Hope for Conner Prairie?
In today’s Indianapolis Star, Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter gets high praise from columnist John Ketzenberger for Carter’s “business acumen” displayed in Carter’s split off of Conner Prairie from Earlham College:
Carter’s political acumen was in evidence when he appointed U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker and Butler University President Bobby Fong to the seven-member board that will oversee Conner Prairie’s assets.After years of bitter fighting over control of Conner Prairie, the two sides were given a chance to appoint members to a new governing board. Earlham chose a pair of its trustees: Morris Mills and Thomas Fisher. Across the table will be three people with close ties to Conner Prairie: Berkley Duck, Stan Hurt and Douglas Church.So whom to put between these two groups? Carter wanted to see how the board would shake out. “I did sort of wait to see how the others were coming together before I made my appointments,” Carter said.By choosing neutral parties, Carter may have inserted a buffer between the two sides. The board will meet Dec. 8 at Conner Prairie. Judge Barker will chair the meeting, but there’s no truth to the rumor that she’ll take her gavel and a U.S. marshal.
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Funny, I would not have thought that using your position to force your way into a dispute you had no jurisdiction over was a skill with appeal limited to government.
