Loading ...
Ray Irvin, the former Indianapolis councilman who went on to forge the Monon Trail and the city’s greenway system, will seek the 7th CD Republican nomination that was vacated by State Rep. Jon Elrod earlier this month. "It’s a go," Irvin told Howey Politics Indiana of his plan to seek the nomination at a caucus to be scheduled sometime after July 4. The nominee will face U.S. Rep. Andre Carson in November. Irvin was elected to the City-County Council in 1987, serving one term before joining the administration of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. He authored the ordinance that created the Indianapolis Greenways as well as the popular Monon Trail, then directed the planning, development, maintenance and promotion of the network of more than 200 miles and 10,000 acres that has become a recreation, fitness and conservation resource along 20 miles of river, stream and rail corridors. Irvin also served under the Democratic administration of Mayor Bart Peterson before leaving to join INDOT in the administration of Gov. Mitch Daniels where he helped plan the system of bike trails that will connect dozens of Hoosier cities and towns in the coming years. Irvin has served as a Republican precinct committeeman, ran for the Indiana General Assembly in 1986 and was a candidate for mayor in 1992. He was also a U.S. Air Force pilot who served in Vietnam and later did drug interdiction and search and rescue missions. Irvin is shown here off the coast of Chicago in 2006. (HPI Photo by Brian A. Howey)
Tags: Andre Carson, Jon Elrod, Ray Irvin
Related posts
This entry was written by and posted on June 25, 2008 at 5:10 pm and filed under HPI Weekly. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
Post a comment(Latest is displayed first) or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.