Lugar's 2011 Priorities

After I blogged about Mike Delph urging 2012 Republican primary candidates to focus on the election (and noted how both Pence and Mourdock have done a lot for local candidates and parties), a reader up in Kokomo sent me an interesting email.

Seems that Dick Lugar has some particularly unhelpful priorities when it comes to the 2011 election. Lugar's folks scheduled a fundraiser for Indiana's senior senator in Kokomo. Problem was, the Lugar fundraiser conflicts with a fundraiser to support the local Republican municipal candidates.

Lugar's first visit to Howard County in six years will be to have a fundraiser for his own campaign, at the expense of the campaigns of local municipal candidates. (Mourdock, by contrast, has been to Howard County many, many times in recent years and even offered not to hold a fundraiser there until after the November elections, and agreed to wait so as not to tap out donors in the area.)

Lugar sure has his priorities, that's for sure.