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Indiana AG Race Heats Up
Filed Under attorney general, GOP, Greg Zoeller, Jon Costas
The race between Jon Costas and Greg Zoeller heats up as state GOP convention delegates prepare to make their selection for November’s general election. It’s a race that has been focused largely inside of the party — I don’t think I’ve heard anyone outside of the Indiana blogosphere discuss who should be the GOP’s choice for their candidate for attorney general.
Local blogger Steve Dalton is heading downstate to attend the state convention — he might do some live blogging as well as Tweeting from Indy tomorrow.
Writes Steve Dalton about the Costas vs. Zoeller battle for the nomination to be the GOP’s attorney general candidate:
Two experienced candidates face off on Monday for the Republican nomination for Attorney General in Indiana. I’m sure most delegates have made up their minds, now we wait until Monday afternoon to hear the vote totals. I’ll try to live blog tomorrow afternoon.
Costas brings basically statewide endorsement from most major Republican leaders including the Governor’s endorsement as the best candidate. While being attacked over the last three weeks as not conservative enough, or for being a “small town” mayor … he maintained his lifelong commitment to campaigning positively.
Zoeller brings a support group of southern Indiana and Ft. Wayne activists. They feel the Governor isn’t conservative enough, but in my opinion are using this election as a way to make a point without injuring him too much. It looks like the Paulistas are also looking at Zoeller, since they are against most everything …
I predict Jon Costas wins the nomination because he has a bunch of endorsements and because the party will want to have a geographically balanced ticket, but we won’t know until the convention is over and all of the votes are tallied.
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3 Responses to “Indiana AG Race Heats Up”
I am interested in the Race for Indiana Attorney General. Who do you think is more qualified for attorney general between zoeller and pence? Also, What are both of there opinions on Abortion, national defense, identity fraud, public corruption, nuisance lawsuits,etc. Again, I am very interested and would like to know which candidate is more qualified and which one you would personally endorse and why. Thankyou very much for your time.
Old post for a comment eh?
If the comment is legit: Greg Zoeller is the best choice. To be frank Linda Pence has connections to Lake County corruption, and can’t be trusted to keep pressure on reform and clean up efforts there.
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Hi Dominick and Steve,
I have to go with Steve on this one also. You can look at Pence’s and Zoeller’s websites for specific plans, but the key issue for anyone in Lake County is the fact that she has indicated that rooting out corruption in this area might not be as big of a concern for her as it would be for Zoeller.
If Obama wins on Tuesday, the only check against rampant corruption — you know the US attorney for the Northern District of Indiana will change — could be at the state level attorney general’s office as it is likely that federal “priorities” will change away from public corruption in Lake County.