Statehouse Happenings: Chairman's Race Divides Marion County Republicans
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Marion County Republicans appear more divided than ever after a hotly contested race to become Chairman. After the establishment pick Natalie Goodwin resoundingly defeated the conservative choice John Schmitz, Schmitz supporters lashed out. On this week's Statehouse Happenings Rob Kendall, Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, and Jim Merritt discuss the vote, whether Republicans can ever be competitive in Indianapolis again, and how Schmitz alignment with select individuals helped do him in.
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| 1:01.0 | Happenings, your weekly look at what's going on with Indiana politics. Before we begin the program, |
| 1:05.1 | let's meet the award-winning panel. You know him from 30 years in the Indiana Senate. Jim Merritt, hello. Robert. And you know him as the owner and |
| 1:11.4 | operator of IndyPolitics.org. Abdula Kibh Shabazz. Hello. |
| 1:14.7 | Good coming, my friend. So Saturday came and Saturday went and Saturday came and went exactly |
| 1:19.9 | as we had predicted it would. And Saturday came and went again on Sunday, too. Well, so okay, |
| 1:25.4 | so all across the state, the Republicans and Democrats, |
| 1:30.3 | what do they call that, organization day, right? Yes, where they elect the county officers that |
| 1:34.8 | will lead the party for the next four years. You've got, what, like a treasurer, a vice chairman, |
| 1:41.7 | secretary, and then the big one is, of course, the chairman. And in a lot of cases, |
| 1:47.0 | these are relatively uneventful clerical type of procedures. And who wants to draw the short straw |
| 1:55.0 | and run the thing this time? Okay, Harold, it's your turn. Get up there and go. But some of these, |
| 2:06.2 | you know, especially central Indiana counties, and then others, but they're contested. |
| 2:06.8 | And the most contested of them all, or at least the hottest one of all, was the Republican and |
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