Micah Beckwith Joins
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters. Better to schedule a free estimate with the local experts at gutter helmet. So you stay off the ladder. Visit gutter helmet.com with gutter helmet. You'll never clean your gutters again. gutter helmetindy.com. Casey, we had the rally last night. Yes, in front of the governor's house. Yes, that's right. It's a very large house. |
| 0:22.5 | Somebody asked if he was there or if he went down to Du Bois County and I don't know. I didn't see |
| 0:29.2 | him. He went as far away as humanly possible. The one person who is here is the lieutenant governor |
| 0:34.1 | Micah Beckwith. All right, Beckwith. I'm sure you're aware. Our audience is just outraged at the governor for the property tax bill that he signed. |
| 0:41.5 | They believe they were lied to and deceived. |
| 0:43.8 | Do they have a case? |
| 0:45.8 | Well, listen, I don't like the bill either. |
| 0:48.1 | I've said very clearly, I think it's confusing. |
| 0:50.5 | I think there's too many what if the local governments could screw us all over by raising lit. All of that is absolutely a concern that your audience should have. I have the same concern as well. I don't think it's the governor's fault, though. If you want to put the blame somewhere, I think you've got to put it on the legislature. I mean, the governor, Rob, you, you remember the language he had early on in the session back in January was basically the language that you'd been calling for. |
| 1:13.9 | I've been calling for. |
| 1:14.8 | It was the reset. |
| 1:16.1 | It was getting property taxes under control. |
| 1:18.7 | We all loved it. |
| 1:19.7 | The legislature stripped that out, put in nonsense a week, two weeks ago Friday. |
| 1:26.0 | There was a meeting with leadership and they threw |
| 1:28.5 | the bill down on the governor's desk. And it was, it was, it was absolutely awful. And he actually got up and walked out and said, I'm not going to sign this. And he said, if you don't meet these concessions, then I'm not signing anything. So they came back. They met some of those concessions. he felt like he had to sign it in the sense of getting it started down the right path. |
| 1:27.7 | We're not done fighting. |
| 1:28.7 | I thought... So they came back, they met some of those concessions. He felt like he had to sign it in the sense of getting it started down the right path. We're not done fighting. I've talked very clearly to the governor. This is day one, we've got, we're going to have multiple years of getting this property tax under control. It took us years to get here. It's going to take us time to get out of it. But he believes this is the right step forward. And I think you got to give them time. But if you want to blame somebody, you've got to blame the legislature. I think that's really where the bulk of the blame rest. But we don't have their address to have a rally in front of their houses. So here's the thing. I'm getting for you. I'm getting for you. Okay. Here's the thing I think a lot of people are upset about, Micah, is the fact that, you know, for a long time, he talked about vetoing or having a special session. |
| 2:25.4 | And then after he signed the bill, he came on Tony Katz's show and said, well, a veto is mostly symbolic. |
| 2:32.5 | But there's a lot of people that feel that, no, that would have shown that he was standing with the people. |
| 2:39.1 | Well, yeah, I mean, symbolism can be a very good thing. |
| 2:42.2 | I think he's probably right and saying, yeah, it would have been symbolic because most likely the legislature would overrode his veto. |
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