AmericanVet and Kim Krull Sum up the Post-Primary world for Lake County

Now that the excitement and noise of the primary season is past, we need to find our areas of agreement and join forces behind Lake County Chair Kim Krull and our local Republican organizations to support the winning candidates for our national, state and local offices on the Republican side and resolve that the prize is in sight:  2010.   The 2010 election may well be the most critical election our nation and our state have faced.  The primaries were the starting gun for a long race to come.

The primaries were like a family feud in which there is a lot of sound and fury but in the end I can look at the people we have on the ticket and then look across the way at the list held by the other side and breath a sigh of relief.  Not every one of my favorite candidates prevailed.  But like a family reunion, after the softball game is over we dust off and everyone sits down and eats the fried chicken and laughs about all the old stories.

On the national front there is a movement of the people known as a Tea Party movement and Republicans need to understand how to welcome them into the fold and join forces.  With the help of local grassroots leaders I do believe that local Tea Party voters will want to come out in force to support our Republican ticket.   State offices are of vital importance at a time when the Federal and State forces are finding themselves at odds and especially in a census year.   We truly need a Republican legislature in place to take charge of the various district borders that were gerrymandered by the Democrats after the last census.

Finally, here at the local level we have begun networking with the Lake County Republicans and various officials and bloggers and Tea Party leaders to make the attempt to get us all on the same page.  Cedar Lake has seen a great deal of change and growth engineered by years of Republican leadership.  Funny how the Democrats step up at the very end and take credit for years of hard work.  But those in the know realize that Republicans did the groundwork and the planning and got the ball rolling on a new Cedar Lake.  Now if we work together we can make sure that the finished product is what we want.   Cedar Lake has been a wonderful place to live and work and raise children.  It is vital to retain our vision and values that help make us home. 

Chairman's Comments  - Kim Dugger Krull

I'm really proud that we had so many contested races this primary. But although it can give us publicity, it can also bring out a lot of emotions and accusations especially by those who didn’t win. So let’s not forget what we are fighting for. If you make decisions and choices based on emotions, then the democrats have a better chance of winning in the fall. There are always going to be people in the Republican party that we don’t necessarily like. So if you make a decision to not help the party anymore based on that emotion, then we all lose that momentum that we have enjoyed the last few months. As my new friend Kimbal Binder put it, "We lick our wounds and join forces because the differences between conservatives are much less important that the difference between us and the liberals."



And to the winners, I ask that you not be arrogant with your win, but reach out to your opponent and the local and county party. Let your campaign now not be centered on just your self, but on the party as a whole. Support goes both ways. If you support the party and its leaders, the party and its leaders will support you. Then we are all winners. So a suggestion when you reach out is to not immediately ask for support from city, town, and county leaders, but ask what can I do to help make what you have been doing stronger.



We need all candidates that won, all candidates who lost, and all the people that worked on their campaigns to now start working together to beat the democrats in the fall. We will be working hard to fill all open seats with an appointed Republican. There will be an announcement next week on an appointment for Circuit Court Judge. And Mary Tanis contacted me last night to declare her candidacy for Dyer Town Council in Ward 4.



I will be appointing all delegates who did not win a contested race to an open slot. You should be getting a letter in the mail soon. If you know anyone else who wants to be a delegate at the State Convention on June 18th and 19th, please let me know ASAP as positions are filling up.



Kim

Primary winners

US Senate Dan Coats

US Congress Mark Leyva

State Rep District 15 Don Lehe

State Rep District 19 Dan Klein

County Sheriff Dan Bursac

County Council District 1 Michael A. Gramhofer

County Council District 4 Dan Dernulc

County Council District 5 Daryle K Tunis

County Council District 7 Rick Niemeyer

Cedar Creek Township Trustee Alice F. Dahl

Center Township Assessor Kristie L Dressel

Center Township Trustee Eldon Strong

Center Township Board Roland (Bub) Wise - Kathryn Webster - Bryan Bodamer

St John Township Assessor Hank Adams

St John Township Trustee Jean Shepherd

St John Township Board Tom Cavanaugh - Deb Walters - Al Hansen

St John Town Council Ward 3 Gregory J. Volk

Hanover Township Board Scott Bourrell - Roberta Torrence Allan

Calumet Township Trustee Willie Brown

Dyer Town Council Ward 2 Jeffrey Dekker

Dyer Town Council Ward 5 Debbie Astor

Hobart Township Trustee William J Savage

Lowell Town Council Ward 2 Bob Philpot

North Township Board Mario Martini

Cedar Lake Council Ward 1 Robert H. (Bob) Carnahan

Cedar Lake Council Ward 5 Randell C. (Randy) Niemeyer

Schererville Town Council Ward 2 Hal Slager

Schererville Town Council Ward 4 John O'Brien


Uncontested winners

State Senator District 1: David Spudic

State Senator Distric 4: Shawn Olson

State Rep District 1: Bill Johnson

State Rep District 2: Ken Stevenson

State Rep District 4: Ed Soliday

State Rep District 11: Cy Huerter

State Re District 14: Catherine Campbell

Cedar Creek Township Board: Brian Mathias

Eagle Creek Township Trustee: James Morrow

Eagle Creek Township Board: Bruce Mcneill, John R. Jurs

West Creek Township Trustee: Harold Mussman, Jr.

West Creek Township Board: Kyle Bruce, Michael R. Mcintire, Patricia R. Kopas

Winfield Township Trustee: Rollie Brauer

Winfield Township Board: Margaret R. (Marge) Brauer, Sherry J. Gasparovic, Linda G. Eisenhauer

St John Town Council: Gregory J. Volk

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST! OUR VERY OWN LCRCC SECRETARY GEORGE T. JANIEC WHO WON AS A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER IN HAMMOND!

What happens if the Democrats win, Daddy?

Johnny Parker

Chicks on the right always have cool cartoons and videos and stuff.  Go check it out sometime.  And go VOTE ON TUESDAY, INDIANA!!!

Meeting Monday Night for CL Republicans!

South Side Pizzeria
111 Broadway (Lincoln Plaza)
Cedar Lake In. 46303
7pm

Come and get involved!

Chairman: Gregory Wornhoff 219-374-7684 Location: South Side Pizzaria
Contact: Greg Warnhoff 219-374-7684

Tastee Top Grill - Ain't it good to know you got a friend-ly post at election time?

L to R front row Jill Murr - Deputy - Clerk Treasurer; Debbie Carey -

owner; Diane Jostes- Cedar Lake Chamber of Commerce Executive Director-
Jean Eberle - Chamber Director; Amy Sund - Cedar Lake Clerk Treasurer;

second row - Christopher Carey, owners son; Robert Carnahan, -Vice
President Cedar Lake Chamber of Commerce; Dave Carey - owner; Charlie
Kaper, President Cedar Lake Chamber.

 
Small businesses are the heart and soul of a town and frankly of our country.  So now that the days are getting longer and hotter think about stopping by the Tastee Top Grill and supporting a local business while getting a snack or a meal? 

No Robo Calls from Marlin Stutzman, period! But Mike Huckabee might call?

In case you have heard the rumor, NO, Marlin Stutzman's campaign is NOT using a robocall system to talk with voters.  All callers for Marlin are real people making real calls.  He has asked his supporters to make calls for him and that is the end of that.

ten points for knowing who this is!

I know of two organizations from outside of Indiana, one being the Senate Conservatives of Jim DeMint and another being a veteran's organization and I have heard that either one or both of them might be making robo calls.  We welcome any information you may have about that. 

But, again, NO WAY the Marlin Stutzman campaign is not robo calling and his supporters are not robo calling.   His campaign makes real calls and he has real supporters, too!

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Why I Endorsed Marco Rubio, Chuck DeVore and Marlin Stutzman




Posted by Gov. Mike Huckabee



Thursday, April 29th at 11:57AM EDT



I realize that I am preaching to the choir on Redstate when I say we need: Chuck DeVore, Marco Rubio and Marlin Stutzman in the US Senate. We do.
We need three firm votes in the Senate AGAINST bailouts, Obamacare and the many tax increases that our coming our way to pay for both. We need strong defenders of the 2nd amendment, life, traditional marriage and wait for it…REAL BORDER SECURITY!

In Marco, Chuck and Marlin we have candidates with strong and proven conservative principles. On a day when a candidate with no principles is about to switch to “No Party Affiliation” it’s nice to celebrate and support three conservative candidates who know what they believe - and why they believe it.

Learn more about each today and consider making a donation in support of their campaigns at:



Marco Rubio - http://www.marcorubio.com/
Chuck DeVore - http://www.chuckdevore.com/
Marlin Stutzman - http://www.gomarlin.com/ and

Join me in helping elect three strong conservatives.

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Marlin videos

RedState (Erick Erickson) endorses Marlin

American Conservatives Union endorses Marlin

Lake County Right To Life specifically endorses Marlin, along with 23 State Senators and 27 State House
members.

Mark "The Great One" Levin endorses Marlin

Tea Party Action Committee endorses Marlin

Kevin Tracy endorses Marlin

Eric Krieg put up a Marlin Sign right before DeMint jumped on the bandwagon


Ken Tomlinson: Can a Hoosier farmer produce another Massachusetts miracle for Republicans?

By: Kenneth Tomlinson

Examiner Contributor

February 20, 2010



A notable buzz surrounded youthful Indiana State Sen. Marlin Stutzman as he was escorted around this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by activist Donna Weisner. “Back in Indiana, they say he’s our Scott Brown,” she said proudly.



Stutzman supporters elatedly boasted news of a Rasmussen poll that gives Stutzman a ten-point lead over the likely Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Evan Bayh.



All this is a stunning development for the young farmer and businessman who only four years ago was the youngest member of the Indiana legislature. In Washington power circles former Sen. Dan Coats has been all but anointed the GOP nominee for the Bayh seat.



In Indiana there has been a real pushback to the Washington-blessed Coats candidacy, and as ten thousand conservatives gathered for CPAC they were greeted by a huge Stutzman endorsement by increasingly influential RedState blogger Erick Erickson.



Declared Erickson: “The GOP needs to change its public image that voters have. It should not be using retired senators who moved out of state and become a lobbyist to do that.



“We need younger faces and fresher voices. We need guys like Marco Rubio. We need guys like Marlin Stutzman.”



This reaction is not the only thing the veteran conservative favorite Coats has to worry about in the senate race. CNN reports Democrats have unearthed a news video showing Coats talking about moving to North Carolina because the Tar Heel state “might be a better place” to live than Indiana. Critics also are combing through records from Coats’s recent work as a lobbyist, searching for clients who might lead to political embarrassment.



As excited as Stutzman’s supporters are over the Rasmussen poll, he is by no means a household name in the Hoosier state. Coats still is viewed as a clear favorite by D.C. political handicappers—and in the same Rasmussen poll Coats holds a 14-point lead over 8th district Rep. Democrat Brad Ellsworth, who in recent days announced he is running for the Bayh seat. For that matter, former 8th district Rep. John Hostettler who was defeated by Ellsworth in 2006 holds a 19- point lead over the man he beat, according to the Rasmussen poll.



Hostettler has been hammering away at Coats, despite his lifetime 90 percent ACU rating, because he was one of only a handful of GOP senators to vote for the Brady gun control bill. Hostettler is better known in Indiana than Stutzman—but his notoriety isn’t always a political plus.



As aggressively as Hostettler hammers away at Coats’s Second Amendment record, when it comes to gun control Hostettler has a record of his own. In August of 2004, he pleaded guilty to carrying a loaded semiautomatic handgun into a security checkpoint in the Louisville airport. A judge sentenced him to 60-days in prison but suspended the sentence.



On foreign policy issues, Hostettler tends to reflect the views of libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-TX.



Hostettler was swept into office in the big Republican year of 1994, but he managed to win reelection five times in Indiana’s “Bloody-Eighth,” which in the 1970s had the distinction of sending four different congressmen to the House in four successive elections.



Hostettler established a reputation as a poor fund raiser—in fairness he refused to accept PAC money—and the Almanac of American Politics notes that he once won reelection despite being outspent 2 to 1 by his Democrat opponent. His fund-raising deficiencies caught up with him in 2006 when Ellsworth, a county sheriff, crushed Hostettler. Ellsworth outspent him 3 to 1.



Fund raising for Hostettler may prove to be a real barrier in the senate primary. Erickson was one of the conservative leaders who produced a huge influx in campaign contributions in NY-23, and if the CPAC reaction to Stutzman is any reaction, national conservative money should be headed his way.



Stuzman is a fourth-generation farmer who grew up near Howe. He and his father farm 4,000 acres and also run a trucking company. He is an active Baptist and has participated in numerous church mission ventures around the world. In the Indiana legislature, he has been known as a supporter of tax cuts—and reductions in state spending. Stutzman has the support of Indiana senate pro tempore Daniel Long.



Footnote: A host of Washington journalistic insiders reported that Bayh had a comfortable leader when he stunned observers with his announcement that he would not seek reelection this fall.



That was far from the case.



A month ago, another Rasmussen poll showed Bayh in deep trouble back home. That survey showed Bayh attracting less than 50 percent of the vote against likely GOP opponents and Rasmussen concluded Bayh would likely face “a tough reelection battle” in the fall. Bayh chose not to face such a battle.



Coats made a similar decision 12 years ago when he chose not to run for reelection against then-popular Gov. Evan Bayh. Hoosiers have not seen Coats’s name on a ballot in 18 years.



Ken Tomlinson is a former editor-in-chief of The Reader's Digest.



Read more at the Washington Examiner:


Another Reason to Support Marlin Stutzman




Posted by Erick Erickson



Wednesday, April 28th at 1:40PM EDT



34 Comments

The NRSC backed Arlen Specter and a year ago today Specter bolted.



The NRSC backed Charlie Crist and today Charlie Crist is bolting.



The NRSC is backing Dan Coats. Now, there is no way under the sun that Dan Coats would bolt the GOP. But can we trust the NRSC’s judgment that Coats is the best guy?



Marlin Stutzman filed his financial disclosure. Coats has not.



Marlin Stutzman has an A+ rating from the NRA. Coats does not.



Marlin Stutzman has lived in Indiana for the past ten years. Coats has not.



Marlin Stutzman has never lobbied for bailed out banks. Coats has.



There are huge undecideds in this race in Indiana. Give money to Marlin Stutzman. Get him through the primary.



Don’t let the NRSC keep picking the candidates. Conservatives need to choose. And conservatives need Marlin Stutzman.

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GUESS WHAT?   I AM FOR MARLIN!!!!

The Hoosierpundit: Octobama

The Hoosierpundit: Octobama

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Sorry, John Hostettler

Quoting from Senator Sue Landske's Senate Page:

With little time and no money, lawmakers worked this short session to maintain Indiana’s pro-job climate of low taxes and limited regulation. 

Senators kept a close, careful eye on proposed legislation and amendments to avoid new state expenditures and government intervention that would have raised taxes and imposed red tape during already hard times for Indiana’s workforce and employers.


Gov. Mitch Daniels, with the support of Senate Republicans, rightly reacted to tumbling state revenues by cutting government spending, flat-lining state payrolls and freezing all but essential hiring. To date, state bureaucracies have cut 20 percent from operating budgets. Reluctantly, higher education funding has been reduced 6 percent and public K-12 schools – nearly half of the state budget – have been asked to find 3 percent in new cost savings and efficiencies to help save classroom teachers’ jobs.


Senators also successfully delayed $400 million in new unemployment insurance premiums from going into effect in 2010. By avoiding premium increases, lawmakers hope employers large and small will be in stronger positions to retain or add employees.


Lawmakers also passed initiatives to help Hoosiers recover from the national recession:

• New Employer Tax Credits will be offered to businesses relocating or incorporating in Indiana. Qualified businesses must hire 10 or more full-time employees, not including owners.
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• Small Business Tax Credits will be expanded to make small employers with fewer than 35 workers eligible for Economic Development for a Growing Economy (EDGE) credits.
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• Small Business Ombudsman will be an advocate for small employers with state agencies, helping navigate regulations, streamline paperwork and coordinate due dates. Also, the ombudsman will monitor outdated, ineffective and overly burdensome reporting requests and red tape.
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• H.I.R.E. (Helping Indiana Re-start Employment) initiative will offer tax incentives to employers who hire and train unemployed and underemployed Hoosiers.

Quoting from the Hostettler site.  This means Hostettler is responsible!!!

"John Hostettler has never voted to raise taxes. During his time in the US House of Representatives, John was well-known for his principled votes on a wide range of issues - even when he was only one of a handful. One famous leader, when trying to count votes on a bill he wanted to push, told his colleagues "leave Hostettler alone, you can't change his vote."

 Unfortunately, when Marlin Stutzman faced the same pressure, he fell in with the herd. If Republicans are to take back the House and Senate this fall and deliver on important promises to the American people - Republican voters need to make sure that Republicans being sent to Washington will stand on principle, even when their own party leaders are wrong.

John Hostettler is the proven, reliable conservative in this race. On May 4th, cast your vote for principle.

FACT CHECK ON THE MARLIN STUTZMAN TAX INCREASE

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  HB 1379 Passed the Indiana State Senate on March 24, 2009 with a "yes" vote from Marlin Stutzman.
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  The tax increase was scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2010.
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  On January 12, 2010, Marlin Stutzman voted "yes" on SB 23 to delay the tax increase until after the 2010 election.
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  The largest business tax increase in Indiana history will now take effect on January 1, 2011."
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  Gee, that would be just awful and impressive...if it were true.  It's not.
  

  
  

  So here is the truth.  I know it is the truth because I have done my homework.  I have done my homework by discussing this issue with Marlin Stutzman,  John Hostettler,  Brian Bosma and by researching the situation by looking up the bills in the Indiana Legislature.   Indiana had a surplus of money to pay out in unemployment at one time but the way taxes were allocated was mandated to be changed.  So Indiana had to make changes to the tax law.  At the same time, Indiana had to follow a budget.  At the same time, the Republican Senate Leadership had to deal with Pat Bauer's Democrat-controlled House.  At the same time unemployment was rising.

  
  

  Minority House Leader Brian Bosma told me himself that he and Senate leaders had a strategy to keep businesses from being hurt by a tax increase just as unemployment was skyrocketing.  The only way to change the law, pay out unemployment to laid-off and cast-off workers was to go ahead and pass a bill that was agreeable to the House and then block the bill from being put into effect until 2011.  

  
  

  Republicans believe and hope that they will take over the Indiana House in 2010 and so that tax increase in that particular form will never happen.  Therefore Brian Bosma and Sue Landske and Marlin Stutzman and other Republican leaders in both houses of Indianapolis should be lauded for making lemonade out of a lemon.  Instead John Hostettler sees an opportunity to charge Marlin Stutzman with being a tax raiser.  To those who do not know the entire story it is an easy sell but in fact it is a cheap shot.  I still remember John's face when I told him that the Senate's plan to delay the measure was the best possible outcome.  In fact I believe Thomas Semesky took a picture of John and me at the exact moment I was telling him why I believed it was so.

  
  

  The sad part of all this is that John Hostettler asked me to ask Brian Bosma and I suppose he never imagined I would actually do it.  I spend about ten minutes talking with Bosma at a Crown Point Conservative Cafe event going over the entire bill from beginning to end.  This was a case of having to deal with a Democrat-controlled House and still win the day.

  
  

  Now I am sorry that Hostettler is using this misinformation.   He has all sorts of good points to highlight about himself and his candidacy.   I am very sorry that he and his campaign cannot find enough good points to recommend John Hostettler and are instead forced to pick up mud and sling it!
  
  Incidently, John, while Marlin was the only candidate to file his financials on time you STILL HAVE NOT DISCLOSED AT THE TIME OF THIS POST!!!  Hiding something?
  
  

Senate Bill 23 was passed 33-17.  Every Republican Senator voted yes!!!


Senate Bill 23 (Public Law 110-2010)
Authors: Hershman, Kenley, Kruse
Sponsor: Niezgodski
Citations Affected: IC 4-3; 4-22; 5-28; 6-3.1; 12-7; 12-8; 22-2; 22-4; 22-4.1; 36-8
Effective: January 1, 2010; Upon Passage (March 24, 2010); July 1, 2010
State and local administration. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to: (1)
designate an employee in the small business division to serve as a small business ombudsman; and
(2) designate an employee to serve as a compliance officer whose primary duties are to determine and
report to the corporation whether each person that receives a job creation incentive granted by the
corporation or another agency or instrumentality of the state (excluding any political subdivision or
other unit of local government) complies with the terms and conditions of the person's incentive
agreement. Eliminates the requirement that an existing business must employ 35 or more employees
to qualify for an EDGE credit. Provides a uniform definition of small business for certain regulatory
review programs. Provides a new employer tax credit for a corporation or pass through entity that
after December 31, 2009, either locates or relocates the operations of a business enterprise in Indiana,
incorporates or otherwise first organizes in Indiana, or expands its operation of a business enterprise
in Indiana and employees at least 10 new qualified employees. Requires the Indiana economic
development corporation to approve taxpayers for the credit. Provides that the credit is 10% of the
wages paid by the new Indiana business to qualified employees during a 24 month period. Permits
a carry forward of the credit for nine years. Permits the secretary of family and social services to apply
for and administer certain TANF emergency funds. Upon approval of the TANF emergency fund
application, permits the commissioner of the department of workforce development to implement a
subsidized employment program for unemployed or underemployed individuals. Permits
augmentation of the state TANF appropriation to match federal funding for the subsidized
employment program. Delays changes in the taxable wage base and employer contribution rates for
the unemployment compensation system to 2011. Provides for an employer contribution rate equal
to the sum of the employer's contribution rate plus two percent unless all required contributions and
wage reports have been filed within 31 days following the computation date and all contributions,
penalties, and interest due and owing by the employer or the employer's predecessor for periods
before and including the computation date have been paid. Requires the department of labor to
develop guidelines and procedures for investigating questions and complaints concerning employee
classification. Requires the department of labor to do the following: (1) Make a presentation to the
pension management oversight commission not later than October 1, 2010, outlining the proposed
guidelines and procedures. (2) Make recommendations to the legislative council before November
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1, 2010, concerning any legislative changes needed to implement the guidelines and procedures,
including a budgetary recommendation for the implementation of the plan and a funding mechanism,
to the extent possible. (3) Convert the guidelines and procedures to rules before August 1, 2011.
Removes the condition that an individual submit at least one application for work in each week for
which the individual is claiming benefits. Provides that an otherwise eligible individual may not be
denied unemployment benefits or be determined not able, available, and actively seeking work
because the individual is responding to a summons for jury service. Requires the individual to obtain
from the court proof of the individual's jury service and provide to the department of workforce
development, in the manner the department prescribes by rule, proof of the individual's jury service.
Deletes the statute requiring the department of workforce development to establish an unemployment
claims compliance center. Provides that, if an employer appeals an initial determination granting
benefits to a claimant and the determination is reversed at least in part based on information that the
employer failed to provide in response to a department request, the employer's experience account
(account) shall be charged 50% of the benefits paid to the employee that the employee was not
entitled to receive and for which the employer's experience account may be charged. Provides that
if the employee repays the benefits received the employer's account is credited with the amount of the
employee's repayment up to 50% of the amount charged to the account. Provides that each
administrative law judge employed or used by the department of workforce development must be an
attorney who is licensed to practice law in Indiana. Allows cities, counties, and townships to give
preference in the hiring of police and fire department positions to laid off policemen, firefighters, and
emergency workers. Repeals a provision that permits an employer with a debit reserve ratio to elect
once, after December 31, 2009, and before January 1, 2012, to make a voluntary contribution to the
fund and receive a credit to the employer's account equal to 250% of the amount of the voluntary
contribution. Specifies that the IEDC, when developing job creation incentive packages to locate
companies in Indiana, shall give weight, in the awarding or approving of job creation incentives, to
business entities that locate in a county where individuals have become dislocated workers due to a
permanent closure of a plant or facility or a significant reduction in the workforce. Provides that the
IEDC shall require an applicant for a job creation incentive to be granted by the IEDC after March
31, 2010, to enter into an agreement with the IEDC as a condition of receiving the incentive. Requires
the agreement to provide that the IEDC, after a finding that an applicant is employing fewer
individuals than the applicant agreed to employ and subject to any confidentiality laws, shall hold a
hearing to determine if the applicant shall be required to pay back to the state a portion of the
incentive granted to the applicant under the agreement. Requires the agreement to provide that the
applicant will pay back to the state the incentive that has been received by the applicant if the
applicant moves or closes. Provides that in the case of an incentive granted by the IEDC that is
awarded after March 31, 2010, if the IEDC determines that a recipient of an incentive has not
complied with the representations that the recipient made in obtaining the incentive, the IEDC shall
seek a refund or arrange other methods of reclaiming the value of the incentive granted by the IEDC
from the recipient. Specifies that the amount of the refund or reclaimed part must be in proportion
to the degree of default by the recipient as determined by the IEDC. Specifies that the IEDC shall
establish a program to ensure that dislocated workers from Indiana are given consideration for jobs
created by business entities receiving a job creation incentive from the state or an instrumentality of
the state. Requires the IEDC to condition job creation incentives awarded or approved after March
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 31, 2010, on compliance with the program. Allows the IEDC to waive or modify a recapture provision
made with a person to whom the IEDC has awarded an incentive if the IEDC determines that the
recipient has failed to meet a condition for receiving the incentive because of circumstances beyond
the recipient's control. Requires the IEDC's economic incentives and compliance report to include an
annual report on the effectiveness of and compliance with all incentives granted by the IEDC.
Requires the IEDC to make certain information available. Establishes an interim study committee to
study the feasibility and value of indexing unemployment benefits and the unemployment insurance
taxable wage base.