McDermott calls Marion County Republicans 'perverts'
By Dan Carden
dan.carden@nwi.com, (317) 637-9078 | Posted: Friday, September 23, 2011 1:45 pm | (45) Comments
INDIANAPOLIS | Hammond
Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. in part called Marion County Republicans "perverts" on his weekly paid radio show Friday in response to Gov. Mitch Daniels' book describing Northwest Indiana as politically corrupt.
"He thinks the Democrats from Lake County are corrupt," McDermott said on WJOB-AM 1230.
"Using the same logic the governor uses on us, well, we think the Republicans from Marion County are perverts."He then noted recent sex scandals involving Indianapolis-area Republicans, including state Rep. Phil Hinkle's alleged hotel liaison with an 18-year-old man and the indecent exposure arrest of Andy Miller, former commissioner of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, after soliciting a male police officer in a bathroom adjacent to an Indianapolis shopping mall.
In his book, "Keeping the Republic," Daniels says Northwest Indiana's "reputation for governmental corruption and labor union aggression" make the area "a place employers are more likely to flee than invest in."
McDermott said that kind of talk shows Daniels is a poor leader.
Didn't Mitch give Aaron McDermott a pardon?"
He's our governor, too, and he's throwing us under the bus -- and profiting from it (via book sales)," said McDermott, a candidate for re-election and chairman of the Lake County Democratic Party.
A Daniels spokeswoman had no comment in response to McDermott's radio commentary.
Pete Seat, spokesman for the Indiana Republican Party and a Schererville native, pointed to Thursday's corruption indictments of the Lake County coroner and three sheriff's deputies and said,
"Remind me, how many Lake County Democrats have been sent to jail?"