024: David Henry, Democratic Party Chair, on How Caucuses Work

What happens when an elected official leaves office early? In many states, they hold a special election a few months later. Not in Indiana, though. In Indiana, the party whose candidate won the seat in an election holds a partisan caucus to elect someone new.  

Our guest, David Henry, the chair of the Monroe County Democratic Party, has had to call for no fewer than four caucuses in the past year to replace elected officials or ballot candidates. Most recently, he had the responsibility to fix the date for the caucus that will elect the replacement for City District 5 Councilmember Shruti Rana, who resigned on February 7; that caucus will be held March 2. On today's show, we get into the statutory weeds about the conduct of these very unusual elections.

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