Marion Co. GOP Swamps Scales' District With Negative, False Campaign Flyers

The word "ethical" isn't in the vocabulary of the Marion County Republican Party so nothing they do surprises me. The voters of District 3 in Indianapolis are blessed to have one of the hardest working and independent voices on the council in Christine Scales, who puts her constituents' interests ahead of the corrupt agenda of Mayor Greg Ballard and her colleagues, who sadly too often vote in lockstep with the mayor regardless of the poison he repeatedly asks them to swallow. The caucus retaliated against her for putting her constituents first by booting her from the caucus, a punishment not meted out to Lincoln Plowman when he was indicted for taking a bribe from an undercover FBI aent. The party slated Tim Craft to run against her. Craft didn't live in District 3 so he had to buy a home and move into the district just last year so he would be eligible to oppose Scales. He works for CBRE, which has been the beneficiary of lucrative no-bid contracts courtesy of the Ballard administration. The party failed to do any due diligence on Craft, who was forced to admit recently he had been practicing as a commercial real estate broker for nine months without a license, a matter now under investigation by state regulators.

The Republican leadership doesn't care whether they win or lose District 3. They only know they don't want Christine Scales serving on the council. God forbid the party have an elected official in the county with integrity who is true to Republican Party principles unlike many of the tax and spend, pay to play characters that best describes candidates preferred by the party with which I'm ashamed to identify these days. There's an old saying about getting into a fight with a skunk. The Marion Co. GOP knows it reeks something awful so the only way it can beat Scales is to simply make up lies about her and hope the voters of her district are too stupid to think for themselves. At least three negative campaign flyers chocked full of lies and distortions began hitting mail boxes in Scales' District today. The small-minded minority leader, Mike McQuillen, piled on with his own letter to voters in which he falsely accuses Scales of voting in lock-step with the Democrats. In actuality, McQuillen and many of his fellow Republicans have a perfect voting record of casting votes for taxes increases and reckless spending measures with their Democratic counterparts. McQuillen tries to claim the mantle of being a watchdog for the taxpayers when no other member of the council has been more vigilant in guarding our tax dollars than Scales. McQuillen even accuses Scales of colluding with "seedy" blogs. Words of a feeble leader with his panties all in a bunch. Let's hope District 3 Republican primary voters are wiser than McQuillen and the GOP's leadership.