Primary voters to choose Hogsett’s path or Shackleford’s vision

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12 thoughts on “Primary voters to choose Hogsett’s path or Shackleford’s vision

  1. If Hogsett is reelected then we are in for another rough couple years. We need a change. Whatever he is doing now just isn’t working. He has only been present the last couple months because it is election season. He is absent and not fit for this job.

    1. And they haven’t for multiple years. They also just signed off on Hogsett’s last budget which had increases for public safety.

      If the prosecutor race that just ended shows anything, they don’t have a prayer if their campaign is just “we aren’t the other guy”.

    2. Joe B.
      The Republican candidate could be an incredible candidate wiith impeccable
      Credentials and still not win.
      The minority vote will never allow a Republican candidate no matter how good
      to win,

      Facts are facts. Indianapolis will detoriate under Dem leadership.

    3. I’m just going to slide past that really ignorant remark there, Keith.

      I think you might want to reassess that given how poor the Republican candidates have been during the last three elections.

      The party replaced a successful Republican mayor who won two terms with a guy who owned a sandwich shop with no political experience.

      James Merritt ran a catastrophically bad campaign. Reminder, he did so badly that Republicans lost all throughout the county using maps they had drawn to their political advantage.

      But the problem is minorities won’t vote for a good candidate. OK.

      The choiceS for mayor this year are not much better.

      When I look at the Republicans offered for the City County Council in my district, it’s choosing the least bad option, not the best candidate. My choices are a Tony Katz wannabe, an election denier whose campaign flyers only proved how ignorant she was, and someone else. Someone else is getting my vote later today.

      Another reminder, I find the Marion County Republican party and the Indiana Democratic Party are roughly equivalent with their futility at doing their jobs.

    4. Sorry man, but facts are facts.
      Agreed that Merrit was a bad candidate.

    5. So Greg Ballard as a Republican won in 2007 and was re-elected in 2011 by … what, voter fraud?

      The Republican candidates and platforms are awful.

      They can’t deliver on infrastructure needs because they’re hamstrung by the state and too chicken to speak up and fight. Hogsett at least has the idea of making it a bipartisan issue for the region.

  2. The day this story was published Senator “Local Control” Freeman’s bill amendment prohibiting no turn in red passed into law. So, our state’s capitol city and economic engine is now the only city in the entire state that cannot make an intersection NTOR. So much for pedestrian safety…

    1. Indianapolis has NOT had a major economic development project
      in well over a decade. Indianapolis is stagnating and the only response
      from the Dems is to let it happen.

      Carmel and Fishers are becoming the economic engine and the face
      of the Indianapolis Metro.

    2. Name the last one.

      And explain how Indianapolis is supposed to have economic froth projects when they can’t get the funding for basic road maintenance.

  3. Indiana is the epitome of ignorance with representatives such as Freeman. A basic GOP tenet is local control yet when a local entity such as the city of Indianapolis proposes an aspect to improve the health and safety of its residents, a state representative with not engineering, planning, nor design expertise can strike down a well studied data driven plan that is reflective of a national issue with ROT in urban areas

    As for the comment that minorities would not vote for a republican is absolutely ridiculous and wrong. To make such an ignorant statement is a blatant generalization based on the false assumption that all minorities will only vote for a minority or a democrat. Perhaps the quality, rhetoric, and plans of some republicans (including black republican) have proven too asinine for them to merit further consideration. Generalization area wrong — should one assume that all non-minorities are racist adherents to white supremacist replacement theories and have stockpiles firearms ready for a civil war focused on removing all those unlike them.

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