Statehouse Happenings: Beckwith, Senate Spar Over Filming
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🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith and the Indiana Senate Leadership are at it again. This time over a reprimand he received for his staff filming and posting the Senate in action. The reprimand from top Republicans sparked backlash over a perceived lack of commitment to transparency from the government, and a double standard from lawmakers. What will the fallout be? Rob Kendall and Jim Merritt discuss on Statehouse Happenings.
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| 0:45.9 | Happenings, your weekly look at what's going on with Indiana politics and government. Before we |
| 0:50.5 | begin, let's introduce our panelists singular today. We've got a bit of a shorter segment with our panelists. |
| 0:56.2 | We've got an interview, great interview to wrap up the end of the program today. But first, |
| 1:00.0 | you know, over 30 years in the Indiana Senate, the great Jim Merritt, hello. |
| 1:04.1 | Robert. All right, you are the perfect guy to have on today because I have a Senate decorum question, questions, plural in conversation, |
| 1:14.1 | and nobody knows the Indiana Senate quite like you. That would be a fair statement, wouldn't it? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, I had my time there, no question about it. I lived it for 30 years. |
| 1:23.1 | All right. So this stems from an event that happened earlier this week. |
| 1:27.9 | I think it was on Monday in the Senate, in which Micah Beckwith, who is the lieutenant governor, |
| 1:33.1 | posted a pre-made video that his staff shot from the fourth floor of the Senate. |
| 1:41.0 | Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's where the public is allowed to be, correct? |
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