Sans Diego
My cartoon for The Hamilton County Reporter
“Every week Republicans are exited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.” - Andy Borowitz
Just days ago delegates from the Indiana Republican party rejected current Secretary of State Diego Morales as the party’s nominee in the upcoming November election and selected Max Engling as their new choice to run.
This comes as no surprise because Morales has been creating lots of baggage during and before his time in office. He used taxpayer money to purchase a $90,000 SUV, hired family members, awarded several no-bid contracts to donors, handed out $500,000 in raises to his staff and traveled on the taxpayers dime to places like India to advance his own personal business interests. There’s more, but basically, he’s just another shitty and corrupt politician caring more about himself than the people he was hired to represent.
What is also not surprising is that his colleagues in the Indiana GOP didn’t really give a damn about Diego’s self-serving shit show until…… enter Beau Bayh.
The delegates in the Indiana Democratic party nominated Beau Bayh as their nominee for Secretary of State back in early June and this is what caused the Indiana GOP to start sweating. Beau Bayh is the young handsome grandson of Former US Senator Birch Bayh and the son of former US Senator and Indiana Governor Evan Bayh. Even though Indiana is an extremely red state the Bayh family has created a legacy in Indiana politics and Beau Bayh appears to be the author of the next chapter.
Even before Beau Bayh was selected as the nominee several prominent Republicans including US Senator Jim Banks began rescinding their support of Morales. In fact Banks put forth one of his staffers (Max Engling) as a potential candidate to replace Morales and that is who the Republicans have nominated. I can honestly say that I know next to nothing about Mr. Engling, but he does work for Senator Banks and that’s all the information I need for him to lose my vote in November.
No matter which candidate wins in November, Indiana will most assuredly be better off when the current Secretary of State packs his bags. Time to go, Diego!
Sketches & sketchy stuff…
There has been very little good news in state or national politics so when Morales lost the nomination I definitely wanted to express some pleasure in his upcoming departure with a cartoon.
I had done one other panel on him and it also focused on the word baggage” so I was initially attempting to come up with a new approach. A number of my first sketches depicted Morales being stepped on by a Republican elephant. A few of them worked, but I kept coming back to the B word. That’s when I connected the dots between baggage and packing. Diego would have one final piece of baggage to deal with.
Like myself, Diego Morales isn’t a very big fellow so I pushed that visual by placing him next to a very large suitcase. This allowed plenty of room for a couple of words that would instruct him to take off. Get Packing. Start Packing. I’m sure there are others, but I didn’t over think it too much. The final touch was the addition of the GOP logo on the suitcase. That small little touch made it clear where the directive was coming from.
Final drawing…
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