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</div><div>midwest flipped 2018? indiana some evil outlier? pence? charter devos, anti-union, voter suppression, swing state, ALEC, duke, edison...</div><div style="">=</div><div style="">failure to launch:</div><div style="">Gregory Francis Zoeller (born March 28, 1955)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> was the 42nd <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Attorney_General" title="Indiana Attorney General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">attorney general</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.state" title="U.S. state" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. state</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana</a>, serving from 2009 to 2017. A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a>, he was elected in November 2008, defeating Democrat Linda Pence, and took office on January 12, 2009 and was re-elected to a second four-year term in 2012. He retired to run unsuccessfully for Congress.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#Early_life_and_education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life and education</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#Legal_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Legal career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#Personal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Personal</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Early life and education</h2>Legal career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greg_Zoeller&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Legal career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]Zoeller is a native of New Albany, Indiana. He is a graduate of Our Lady of Providence Catholic High School. He also graduated from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_Maurer_School_of_Law" title="Indiana University Maurer School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Indiana University Maurer School of Law</a>. He studied as an undergraduate at Purdue University and Indiana University, and holds "dual citizenship" as both a Boilermaker and an IU Hoosier.With a focus on consumer protection and public health and safety, Zoeller created and serves as co-chair of Indiana's Prescription Drug Task Force, is a member of the Commission on Improving the Status of Children in Indiana, supports the expansion of School Resource Officers, and serves as the National Association of Attorneys General Tobacco Committee Co-Chair. Other accomplishments as Attorney General include enhanced privacy protections for Hoosiers through expansion of the Do Not Call law to include cell phones, and providing for parents to obtain credit freezes on behalf of their minor children to protect them from identity theft.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]On September 9, 2014 Zoeller appealed the Supreme Court's ruling on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Indiana" title="Same-sex marriage in Indiana" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">same-sex marriage in Indiana</a>. Zoeller also filed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">amicus</a> briefs for other states.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[2]</a> This was marked by controversy, and while a few upcoming voters for the 2016 elections in Indiana criticized his decision, the vast majority supported him.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a>Prior to state government, Zoeller spent ten years as an executive assistant to Dan Quayle - first in Senator Quayle's U.S. Senate office, and then in the Office of the Vice President of the United States. He also served in other government capacities and was in private practice for 10 years before joining the Attorney General's Office in 2001, serving as Chief Deputy until 2008.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]Zoeller earned his law degree from the Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington in 1982.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">citation needed</a>]</div><div style="">
</div><div style=""></div><div style="">ballotopedia</div><div style="">not nothing on foreclosure?</div><div style="">Zoeller (b. March 28, 1955, in New Albany, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a>) was the 42nd <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Attorney General" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">attorney general of Indiana</a>. A member of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a>, he was first elected to the statewide position in 2008, and assumed office the following January.Zoeller won re-election as state attorney general in <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_attorney_general_election,2012" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana attorney general election, 2012" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">2012</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a> After being nominated for a second term by Republican delegates at the party's primary convention in June, Zoeller went on to defeat <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Democratic</a> challenger <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Fleming" title="Kay Fleming" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Kay Fleming</a>, an Indianapolis attorney, in the general election on November 6, 2012.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-indem-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a>Zoeller's second term as attorney general expired in January 2017 and he did not run for re-election in 2016. Instead, he was a 2016 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican</a> candidate who sought election to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.House_elections,2016" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House elections, 2016" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. House</a> to represent <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana%27s_9th_Congressional_District_election,2016" title="Indiana's 9th Congressional District election, 2016" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">the 9th Congressional District</a> of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a>.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-cong16-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a> Zoeller was defeated by <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Trey_Hollingsworth" title="Trey Hollingsworth" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Trey Hollingsworth</a> in the Republican primary.<span id="cite_ref-primaryresults_5-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-primaryresults-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a>Before becoming attorney general, Zoeller had amassed two decades of experience in politics without ever holding elected office himself. His past credits include serving as counsel and assistant to Dan Quayle in the U.S. Senate, and later, in the White House, after Quayle ascended to the vice presidency alongside former <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">President of the United States</a> George H.W. Bush. Zoeller has represented the U.S. delegation to NATO in Brussels and led the World Trade Center of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a> as both director and president of the organization.Beginning in 2001, Zoeller worked as the chief deputy attorney general under then-officeholder Steve Carter, in addition to his role as chief of the litigation division and advisory services of the office. Within this capacity, he directed the overall administration of legal services provided by the attorney general's office.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Biography</h2>Immediately upon receiving his law degree, Zoeller served as both the legislative and political counsel to then-Senator Dan Quayle. It was within this role that he managed five statewide offices in Washington, D.C. and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a>. He was appointed as a special assistant to United States Attorney General Richard Thornburg in 1988. From 1989 to 1991, Zoeller served as an assistant to Vice President Dan Quayle within the White House. He was selected in 1992 to serve as Vice President of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a> Council of World Affairs on board the United States delegation to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-bio-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a>Zoeller then assumed the roles of president and director of the World Trade Center of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a>, a charitable organization whose mission is to attract new industries or retain old ones within a given area.In 1988, Zoeller received the Sagamore of the Wabash Award.<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Education</h3><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bachelor’s degree in computer science - Purdue University<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Juris Doctorate degree, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a> University School of Law (1982)</li></ul><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Political career</h2><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indiana Attorney General (2009-2017)</h3>Zoeller narrowly defeated Democrat Linda Pence to win election as Indiana's 42nd attorney general in the November 4, 2008 election. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012, defeating <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kay_Fleming" title="Kay Fleming" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Kay Fleming</a> (D). He did not seek re-election as attorney general in 2016.<h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Healthcare reform</h4><table class="infobox" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; width: 10em; max-width: 100%;"><caption style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; text-align: left; margin-left: inherit;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Healthcare_on_the_ballot" title="Healthcare on the ballot" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">HealthCare</a></caption><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><div class="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 136px; text-align: center;"><div class="floatnone" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
</div></div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona_Health_Insurance_Reform_Amendment(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arizona Health Insurance Reform Amendment (2010)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Arizona</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_Health_Care_Freedom_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Health Care Freedom Act" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota_Health_Care_Freedom_Act(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minnesota Health Care Freedom Act (2010)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Minnesota</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_Mexico_Health_Care_Freedom_Act(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Mexico Health Care Freedom Act (2010)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">New Mexico</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/North_Dakota_Health_Care_Freedom_Act(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="North Dakota Health Care Freedom Act (2010)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">North Dakota</a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wyoming_Health_Care_Freedom_Act(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wyoming Health Care Freedom Act (2010)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Wyoming</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table> <dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/State_Attorneys_General_Against_the_Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act_of_2010" title="State Attorneys General Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">State Attorneys General Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>On the same morning President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a> signed into law his controversial health care reform measure, The Affordable Patient Protection Act of 2009, Zoeller joined thirteen other state attorneys general, all but one being <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican</a>, in filing suit against "the federal government to stop the massive health care overhaul, claiming it's unconstitutional."<span id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a><span id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a> The newly-elected <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Attorney General" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">attorney general</a> stated that he would "join in the most appropriate legal actions available to represent the significant interests of our state in this matter."<span id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a> Using <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a> Code 4-6-8-2, which authorizes the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Attorney General" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">state's attorney general</a> to "make any reasonable or appropriate investigation or study of any such existing or proposed federal legislation whenever he is specifically requested so to do by any of this state's senators or representatives in congress and report the result thereof as requested," United States Senator Richard Lugar asked Zoeller to "conduct a legal analysis of the constitutionality of provisions of the federal healthcare bill" on January 5, 2010.<span id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a><span id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a> The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Attorney General" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana Attorney General</a> had received similar inquiries from other congressmen, including Representatives Dan Burton and Mike Pence, at around the same time. About a month later, Zoeller published a fifty-five page report on his findings. Based on the language of the Senate Amendment 2786 to the House Resolution 3590 - The Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, he argued that the bill "would add roughly half a million more Hoosiers to the Medicaid rolls and create unintended consequences for patients, taxpayers and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a>'s medical-device industry." Not only would the federal legislation increase the state's Medicaid costs by $2.4 billion over ten years, but would also "divert pharmaceutical rebate savings from the states to the federal government, potentially resulting in a loss to <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a> of $750 million by 2019." Furthermore, the report states, the federal health care plan would ultimately spell the end for the Healthy <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana" title="Indiana" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Indiana</a> Plan, which allows low-income state citizens to purchase state-run health coverage, while at the same time failing to achieve one of the legislation's major goals of reducing health care costs, as promised by Congress.<span id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a>Zoeller was among a small group of attorneys general to take part in the oral arguments against the constitutionality of the individual mandate component of the law before the U.S. Supreme Court in March, 2012. Three months later, the Court ruled by a 5-4 vote to uphold the law, with the proviso that the mandate penalty be preserved in the form of a tax. Although he was disappointed in the court's decision, Zoeller defended the time and effort he invested in the lawsuit. “I still maintain it was not a frivolous case. It will give us guidance on what authority the federal government has and doesn’t have,” he told a reporter after the announcement. Zoeller also urged the public, particularly those who, like him, had hoped for a different outcome, "to maintain civility and respect for the U.S. Supreme Court."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-13" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Human-Trafficking</h4>In February, 2012, Zoeller pushed successfully for legislative changes which are now in effect making it easier to prosecute traffickers and rescue victims.Upon his election to the attorney general's office, Zoeller was tasked with developing ways to raise awareness about the human-trafficking industry and stifle its demand. As part of the nation-wide "Pillars of Hope" initiative, he founded the "Don't Buy the Lie" campaign that "aims to inform the public that purchasing sex is not a victimless crime and it fuels human trafficking." He serves as the co-chair of the Indiana Protection of Abused and Trafficked Humans (IPATH) task force. The task force has trained more than 2,000 people, ranging from law enforcement officers to hospitality workers, since the campaign launched in July, 2011.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Super Bowl renter scam</h4>In his capacity to protect Indiana consumers, Attorney General Zoeller filed a suit in Marion Superior Court against two Arizona-based home-rental companies accused of defrauding Indianapolis homeowners in preparation for the 2012 Super Bowl, which Indiana hosted. The companies offered services such as photographing and listing the homes of locals interested in renting to out-of-town fans seeking a place to stay while in town for the game. Super Week Lodging LCC and Major Home Rentalz guaranteed refunds for those whose homes did not get rented out, some of whom payed in excess of $1,400 in individual "online listing fees."<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-rentalscam-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a> The scam yielded almost $30,000 in total losses, according to the 21 complaints registered with the attorney general's office.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-Superbowl-16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a> "Although the Super Bowl brought positive attention and business to Indianapolis, it also brought in scammers who intended to deceive and take financial advantage of consumers," Zoeller explained after filing the lawsuits on March 1, 2012.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-Superbowl-16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a>Approximately five months later, Zoeller announced that one of the companies, Super Week Lodging LCC, failed to respond to the state suit, forcing <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Marion_County_Superior_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Marion County Superior Court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Marion County Superior Court</a> judge to issue a default judgment. The judgment ordered the company to pay $217,725 in fines and restitution for reneging on rental agreements stemming from the 2012 Super Bowl and placed an injunction on the company to prevent future deceptive acts. Zoeller said the default judgment amounted to $40,975 in consumer restitution, $176,000 in civil penalties and $750 in costs.<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-rentalscam-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Poverty</h4>Since 2009, Zoeller has orchestrated an annual program aimed at reversing the post-holiday season dry up of food donations to banks and drives to help the hungry. The March Against Hunger food drive charges all law firms in Indiana and in adjacent states' metropolitan areas to donate food and money to Indiana's 11 regional food banks. In 2011, 50 law firms in Indiana Ohio and Kentucky donated more than 6,000 pounds of food and raised $27,574. Owing in part to the recession, the poverty rate in the region was alarmingly high, with about one in six Indiana residents at risk of hunger.<span id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-17" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a> In 2012, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Attorney_General_of_Ohio" title="Attorney General of Ohio" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General of Ohio</a> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Mike_DeWine" title="Mike DeWine" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Mike DeWine</a> joined the effort.<span id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greg_Zoeller#cite_note-18" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a><div>
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Greg Zoeller (pronounced ZELL-ur) was elected Indiana's 42nd Attorney

General November 2008 and sworn into office January 12, 2009. Zoeller

was reelected to a second term in November 2012 and sworn into office

January 14, 2013.

Prior to that, Greg Zoeller served as the chief

deputy AG to his predecessor, Attorney General Steve Carter, making him

the first attorney general to have served in the AG’s Office prior to

being elected. A commitment to service marks the career of Attorney

General Zoeller. With a focus on consumer protection, Greg has expanded

the Do Not Call law to include cell phones, increased the legal

protections for teachers in returning discipline to the classroom and

protected homeowners facing foreclosures. By battling scam artists with

proactive investigations, the Attorney General has made Indiana known as

a state that consumer predators want to avoid. An advocate for the most

vulnerable in society, Attorney General Zoeller organizes an annual

competition among lawyers and law firms called March Against Hunger that

raises food donations to support Indiana’s food banks.

Greg

Zoeller for ten years worked as an executive assistant to Dan Quayle –

first in Senator Quayle’s U.S. Senate office, and then in the Office of

the Vice President of  the United States. He also served in other

government capacities and was in private practice for 10 years before

joining the AG Carter’s office.

Having  studied  as  an 

undergraduate  at  both  Purdue  University  and  Indiana  University, 

Greg  holds  “dual citizenship” as both a Boilermaker and an IU Hoosier.

He earned his law degree from the Indiana University School of Law at

Bloomington in 1982.

Greg and his wife Kerrie have three children and live in Indianapolis.

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<div>replaced by ?</div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indiana’s top lawyer, Attorney General Curtis Hill, found himself on the witness stand this autumn as the nearly two-year-old sexual misconduct scandal clouding his administration continued to play out. The embattled AG insists he is innocent of charges that he groped a lawmaker and made drunken sexual advances toward three legislative staffers.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Absolutely not,” Hill said in response to the accusations on the stand Oct. 24, toward the conclusion of a remarkable weeklong attorney discipline case. Hearing officer and former Justice Myra Selby presided over a case in which Hill’s accusers opened the testimony by describing his conduct as he milled about AJ’s Lounge at a now-infamous March 2018 party celebrating the end of that year’s session of the Indiana General Assembly.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic Rep. Mara Candaleria Reardon testified that an intoxicated Hill firmly groped her buttocks beneath her backless dress, prompting her to tell him, “Back off. What the f—?” Hill’s other accusers — Gabrielle McLemore Brock, Niki DaSilva and Samantha Lozano — also testified that the AG made unwanted sexual advances toward them. The four separately have sued Hill and the state in federal court, a matter which is pending while Hill’s disciplinary case unfolds.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Potentially hanging in the balance is Hill’s ability to continue serving as attorney general. Selby will ultimately file a hearing officer’s report that may recommend a sanction against his law license, after which it will be up to the Indiana Supreme Court to determine what, if any, discipline it will impose.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hill’s defense team argued against the proceedings, noting that the AG was not criminally charged by a special prosecutor and that the Indiana inspector general cleared him after investigating the allegations against him. While the disciplinary proceedings permitted Hill to mount a defense against the accusations, they also expanded the claims against him to include testimony of repeated sexual harassment from a former employee in the Elkhart County Prosecutor’s Office, back when Hill was the local elected officeholder.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(218, 225, 231); margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Hill continued to dismiss calls to resign from Gov. Eric Holcomb and legislative leaders in both parties because of the accusations against him, several lawyers announced their candidacies to unseat him at the ballot box next year, including one fellow Republican.</div><div></div></div>