Around Town – Dec. 13

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Dec. 13

Orchids to

the Indiana Senate for listening to constituents, voting down redistricting and making me proud to be a Hoosier.

Sen. Greg Walker!

Kroger Pharmacy for doing such a wonderful job, from a grateful customer.

the brave Indiana senators who rejected the proposed unlawful gerrymandering.

the Indiana senators for doing the right thing, we’ll remember it at voting time.

Becky from Columbus Regional Hospital Finance Department for your help, understanding and compassion, it’s greatly appreciated.

Erin at the self checkout at Kroger for being so helpful and kind, and always having a smile on her face.

Sen. Greg Walker for moral courage in representing the people of Indiana, rather than kowtowing to the big bully in Washington.

Onions to

the unneeded and expensive path to nowhere planned to tear up owners’ infrastructure along 27th Street.

Washington, D.C. Democrats unable and unwilling to show the courage demonstrated by Republican state senators.

realizing the $12 billion farmer bailout will go mostly to big agriculture business and almost nothing for our local farmers.

people who believe drug boats with four engines are fishing boats, when you operate a boat without a flag of origin on the open seayou are considered a pirate and have no rights or protections.

the elected official and his bootlickers for aligning with Europe’s far-right fascist parties.

the new gold card which basically guarantees that drug lords, techno-plutocrats and assorted two-bit dictators will be the next immigration wave to make America great again.

the governor for siding with the wannabe dictator against the will of the people he’s supposed to serve.

conservative bullies threatening to take federal money away from Indiana, it’s not a gift and we’ve already paid for those services.

all the Hoosier senators who voted yes to redistricting, showing all residents of Indiana how spineless you are.

our Trumpian governor for ignoring the will of the people and politically threatening state senators who rejected the underhanded and unethical redistricting scheme.

the elected leader putting down journalists, especially women, when asked legitimate questions sometimes quoting what he said.

the U.S. representative who called the deliberate assassination of a National Guardsman “an accident.”

slapdash tariffs, which were a disaster for many farmers, requiring the elected official to now buy back their votes with a $12 billion plan for “farmers impacted by tariffs.”