Former Greg Ballard communications director Robert Vane joins to discuss what Shreve can learn from Ballard to win the mayor's race
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🗓️ 5 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Will they fool up a chicken man and really less property tax on the original 1132. It's kind of |
| 0:08.0 | like Casey on 93 WIBC. We're going to have a rhino moment, huh? Oh, yeah, there he is. Yes, |
| 0:14.6 | that is absolutely correct. You know, so Robert Vane, he is the former communications director |
| 0:20.6 | for Greg Baller. And you don't think about, I love about you, Vane, is you're totally honest, |
| 0:24.6 | you're 100% entrenched in the establishment. You would love. You said an entire hour |
| 0:29.6 | once a month called the rhino hour and people could just, the conservatives just say mean |
| 0:33.4 | things to you. Oh, he's fat. I can't believe it hasn't happened already. I was told, I was told |
| 0:38.2 | Garrison would be here. There's Greg. Okay, so let, let's just piece you out in Indystar was |
| 0:46.0 | fascinating because you were Baller's communication director. And I was, I was comms director at state |
| 0:51.7 | party basically when he won. Yeah. And then I was this press secretary for the transition and then |
| 0:56.2 | I eventually worked in the administration for a couple of years. So you were there. You saw |
| 1:00.0 | what he did successfully in terms of winning what a lot of people thought at one point was, |
| 1:06.6 | especially after kind of Peterson had cruised to re-election 2003 and unwinnable race and unwinnable |
| 1:11.7 | city. And you wrote a piece in Indystar that I thought was very interesting about what Shrieve, |
| 1:16.0 | Jefferson Shrieve, the Republican nominee now could learn from Greg Baller. And for those people |
| 1:23.2 | who haven't had a chance to read the column yet, what's the number one thing Jefferson Shrieve |
| 1:27.6 | should be learning from Greg Baller? Visit people where they're comfortable, |
| 1:37.4 | ask them what their biggest worries are. And then be honest about what it takes to address them. |
| 1:46.8 | You know, Baller's almost a metaphor, right? Right. Well, Greg Baller did it. There's one |
| 1:52.4 | thing that I didn't write in my column that maybe I'll write in a future one. And that is, |
| 1:58.3 | you know, not only do Republicans remember what happened in 2007, but so do the Democrats. |
| 2:08.4 | And they're not going to forget it, just like we aren't. And you know, what Baller did, |
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