The deadline for Pence to withdraw from the governor's race is tomorrow (the Star is saying he already has). Then, a committee of 22 republicans have 30 days to name his replacement on the ballot for November. That means whoever does get the nod then has 2.5 months to campaign before the vote in November.
Second, the three people being mentioned for Pence's replacement are US Representative Susan Brooks, US Representative Todd Rokita (both of whom have made preparations to remove themselves from ballots and run for governor instead) and the current Lt. Governor Eric Holcomb - who was named as a replacement in March of this year when the previous Lt. Governor resigned. So that throws 2 of the House races here into disarray and in need of replacement candidates too. To top it off, former democrat representative Baron HIll, who was set to run for our US Senate seat vacated by republican Dan Coats, has withdrawn his bid and former governor and US Senator Evan Bayh will be running against republican Todd Young, who is currently serving his second term as a US representative - thus leaving yet another congressional district with no incumbent. I've never seen such upheaval at one time in my life! This state is going to be as fun to watch as the national elections for once. For the record, I'd like to see Susan Brooks win the governorship and Todd Young in the Senate. I voted for democrat Evan Bayh twice as governor and twice as senator - as he used to be a very moderate/conservative democrat, but then in his second term veered far left right alongside Hillary during the 2008 presidential campaign (he was widely touted as a potential running mate for her when everyone thought she would win the nomination). Bayh and Clinton were among the 2 dozen leftwing democrats to oppose the nominations of two highly qualified SC justices (Roberts and Alito) and then turn around and vote to appoint the least qualified and most radical one ever nominated - Sonia Sotomayor. Should be interesting. Bayh has the huge advantage (having been governor), but it will depend on how many recall that he sadly became such a partisan hack before leaving the Senate to become a lobbyist. -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
