The field to replace disgraced former Indiana 3rd district Congressman Mark Souder on the general election and (yet-to-be-announced) special election ballots expanded again today.<\/p>\n
According to the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, businessman Lonnie Powell is throwing his hat into the ring.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20100525\/BLOGS01\/100529722<\/p>\n
That makes 11 candidates. What about an even dozen?<\/p>\n
On Facebook, a draft Paul Helmke movement has emerged. The ‘Paul Helmke for Congress’ page states:<\/p>\n
“Paul Helmke is the most reasonable political leader who ever came out of NE indiana. We don’t know if he has an interest in being a member of Congress, but we want to draft him to serve.”<\/em><\/p>\n Have a look for yourself:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Paul-Helmke-for-Congress\/111929555516866?ref=search&sid=4veJJxnprEZ8DY5FEeUNjg.3878047291..1<\/p>\n Helmke served as Ft. Wayne’s mayor and is a something of a rarity as a gun-control Republican. He is currently the president of the DC-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.<\/p>\n Today, there are reports the 520 GOP committeemen and women in Indiana’s 3rd Congressional district will\u00a0 gather June 12th in Columbia City to select a replacement Republican candidate.<\/p>\n The winner of the GOP caucus will face Democrat Tom Hayhurst in the general election…and state partry officials have signaled Hayhurst is a shoe-in to be selected for the special election as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The field to replace disgraced former Indiana 3rd district Congressman Mark Souder on the general election and (yet-to-be-announced) special election ballots expanded again today. According to the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, businessman Lonnie Powell is throwing his hat into the ring. http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20100525\/BLOGS01\/100529722 That makes 11 candidates. What about an even dozen? On Facebook, a draft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}