Indiana GOP nominates Rudy Yakym as Walorski replacement
By Leslie Bonilla Muniz Indiana Capital Chronicle August 22, 2022 The Indiana Republican Party on Saturday nominated a longtime political ally of the late Rep. Jackie Walorski (above) to run for her now-vacant seat in Indiana’s Second Congressional District. Rudy Yakym, a gro “...”
Why Mitch Daniels says he’s ‘not done, yet’ at Purdue
The following report from contributing writer Dave Bangert were first published in his Substack newsletter, Based in Lafayette, Indiana. Ten years ago this week, already named Purdue’s incoming president but still wrapping up his second term as Indiana governor, Mitch Dan “...”
Brooks, Tinder slam Attorney General Rokita for baseless claims
By Leslie Bonilla Muniz Indiana Capital Chronicle August 12, 2022 Former U.S. Congresswoman Susan Brooks and former federal judge John Tinder, in a Wall Street Journal column Wednesday, excoriated Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (above) for his investigation of the physician “...”
Holcomb calls for special election as funerals for Walorski and staffers begin
Following the death of U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., Gov. Eric Holcomb signed an executive order on Tuesday to establish a special election for Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District. The election will be on Nov. 8—the same day as midterms—and Walorski’s successor wi “...”
Anti-Common Core activist failed to register as lobbyist for Rokita’s office
By Leslie Bonilla Muniz Indiana Capital Chronicle August 9, 2022 A Hoosiers Against Common Core co-founder turned policy consultant and state contractor mistakenly registered as a lobbyist for the city of Indianapolis rather than the state of Indiana, Attorney General Todd Rokita “...”
Will pro-legislature elections theory in SCOTUS case come to Indiana? No sign of it yet.
By: Leslie Bonilla Muniz Indiana Capital Chronicle August 8, 2022 North Carolina’s Republican-dominated General Assembly may be all-in on the once-fringe legal theory that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to consider this fall, but it doesn’t appear Indiana is headed that way an “...”
After Senate concurrence Friday night, Holcomb signs abortion bill into law
With a vote Friday night in the Indiana Senate, a bill banning abortion with only a few narrow exceptions cleared its final legislative hurdle. Less than an hour later, Gov. Eric Holcomb signed Senate Enrolled Act 1 into law, making Indiana the first state to change its abortion “...”
House and Senate reach deal for inflation relief and social services
By Whitney Downard Indiana Capital Chronicle August 5, 2022 The House and Senate reached a deal for distributing more than $1 billion in surplus accounts and providing $75 million in direct appropriations and discretionary funding for social service programs in the wake of an a “...”
Proposed abortion ban with narrow exceptions up for a final House vote Friday
The Indiana House Thursday repeatedly voted down amendments from Republicans and Democrats alike to Senate Bill 1, a total ban on abortion with exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother, sending the bill to a final floor vote on Friday. As in the Indiana Senate last w “...”
Senate, House at impasse on inflation relief and social services
By Whitney Downard Indiana Capital Chronicle August 3, 2022 The Senate and House chambers seem to be on opposite sides when it comes to proposals for funding social services and providing inflation relief to Hoosiers. Just one day after a House committee stripped and replaced t “...”