Benjamin Lanka, writing for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette has a story entitled Allen seeks alliance to rival rural majority in legislature. Basically, Allen County is seeking to enter into a lobbying coalition with other large counties so that concerns peculiar to those counties can be heard by the legislature through a unified voice.
The [Allen County] commissioners sent a letter dated Oct. 28 to Hendricks, Monroe, Delaware, St. Joseph, Vanderburgh, Johnson, Hamilton, Elkhart, Tippecanoe and Marion county commissioners asking them to form a coalition.
Lake (pop. 490,000), Porter (154,000), and LaPorte (109,000) Counties are conspicuously absent from this coalition for some reason. The article notes that the Association of Indiana Counties may not be a good organization to advance large county issues because its membership is dominated by smaller counties.
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