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Daily Digest for July 3rd

July 3rd, 2009 · Comments

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Daily Digest for July 2nd

July 2nd, 2009 · Comments

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Joh: Joh Doesn’t the celebrity death culture bore you?
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Joh: Doesn’t the celebrity death culture bore you? [#]
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Joh: Joh Arrest warrant issued for Dennie Oxley. Blue Indiana, IDP silent.
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Joh: Arrest warrant issued for Dennie Oxley. Blue Indiana, IDP silent [#]
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Joh: Joh Arrest Warrant Issued For Oxley, IDP and Blue Indiana Silent (http://ping.fm/LKFE6).
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Arrest Warrant Issued For Oxley, IDP and Blue Indiana Silent

July 2nd, 2009 · Comments

Every major news outlet in Indiana is reporting this evening that former State Representative and failed Lieutenant Governor candidate Dennie Oxley has been charged with impersonating a public official and public intoxication in connection with last Friday morning’s incident at the Citgo gas station in Downtown Indianapolis. Oxley, 38, was found in a very intoxicated state in the parking lot of the gas station about 1am last Friday with Indiana House Democrats intern Kristen Dowlut, 21, of South Bend, who was discovered very intoxicated and laying face down on the pavement when officers arrived.

 

Today, Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi announced formal charges had been filed at a news conference. WTHR reported on its website that Oxley and his father, Dennie Oxley Sr., the current state representative for the district the younger Oxley once represented, were seen at the Statehouse by members of the news media just before the charges were announced.  This afternoon, WISH reporters had seen Oxley walking along Ohio Street.

Oxley was due to turn himself in to the Arrestee Processing Center at 1pm as had been arranged, but as of 11pm last evening had not done so, increasing his chances for the much dreaded “perp walk” that will inevitably turn this news story into a sensational event when the actual arrest finally occurs. [Read more →]

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Daily Digest for July 1st

July 1st, 2009 · Comments

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Joh: RT @scholars_rogues Democrats to Progressives: "We’re just not that into you." http://su.pr/2I7yk4 #p2 #newsjunkies [#]
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Joh: Joh RT @scholars_rogues Democrats to Progressives: "We’re just not that into you." http://su.pr/2I7yk4 #p2 #newsjunkies.
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Joh: @bmk Just saw your tweet re: JLT and Myers – so true, so very very true. [#]
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Joh: Listening to ‘End of an Era’ @imeem http://x.imeem.com/ycGijFCtsV #musicmonday [#]
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Joh: Watching: Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech on HBO [#]
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Joh: Brizzi Punts On Oxley Charges (http://ping.fm/c2P3L) [#]
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Joh: Joh Tony George Resins as CEO of Indianapolis Motor Speedway http://ping.fm/ypyd9.
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Joh: Tony George Resins as CEO of Indianapolis Motor Speedway http://ping.fm/ypyd9 [#]
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Joh: Joh Tony George Resigns as CEO of Indianapolis Motor Speedway http://ping.fm/FTiQO.
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Joh: Tony George Resigns as CEO of Indianapolis Motor Speedway http://ping.fm/FTiQO [#]
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Joh: Joh Indiana House OKs state budget 62-37 http://ping.fm/dIOSQ.
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Daily Digest for June 30th

June 30th, 2009 · Comments

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Joh: RT @scholars_rogues Democrats to Progressives: "We’re just not that into you." http://su.pr/2I7yk4 #p2 #newsjunkies [#]
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Joh: Joh RT @scholars_rogues Democrats to Progressives: "We’re just not that into you." http://su.pr/2I7yk4 #p2 #newsjunkies.
11:23am via Facebook
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Joh: @bmk Just saw your tweet re: JLT and Myers – so true, so very very true. [#]
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Joh: Listening to ‘End of an Era’ @imeem http://x.imeem.com/ycGijFCtsV #musicmonday [#]
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Joh: Joh Listening to ‘End of an Era’ @imeem http://x.imeem.com/ycGijFCtsV #musicmonday.
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Joh: Watching: Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech on HBO [#]
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Joh: I uploaded a YouTube video — Zeina by il Troubadore http://bit.ly/UAgTt [#]
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Joh: Joh I uploaded a YouTube video — Zeina by il Troubadore http://bit.ly/UAgTt.
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Joh: I uploaded a YouTube video — Sunglasses at Night by il Troubadore http://bit.ly/uhuKh [#]
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Joh: Joh I uploaded a YouTube video — Sunglasses at Night by il Troubadore http://bit.ly/uhuKh.
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Joh: Joh Latest Videos from Layman Media (http://ping.fm/tX3pP).
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Joh shared 2 links.
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Joh: Brizzi Punts On Oxley Charges (http://ping.fm/c2P3L) [#]
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Brizzi Punts On Oxley Charges

June 30th, 2009 · Comments

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi told reporters Monday that he needs more time to consider what charges to file in the incident involving disgraced former Lt. Governor candidate and former state representative Dennie Oxley II which took place early last Friday morning in the parking lot of a Citgo gas station in Downtown Indianapolis.

Oxley, 38, was allowed to leave the scene after officers arrived to investigate why his heavily intoxicated companion for the evening, Kristen Dowlut, 21, was lying face down on the pavement at the gas station. Dowlut is also the niece of Rep. David Neizgodski, a Democrat from South Bend, who said Monday he has avoided calling Oxley about the incident.

The reason Oxley was allowed to leave the scene without any charges was that he claimed to be a serving legislator in town for state business during the special session of the General Assembly currently meeting to pass a budget bill before a mandatory government shutdown on Wednesday if the legislature does not pass a budget bill before midnight tonight.

In a quirk of Indiana law, legislators currently in session cannot be charged with a crime unless it is a felony, treason or fraud charge. Under the law, charges may be filed once the legislator is out of session, however, Oxley resigned his seat as state representative last year in order to run for Lt. Governor with Jill Long Thompson, the failed Democratic candidate for Governor. 

Reporters for WRTV6 also reported the following which I have not yet seen in any other outlet's reporting on this incident:

A witness who called 911 because she was concerned for the safety of Dowlut said she later found out through news reports who the man involved in the incident was.

"He was very concerned and then became aware of the police presence and started running away," said the woman, who didn't want to be identified. "I think he should be quite embarrassed for himself. If you misrepresent yourself to police or to the public, I think it's disgraceful." 

I'm not sure why Carl Brizzi needs any extra time to determine if Oxley misrepresented himself to police officers, there seems to be an abundance of evidence that he did, with witnesses and I understand video evidence from the gas station security camera showing Oxley trying to hide from police officers. This sounds suspicious to me that Brizzi would drag this out, especially in light of the fact that Oxley is due in court in Southern Indiana for his previous DUI case from February that remains to be settled. 

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Daily Digest for June 29th

June 29th, 2009 · Comments

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Daily Digest for June 28th

June 28th, 2009 · Comments

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Joh: RE: Very true Doug, in this case the interest as IDP Communications Director outweighed his interest as publisher of Blu… http://disq.us/p1o [#]
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Joh: Joh RE: Very true Doug, in this case the interest as IDP Communications Director outweighed his interest as publisher of Blu… http://disq.us/p1o.
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Joh: Joh INDEMS Culture of Cowardice (http://ping.fm/W8oeh).
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Joh: INDEMS Culture of Cowardice (http://ping.fm/W8oeh) [#]
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Joh: RT @indystar_top Oxley’s drunken-driving case put on hold http://tinyurl.com/nayr8h [#]
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Joh: Joh RT @indystar_top Oxley’s drunken-driving case put on hold http://tinyurl.com/nayr8h.
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INDEMS Culture of Cowardice

June 28th, 2009 · Comments

In light of recent events that have transpired involving yours truly, I feel the need to discuss the 800 pound donkey in the room between activists like myself and the leadership of the Indiana Democratic Party, or INDEMS. There is a problem that has been festering for some time in the Democratic Party in general but in the INDEMS headquarters in particular, and that problem is a lack of courage.

This lack of courage has been far too consistent for it to be any sort of anomaly so it must be a reasoned decision that has been taken to promote this culture of cowardice.  Far too many missed opportunities to be bold legislatively, candidates who are mediocre copies of each other, statements on inane topics while ignoring huge issues and so on are the symptoms of the diseased culture at INDEMS HQ. So what exactly can be done to treat the disease?

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Daily Digest for June 27th

June 27th, 2009 · Comments

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Joh: Help snag a vote for the climate bill! RT @Scha77 Please do this!!! http://www.courierpress.com/polls/2009/jun/climatebill/ #newsjunkie [#]
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Joh: Joh Help snag a vote for the climate bill! RT @Scha77 Please do this!!! http://www.courierpress.com/polls/2009/jun/climatebill/ #newsjunkie.
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Joh: @AttyAbdul D.O. gonna be radioactive for a while I think [#]
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