THENATIONALPULSE (The National Pulse) - ‘Eerie, Indiana’: How a Weirdo Ex-Dem, Backed by Dem Donors, is Running for a Top GOP Election Integrity Role – Who is David Shelton?
David Shelton has built his campaign for Indiana Secretary of State around a single, carefully chosen word: professionalism. The Knox County Clerk and county Republican chairman promises to strip “personal branding and self-promotion” from the office and to “re-establish the office as a nonpartisan institution.” Shelton’s is a tidy pitch, but on paper it is […]
David Shelton has built his campaign for Indiana Secretary of State around a single, carefully chosen word: professionalism. The Knox County Clerk and county Republican chairman promises to strip “personal branding and self-promotion” from the office and to “re-establish the office as a nonpartisan institution.” Shelton’s is a tidy pitch, but on paper it is the pitch of a man who would change as little as possible about how Indiana counts its votes. The people lining up behind Shelton are precisely the people a conservative might expect to favor the status quo. His most prominent backer is Connie Lawson, who ran the Secretary of State’s office for the better part of a decade before stepping down in 2021. Lawson may be the…Open