Congressman, Gubernatorial Candidate Pence Honored With Spine Award In Warsaw
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
State Representative Rebecca Kubacki presented Pence with the award during a dinner at the 2517 Restaurant in Warsaw Friday night.
The dinner was attended by 120 Republicans, and was catered by Champagne Jam. Dr. Dane Miller and Jean Northenor served as honorary chairs for the dinner.
It was the second year for the award presentation. The award was presented last year to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Kubacki presented Pence the award in a glass case.
“It is important when electing the next governor to find someone who will stand up for the state and who will be heard,” Kubacki said. “We need to have someone with strong leadership and a spine and backbone.”
Kubacki said Pence will make the next best governor.
The Times-Union had the opportunity prior to the dinner to sit down with Pence and ask him some questions.
When Pence was asked why he is running for governor for 2012 he said there are three main reasons.
He said he is running for governor because he loves Indiana.
“The chance to serve Indiana as governor is the highest honor I can imagine and would be a great privilege,” Pence said.
He said he wants to run for governor because he thinks Indiana is on the verge of an era of growth.
The third reason Pence is running for governor is because he thinks Hoosiers can build an even bigger Indiana.
“I think Mitch Daniels put our fiscal house in order and has reformed government in countless ways, especially in the area of education,” Pence said.
He said he thinks he can build on the progress that has been made to create jobs, great schools, safe streets and strong families.
Issues Pence said are important to him are job creation and schools.
“Indiana has created the kind of government reforms and fiscal practices that have made us the envy of the country,” Pence said.
Pence said he is determined to continue to expand educational opportunities until every child in Indiana has access to a world-class education.
Pence discussed the national debt topic.
“Washington, D.C., has got to take a lesson from the state of Indiana and that is to recognize to get the economy moving again the fiscal house needs to be in order in Washington, D.C.,” Pence said.
Pence also addressed the topic of job creation.
“I honestly believe the best thing Washington, D.C., can do to restore confidence to our capital markets is to embrace the kind of budget discipline and reform that will show we are serious about confronting our national debt,” Pence said.
He said the second thing that needs to be done is meet this moment with tax reform and common sense regulatory relief.
Pence said he will continue to support a lower tax rate for working families, small businesses, and farms.
Pence also discussed healthcare.
“The first thing we need to do is repeal Obama Care lock stock and barrel,” Pence said.
However, Pence said it won't be enough just to repeal Obama Care, but said it needs to be replaced with health insurance reform that will focus on lowering the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government.
Pence said creating a national market place for health insurance will drive down the costs of the insurance, and as it becomes more affordable more businesses will offer health insurance to their employees.
He said the medical device tax needs to be repealed, and said it will have a devastating effect on the medical device industry in Indiana and Warsaw.
He also talked about Social Security.
He said he thinks government needs to keep its promise to seniors and near seniors for Social Security.
“Anything we do with regard to restoring fiscal discipline to Washington, D.C., should only be done in a way that makes it clear to anyone who is in retirement or near retirement that their benefits will not change,” Pence said.
He said Social Security should be addressed by focusing on cost.
Pence said influences in his political career are extensive, and said the reason he became a Republican was Ronald Reagan.
Pence said he met Reagan when he was in the White House.
“It was his common sense conservative ideals that really drew me to the Republican party from an early age,” Pence said.
He also said Dan Quayle has influenced him as well as the late Jack Kemp and Mitch Daniels.
“Daniels and I have different styles and personalities, but not different objectives,” Pence said.
“I think Mitch is a principled common sense conservative whose demonstrated that our conservative ideas work in government,” Pence said.[[In-content Ad]]
State Representative Rebecca Kubacki presented Pence with the award during a dinner at the 2517 Restaurant in Warsaw Friday night.
The dinner was attended by 120 Republicans, and was catered by Champagne Jam. Dr. Dane Miller and Jean Northenor served as honorary chairs for the dinner.
It was the second year for the award presentation. The award was presented last year to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Kubacki presented Pence the award in a glass case.
“It is important when electing the next governor to find someone who will stand up for the state and who will be heard,” Kubacki said. “We need to have someone with strong leadership and a spine and backbone.”
Kubacki said Pence will make the next best governor.
The Times-Union had the opportunity prior to the dinner to sit down with Pence and ask him some questions.
When Pence was asked why he is running for governor for 2012 he said there are three main reasons.
He said he is running for governor because he loves Indiana.
“The chance to serve Indiana as governor is the highest honor I can imagine and would be a great privilege,” Pence said.
He said he wants to run for governor because he thinks Indiana is on the verge of an era of growth.
The third reason Pence is running for governor is because he thinks Hoosiers can build an even bigger Indiana.
“I think Mitch Daniels put our fiscal house in order and has reformed government in countless ways, especially in the area of education,” Pence said.
He said he thinks he can build on the progress that has been made to create jobs, great schools, safe streets and strong families.
Issues Pence said are important to him are job creation and schools.
“Indiana has created the kind of government reforms and fiscal practices that have made us the envy of the country,” Pence said.
Pence said he is determined to continue to expand educational opportunities until every child in Indiana has access to a world-class education.
Pence discussed the national debt topic.
“Washington, D.C., has got to take a lesson from the state of Indiana and that is to recognize to get the economy moving again the fiscal house needs to be in order in Washington, D.C.,” Pence said.
Pence also addressed the topic of job creation.
“I honestly believe the best thing Washington, D.C., can do to restore confidence to our capital markets is to embrace the kind of budget discipline and reform that will show we are serious about confronting our national debt,” Pence said.
He said the second thing that needs to be done is meet this moment with tax reform and common sense regulatory relief.
Pence said he will continue to support a lower tax rate for working families, small businesses, and farms.
Pence also discussed healthcare.
“The first thing we need to do is repeal Obama Care lock stock and barrel,” Pence said.
However, Pence said it won't be enough just to repeal Obama Care, but said it needs to be replaced with health insurance reform that will focus on lowering the cost of health insurance without growing the size of government.
Pence said creating a national market place for health insurance will drive down the costs of the insurance, and as it becomes more affordable more businesses will offer health insurance to their employees.
He said the medical device tax needs to be repealed, and said it will have a devastating effect on the medical device industry in Indiana and Warsaw.
He also talked about Social Security.
He said he thinks government needs to keep its promise to seniors and near seniors for Social Security.
“Anything we do with regard to restoring fiscal discipline to Washington, D.C., should only be done in a way that makes it clear to anyone who is in retirement or near retirement that their benefits will not change,” Pence said.
He said Social Security should be addressed by focusing on cost.
Pence said influences in his political career are extensive, and said the reason he became a Republican was Ronald Reagan.
Pence said he met Reagan when he was in the White House.
“It was his common sense conservative ideals that really drew me to the Republican party from an early age,” Pence said.
He also said Dan Quayle has influenced him as well as the late Jack Kemp and Mitch Daniels.
“Daniels and I have different styles and personalities, but not different objectives,” Pence said.
“I think Mitch is a principled common sense conservative whose demonstrated that our conservative ideas work in government,” Pence said.[[In-content Ad]]
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