What a Pence VP pick would mean for Indiana’s race for governor

Fox News, Channel 59 ^ | July 14, 2016 | Jessica Hayes

[Clintonfatigued]

If Mike Pence is chosen, he must drop out of the Indiana governor’s race. Indiana law does not allow a candidate’s name to appear on both the gubernatorial ballot and vice presidential ballot.

To do that, either Pence or his lawyer must deliver that paperwork to the Secretary of State’s office by noon on Friday.

Then, anyone else who wants to run for the governor’s seat will have the same Friday noon deadline to formally add their name.

The Republican Party Committee then has 30 days to name a replacement candidate for the governor's race. A 12-vote majority of the 22 committee members is needed.

Names being floated include former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, though that is only speculation at this point.

Additional possibilities include Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma and U.S. representatives Todd Rokita and Susan Brooks. They would also have to withdraw from their current races to be considered for the governor’s race.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Thanks for the response. I honestly was asking what votes she had cast that made her worse than Rokita, and was not implying that I had analyzed her votes and agreed with them. I didn’t know (or had forgotten) that she had voted with the trannies, and he ACU rating in the low 70s (and 20 points lower than Rokita) proves that she must be less conservative than him on more than one issue.

Of the three announced candidates, Rokita does sound like the best one.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Brooks scored a 67 in 2015 and 68 in 2014, so this has been a poor record in a district where her predecessor, Dan Burton, routinely got a near-perfect score from the ACU (in his last year, 2012, he got a 100%). Makes one wish Burton didn’t retire despite his being a bit off his game and losing interest in his job in his latter years.

In the case of Jackie Walorski, she did score a bad 64 in 2014 but improved it to an 83 in 2015. Of course, she’s no Chris Chocola, the best member in that district in the past 25 years.

Getting back to Brooks again, some key issues she voted wrong on in 2015 included:

HR 240 (Roll Call 109) Funding Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=1&s=

H Con Res 27 (Roll Call 138) Conservative Budget AKA Stutzman Amendment (so she voted against her own home state member here)
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=2&s=

HR 2578 (Roll Call 278) Spending Reduction
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=9&s=

HR 2685 (Roll Call 341) Afghanistan Funding
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=13&s=

HR 6 (Roll Call 431) Mandatory Health Research
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=16&s=

HR 597 (Roll Call 576) Reauthorizing the Export Import Bank
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=21&s=

HR 1314 (Roll Call 579) Busting the Budget Caps
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=22&s=

HR 2029 (Roll Call 705) Omnibus Appropriations
http://acuratings.conservative.org/Vote-Description/?year1=2015&chamber=12&issue=24&s=

Clearly, she votes fiscally leftist, and that’s one clear reason to oppose her.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Thanks for the info. I had no idea that she had strayed so far from Burton’s gold standard.

[Clintonfatigued]

Stutzman is good on the issues, but he has shown poor campaign skills. That’s why he lost the primary by such a large margin.