Category: Indiana

Travel Payments

Officeholders and candidates travel all of the time.  Who pays?  That’s the topic of this story. State records show the governor used state aircraft 61 times in 2007, or more than once a week. And his pace for the first seven months of 2008 – an election year – is 48 percent higher than the […]

Indiana Robocall Case Update

The Indianapolis Star covered yesterday’s Indiana Supreme Court hearing of an important robocall case.  The case was heard in Terre Haute as part of an effort to let people in different parts of the state see the court in action. Monday’s hearing also could be viewed via the Internet. The case centers on the 1988 […]

Indiana Supreme Court to Hear Robocall Case

Campaigns & Elections reports that on Monday the Indiana Supreme Court will hear an important case involving restrictions on robocalls and automated dialing systems.  The state parties have retained well-known First Amendment lawyer James Bopp, who filed an amicus brief in support of American Family Voices. Bopp claims the attorney general is going beyond the […]