Statehouse Happenings: Public Backlash Over Lawmaker Ties to Construction Management Companies
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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The fight over property taxes in Indiana has produced a new point of contention: Lawmaker ties to construction management companies. Construction management companies can make big money off local government contracts, which are funded in large part by property tax dollars. This has raised a red flag with many, over the ethics of a lawmaker voting on property taxes, when the companies they serve benefit directly from them. Rob Kendall, Abdul-Hakim Shabazz and Jim Merritt discuss on this week's Statehouse Happenings.
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| 0:40.8 | Freedom Foods, Indiana.com. Rob Kendall, Abdulah Keebiz, Jim Merritt, the program, a state house happenings, your weekly look at what's going on with Indiana politics and government 30 years in the Indiana Senate. |
| 0:53.2 | Panelist number one, better known as Jim Merritt. |
| 0:55.1 | Hello. Robert. And the owner and operator of IndyPolitics.org. Abdulahibhibhiz. Panelist number two, hello. |
| 1:02.2 | I thought Abdullah number two seem to go together some days. Well, there's many people who have thought you were number two for a long time. |
| 1:08.0 | All right. So we're halfway at the state, the General Assembly, legislative session. |
| 1:14.6 | I thought we'd get up to speed on what's going on. |
| 1:17.7 | First of all, Braun had a press conference yesterday, Abdul. |
| 1:20.8 | Is that right? |
| 1:21.4 | Yes, he did. |
| 1:21.9 | He offered his assessment of the halftime festivities at the Indiana General Assembly. |
| 1:27.0 | So this is a weird, we were talking about this yesterday on the air. |
| 1:28.6 | It's a weird thing for Braun because on one hand, he's gotten quite a bit done through |
| 1:33.3 | executive orders. |
| 1:34.3 | Several of things that he's championed are moving at the usual glacier speed that the general |
| 1:39.7 | assembly moves at. |
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