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A prolific Indiana political blogger wrote an ominous post last week predicting a Donald Trump victory in his state — and soon afterward committed suicide, police said.
Journalist who exposed Cruz-JFK connection and Rubio bubble bath party found dead
If I'm not around to see the vote results, my prediction is that Trump wins Indiana with just shy of 50% of the vote, but he will carry every single congressional district and sweep the delegate race--assuming the party-chosen delegates honor their rules-bound commitment to support the winner on the first ballot.
His friend and fellow attorney, Jim Klimek, who worked across the hall from Welsh, told the Indiana Business Journal that the blogger had seemed depressed recently and had been concerned that his blog was barely making money.
One friend, attorney Jim Klimek, said Welsh's mood had been "deteriorating" in the past few weeks. Welsh was facing financial struggles, in part because he spent so much time blogging that it cut into his struggling law practice.
May 2-3, 2016 -- Welsh suicide? Not!
Here we go again! It was just after Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb contacted this editor and said he, also, was investigating the firm Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS) and wanted us to share notes, that he was reported to have died from two gunshot wounds to the head at his Carmichael, California home.
ACS was involved in processing the U.S. student visas for alleged 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and his compatriots. Before even launching a full investigation, Indianapolis police are calling the sudden death of Indiana political blogger Gary Welsh a "suicide."
Never mind the fact that it was Welsh who was the initial source of WMR's recent story on Florida Senator Marco Rubio's "foam bath" exploits in South Beach, Miami.
Police found Welsh's body laying in a stairwell at his apartment complex in Indianapolis. The police report states: "Police dispatch stated that the caller observed what they believed to be a person shot in the stairwell of the building with the gun still laying on the scene. Person shot was confirmed and victim was pronounced deceased at the scene by medics."
Welsh was a well-known lawyer and political commentator in Indiana who combated against the takeover of the state by religious fundamentalists and opposed "well-connected" GOP presidential candidates like Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, and Rubio.
Ironically, there was an Indianapolis connection to Gary Webb's death. The company he was targeting, ACS, Inc., had as its vice president, Stephen Goldsmith, a former mayor of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis police may also be interested in Welsh's last email to this editor, dated April 11, 2016:
"Great catch on his [Cruz's] ties to Oswald in New Orleans. I always thought the odds were pretty good of the old man having ties to the CIA, if not Cruz’ mother as well, since he was immediately able to get a great education at the University of Texas right after he arrived here and then went to work in the oil industry as a computer programmer. It never made sense to me how he and Eleanor wound up in Calgary and then later returned to the U.S. and he suddenly becomes a Christian minister, although he’s never actually had a church he could call his own. Who has been paying Rafael all of these years to advocate his Dominionist views and now tell evangelical voters that his son was anointed by God as foretold in the Bible. You can’t make this stuff up. You know the media is just waiting until if and when Cruz gets the nomination before it unloads on him. Was Eleanor’s first husband an intelligence officer as well?
Gary R. Welsh, Attorney At Law, P.C.
320 N. Meridian, Suite #615
Indianapolis, IN 46204"
The timing of Welsh's death just prior to the Indiana GOP primary, one that Cruz hopes to win to keep his chances for the GOP presidential nomination alive, is troubling, to say the least. Welsh was a well-known advocate for election integrity and he supported Donald Trump for the GOP nomination. His death leaves Indiana and its Christian fundie governor, Mike Pence, freer to engage in all sorts of primary election malfeasance and chicanery on May 3.
The profession of journalism is more bankrupt without the "two Garys" -- Webb and Welsh.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: IAMTAT
Nothing to see here move along...
He was depressed apparently so everything else is just a coincidence.
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: IAMTAT
Nothing to see here move along...
He was depressed apparently so everything else is just a coincidence.
Again, what evidence is there to suggest he was murdered?
I believe it is absolutely horrible to create conspiracies around issues like this without proper evidence because it detracts from the realities of depression.
originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: onequestion
I didn't even know about the Rubio bubble bath thing until now, lot of juicy stories connected to this journalist
interesting times indeed. RIP Gary Welsh.
It made me think of "Gary Webb", the guy who exposed CIA drug activities and then also "suicided" himself (only his was 2 bullets to the back of the head)