{"id":666160,"date":"2010-02-16T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76738"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:25:59","slug":"what-happens-now-in-indiana%e2%80%99s-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666160","title":{"rendered":"What Happens Now in Indiana\u2019s Senate Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s noon filing deadline to run for U.S. Senate in Indiana came and went. And thanks to Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s (D-Ind.) last-minute retirement announcement, <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/story?section=news\/local\/indiana&amp;id=7280613\">no Democrat appears to have qualified<\/a> to run in his absence. So what happens now?<\/p>\n<p>Bayh gave would-be successors virtually no time to gather the necessary signatures to appear on the May 4 primary ballot. And that means the state Democratic party is now in control.<span id=\"more-76738\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Indiana election law, if no major party candidate runs in the primary, the state party chooses a nominee. The process of filling the vacancy may not officially begin until after the May 4 primary and the party caucus decision must be made no later than June 30.<\/p>\n<p>The only Democrat who appeared to be actively gathering signatures for the Senate race was longshot Tamyra D&#8217;Ippolito, a cafe owner. To qualify, D&#8217;Ippolito was required to submit a petition for certification to the county voter registration offices by noon today. The Senate race required a petition signed by at least 4,500 registered Indiana voters, including at least 500 registered voters from each of Indiana&#8217;s nine congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Ippolito was still trying to rally supporters more than four hours after today&#8217;s deadline. &#8220;I am the only Democrat in the state of Indiana that has filed for the U.S. Senate office,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=304829293741&amp;id=178606233224\">D&#8217;Ippolito wrote on her Facebook page<\/a>. &#8220;The machine is giving you the wrong information because they want you to quit filing signatures so they can APPOINT SOMEONE. Do not be fooled by them. FYI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like someone&#8217;s still fooling herself&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s noon filing deadline to run for U.S. Senate in Indiana came and went. And thanks to Sen. Evan Bayh&#8217;s (D-Ind.) last-minute retirement announcement, no Democrat appears to have qualified to run in his absence. So what happens now? Bayh gave would-be successors virtually no time to gather the necessary signatures to appear on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Niw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}