IS IT TRUE that the local GOP just experienced a major political split that began when Mayor Winnecke and GOP Party Chairmen Mike Duckworth openly opposed County Commissioner Cheryl Musgrave as the Republican nominee for Mayor of Evansville? …that because of their serious political misstep, there is now an active movement to oust the current Chairman of the Vanderburgh Republican Party from his position? Â …that this may be a developing story?
IS IT TRUE that we have been informed Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke tapped his friends, PAC Committee members, and associates that raised a little over one million dollars for the Republican for Natalie Rascher’s campaign for Mayor of Evansville?
IS IT TRUE that many people feel that the political strategists not allowing the well-qualified and extremely personable GOP mayoral candidate Natalie Rascher to speak directly to the voters in her TV commercials was a major political misstep?…the person who spoke in her TV ads was none other than Mayor Lloyd Winnecke instead of the extremely articulate Natalie Rascher?
IS IT TRUE that it is widely believed that if the leadership of Vanderburgh County GOP had given the appropriate amount of campaign money to several of their well-qualified City Council candidates they could have won their race, keeping a balanced ideology on the City Council?
IS IT TRUE that we are told that the leadership of Vanderburgh County GOP spent a small fortune of money trying to blunt the efforts of the Libertarian Michael Daugherty campaign from taking votes from Mayoral candidate Natalie Rashner? Â …that the GOP leadership made a big political mistake when they didn’t challenge Stephanie Terry’s County Council voting record while she was a member of the Vanderburgh County Council?…that because she went unchallenged by GOP leadership she will walk through the golden door known as the Office of the Mayor of Evansville?
IS IT TRUE that several well-known Republicans are hoping that Nattalie Rashner will get a Department Head appointment in the Terry administration? Â …if she does get an appointment we know that she will serve the Mayor well?
IS IT TRUE that we have been told by reliable sources that Michael Daughty may also be getting an appointment to a county-run board? Â …we also feel if he gets appointed to a county board he will do a good job for the taxpayers of Vanderburgh County?