Editors note: Gary Snyder Show contributor and publisher of IndyPolitics.org, Abdul Hakim-Shabazz is reporting Republican State Senator Mike Delph is about to participate in a little party cannibalism:
Outraged over the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding illegal immigration, Republican State Senator Mike Delph says he going after the “ivory tower elites and their enablers” and plans on starting with members of his own party.
This past week the U.S. Supreme Court overturned most of Arizona’s illegal immigration law and supporters of the decision locally say that ruling will also likely mean Indiana’s own efforts will be found unconstitutional as well.
In a Facebook post Delph laments about the decision, but also goes a step further…
Today also is the day I decided I just don’t care anymore. I am going after any enabler of the Ivory Tower Elite Establishment that chokes American freedom! I will start next week with a well known statewide Republican officeholder and candidate. If this week didn’t stir the conscience of American Patriots, nothing will.
Continue reading Delph on the warpath?
"There are only three elected officials who fit Delph’s description because they are both candidates for office as well as statewide officeholders, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett and State Treasurer and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock."
It's not like we'd be at any great loss if they cleaned house and got rid of the attorney general who refuses to enforce Indiana's consumer protection laws, fought to keep poor people from accessing health care, and tried to help the Republicans purge the voter rolls of Democrats in an organized and deliberate campaign of voter suppression.
Richard Mourdock? Take him, please. You want him? Take him! This is the man that shows up for his job as state Treasurer whenever he feels like it and lost track of nearly $600 million that was supposed to go to Indiana local governments during the worst economic recession in at least 30 years, as they scrambled to gut public services and raise taxes to fill the void.
Now that the state apparently found the $600 million, the new local taxes and cuts are permanent and the state will end up giving *some* of it back to tax payers as a ONE TIME tax refund of $30-40 that isn't going to measurably help anyone and will cost about $1 million in overhead simply to mail out the checks.
If this is the typical level of representation we can expect from the Republicans (and I believe it is), then I welcome their house cleaning attempt.
Either we might get slightly less incompetent and contemptible representation or they will put up candidates who are even worse and further damage the already abysmal record of their own party, which has spent the last 8 years running the state government like a cartel and their own personal piggy bank.
Come on Indiana, quit being stupid. We can do better than what we have now.
Rupert! Rupert! Rupert! :)
Posted by: Ryan | June 30, 2012 at 08:33 PM