INDIANAPOLIS- Following Governor Holcomb’s State of the State Address, State Senator JD Ford (D-Indianapolis) released the following statement: “I appreciate Governor Holcomb’s address tonight and the progress our state has made over the last year. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, Indiana’s economy is growing, [...]
Word Count: 844 We are likely to hear a lot of noise in the 2022 legislative session about cultural war issues like critical race theory (even though legislators regularly explain it wrong), making school board elections partisan, copycat abortion vigilante legislation from Texas, anti-vaccine rhetoric, [...]
Word Count: 791 Voters should choose their representatives; politicians shouldn't be picking their voters. That's a pretty simple principle. However, in Indiana, our Congressional and State Legislative districts are drawn by the politicians in power, which allows them to pick their voters. When politicians in [...]
INDIANAPOLIS- Senate Elections Committee Ranking Minority Member Senator JD Ford (D-Indianapolis), and Minority Member Senator Fady Qaddoura (D-Indianapolis), released the following statement prior to the first Senate Elections Committee redistricting meeting: "Redistricting plays a huge role in how communities across Indiana are represented in Congress [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — Today members of the Indiana Senate Democratic Caucus issued the following statement criticizing Attorney General Todd Rokita for releasing a “parents bill of rights” that not only has no legal standing, but also criticizes our state educators’ efforts to bring a more diverse [...]
INDIANAPOLIS ─ Today the Senate voted to override Governor Holcomb's veto of Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 5. SEA 5 says that if a local order addresses an aspect of a declared emergency that is not addressed by an executive order or if a local order [...]
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