Outside groups starting to spend on Indiana’s 2012 elections
Indiana’s primary elections are still a few months away, but we’re already starting to see some outside groups start buying airtime. In Indiana’s 8th District, the American Conservative Union is up with a cookie-cutter radio ad supporting incumbent Republican Larry…
Dick Lugar threatens to hold national security hostage
Threatening to hold the entire government hostage to his whims has been a go-to strategy for Indiana Congressman Mike Pence. Just a few months ago, Pence threatened to shut own the government over a small percentage of the budget that…
Trent Franks admits his bill is about more than racially-based abortions
Arizona Republican Trent Franks has been making the rounds to build support for his bill to ban the nonexistent problem of racially-based abortions. On the Concerned Women for America radio program, Franks admitted his bill is just part of an…
Indiana Republicans sign on to “Black Genocide” bill
Trent Franks, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, is probably most famous for his groundbreaking historical theory that black Americans were better off under slavery. But this week, Franks re-introduced his conspiracy theory anti-abortion bill, the grandiosely-named “Susan B. Anthony and…
The Indiana GOP’s Vote Fraud Problem
Over the past several years, the Indiana GOP has spent more than $12.2 million taxpayer dollars on voter education and ID cards since passing a restrictive voter ID law in 2006. That cost doesn’t begin to take into account the…
Lugar defends taxpayer-funded lobbying for Keystone XL Pipeline
Indiana Senator Richard Lugar responded to Representative Henry Waxman’s letter, inquiring into why the state of Indiana was spending taxpayer money to lobby for the Keystone XL Pipeline. Lugar, who has embraced this right-wing cause du jour as he faces…
Hoosier taxpayers foot lobbying bill for foreign company
Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House’s Energy and Commerce committee, has sent a letter (PDF) to Indiana’s official lobbyist to inquire why Indiana is lobbying for the Keystone XL Pipeline project. From the letter: I have…