The systematic gutting of the lieutenant governor's powers
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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Sen. James Buck and Sen. Susan Glick introduce Senate Bill 202, which seeks to strip away the lieutenant governor's authority over the Indiana Department of Agriculture.
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| 0:00.0 | Casey, you know one thing you can always count on. |
| 0:02.4 | What's that, Rob? |
| 0:03.2 | Whatever the most petty, pathetic, despicable thing to do is the Republican Party in this state, |
| 0:09.2 | they'll find a way to push that right to the front of the line. |
| 0:11.8 | Well, you must be talking about Senate Bill 202. |
| 0:14.9 | So with the new year always comes to this new legislative session. |
| 0:18.4 | The 124th meeting of the Indiana General Assembly begins today. |
| 0:22.8 | Odd number year, meaning over the next four months, they're going to have to write the |
| 0:26.9 | two-year multi-billion dollar state budget. But we've got two people who want to focus on the |
| 0:33.5 | Department of Agriculture. So it is amazing. The utter disdain that the power structure of the |
| 0:40.1 | Republican Party has for the electorate. And this is why we said repeatedly, stop voting for |
| 0:46.7 | these people. They don't respect you. They don't respect your wishes. They don't like you. |
| 0:51.9 | They loathe you. They see you as a personal, your personal finances are their piggy bank. And that's what they see you as. They have no |
| 1:00.2 | respect for you. And it is fascinating to me how they used to kind of be good at hiding it. |
| 1:09.9 | It's out there now, isn't it? |
| 1:11.2 | Anymore, they don't even hide it because they keep, because the Democrats are so inept |
| 1:15.3 | and the Democrats are so unsurious that they don't fear anything. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, the Republicans feel beholden, or not beholden, but bolden. |
| 1:23.1 | So there, Micah Beckwith upset the apple cart and enraged these people because he was critical of them when he ran for lieutenant governor in the primary to begin with at the convention. |
| 1:41.3 | He talked about all the dirty laundry of the Republican Party and where the Republican |
| 1:46.1 | party was failing in terms of taxes, in terms of size of government, in terms of spending. |
| 1:52.9 | He talked about all of these things. |
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