Posted on 02/01/2012 5:47:46 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I wonder whether Lugar and his wife pay state income tax to Indiana.
And I wonder where Mrs Lugar claims to reside for purposes of voting.
And I wonder where the Lugars have their vehicles registered.
And, MOST OF ALL, I wonder where they’ll be living after Senator Lugar leaves office next January. Anyone want to bet that it will not be Indiana?
Sen. Lugar is a leader of the permanent ruling aristocracy which is natural in a country ruled by political parties and the “spirit of party” that Pres. Washington warned us about in his farewell address.
From Pres. Washington’s farewell adress:
“the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”
“It (the spirit of party) serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
These quotes from paragraphs 23 and 24 at this location:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp
Without non-partisan elections, we can’t have citizen legislators or citizen administrators who are free from being dominated by the “spirit of party”.
The irony is, the current Indiana SOS (R) is in court having to defend himself against fraud charges because he used his former address, where his ex-wife still lives, to register and vote (he’d probably used that address for most of his adult life).
I suspect the Soros machine is behind this, with their plan to influence the election process by having libs in the SOS of each state.
Seymour? Hi, cousin!
The Uniontown Dunkards have a history somewhere on the net. Most folks think they know that Dunkards are German Baptists ~ but these guys were different. The preacher was unable to build a congregation of Germans since most were really hard core Lutherans (with 7 different synods represented in that small area). So, he turned to the American community and he ended up with the ONLY All-American Dunard Church.
Through extensive work over most of a century we've determined that the Uniontown area was mostly folks whose people came to America to settle in the first Swedish colony in Delaware, then Maryland, then Pennsylvania, then Ohio, then Indiana.
Seems to me the SofS hadn’t been kicked out of the house all that long when this residency issue came up.
Lugar is probably going to become a Florida voter.
Been on one ~ give you a beer every time it lands successfully. I had this enormous bag of beer at the end of the flight in Minneapolis.
That area now has some pricey digs ~ nothing cheap up there. The house back home takes up a series percentage of their income ~ several times what it would have cost in 1944.
Today even with "allowances for housing" your typical Congressman with a family has to decide whether or not to keep his family here or back wherever.
Remember the difficulties Sarah Palin had with commuting from Alaska's political capital (Juneau) to it's operating capital (Anchorage). It's about 600 miles or thereabouts. Plus they have an outrageous climate.
So, is she allowed to have kids?
The complaint there was she claimed too much in perdiem for her kids so I guess she really wasn't entitled to have kids.
If all you want are single folks without families going to Congress that's what you'll get ~ still, Barney Frank, who lived on the Hill, still had to rent his basement out to a guy who worked as a gay prostitute!
Frankly, with America's decided preference AGAINST Republicans being homosexuals, what you are asking for is that no one but Democrats run for office.
One more time on how many days these guys get off, that's just how many days Congress isn't itself in session ~ that doesn't mean they "get off".
The primary is in May, so no one is paying attention yet. I take no pleasure in reporting that Richard Mourdock’s campaign hasn’t really gotten off the ground yet. A lot of Indiana Republicans are not happy with Lugar, but the voters are inclined to vote for the name they recognize. There is still time to turn it around.
even the Dems go there to die, LOL
great tax advantage
Mourdock won a statewide election to the Treasurer office.
He’ll be a formidable candidate IMHO.
Mark Levin reported on this a few minutes ago.
“Mourdock won a statewide election to the Treasurer office. He’ll be a formidable candidate IMHO.”
That’s good news. Thanks. I sent him a donation recently and will try to send more.
I don’t see the excitement we saw in 2010 to toss out CINO incumbents, but I am going to do what I can to thin the CINO herd with the meager resources I have. Lugar is pretty high on my list. He’s stuck his finger in the eyes of conservatives way too many times.
The other day I saw some assine article. Something like “Lugar from Tea Party Target to Friend?” It was all about Lugar sucking up to the Tea Party.
Mourdock has gotten a lot of endorsements.
My ancestors were among the hard core Lutherans. Whether they associated with your folks probably depended on your folks’ attitudes about beer. Do Dunkards drink?
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The Dunkard church has since dissolved into the First Christian Church in Seymour so they probably couldn't give you a clear answer on that. Of note, we recently buried one of my mother's sisters and her husband in the space of one week out at the Uniontown graveyard.
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