'Valparaiso Republicans' Skewered In The Chesterton Tribune Today

The Chesterton Tribune has a review and analysis of the tactics of the 'Valparaiso Republicans' and the 'Valparaiso Republican Central Committee' that is a must read for anyone questioning all of the absurd and ridiculous mailers with bizarre pictures hitting mailboxes all over Porter County lately attacking Commissioner Bob Harper.

Let’s break it down: the “Valparaiso Republicans” are smearing Harper because he didn’t attend a meeting he was under no obligation to attend, at which a CEDIT increase was enacted which they themselves supported and Harper opposed.

It’s a Big Lie, all right, and in its sheer gall and breathtaking audacity it makes the head spin.

It's a must read all and also includes questions posed to the Republican candidate herself, Nancy Adams. She had nothing to do with it and can't control it, she says.

Alrighty then. That's the kind of lack of control we need in a Porter County Commissioner, ain't it?  None at all.  Right.

County government is not run by one man or woman.  The Commissioners don't set budgets, and do not have authority to levy taxes.  That is the County Council's responsibility.  Commissioners are not responsible for for mailing out late tax bills, (that's the County Auditor), and therefore are not culpable for the cost accompanied by late tax bills.  I've yet to find somebody who knows where this 13 million dollar figure came from on the red mailer.

These mailers are an attempt to dumb down voters, or to assume voters are already dumb.  You pick.

Here's a sampling of what I like to call the recent ludicrious and expensive pieces of mail box litter. 

There is also this sense in which they mailings are very personal: they reveal on the part of the “Valparaiso Republicans” themselves a seething anger toward Harper not readily explicable in terms of the issues.