Mike Delph

Mike Delph
Member of the Indiana Senate
from the 29th district
State Senator, Indiana
Incumbent
Assumed office
2005 to present
Preceded by J. Murray Clark (R)
Personal details
Born Michael A. Delph
January 12, 1970
Massachusetts
Nationality United States
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Beth (née Frankel) Delph
Children Abigail, Evelyn, Anna, Emma, and Lillian
Residence Carmel, Indiana
Education Indiana University, BA '92, MA & MPA '96, JD '10
Alma mater Carmel High School, '88
Profession Attorney, CarDon & Associates (2012-Present)
Religion Central Christian Church (non-denominational), Carmel[1]
Website mikedelph.com
Military service
Service/branch US Army Reserves
Years of service 2001-
Rank Major

Mike Delph (born January 12, 1970) is a Republican member of the Indiana State Senate representing the 29th district since 2005. He is considered to be a "socially conservative Republican",[2] who has courted support from the Tea Party movement.[3] Delph is known for his immigration legislation and his support for an Indiana Constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages and unions.[4][5] He is frequently mentioned and has shown interest in representing Indiana in state-wide office or in US Congress.[5][6][7][8][9]

Personal details
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Mike Delph is the son of David W. Delph, who was an Indianapolis-based executive for Iowa Beef Processors, and Sharon Delph, who worked at a bank, and he has three brothers, Jamie, Stephen and John. His parents were divorced.[10][11][12] Delph attended Carmel High School and was a member of the class of 1988.[13] Delph was educated at Indiana University and holds four degrees from the institution. He received his BA in 1992, MS in Environmental Science and Masters of Public Affairs in 1996, and his JD from Indiana University School of Law in 2010.[13] In 2011, Delph passed his Indiana State Bar exam.[14][15] He is a fluent speaker of Spanish.[16] He married Beth (née Frankel) in 1993 and they have five daughters, who are home schooled.[13][17] Delph and his family are members of the non-denominational Central Christian Church in Carmel, Indiana.[18][19]

After working as a Congressional staffer, Delph represented Comcast Cable as regional director of government affairs.[20] In 2012, Delph joined CarDon & Associates as general counsel.[21]

Mike Delph is a major in the United States Army Reserve.[22] He has served since 2001.[23]

Political career

Congressional staffer

From 1996-2004, Mike Delph worked as a Congressional staffer for US Representative Dan Burton, a Republican who at the time represented Indiana's 6th congressional district, although Burton would end his career in Indiana's 5th congressional district.[11][16][24] Delph has served as Burton's district director[25][26] and chief of staff.[27] During this time, Delph was also a Republican precinct committee leader.[28]

Republican nomination for Indiana Secretary of State

Delph competed and lost the Republican nomination for Indiana Secretary of State in 2002. Delph was running against then Marion County Coroner Dr. John McGoff, Vanderburgh County Commissioner Richard Mourdock, and Deputy Secretary of State Todd Rokita.[16] NBA basketball player Kent Benson briefly competed but dropped out in March and well before the June Republican convention in Indianapolis.[29] Representative Burton introduced Delph before the Republican state convention delegates.[16] Richard Mourdock's campaign made a controversial move when it issued a vote appeal handout to delegates inferring Delph had withdrawn when Delph was still in competition for the nomination.[6] The flier read:

Delph Supporters Urged to Vote Mourdock: Conservatives must unite on the second ballot to guarantee strong candidate support in November. The Mourdock campaign congratulates Mike Delph on a hard-fought campaign and invites Delph supporters to join with Mourdock supporters to nominate a conservative on the second ballot![30]

Even though Mourdock had the most votes on the initial ballot, Rokita won the nomination and later the general election in November against then Democrat opponent Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez.[6][31]

State Senator, District 29, 2005

Main article: Elections in Indiana

In December 2005, Mike Delph replaced retiring State Senator J. Murray Clark, who retired with one year remaining in his term.[32] Delph won the Republican Caucus vote, a special election, against his competitor Dan Gammon, who was at the time a Wayne Township trustee.[33] The state senator of District 29 represents a section of Marion and Hamilton counties.[34] Boone County was added later in 2011.[3][35] His top supporters were Bill Schneider, a former Indianapolis City-County Council member; Paul Shoopman, a real estate businessman; and his employer US Representative Burton.[36]

First full term S-29 2006

Main article: Elections in Indiana

During his first general election in 2006, Delph won unopposed. The Democrats had nominated Mennonite minister Jennifer “Jeni” Umble but her filing was not validated because the submission occurred past deadline.[37][38][39]

Indiana State Senate, District 29, Election Results, November 7, 2006[40]

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Mike Delph Republican 21,138 Won
Unopposed -- -- --

Second full term S-29 2010

In 2010, Mike Delph ran for re-election and won in a race where he faced Democrat Robin Shackleford.[41] She ran against Delph's immigration legislation modeled after Arizona state's.[42][43] After the 2010 election, the Indiana Republicans held a supermajority in the House and Senate, 37 Republican senators and 13 Democrat senators.[44]

Indiana State Senate, District 29, Election Results, November 2, 2010[3][45]

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Mike Delph Republican 22,498 59%
Robin Shackleford Democrat 15,532 41%

Election S-29 2014

In November 2014, Mike Delph successfully stood for reelection against Democrat J.D. Ford.[2][3] Initially, both candidates ran unopposed in their respective May primaries.[46] J.D. Ford was a gay candidate who opposed Delph's stand on same-sex marriage. Delph’s Twitter communication about an internal debate within the Republican caucus about recognition of same-sex unions in Indiana, which was the proposal for a state constitutional amendment passed in altered form during the 2014, provided publicity about his reelection with Ford.[3][47][48] While Ford was critical of Delph, he also made statements that shifted his own focus on intolerance of same-sex marriage to intolerance on religious grounds.[49]

Indiana State Senate, District 29, Election Results, November 4, 2014[50]

Candidate Affiliation Support Outcome
Mike Delph Republican 15,094 54%
J.D. Ford Democrat 12,685 46%

Political opportunities

For the 2012 election, Mike Delph was not standing in an election but he was mentioned as a Tea Party alternative to long-time Republican Indiana Senator Richard Lugar.[3][51][52] At the time, he was fundraising and was the only US politician who accepted a donation from BP's political action committee in the period after its Deepwater Horizon spill and spoke out in favor of the company in defense of its critics.[53][54] Delph opposed the nomination of Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court based on her views on "partial-birth abortion" (a medical procedure known as Intact dilation and extraction), the ratification of New START and the DREAM Act, all of which Lugar was identified with as a supporter.[8][55][56][57] Delph appeared at Tea Party events at Indiana with the eventual Tea Party backed-candidate and then State Treasurer Richard Mourdock.[22] Delph backed out in September 2011.[8] Mourdock was left as the Tea Party backed candidate and mounted an insurgent campaign against Lugar, winning the nomination, but losing to the Democrat in the November 2012 election.[58][59]

In 2012, US Representative Dan Burton announced he would retire, which opened up his Congressional seat in 2012. Delph had worked for Burton around eight years and Burton was a political ally in Delph's bid for Indiana Secretary of State in 2002. Delph was considered to be a potential candidate. Among those who campaigned for the Burton's open seat were Susan Brooks, a former federal prosecutor; David McIntosh, a former Congressperson; John McGoff, a former Marion County coroner; and Mike Murphy, a former state representative and former Marion County Republican chairperson.[24] Delph later withdrew his name from further consideration.[7] Brooks was elected in the November election.[60]

During the 2012 Presidential primary season, Delph supported Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania for the Republican Party nomination.[61]

After 2012, Delph has been mentioned in the media as a possible candidate to represent Indiana as a Senator in Congress.[9]

Committee assignments

Political positions

Government reorganization

Before Mike Delph's appointment to finish J. Murray Clark's final term, Senator David Long, a Republican from Fort Wayne, proposed Senate Bill 225 that addressed the merging of Allen County’s governmental units, but Long took his bill out of consideration after facing opposition from a crowd of 400 people at a February 2004 public meeting in Grabill, which became known as the "Grabill Massacre."[62][63] During the 2006 session of the Indiana Legislature, then House Representative Jim Buck, a Republican from Kokomo, and Mike Delph authored and sponsored House Enrolled Act 1362 that would allow mergers of Indiana’s governmental units without the legislature's approval.[64][65] After Long successfully amended the voting process for a merger between city and county, the bill went on to pass both chambers, and its final passage occurred just one minute before its deadline.[66][67] The Government Modernization Act of 2006 signed by Governor Mitch Daniels led to the consolidation of the city of Zionsville with Eagle and Union townships of Boone County in January 2010,[68] an area which is part of Delph's current district.

Abortion

While Mike Delph was heading toward his first general election in 2006, he threw his support behind a controversial Senate Bill (Indiana SB-90) that would make it law to strengthen informed consent requiring information presented to women before abortions that 1) life begins at conception and 2) education about the pain felt by the fetus. Planned Parenthood and other opponents rejected it on the grounds that the communication was religious indoctrination, the science was inconclusive, and the legislation amounted to interference in the doctor and patient relationship.[69][70][71] Different versions passed the Indiana Senate and House and so the bills had to be reconciled in committee.[72][73] In the end, the bill was unsuccessful by procedure because the necessary votes did not take place on time. Based upon the State Senate President Pro Tem Robert Garton's power to schedule votes, he lost the support of Right to Life groups and those groups threw their support behind his Republican primary challenger Greg Walker. This resulted in Garton's defeat in the May Indiana primary.[74][75][76] Delph supported Senator Brent Steele, a Republican from Bedford and a strong opponent of abortion, during his bid to replace Garton for Senate leader in 2006, but Senator David Long won.[77]

Later, Delph was critical of a judge’s decision in June 2012 on the state’s law concerning the federal funding of abortion services. A US District Court judge ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood. The organization argued that state legislation to block its access to Medicaid funding for all of its services based upon its support of abortions created a conflict between state and federal powers. Delph said the courts were interfering with state executive and legislative powers. The judge’s decision was upheld in October by 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.[78][79]

Immigration

While competing for Republican nomination for Indiana Secretary of State in 2002, Mike Delph was considered by political observers to be seeking support from Latinos.[16][80]

Mike Delph was an author and advocate for 2011 state immigration legislation, known as Indiana SB-590, that was modeled after Arizona's controversial 2010 immigration law.[81] SB-590 passed in the State Senate.[82] The Indiana House removed several controversial parts from the original Senate version.[83] Delph then negotiated the compromise between the House and Senate.[84] After Governor Mitch Daniels signed it into law, a US District Court judge blocked two sections of the law.[78][85][86] Other states, such as Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Utah also passed similar legislation, and like Arizona's those laws were challenged in court.[87] Attorney General Greg Zoeller gave up on three warrantless arrest provisions of the law after the Supreme Court decided the Arizona v. United States case in July 2012.[88] Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana heard the case, eliminated portions of it, and the Zoeller did not appeal the decision.[89][90]

Same-sex marriage amendment

In 2011, the Indiana legislature passed the Marriage Amendment to make Indiana’s current statute on the definition of marriage as between a man and woman part of the Indiana Constitution.[91][92] According to Indiana’s constitutional amendment process, two consecutive elected legislatures must pass the same amendment before it is sent to voters. When Republicans raised the issue with HJR-3 in 2014, Delph became a prominent spokesperson for passage in the media pushing for statewide vote.[5] Delph told WRTV that according to his survey 60 percent of his constituents wanted to vote on the amendment in November.[93][94] The amendment did not pass during session because of a controversial second sentence that would have also banned on civil unions. During the process, the second sentence was removed by each chamber. Delph was critical of traditional supporters of the amendment, especially Senate leader David Long and House Speaker Brian Bosma, who did not exert their political influence during the most favorable political climate for its passage.[93][94] Delph criticized Long for moving the hearing for the amendment from the Judiciary Committee, led by social conservative Senator Brent Steele, to the Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee, headed by Long, and the change to the second sentence was made in the less favorable committee.[94][95] Delph and a few other social conservatives then voted against the senate version as the second sentence, in their view, better protected a passed amendment from a later judiciary challenge.[94][95][96]

Controversies or media attention

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Mother

While it had already been reported in 1990 that Mike Delph's mother Sharon Delph was in the employ of Dan Burton's federal reelection campaign and had at that time received US$1500, she was mentioned again during a time period when Dan Burton was one of Bill Clinton's most vocal critics during Clinton's impeachment process.[97][98] In 1998, while Mike Delph worked on Congressman Dan Burton's staff, Salon reported that Delph's mother was a possible "ghost employee" of Burton's federal political campaigns although her ex-husband and the state senator's father was unaware of her campaign work. Sharon Delph had known Dan Burton since the 1960s. Burton had served as a reference for Mike Delph and he employed him out of college.[11] The Washington Post also named Claudia Keller as another salary recipient who was a possible "ghost employee" and reported that her family members were also paid by Burton.[11][99] In addition, Burton revealed in 1998 that he was the father of a child from another woman who was not his wife and that the boy was 15 years old.[100] Although the Congressional Accountability Project filed a letter of complaint against Burton, which also made mention of Sharon Delph, the ethics investigation in the media was never pursued by the Congressional Ethics Committee.[101][102]

Military uniform

In 2008, Delph was investigated by the US military when a fellow reserve officer from his unit wore a military uniform and appeared alongside Delph at Delph’s press conference. The officer was speaking in favor of Delph’s immigration legislation. Both officers were with the same 310th Expeditionary Sustainment Command. At the time, Delph was a captain and a company commander with the 310th. The other officer was a lieutenant colonel with the same unit. Members of the military are prohibited from wearing uniforms at political events and appearing to side with any political group. Delph was the one who suggested the officer wear his uniform to the press conference.[103]

Tim Durham

In 2011, Mike Delph announced he would return US$10,000 dollars in campaign funds from 2006 and 2007 donated by Tim Durham. The Indianapolis-based businessman would later be convicted and sentenced to 50 years for his role in a Ponzi scheme. Durham had supported Indiana Republicans, including then Governor Mitch Daniels’ acceptance of just under US$200,000.[51][104][105][106][107]

Brother

During a public debate over Twitter about his support for an amendment that would ban same-sex marriage by constitution in 2014, Delph said his brother Stephen is a homosexual. His brother then conducted interviews and said he disagreed with his brother on the amendment but said his brothers, including Delph, had always been supportive. Stephen said his brother Mike suggested he date a college friend of Delph's. Senator Delph said he was not a matchmaker but encouraged his brother to seek out positive friends in their circle.[47][93][108]

Disciplined by State Senate leader

In 2014, Mike Delph made what was called in Indiana "the tweet heard around the world" about the defeat of HJR-3 in a form social conservatives wanted to move to voters in the fall.[109] During the 2014 session, Delph was punished by State Senate President Pro Tem David Long, for tweeting the content from a closed party caucus meeting about internal discussions on the same-sex marriage amendment. However, Delph said in a press conference that he tweeted his message from the Senate floor based on his own vote count.[95] As a result of Long's punishment, Delph lost his status as a ranking member of the State Senate Judiciary Committee, was stripped of his communication position within the majority and of his press secretary, and was moved in the chamber to sit with the minority Democrats.[110] His press conferences and tweets promoted his name recognition throughout the state as a leader for the amendment's passage.[5] He told journalists after he had "no regrets" and had "strong beliefs" about the issue.[93]

Awards and honors

Military service

Public service

See also

References

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