CURRENT EVENTS
Join the Indiana Democratic Party at IDEA!
The 129th IDEA Convention will take place at the French Lick Resort Casino on Thursday, August 27th - Saturday, August 29th. This exciting annual tradition will provide a great opportunity for Democrats around the state to join together and celebrate last year's victories and discuss the hard work still to be done.
Rooms at the French Lick Resort Casino must be booked by August 7th, and can be reserved by calling (888) 936-9360 or visiting the French Lick website at www.frenchlick.com. Room rates for all three nights are $147 if you register as an IDEA participant. The group code for both phone and online registration is IDEA.
To sign up for this year's golf tournament, please download and return our registration form. (.pdf file)
For more information, email: info@indems.org.
NEWS
- 07/02/09 - Senator stands behind property owner tax breakThe Gaskins earned a $250 tax cut on their federal taxes last year by deducting what they paid in local and state property taxes, even though they did not itemize other deductions. The deduction for non-itemizing taxpayers was put in place by a law U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh helped enact last year. The tax relief is set to expire at the end of 2009, but Bayh wants to see the deduction made permanent and the cap on how much homeowners can deduct lifted. He estimates it would cost $3.2 billion.MORE
- 07/01/09 - Beef advocate to head USDA office in Indiana (Journal Gazette)An advocate for Indiana’s cattle producers will head the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Farm Service Agency in Indiana, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced. Julia Wickard is also the former director of the state Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development.MORE
- 07/01/09 - Bayh helps Gary seek $25 million for demolitions (Post-Tribune) Ducking through a torn screen door into a collapsing home filled with beer bottles, U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh and Mayor Rudy Clay led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's deputy secretary Tuesday on a tour of a dilapidated neighborhood in Gary. "We didn't pick this out," Bayh told Ron Sims as the federal officials looked at the broken windows and debris covering the floor. "We just walked down the street." MORE
EVENT CENTER
- 07/03/09 - Walkerton Parade MORE
- 07/04/09 - North Liberty Parade MORE
- 07/13/09 - Decatur Township (Marion County) Democratic Club July Meeting MORE
- 07/13/09 - MCDCC Monthly Meeting MORE
- 08/06/09 - August Gold Circle Club MORE
- 08/07/09 - FAYETTE COUNTY ANNUAL PORK CHOP DINNER MORE
- 08/07/09 - PORK CHOP DINNER MORE
- 08/10/09 - Back to School Bash MORE
- 08/27/09 - IDEA Convention and Conrad Open MORE
- 09/14/09 - MCDCC Monthly Meeting MORE
