Tag: Evan Bayh

Bayh-partisanship: Reform Congress

Filed in National by on February 22, 2010 3 Comments

Evan Bayh may be a mediocre legislator but since he’s announced his retirement from the Senate, he’s been a strong voice for Senate reform. He wrote an op-ed that appeared yesterday in the NYT on the subject. He correctly diagnoses the problem with money in politics and the “permanent campaign:” Perhaps from this starting point, […]

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Sabotage Fail

Filed in National by on February 17, 2010 2 Comments

When Evan Bayh announced his retirement, it suddenly put a fringe Democratic candidate Tamyra d’Ippolito into the spotlight. In Indiana to qualify to be on the ballot, you need to gather 500 signatures from each of Indiana’s 9 Congressional districts. On the Democratic side, only Evan Bayh had qualified. On the Republican side, there are […]

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