From the Northwest Indiana Times:
"County elections officials dismissed two complaints challenging tactics advocates used to win last year's Lake Central School Corp. referendum.
Richard J. Hucker, of Dyer, and Joe Hero, of St. John, complained that school officials permitted the use of school property and employees to wage their campaign for new school construction.
The Lake County elections board unanimously decided its authority is too limited to regulate the conduct of the contending parties in that debate.
Dyer, St. John and Schererville voters gave school officials permission to raise taxes for a major renovation of Lake Central High School in St. John and construction of a new Protsman Elementary School in Dyer.
Jeffrey F. Gunning, an attorney for the elections board, suggested Hucker and Hero take their complaints to a criminal or civil court.
Hero argued the elections board has jurisdiction over the matter. Both he and Hucker filed amended complaints early Thursday alleging pro-building advocates failed to report the use of school resources in campaign finance documents.
Elections board members said they will take up that new issue in a future hearing."
Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/lake-central-referendum-complaint-doesn-t-make-the-grade-with/article_d30f43fd-1a00-5e31-b56d-4a7d4bda73fe.html#ixzz1nPKxtfYe
