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Oct. 29
Orchids to
Bruce from Discount Tire for exemplary professionalism despite a rude customer.
Skylar at Snappy Tomato in Columbus for your helpfulness and hospitality to our youth group Halloween event!
the majority of Hoosiers who oppose unfair, unlawful early redistricting.
Walgreens on Beam Road for your kindness even on busy days, and Elizabeth and Shelly for giving me my COVID shot, from Laura.
Petersville United Methodist Church, from Clifty Creek Elementary School.
Onions to
Indiana Republicans for wanting to gerrymander our state so there is only Republican representation in Washington, leaving Indiana Democrats without any representation, outside the normal time frame.
health care practice managers trying to cut staff beyond the bare minimum when they have no idea all the duties the staff does daily.
realizing if the president doesn’t get his way with mid-decade redistricting, he might threaten to stop Indiana’s federal funds, such as our $35 million FAA reimbursable grant.
people still complaining about lawn mowing in late October.
the party ignoring the need for health care for millions of Americans and wants to cancel the ACA, but has no plan of its own, putting all of America at risk.
the sadistic cruelty of the overpaid lawmakers who voted to cut the funds of programs like SNAP, WIC and Medicaid designed to help children and the working poor.
the governor and other elected officials who have proven they represent the would-be king in Washington, not the Hoosiers who elected them.
the person smoking in the black SUV with the “baby on board” decal.
the candidate running for state office, when asked why they’re supporting redistricting, said “we have to get those people out.”
the non-political men’s group who called out a political candidate at a children’s event, wrong time, wrong place.
the administration and Congress thinking tax cuts for the rich, airplanes and a ballroom are more important than taking care of our citizens with food and medical care, paying federal workers and taking care of farmers.
the restaurant on the east side of town for the poor service, cold food and argumentative employees.
people who would vote for a 34-year-old who has never held a real job and whose only qualifications are good words and a toothy grin.
