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Watchdog Indiana is a non-profit, non-connected, and non-party advocate for good government that focuses on the state and local tax burden of Hoosier working families.
Watchdog Indiana was founded by Aaron Smith on November 14, 2001.

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  General Assembly Candidate Ratings: 2012 Contested Primary Elections   

Please consider the Watchdog Indiana Candidate Ratings when you make your voting decisions in the contested General Assembly primary elections on May 8. We all need results-oriented, compassionate, and fiscally responsible Taxpayer Friendly candidates who are not expected to increase the state and local tax burdens of Hoosier working families during this time of recovery from the Great Recession.

Watchdog Indiana used a Candidate Questionnaire, past voting records, public comments, and campaign platform statements to assign a Candidate Rating to all 123 candidates in the 48 contested General Assembly primary elections. Many candidates, even though they proclaim they want to be our public servants, prefer to use name recognition strategies and party labels to manipulate election outcomes rather than respond to the Watchdog Indiana Candidate Questionnaire and divulge their positions on important public policy questions. The following 26 candidates deserve special consideration because they respect their prospective constituents enough to respond to the Watchdog Indiana Candidate Questionnaire: State Representative District 12 William I. (Bill) Fine (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 13 Dan Young (Uncertain), State Representative District 25 Donald J. Lehe (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 27 Chuck Hockema (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 29 Steven R. Powell (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 34 David Walker (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 38 Stephen A. Wilson (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 47 Mark Meadows (Taxpayer Friendly) and John Price (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 48 Jerry Brewton (Taxpayer Friendly) and Timothy Neese (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 52 Gary Harbaugh (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 55 Bob White (Taxpayer Friendly) and Lora N. Williams (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 60 Daniel Elliott (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 82 Mike Caywood (Uncertain), State Representative District 83 Keith R. Potter (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 85 Denny Worman (Taxpayer Friendly), State Representative District 92 Brad Rider (Taxpayer Friendly), State Senate District 8 Austin Griffin (Taxpayer Friendly), State Senate District 28 Michael R. (Mike) Crider (Taxpayer Friendly) and Chris Lytle (Uncertain), State Senate District 35 Daniel L. Kinnamon (Taxpayer Friendly) and R. Michael Young (Taxpayer Friendly), State Senate District 37 Rodric D. Bray (Taxpayer Friendly) and Ryan Goodwin (Taxpayer Friendly).

The Watchdog Indiana Candidate Questionnaire and all the candidate responses are included at Candidate Ratings: 2012 Contested Primary Elections. In addition to the listing of all 123 candidates in the 48 contested General Assembly primary elections, this web page also includes (a) the definitions for the Candidate Ratings, (b) contact information for all the candidates, and (c) a link you can use to identify your General Assembly district numbers (so you can check to determine if there is a contested General Assembly seat in your local primary). PLEASE directly contact your State Representative and State Senator candidates and insist they answer YOUR questions about their qualifications.

Immediate action needed!
03/14/2012: Please ACT NOW and contact your State Representative and State Senator to let them know what you think of the Indiana Gas Tax Reform Plan to make better use of our Indiana Gasoline Tax dollars: see http://www.finplaneducation.net/gas_tax_reform.htm. 

Most Hoosiers mistakenly believe that all our Indiana Gasoline Tax dollars go directly to the construction and maintenance of our streets, roads, and highways without borrowing. However, only 12.8 cents of our 18 cents per gallon Gasoline Tax is used today to directly meet our transportation needs.

The eight "Functional Categories" in the Indiana state budget are General Government, Public Safety, Conservation and Environment, Economic Development, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Education, and Distributions. For both the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 fiscal years, the following $143.6 million in appropriations are made from the Motor Vehicle Highway Account WITHIN the Transportation category to functional categories OUTSIDE the Transportation category: $92.9 million State Police, $40.1 million Bureau of Motor Vehicles, $9.7 million Department of Revenue, $0.6 million Criminal Justice Institute, $0.3 million School Traffic Safety. These non-transportation appropriations are NOT properly available for the construction and maintenance of our Indiana streets, roads, and highways.

The first component of the Gas Tax Reform Plan is to move the annual budgeted non-transportation appropriations from the state’s Motor Vehicle Highway Account to the state General Fund. The state can afford to do this because a $1.7016 billion reserve balance is anticipated in its General Fund on June 30, 2013.

The Gas Tax Reform Plan uses 15.5 cents of our Gasoline Tax to directly meet our transportation needs. If the plan had been implemented in 2011, the State Highway Fund would have increased 2% from $1.0254 billion to $1.0473 billion. Transportation funding to counties would have increased 45% from $282.7 million to $410.6 million. Cities and towns transportation funding would have increased 46% from $90.6 million to $132.2 million.

Did You Know?
03/14/2012: Watchdog Indiana kept sixteen bills under its "magnifying glass" during the recently completed session of the General Assembly. Complete information about the 2012 Watchdog Indiana Legislative Agenda can be found online at http://www.finplaneducation.net/2012_legislative_agenda.htm.

The eight General Assembly bills listed next had a Taxpayer Friendly outcome.

House Bill 1003 Public Access Improvements. HB 1003 was passed by the House 74-20 and passed by the Senate 41-9. Among the Taxpayer Friendly provisions in HB 1003 are the following: (1) establishes civil penalties and defenses for officers and management level employees of public agencies who fail to comply with public access provisions, (2) allows a local government agency to send meeting notices by electronic mail, (3) requires a court to review redacted public records in chambers, (4) creates a fund for an education program administered by the public access counselor, (5) allows a public agency to withhold public personal information relating to a judge, law enforcement officer, or family member of a judge or law enforcement officer.

House Bill 1005 Nepotism and Conflict Of Interest. The Indiana House voted 62-19 and the Indiana Senate voted 30-19 to pass HB 1005. HB 1005 contains six Taxpayer Friendly local government Conflict Of Interest provisions and sixteen Taxpayer Friendly local government Nepotism provisions. It is a clear conflict of interest for local government employees to benefit from their actions as elected officials. Also, the chain of command and procedures for discipline are upheld when employees of a local government unit do not serve as elected policymakers for that government unit. Furthermore, it is good public policy to control nepotism in local government units. While the nepotism exceptions in HB 1005 might appear to be "disturbing" in their scope, HB 1005 represents a big step forward on the topic of local government nepotism and provides a helpful framework should further improvements be deemed necessary.

House Bill 1073 Public Mass Transportation. HB 1073 was defeated 10-11 in the House Ways and Means Committee. HB 1073 was Taxpayer UNfriendly because a Metropolitan Transit District would need budget-busting federal earmarks to build a commuter train service from Noblesville to downtown Indianapolis. If a MTD were NOT allowed to build a rail transit system, HB 1073 would have been Taxpayer Neutral because a referendum would allow the affected voters to decide if they want to accept an income tax increase to pay for an expanded bus service that most of them would never use.

House Bill 1093 Public Access Improvements. Most of the Taxpayer Friendly provisions in HB 1093 were included in the Conference Committee report for HB 1003.

House Bill 1132 Controlled Projects. HB 1132 passed the House 79-15, but did not receive a vote in the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee after a public hearing. The current controlled projects statute is Taxpayer Friendly because local referendums are required to approve costly capital projects. A local referendum is triggered if the total "cost of a project" exceeds an established threshold included in the current statute. HB 1132 was Taxpayer UNfriendly because local political subdivisions could use funds from various sources to reduce a capital project’s total cost to a lower "cost to be financed" so as to avoid a referendum trigger. It was a welcome Taxpayer Friendly development that HB 1132 did not get out of the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee.

Senate Bill 92 Public Access Improvements. Most of the Taxpayer Friendly provisions in SB 92 were included in the Conference Committee report for HB 1003.

Senate Bill 110 County Government Issues. SB 110 failed to get a third reading vote in the Senate. In most counties other than Marion County, SB 110 would have allowed a county referendum or unanimous vote of all the county commissioners to make the following two county government changes in most counties: (1) replace the three-member county board of commissioners with a single county commissioner that would perform executive duties only, (2) remove the legislative powers and duties from the county board of commissioners and assign them to the seven-member county council so the county council could carry out both the legislative and fiscal powers and duties of the county. SB 110 was Taxpayer UNfriendly because a single county commissioner would be improperly allowed to exercise powerful executive duties. It would be easier for out-of-county single-interest groups to influence the election of a single county commissioner than it would be to manipulate the election of three county commissioners. Because the three county commissioners must presently reside in three separate districts within the county, the interests of the entire county are better represented than they would be by a single county commissioner that would likely be elected from the most populous area of the county. SB 110 would be Taxpayer Friendly if a county referendum or unanimous vote of all the county commissioners allowed the following two changes in county government: (1) retain the three-member board of commissioners as the county executive only, (2) remove the legislative powers and duties from the county board of commissioners and assign them to the seven-member county council so the county council could carry out both the legislative and fiscal powers and duties of the county. Establishing the county council as both the fiscal and legislative body of the county will be better understood by the citizens and businesses that interact with county government, as well as making the county government more nimble in responding to today’s policy challenges. Because SB as written would have allowed a single county commissioner, it was a welcome Taxpayer Friendly development that SB 110 failed to get a third reading vote in the Senate.

Senate Bill 170 Nepotism and Conflict Of Interest. SB 170 was passed by the Senate 39-11, but was not called down in the House for passage in favor of a concurrence vote on the nearly identical Taxpayer Friendly House Bill 1005 (see above).

The four General Assembly bills listed next had a Taxpayer UNfriendly outcome.

House Bill 1254 Township Reorganization. HB 1254 failed to receive a vote in the House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee. HB 1254 included 49 Taxpayer Friendly provisions categorized by Conflict Of Interest, Township Government Elimination, Township Boards Elimination, Fire Protection and Emergency Services, Township Assistance, and Township Schools. County referendums would have been held to decide whether or not to eliminate township government. It was an unwelcome Taxpayer UNfriendly development when HB 1254 failed to receive a vote in the House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee.

House Bill 1376 Automatic Refundable Taxpayer Credit. HB 1376 was passed by the House 76-17 and passed by the Senate 40-10. HB 1376 is Taxpayer UNfriendly because (1) the automatic taxpayer refund excess reserves trigger is increased from 10% to 12.5% and (2) Hoosier working families will possibly receive an automatic taxpayer refund every even-numbered year instead of every year. HB 1376 will also provide free full-day kindergarten for parents who choose to send their children to kindergarten and appropriate $6 million to a newly established Supplemental State Fair Award Fund to provide relief to victims of the 2011 state fair disaster. HB 1376 would have been Taxpayer Neutral had the automatic taxpayer refund excess reserves trigger remained 10%.

Senate Bill 25 Redevelopment Commissions and Authorities. SB 25 passed the Senate 39-8, but did not get a public hearing in the House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee. SB 25 was Taxpayer Friendly because it provided much improved oversight for redevelopment commissions and departments by (1) the legislative or fiscal body of the taxing unit that created a redevelopment commission or department, (2) the State Board of Accounts, and (3) everyday Hoosiers through the public meeting and public records laws. It was an unwelcome Taxpayer UNfriendly development when SB 25 failed to get a public hearing in the House Government and Regulatory Reform Committee.

Senate Bill 143 Automatic Taxpayer Refund. The Taxpayer UNfriendly provisions in SB 143 were included in a Conference Committee report for HB 1376.

The four General Assembly bills listed next had a Taxpayer Neutral outcome.

House Bill 1001 Employee's Right to Work. HB 1001 was passed by the House 54-44 and passed by the Senate 28-22. HB 1001 was Taxpayer Neutral because it would not significantly impact Hoosier working families and is not results-oriented. RTW was just another skirmish in the battle for political advantage where both sides inflate the supposed virtues of their positions while denigrating the motives of the other side. Neither maintaining the status quo nor making RTW changes were results-oriented outcomes that will significantly impact Hoosier working families.

House Bill 1199 Inheritance Tax Phase-Out. HB 1199 passed the House 78-17, but did not get a public hearing in the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee. HB 1199 would have phased out the existing Inheritance Tax after June 30, 2023, by providing an increasing credit against a beneficiary's Inheritance Tax liability. HB 1199 was Taxpayer Neutral because most Hoosier working families would pay for eliminating the Inheritance Tax on large estates with a reduced possibility of receiving future automatic taxpayer refunds.

Senate Bill 98 County Excise Surtax and Wheel Tax. SB 98 passed the House 93-1 and passed the Senate 46-1. SB 98 would allow a county to use property taxes and miscellaneous revenue deposited in the county general fund for the maintenance of county highways. SB 98 would also allow a city department, officer, or employee to obligate the city beyond the amount of money appropriated for that department, officer, or employee if the obligation is made under an interlocal cooperation agreement entered into by the city and one or more political subdivisions or governmental entities. As passed, SB 98 is Taxpayer Neutral. However, at one point in the legislative process WITHOUT a public hearing, SB 98 was Taxpayer UNfriendly because it was amended to permit a county income tax council (in addition to a county council) to adopt, increase, decrease, or rescind a motor vehicle excise surtax and a wheel tax for a county. It was a welcome Taxpayer Friendly development when the county income tax council language was removed from the final version of SB 98.

Senate Bill 293 Inheritance Tax Changes. The House voted 78-17 and the Senate voted 48-2 to pass SB 293. SB 293 (1) phases out the Indiana Inheritance Tax over 9 years beginning in 2013, (2) increases the Inheritance Tax exemption amounts from $100,000 to $250,000 for Class A transferees beginning in 2012, (3) changes transferee classifications beginning in 2012 so there will be more Class A transferees, and (4) phases out the Inheritance Tax replacement amounts payable to counties over 10 years beginning July 1, 2012 . SB 293 is Taxpayer Neutral because most Hoosier working families will pay for eliminating the Inheritance Tax on large estates with a reduced possibility of receiving future automatic taxpayer refunds. SB 293 would have been Taxpayer Friendly if spending cuts were implemented that amount to about 40%, or about $65 million annually, of the total Inheritance Tax that is currently paid.

Watchdog Indiana also attempted to focus attention on Education Reform and the Indiana Gas Tax Reform Plan during the 2012 session of our General Assembly.

Education Reform. It is disappointing that the General Assembly and the Indiana Department of Education have failed to identify best practices and require their effective implementation, especially in Grades 1, 2, and 3. Elementary school principles can manage their competent Grades 1, 2, and 3 teachers to (1) use standardized tests and classroom observations to conduct ongoing assessments of individual student needs and (2) use individual student assessment results to target specific enrichment and remediation instructional programs (especially Title I) for student groups and individual students. The willingness of parents and other concerned community members to form effective partnerships with their public school professionals can be identified by tabulating weekly the percent of students in every Indiana Grade 1, 2 and 3 public school whose meaningful homework was effectively supervised by a homework partner every day they attended school.

Indiana Gas Tax Reform Plan. Most Hoosiers mistakenly believe that all our Indiana Gasoline Tax dollars go directly to the construction and maintenance of our streets, roads, and highways without borrowing. However, only 12.8 cents of our 18 cents per gallon Gasoline Tax is used today to directly meet our transportation needs. The Indiana Gas Tax Reform Plan would make some improvements in the Indiana Code and move the annual budgeted non-transportation appropriations from the state’s Motor Vehicle Highway Account to the state General Fund. These changes would result in better use of 15.5 cents of our Gasoline Tax to increase transportation funding to counties, cities, and towns more than 45%. State Representative Jeff Thompson has agreed to author a 2013 General Assembly bill that includes the needed Indiana Code improvements. The Indiana Gas Tax Reform Plan will be included in the 2012 Watchdog Indiana General Assembly Candidate Questionnaire, and testimonies are planned during transportation study committee meetings this summer. A complete description of the Gas Tax Reform Plan can be found online at http://www.finplaneducation.net/gas_tax_reform.htm.

Since November 14, 2001, the votes of General Assembly members on important bills that impact the state and local tax burdens of Hoosier working families have been recorded on the Watchdog Indiana Legislative Voting Record web page at http://www.finplaneducation.net/legislative_record.htm. The key recorded votes from the 2012 General Assembly session for both our State Representatives and State Senators are HB 1003, HB 1005, and HB 1376. The key recorded votes for our State Senators also included SB 25.

The individual Watchdog Indiana Legislator Rating web pages for your State Representative and your State Senator, which have been updated to include their key 2012 General Assembly votes, can be accessed by clicking on their names at http://www.finplaneducation.net/general_assembly_ratings.htm.

At the beginning of the 2012 General Assembly session, the State Representatives breakdown by Watchdog Indiana Legislator Rating was 68 Taxpayer Friendly, 8 Taxpayer UNfriendly, 15 Political Hogs, and 9 Uncertain. The State Representatives breakdown at the end of the 2012 session is 67 Taxpayer Friendly, 8 Taxpayer UNfriendly, 12 Political Hogs, and 13 Uncertain. The Indiana House of Representatives is slightly more Taxpayer Friendly at the end of the 2012 General Assembly session than at the beginning of the session.

At the beginning of the 2012 General Assembly session, the State Senators breakdown by Watchdog Indiana Legislator Rating was 37 Taxpayer Friendly, 3 Taxpayer UNfriendly, 8 Political Hogs, and 2 Uncertain. The State Senators breakdown at the end of the 2012 session is 35 Taxpayer Friendly, 3 Taxpayer UNfriendly, 9 Political Hogs, and 3 Uncertain. The Indiana Senate is slightly less Taxpayer Friendly at the end of the 2012 General Assembly session than at the beginning of the session.

There was the potential for 500 Taxpayer Friendly votes during the 2012 General Assembly session. The number of Taxpayer Friendly votes totaled 273, or 55%. During a session largely dominated by single-interest groups, Hoosier working families appreciated the support from those Taxpayer Friendly public servants who are results-oriented, compassionate, and fiscally responsible.

Hot Topics.

Updated! Indiana General Assembly & Governor Ratings: Watchdog Indiana provides the only ratings of state legislators and the governor based on how their votes on key legislative proposals from 2002 to the present affect the state and local tax burden of Hoosier working families.

Who Are Your Elected Officials: You can enter your address or click on a map to see a list of all your elected official - local, state, federal - in one place. All information on this site is maintained by your local county circuit court clerk's office in conjunction with the Indiana Secretary of State's office.

Stop Local Option Waste (SLOW): The SLOW webpage summarizes by county the actions that Hoosier fiscal patriots have taken to stop the wasteful spending of our hard-earned federal tax dollars on unnecessary nice-to-have local projects that do not address high-priority needs. Everyday citizens must provide the leadership needed to overpower the single-interest advocates whose cumulative efforts enable the Congressional gridlock that fosters ruinous federal deficit spending.

Third Grade Best Practices Practices Inventory Report: Nine "Best Practices" have been identified from the Best Practices data provided by some Principals of the Indiana elementary schools that were among the Third Grade Spring 2010 ISTEP+ Results Leaders. These improvement ideas will be helpful to those Hoosiers concerned about K-12 public education.

Homework Enhances Learning Potential (the H.E.L.P. program): The willingness of parents and other concerned community members to form effective partnerships with their public school professionals can be identified by tabulating weekly the percent of students in every Indiana Grade 1, 2 and 3 public school whose meaningful homework was effectively supervised by a homework partner every day they attended school. When a community uses all its resources to provide homework partners, the community sends a clear message every day to its First, Second, and Third Grade Students that education is highly valued. These Students are more likely to receive a good education with a minimal reliance on costly and ineffective remediation. The importance of the preferred H.E.L.P. legislation is emphasized when one realizes that almost 25,000 Hoosier children every year are condemned to a second-class education before they reach the fourth grade. There are many evidence-based reasons to support the preferred H.E.L.P. legislation.

Indiana's Cash For College: Updated annually in the lead-up to Indiana's March 10 financial aid deadline, Cash for College works to equip students and families with the practical steps needed to plan and pay for college. Indiana's Cash for College Campaign is made possible by Learn More Indiana, a partnership of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, the Indiana Department of Education, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana.

Indiana Transparency Portal: This one-stop online portal for state government information provides easy access to all state contracts, employee salaries, an interactive budget section, revenue data, state debt authority overview, financial statements for both local governments and state government, performance information, and recovery and reinvestment act information.

2008 House Bill 1001: Thanks to the November 2, 2010 passage of the Constitutional Amendment, this comprehensive property tax relief bill makes the state and local tax burden of Hoosier working families more fair and affordable by moving away from property taxes to sales and income taxes.

Redevelopment Commissions Oversight: Watchdog Indiana supports much improved oversight over redevelopment commissions and departments by (a) the legislative or fiscal body of the taxing unit that created a redevelopment commission or department, (b) the State Board of Accounts, and (c) everyday Hoosiers through the public meeting and public records laws.

Township Government Reform: Watchdog Indiana has developed a position on township government reform that includes placing the public question "Shall the township government be retained?" on the ballot in every county.

Townships Database: Look up your township to see how much tax money it collected for aid to the poor, how much it spent, and how many people it helped. Township government cash balances statewide increased from $207 million in 2007 to $294 million in 2009 while 91,983 fewer Hoosiers received direct emergency assistance.

Jeff Thompson Property Tax Replacement Plan: In addition to using variable local option income taxes to replace the revenue lost to property tax caps, House Bill 1056 gives every local taxing unit the option of providing a 100% property tax credit for their working families. As shown by Accurate Property Tax Math, the average Hoosier working family spent 4.1% of their state taxable income to pay their 2006 property tax. The Jeff Thompson Property Tax Replacement Plan Impact is a real eye-opener!

Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network: If you or someone you know is behind on the mortgage, or even in danger of falling behind, please contact the IFPN, a statewide program to provide free mortgage foreclosure counseling and education to at-risk homeowners. All Network services are free, and all Network counselors are certified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. 

IHCDA University: The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority has a free online course to educate prospective homebuyers on the home purchasing process.

Lobbyists and the Legislature: How much do lobbyists spend? Which lawmakers accept gifts from lobbyists? The Indianapolis Star has established a searchable database of Indiana General Assembly lobbyist spending for the reporting periods from May 2009 through April 2010.

INvest.in.gov: Indiana has established a website to help Hoosiers determine how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus funds will be distributed in Indiana and what kinds of projects and programs are eligible for the funds. 

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