A little birdie pointed out that Chuck Brewer, our losing candidate for Indianapolis mayor, is once again a candidate. Brewer filed to run for a Republican delegate to the state convention. That's not really a story in and of itself. What is a story is where he filed to run as a state convention delegate. That would be in Center Township, not at the apartment complex down in Perry Township he claimed was his voting residence last year. Yeah, remember how Advance Indiana called him out for claiming a voting residence down in Perry Township, which he required when he originally wanted to run for an open City-County Council district on the south side, even though he actually owned and lived in a luxury condominium in the Athletic Club at 350 N. Meridian Street in downtown Indianapolis.
Caught in a lie, Brewer had no other choice than to move the furniture out of his Athletic Club condo, which had a soft real estate listing at the time, to make it appear vacant when Jocelyn-Tandy Adande filed a complaint with the Marion Co. Election Board accusing him of registering to vote in a precinct where he didn't actually live. The election board agreed to accept evidence his attorney, David Brooks, presented to prove he was living in the apartment on the south side despite the fact that he was still claiming a homestead exemption on the condominium long after he claimed he had move out of it to establish a residence in Perry Township. As it turned out, Brewer never needed that Perry Township voting residence because he decided to run for mayor, but he had to keep up the appearance he really lived in Perry Township since that's where had had started voting a year earlier instead of his Center Township residence.
After Brewer won the nomination and sold his downtown condo, it wasn't long after that before Advance Indiana learned from Brewer's new near-northside neighbors that he was living on N. Pennsylvania Street. He even used the neighborhood where he was living in one of the television ads he ran during the general election. So Brewer walked into the Marion Co. Clerk's office a couple of weeks ago to file his statement of candidacy to run for state convention delegate. There was only one problem. Brewer was filing to run in a Center Township district where he wasn't registered to vote. Apprised of the problem, Brewer went across the hallway and re-registered at his "new address" in the 2000 block of N. Pennsylvania Street so he could run for state convention delegate in Center Township where he had been living while voting at a precinct in Perry Township, all because he thought he was going to run for a City-County Council seat where he never really lived. Now you know the rest of the story.
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As far as I am concerned, Jocelyn Tandy-Adande never should have lost her complaint. She stood up to the machine when no one else would. So much for GOP hatchet attorney David Brooks' proof... I have to say that proof now looks like a pile of ___ and Brooks had to know it the moment he spewed it all out. Chuck Brewer, the guy with more addresses than than an octopus has arms, is a real piece of work apparently. IMHO not cut out for mayor, not cut out for state delegate, not cut out for public service of any kind.
If this is how Chuck Brewer runs his fast food businesses, I'd sure hate to see his P&L statement. He's got to be deep in the weeds.
Some might be trans residential or residentially fluid & politically nomadic. If he thinks he lives in Perry, Center or even a township of South Africa; that might be where he "lives."
Joe Hogsett, a piddling, mid level, bought and owned (apparently) political hack who doesn't appear to have two brain cells to rub together, beat Chuck Brewer like a drum. If I lost that badly to somebody that incredibly stupid, I'd move too...far away...where nobody knows who I am.
Did Brooks lie in his pleadings while representing Brewer?
The best evidence that Brewer had to prove he lived at the apartment in Perry Township was the lease. Interestingly, when Brooks tendered evidence showing that Brewer had been receiving mail at that apartment address, he did not include the lease with the sworn affidavit he had prepared for his client. One of the election board members asked why there wasn't a lease for the apartment. Brooks shuffled through his files and gave the board a copy of what purported to be a lease signed by Brewer for that apartment, being careful not to provide any sworn testimony from his client that he had signed a lease for that apartment, which as I recall was owned by the politically-connected J.C. Hart. In fact, he didn't have his client show up at the hearing to testify. Someone contacted me and claimed they worked for the cable TV company and the cable TV for that apartment was shown in a different person's name. That person wasn't authorized to share that information with me and could not go on the record as asserting that as fact. That was actually the second apartment he had down in Perry Township. The first apartment at which he registered to vote was outside the council district he wanted to run so he changed it again a few months later when apprised of this fact to this other address on Slate Drive, which was within the district.
Nice follow up
Chuck Brewer will do or say anything to get what he wants. He is a man with an explosive temper whose ex wife has had to call the police after he has gotten angry with her.
His business acumen leaves a lot to be desired. Potbelly has refused to allow him to open another store. He berates his employees and had fought with executives from corporate.
Brewer boasts of his military service and he deserves recognition for it. But, he did not train with any unit for over two years when he moved to Indy. It was only when political aspirations came into play that he went back to service.
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