veteran affairs, at 812-488-2141. For more information on the concert, contact the University’s Department of Music at 812-488-2754.
CITY-COUNTY HUMAN RELATIONS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE ALLEGING SEX DISCRIMINATION
Posted below is the link to the upcoming City-County Human Relations Commission schedule hearing concerning an alleged sex discrimination complaint.
An American-Style Sex Sandal in Canada
Jian Ghomeshi
Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman
TORONTO — Canada gave us now-former Mayor Rob Ford, who led comedy writers to get down on their knees, look to the heavens and shout “Thank You!!†due to his alcohol and drug-induced antics, coupled with his uncanny resemblance to Saturday Live’s late Chris Farley. Canada’s biggest scandal now swirls around CBC’s mega-radio-talk show star Jian Ghomeshi — who seems to be doing a Bob Filner imitation.
In case you forgot, the San Diego mayor became a big national story and editorial cartoonists’ favorite during his time in office, which started December 2012 and ended in his August 2013 resignation amid a lawsuit and multiple women alleging sexual harassment.
So many stories surfaced alleging inappropriate behavior by Filner that you almost expected Macy’s to suggest that his accusers walk down the streets of New York on Thanksgiving day.
It got to the point where you got the feeling that the worst answer a female employee could give Filner if he asked her “What do you want for Christmas?†would be: “A Christmas goose.â€
Canada’s newspapers are brimming with reports about how the now-fired Ghomeshi liked to hit on women.
Literally.
Like in BDSM. Women are coming forward in the media claiming he slapped or choked them without permission — and that he’d turn his teddy bear’s head away from them before he started his Marquis de Sade act.
It’s at the point where, if you believe the allegations, you have the feeling the worst thing a woman could ask Ghomeshi would be: “Baby, how about a smack?â€
Some, like the Toronto Sun columnist Mike Strobel, think Ghomeshi is Rob Ford deja vu.
“Shocking revelations, one after another, the alleged abuses, a police probe, the sudden removal of power, talk of a troubling video, it’s all so … Fordian,†Strobel wrote. “In fact, Jian Ghomeshi, hero of the liberatti, is making Rob Ford, champion of the right, look like a choirboy…Jeepers Creepers Ghomeshi has dragged the world’s most lovable stuffed toy into the gutter with Chucky, Annabelle, and Stephen King’s cymbal-banging monkey.â€
Canada’s press is having a field day. Each day there’s a new tidbit. The Toronto Star: “Journalism students at the University of Western Ontario were cautioned against pursuing internships at Jian Ghomeshi’s popular radio show Q due to concerns about ‘inappropriate’ behavior towards young women by the now-fired host, according to a former student at the school and a journalism professor.â€
It’s a real mess. Police are investigating his behavior with CBC employees, and the CBC has hired its own investigator to probe allegations of violence and groping. Ghomeshi is suing CBC for $55 million, arguing he wasn’t fired for good cause — and the CBC wants his lawsuit dropped.
The scandal started Oct. 24, when Ghomeshi announced on the air that he was taking a leave of absence without specifying why. Two days later the CBC announced it was dropping him after receiving information about him that media reports said purportedly showed a woman’s injuries. He argued he was fired only due to information he gave the CBC to prove his rough stuff was consensual after an ex-girlfriend claimed she hadn’t consented.
Next came a story with allegations from three women who had not filed complaints with police. In that story, his attorney insisted his client “does not engage in non-consensual role play or sex and any suggestion of the contrary is defamatory.†According to one account, nine people have now complained to the media.
This media gift that keeps on giving centers on someone who seemingly had it all. Perhaps for that reason, those around him are alleged to have looked the other way or downplayed longtime rumblings about him. Haven’t we heard that elsewhere before?
The popular host had interviewed the internationally famous such as Woody Allen, and his show’s quality was as excellent as his music had been when he was a musician. By all accounts, his view of life at the top with all the money, power, and appeal to women that goes with it wasn’t slapdash.
Or at least not “dash.â€
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Copyright 2014 Joe Gandelman, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.
IS IT TRUE November 10, 2014
IS IT TRUE the smart meter integration into the City of Evansville’s infrastructure continues to create highlight film material for stupidity?…it is not so much about the meters themselves as it is about the non-thinking way the buying, planning, and implementation has been going?…Evansville has found a way to look dumb in an effort to spend nearly $50 Million to convince the voters they are smart?…there have been enough of these smart water meters installed across the country for a good statistical data base to have been in place to predict breakages caused by the installation crew and to have built that cost into the original deal?…such data must have either been ignored or altered to have come up short on the repair funds which prompted the City of Evansville to send out one of the most callous and selectively punitive letters we can imagine to its CUSTOMERS?…the letter and the timing of the letter to select CUSTOMERS that basically said “we are coming to switch out your meter and you have to do some expensive repairs before we get there or we may just break it ourselves and charge you to fix what we broke.”…this letter is an all time winner in the stupid governance category? …we  wonder if this callous letter was styled by one of the Mayors newly appointed backroom political patronage buddies ?
IS IT TRUE the City County Observer wants our readers to know that the water bill for the McCurdy that was sent to one of our senior citizens last week was not because the Kunkel Group that now owns the building neglected to pay their bill?…that distinction belongs to City Centre Properties of Carmel, IN who left the bill unpaid along with some property taxes, while never missing an opportunity to make political donations to the Weinzapfel of Anything coffers?…Kunkel Group officials tell us the water is not turned on to the McCurdy and that it won’t be until a refurbishment project begins?…billing that senior citizen for the negligence of a previous owner of the McCurdy earnes the City of Evansville Water and Sewer Utility it’s second stupid governance award for the week?…some of the things that happen within the walls of the Civic Center really make one wonder if their is some stupid juice in the water?
IS IT TRUE Mayor Winnecke is now on record as stating that land based casinos are a thing of “vision”?…he is of course correct but the visionaries who did this are people like Bugsy Segal, the mafioso who pioneered Las Vegas, and the Bautista Regime whom Fidel Castro ran out of Cuba at gunpoint?…land based casinos are not a grand vision, they are simply the most practical solution imaginable for a state that has gotten itself addicted to casino taxes?…calling this “vision” could land the Mayor a stupid governance prize but it does not rise to the level of the moronics perpetrated on Evansville this week by the Water Department so we will just leave the “vision” thing at silliness?
IS IT TRUE it has been pointed out that Evansville is near the bottom of the list for integration of smart electric meters?…such meters really do work with the grid to pinpoint problems and integrate distributed generation devices like solar panels and wind energy devices?…they are also useful in identification of opportunities for peak shaving by cascading power up algorithms for industrial applications?…whether the smart meters are for electricity or water, they are only as smart as the people using the information they transmit?…in the City of Evansville’s case that has thus far been far from smart?
IS IT TRUE the Republican wave that hit the U.S. Congress in Tuesday’s midterm election also boosted the party in state races, where it gained control of 10 chambers and could be on track to holding the largest number of legislative seats since before the Great Depression?…to be specific if the winners hold up as indicated, the democrats will hold fewer state chambers than they have since 1860?…that would be the year the the first Republican President Abraham Lincoln took office and the Civil War began?…how President Obama can remain oblivious to the depth of the defeat is just mind boggling?
Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Report
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