Dist. 22 Candidates
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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I have read plenty of letters from Curt Nisly supporters. They pile on the conservative terms, limited government, pro-life, personal liberty, they allude to platitudes, and claim some magical high ground, as if planting a flag makes it theirs. Nisly supporters attack David Kolbe, with online comments calling his complaint against the Nisly camp as desperate. The point of the complaint is that there were grounds to investigate a possibility of a conflict of interest and unfair advantage. It is immaterial how valid speculation about the extent to which that advantage was, or was not, exploited.
Let’s take a real look at these candidates: both are self identified as pro-life. Good, we can file that away as a non-issue this cycle.
Nisly has committed to putting the definition of marriage in our state’s constitution, denying LGBT people rights other Hoosiers take for granted. Kolbe is against this, and even if the legislature wastes another session on it, a higher court will ultimately decide the constitutionality of the matter.
Religious foibles aside, there are a multitude of issues the statehouse needs to tackle. The attempts by an activist governor to privatize and defund public education. Healthy Indiana Plan, which is a sad joke compared with Medicaid expansion. We are leaving billions on the table, and taking an ideological pass on the jobs that money would fund.
I have done my own research on these candidates, too much to address every point in this short of a format. Curt Nisly is a libertarian in GOP disguise funded by the same reactionaries that supported Richard Mourdock last cycle. Kolbe is a center-right Democrat, less liberal than I would like, but certainly no socialist. We need more rational thinking people in Indianapolis. Your guns, and your right to try to deny others easy access to family planning, are not in danger here; however, your children's education is.
Vote Kolbe, representation not hyperbole.
Peter A. Tuura
Warsaw, via Facebook[[In-content Ad]]
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I have read plenty of letters from Curt Nisly supporters. They pile on the conservative terms, limited government, pro-life, personal liberty, they allude to platitudes, and claim some magical high ground, as if planting a flag makes it theirs. Nisly supporters attack David Kolbe, with online comments calling his complaint against the Nisly camp as desperate. The point of the complaint is that there were grounds to investigate a possibility of a conflict of interest and unfair advantage. It is immaterial how valid speculation about the extent to which that advantage was, or was not, exploited.
Let’s take a real look at these candidates: both are self identified as pro-life. Good, we can file that away as a non-issue this cycle.
Nisly has committed to putting the definition of marriage in our state’s constitution, denying LGBT people rights other Hoosiers take for granted. Kolbe is against this, and even if the legislature wastes another session on it, a higher court will ultimately decide the constitutionality of the matter.
Religious foibles aside, there are a multitude of issues the statehouse needs to tackle. The attempts by an activist governor to privatize and defund public education. Healthy Indiana Plan, which is a sad joke compared with Medicaid expansion. We are leaving billions on the table, and taking an ideological pass on the jobs that money would fund.
I have done my own research on these candidates, too much to address every point in this short of a format. Curt Nisly is a libertarian in GOP disguise funded by the same reactionaries that supported Richard Mourdock last cycle. Kolbe is a center-right Democrat, less liberal than I would like, but certainly no socialist. We need more rational thinking people in Indianapolis. Your guns, and your right to try to deny others easy access to family planning, are not in danger here; however, your children's education is.
Vote Kolbe, representation not hyperbole.
Peter A. Tuura
Warsaw, via Facebook[[In-content Ad]]
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