The complaints most conservatives across Indiana have regarding Dan Coats throwing his hat into the ring is simple. They feel the Republican party is astroturfing Coats down their throats, and they do not want another beltway insider in Washington. Coats did a stellar job during his former years in Washington, but is he really the “people’s candidate?”

Just what is astroturfing?

Astroturfing is an English-language term referring to political, advertising, or public relations campaigns that are formally planned by an organization, but designed to mask its origins to create the impression of being spontaneous, popular “grassroots” behavior.

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By Jim Sack

There is a sale going on in Europe, thanks to financial problems in Greece, Ireland and a couple more European countries, that can benefit you but won’t help our economy much.

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Nuff said.

I’m not buying the crap floating around the blogosphere, Twitter or Facebook that say we need to stand by the party and support Dan Coats. I have serious issues. What say you?

I will have an analysis, hopefully tomorrow.

Having seen the intergovernmental task force on co-location today I much prefer sausage making.

At least with sausage making you can drink a nice German beer, say a Kostritzer from Gera, to dull the pain. There was no such option today. The meeting was comical at times, disappointing most of the time, disrespectful, inarticulate, confused, and oh yes, a mess.

The highly respected John Stafford chairs the task force and even as capable and articulate as he is the meeting got away from him quickly. The seating chart should have been a giveaway. One the left (literally, not figuratively) were Councilmen Tom Smith, Tim Pape and Mitch Harper. On the right (literally and figuratively) were County Council members Roy Buskirk, Paula Hughes and Paul Moss. In the middle (to their misfortune) were commissioners Linda Bloom and Nelson Peters, moderator Stafford and placed uncomfortably near Councilman Moss our fuming Mayor Tom Henry. (Bill Brown fortuitously had scheduled something else moons ago so he was spared the confusion and confrontation and pettiness.)

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Worth the watch

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Indiana News Center is reporting Henry’s ducking and running for cover.

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Pardon the title, it’s fitting.

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This is an amazing story of how perseverance can pay off.

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From AWB cartoonist Dennis “Bones” Evers.

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