Kendall & Casey with Peter Blanchard of Mirror Indy

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Kendall & Casey bring on their first guest of the show, Peter Blanchard of Mirror Indy. Blanchard just published a story on the Thomas Cook/Major Joe Hogsett situation.

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0:00.0	There are thousands of hurting children in Indiana. They are in the child welfare system due to abuse or neglected home. They struggle in school due to life trauma or challenges and they face mental health issues. At child advocates, we serve foster children. We help children succeed in school and we host workshops to create collaborative workplaces and caring communities and to nurture a sense of
0:21.6	belonging for all children and youth. We seek justice, access to opportunity, and well-being for
0:27.1	children. Learn more at child advocates.net. Casey, there is a fabulous new piece out in
0:32.7	Mirren, talking about how, and this will shock you, the mayor of the city of Indianapolis may have a problem with the truth.
0:41.7	Lying such a strong word.
0:43.7	We don't want to use the term lying.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:45.5	Hogsett downplays Cook's role, but some say he led the 23 campaign and six people told Mirror Indy that his comments during an interview on a TV station were untrue.
0:55.8	Okay, so Peter Blanchard, going to join us here momentarily, the author of this piece.
0:59.0	It's an excellent, excellent piece.
1:00.4	Everybody should totally go read it over at mirrorindy.org.
1:04.1	And basically it deals with Thomas Carl Cook, who is the deputy mayor, and then came back
1:09.7	and most people believed was running
1:12.7	the campaign for Joe Hogsett in 2023, despite all of Hogs had being fully aware of these
1:18.4	allegations, complaints from women about sexual harassment, abuse, whatever you want to call it,
1:24.1	and brought him back. And then Hogsett tried a downplay thing. No, no, no, no, he was just
1:28.9	more of an advisor. And this new piece really blows a whole net. Peter Blancher joins us. Now, Peter,
1:32.8	hello. Hello, Rob. Thanks for having me. All right. So talk about this piece. It appears pretty clear
1:38.4	from your research that Thomas Carl Cook, if not running the show, was a tippy top guy in 2023.
1:46.2	Yeah. So, you know, you mentioned the comments the mayor made last week in an interview
1:51.3	saying that Thomas Cook was never in contact with anyone directly involved in the campaign.
1:56.8	I heard that remark, and I sort of thought, well, I don't know about that.
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