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Late last week there was quite a stir in our little blogger corner over blogger/radio host/attorney Abdul Hakim Shabazz’s appointment by Indy mayor Greg Ballard to the newly created city Public Safety Advisory Board. IPSE captures this heat well. Be sure to read all the comments. Of particular concern to some: Abdul is not licensed to practice law in Indiana, nor does he own a home here.
Abdul’s outspoken style and rather large ego are much discussed in the Indianapolis blogosphere. His clashes with Gary Welsh (Advance Indiana) and Paul Ogden (Ogden on Politics) via his own Indiana Barrister blog and the comments on each are long running and entertaining. Welsh and Ogden both tend towards free-market libertarianism, while Abdul is unapologetically aligned with the mainstream Republican party of Mitch Daniels and Greg Ballard. Just the other day he tweeted that the 75th anniversary of the social security program indicated that the program should be retired and replaced with mandatory IRA’s. (Couldn’t be more wrongheaded, says this progressive Democrat).
Funny that Abdul seems to skirmish more with Ogden and Welsh than he does with Democrats. Perhaps they are so far away from him politically that they don’t bother.
