Don Lehe Endorsed by Northwest Indiana Times

EDITORIAL: Our picks in Indiana House races

| Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Northwest Indiana has many Indiana House districts, and a number of them have contested races in Tuesday's primary.

Among the essential qualities of a state representative are looking out for the needs not only of the district but also the region and the state....

District 15 Republicans

Lon Childress is president of the Tri-Creek School Board. He makes some good points about development in southern Lake County, but we disagree with him on the need to keep townships. It's time to reinvent local government, not keep archaic systems.

Rich Niemeyer is reluctant to make bold moves to restructure local government.

Incumbent Don Lehe isn't as aggressive as we would like on local government reform, but he's more amenable to change than his opponents. He at least wants to give counties the option to hold a referendum on whether to replace the three commissioners with a single county executive.

We endorse Lehe.