Indiana Bill Authorizing Party Labels for School Board Candidates Advances

On March 12, the Indiana House Elections & Apportionment Committee passed SB 287.  It permits school board candidates to list a party label on the ballot next to their names, although there would be no formal party nominees for that office.  See this story.  The bill had already passed the Senate, but in a different form.


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Indiana Bill Authorizing Party Labels for School Board Candidates Advances — 6 Comments

  1. If you are a Libertarian Party member and you run for school board you’d better hope that Jacob Hornberger does not find out that you are running for school board because if he does he will chastise you and give you a verbal lashing.

  2. separation of education and state ???

    one major statist/communist rot since early 1800s —

    brainwashing kids to love wars and tyrants.

  3. If you didn’t love tyrants and wars, you’d be for Trump, the greatest liberator and peacemaker of all time.

  4. SB 287 would require a candidate who wants to run under a major party label to have voted in the last two party primaries, or receive permission from the county party boss. If a school board seat becomes vacant, and the previous board member had run with a major party label, a party caucus fills the seat.

    So if a party boss doesn’t like one of the incumbents, he can bar him from running as a DemoRep, recruit a placeholder to run as a DemoRep, and then choose another DemoRep.

    There are numerous statute changes in the 60=page bill to make sure that school board is not a straight-ticket office.

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