(La Porte County, IN) - An outgoing elected official locally may not be disappearing from public office after all.

 

Republican Tim Stabosz has less than three months left on his first and only term as La Porte County Auditor after he was defeated in the May primary in his bid for one of three seats on the Board of La Porte County Commissioners.  He will be replaced by Mike Rosenbaum, who will step down from the La Porte County Council on January 1st to become Auditor.

 

Rosenbaum, who won the Republican nomination in the May primary, is unopposed in the auditor’s race in the November 8th election.  His seat will be filled when Republican Precinct Committeepersons in the county meet to vote for whoever decides to seek the two years remaining on Rosenbaum’s term.

 

Stabosz said he’s definitely interested in running for that seat on the seven member county government fiscal body.

 

“Would I be interested in protecting the citizens of La Porte County by being on the county council, you bet I would,” he said.

 

Stabosz has been among the key figures involved in the often bitter political fighting that started when he and Commissioner Joe Haney took their seats in January of 2021.  They blame the extreme push back from their efforts to clean-up county government.

 

Haney, who ran unopposed for the Republican nomination in the May primary, is challenged in the November 8th election by Democrat Randy Novak.  Currently, Novak is president of the La Porte County Council.  He's also a former long-time member of the Michigan City Fire Department where he served for many years as chief until retiring a few years ago.