Some may be confused by news that IN Lt Gov Micah Beckwith will “seek reelection.” A person who runs for office or seeks reelection is the person on the ballot. No one says, “I’m running for Vice President”: too many variables, most obvious being lead on the ticket, not voters, 1/13

picks the “running mate.” There are good reasons for Hoosiers to cringe when told Beckwith has two years left in his term of office. Beckwith makes people hope Gov Braun, vile though he is, stays in…

IN Gov Mike Braun has demonstrated he can ignore the best interests of Hoosiers as well as any career hacks. Braun jumped when the current occupant of the Oval Office demanded IN redraw Congressional districts. People effectively disenfranchised in part (Dems) [FN1] 1/14

were to be fully disenfranchised. [FN2] IN’s poor face crises in housing. The General Assembly made being homeless a criminal offense. [FN3] Braun held up, a la trump, that bill after he signed it into law. [FN4]…

On 11/4/26, someone reposted a FB post from “phoenixrisingdead”:

“REMEMBER THE MCCONNELL RULE

After the Democrats take control of the senate

tonight - AND THEY WILL - no Trump judicial

nominations can be confirmed.

Not for the supreme court.

Not for any federal bench.” 1/18

Among replies: “We don't need to do dirty deals like that. All we have to do is insist that the candidates answer every question and have a strong track record that is in line with the…

Democratic Party leaders, national & States’, must change the language of political discourse in several ways.

1. Issues have been reduced to “catch phrases” that the gop has drafted. Ad execs Haldeman [FN1] & Ehrlichman were pivotal to Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign for Pres. 1/11

Lee Atwater’s work was invasive & substituted abstract terms for racial epithets of the 1950s. [FN2] He perfected use of the “wedge issue” as strategist in George H.W. Bush’s successful 1988…