Another Dem Already In Race For Bayh's Seat -- But Doesn't Have The Needed Signatures Yet

Is there a powder puff button on Photoshop? I did not know that!

That's your Democratic leadership at work, protecting the insider's club against their own rank and file.

I hope she doesn't make the primary - there needs to be careful thought/polling as to who would make the best candidate in the fall.

Reading her front page statement, I am curious about comments made here. I realize that she is a dark horse, but what makes her a fringe candidate? That she's a cancer survivor who can't get health insurance five years later? Or that she's traveled some outside of Indiana and a little outside of the US? Or that she's a small business owner, and at that, a business that everyone can relate to (a diner). Please enlighten me on this labeling of her as a fringe candidate.

I live in Bloomington, Indiana-where this new candidate is from. I can tell you with 100% certainty that this woman will be CRUSHED in a general election. She would have been crushed in a primary even if Bayh had not been a factor. She is an amateur to the 3rd degree and is a bit of a laughing stock around town. She owns an Italian Restaurant that is basically open when she feels like it and the business (surprise, surprise) is going under. I have spoken with her on the phone (trying to learn more about her restaurant when it first opened) and she is a complete flake. Last Christmas eve, I called to ask her if they were going to be open, we had a brief extremely confusing conversation in which she basically said, “Maybe” and then later that day she called my house TWICE to find out why I had called. She’s currently being evicted from the building that houses her restaurant for not having paid rent in several months. Businesses fail, which is completely understandable in this economy, but to try to run for public office even while you are fighting an eviction for not paying rent? That is beyond questionable. As a long time Bloomington resident I can honestly say that I do NOT want this woman representing me. I’m sure she has some big ideas, but I just do not believe that she can follow through (as demonstrated by trying to open up a restaurant in a building without a parking lot.) I would have a hard time voting for her and I think she is a poor choice at best.

So if she makes the primary ballot the only way to oppose her would be a strong write in campaign?

She is willing to try and since the MACHINE is trying to refute the possibility of the people deciding, there is something rotten in both rethuglican and democrat IN, now if they had left it up to the people and had not coordinated to ensure that the people did not get the chance to decide and he was leaving for a good reason due to something innocently wrong then that would be one thing but they and he decided not to let the people decide and that is WRONG, so now I hope she makes it because the MACHINE will deserve what happens and we are not RETHUGLICANS so this is not the way it should have been done and as to the posters who are slamming and contradicting themselves in their own posts STFU that means the scummy likes of L-RO & das2003 WE DON'T POLL TO CHOOSE A SENATOR IF YOUR REAL DEMs we argue debate and VOTE so hide you scummy shoot from the undersides of nameless rocks wanna be RETHUGs your the enemy now to true ideological democrats.

Other than being popular, does Mellencamp have any credentials that would make him suitable for the job. Another Al Frankin would be wonderful....a Democratic version of Sarah Palin, not so much.

I wish her good luck getting the signatures. Any major-name candidate could still run a write-in campaign and very likely win the primary. It would be better than having the candidate selected directly.

Seems like the recipe for a complete disaster. A primary with only one name, who is completely unknown?

If she's really a complete flake, there's no way she has gathered enough signatures in each of Indiana's 9 districts.

What do you Indiana folks think of Lee Hamilton as a choice to take Bayh's place on the ballot?

Has she ever posed naked? She can't be any worse than Scott Brown. I live in Indy and I was not going to vote for Bayh. At least she is not running for vice president. She has my vote, can't do any worse than Bayh.

Oh jeez. Long time lurker here-- just had to comment on this. Tamyra is known in the neighborhood for walking her two large dogs that she can't control and letting them crap everywhere (including neighbors' yards and the large neighborhood cemetery) and never deigning to pick it up. People who don't know her by name call her "the dog shit lady" (and these are other dog owners who want to brain her for leaving her mess everywhere). I suspect this may be the reason she has never canvassed the neighborhood or asked for support from any of her neighbors. And I'll eat my shoe if that glamour shot isn't twenty years old. She looks more like the picture on her website.

If she can't manage to pick up after her dogs in her own neighborhood or present an accurate image of herself in her publicity, what kind of efficacy could she possibly have in Washington? I think a grapefruit in a propeller beanie would be a better choice. Honestly. "Flake" is a very charitable description.