INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (NETWORK INDIANA): The Indiana legislative session begins on January 9th and two Republicans in the Indiana General Assembly are talking about their top priorities.
Indiana Senator Rod Bray says gaming legislation may be difficult because of the recent indictment of former State Representative Sean Eberhart.
“It taints the Statehouse, it diminishes the confidence that people have in the integrity of the Statehouse, it causes an awful lot of problems and it makes it particularly difficult to engage in that kind of policy,” Bray told Indy Politics.
Sean Eberhart, who represented District 57 in the Indiana House of Representatives covering Shelby County and portions of Hancock and Bartholomew counties, concluded his 16-year tenure on November 9, 2022. He was charged in a case dealing with the relocation of casinos to Indiana.
House Speaker Todd Huston also expressed concern with the number of truant Hoosier students but was unsure if lawmakers would make education truancy a top priority during the upcoming session.
“I heard last week in Marion County that prosecutors have told the schools that they wont even send a letter to parents regarding truancy,” he said. “I don’t know why that would be the case. There’s clearly a law on the books regarding that. Certainly that needs to be reinforced.”
Lawmakers are set to consider bills that increase Medicaid reimbursement rates, expand the roles of entry-level healthcare professionals, ban union-exclusive project labor agreements, raise business personal property tax exemption, and mandate state-level recognition of diverse business certifications by local governments.
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“mandate state-level recognition of diverse business certifications by local governments”…..So Mandate RACIST/SEXIST/ etc ? Business should be solely MERIT based, not RACIST/SEXIST/ etc based.
Once upon a time, Business owners could operate their business how they want…but now Fascist Government Mandates [pick your subject]
In the very first paragraph of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, Thomas Jefferson, the primary author, says the very reason for government to exist is to SECURE RIGHTS!!!
So I ask the State Legislature, will that bill you support secure rights or will it take rights and treat different people or groups of people differently?
It has become very popular in the rest of the country to treat criminals as a protected class and the law abiding as a criminal class. For over 250 years here criminals, people who practice activities that are against the laws of man or God, are ostracized and lose their rights to a lesser or greater extend depending on the crime.
So ask yourselves what that oath of office you freely took means to you and to those who voted for you.
Here is an example, it is all the rage to become or claim to be transgender. Yet less than one half of one percent of the population is transgender. Look at the unbelievable chaos perpetrated on the rest of us by government officials jumping through more hoops than on the Olympic flag to accommodate to the extent of destroying women’s sports. The vast majority of that one-half of one percent are less than 18 years old. And 80% of those in about 7 years decide they are really the gender they see in the mirror in the privacy of their bathroom. So whose rights are being protected with tranny supporting legislation? There are dozens and dozens of other examples of destroying rights rather than SECURING RIGHTS.