I spoke with Scott Wise at last night’s Allen County Lincoln Day Dinner. Wise is a political greenhorn switch-er-roo running against Mark Souder for the 3rd District congressional seat.
I approached Wise to discuss his issue (or maybe it’s Mike Sylvester’s issue), over access to the GOP Voter Vault. He claimed he called Steve Shine (not his county chair) and was told to go through Jim Banks the Whitley County GOP chair. Wise told me last night he had asked Banks for access to Voter Vault.
Earlier in the day (yesterday) Wise posted on FortWaynePolitics.com that he already had Voter Vault access for Whitley County. So which story is he sticking with? Did he ask Banks or did he already have access?
I came back and asked him again a few moments later and he changed his story again, stating he had access to the Whitley County Voter Vault because his password from being on council was still active. Get your story straight Scott.
Wise did not follow state party rules which require him to request each County Chairman to complete and return a Voter Vault request form to the state. From what I’ve learned, Wise never followed that procedure.
Wise is just another Libertarian wingnut. If you look at Wise’s campaign web site, he links to Libertarian party sites, but no GOP sites. In 2006 he renounced his Republican party affiliation before pursuing his 2006 run against Souder for Congress, and now he wants back in? He rants on his Blog (last updated in January) about being a Republican but seems more interested in the communist party. Haven’t they gone away for the most part?
I don’t understand Libertarians. They jump back and forth between the GOP and Libertarian Party so long as they can find a place on the ballot, yet they never gain any traction. As Libertarians, they sit on the sidelines and throw beer bottles at the Republicans. Then, they jump ship and come back into the GOP and expect to be embraced as loyal party members without proving their allegiance, all the while expecting to be treated like one of the faithful.
One more note on Wise. Maybe it’s just me, but when I talk to someone that has a hard time maintaining eye contact with me, I get suspicious. Wise couldn’t maintain more than 3-4 seconds of eye contact last night during a 5 minute conversation.
A side note:
Purportedly Josh Hoot has gained access to Voter Vault, as well as the entire Republican precinct committeemen email list to the benefit Mahlon Houlihan? How did that happen?
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Wise has problems paying his taxes – http://www.whitleycountygis.org. He has more penalties than my golf score. Also, his wife was in the Columbia City newspaper a few weeks ago for not paying some bills that were turned into creditors. I don’t think he will get more than 10 percent of the vote.
How did that happen indeed and why didn’t Josh Hoot give the lists to Scott Wise since they are on the same team?
Dan
As a Libertarian I can agree with your synopsis whole heartedly – he is a wingnut- and he will never, I said never!, get my vote ever.
Perhaps the Hoots got the lists the old fashion way, they paid for it, or maybe they were just lying around left over from the Kelty campaign.
Seems your antiganism of the GOP is infinitely more divisive than Libertarians.