Our survey of New Albany's municipal elections on November 8 continues, with numbered council districts through Saturday, at-large on Sunday, and the mayoral scrum on October 17. Listings are cribbed from the clerk's office, followed by brief comments by the senior editor.NEW ALBANY COUNCIL DISTRICT 4
(Precincts New Albany 11, 12, 13, 20, 24, 25)
R John M. Hiatt 1739 DePauw 812-948-8351
D Pat McLaughlin (incumbent) 1739 Florence Avenue 812-987-5218
The political dementia of spandex envy in the form of the 4th District's once and never King Larry Kochert continues to exert a strong influence, not unlike the odor of urine after another Harvest Homecoming passed. Think of him as a one-man, garage-vote Pee Party ... and yawn.
Meanwhile, it's worth repeating the question asked of McLaughlin in my Tribune column of March 18, 2010:
"When the time finally comes for last call – not a quick pint before the trip home from the warm pub on a cold, desperate and anonymous night just like all the rest, but the punching of the big ticket and the cosmic bow prior to that most irrevocable of all curtains falling, how will posterity judge your political legacy? Was it progressive or regressive? Was it Dan Coffey’s legacy … or yours?"
NAC's pick: Does the Republican have a pulse? I'll take McLaughlin by a paper-thin margin, as explained by Hiatt in one of his better songs.
