It’s time to move on from the Pence brothers
From: Jeannine Lake
Muncie
When a Pence brother shows you who he is, believe him the first time.
Mike Pence showed the nation how bigoted he was toward LBGTQ Hoosiers by pushing us to economic collapse with RFRA in 2015, showed Scott County he didn’t care about their HIV crisis that same year and showed the nation he stood with a race-baiting, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic president in 2016.
His older brother, Sixth District Congressman Greg Pence, who was president of the Columbus oil company Kiel Brothers before it went bankrupt — and left Indiana with a horrific $20 million environmental mess — has given us more of the same ineptitude, bigotry and shame.
Greg aligns himself with the same exact political views and ideologies as Mike, saying “there’s no daylight between my views and that of my brother.”
In just his first term in Congress, Greg opposed the George Floyd Policing Act, voted against removing Confederate statues from public view in the U.S. Capitol and called the unemployment benefits of the CARES Act a “disaster” even while it helped struggling Americans during this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Greg also spent two long years supporting a trade war that devastated Hoosier farmers, voted against the Childcare is Essential Act, the Raise the Federal Minimum Wage Act and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act in 2019.
If all this isn’t bad enough for Indiana, Greg refuses to stop selling racist, transphobic and anti-Semitic items at his antique malls in Edinburgh and Bloomington. He literally said, “no comment,” when asked why he was profiting from this awful hate.
It’s reckoning time for Hoosiers. Do we really want this family representing us to the nation and the world? We’ve seen the damage the Pences can do. They’ve showed us time and again who they are. And we believe them.
Let’s vote both of them out on Nov. 3 and tell them to stay away from Indiana for good.
Editor’s note: This letter is paid political content
