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Speaker 1: Rob Kendall just tweeted this. He said, out and about

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Speaker 1: getting signatures to fire our rotten town government and turn

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Speaker 1: Brownsburg into a city good. First couple days impromptu open invitation.

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Speaker 1: He'll be at McDonald's on Main Street from eleven until

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Speaker 1: noon if you want to come by sign and discuss

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Speaker 1: political gripes of your choosing.

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Speaker 2: The man is on vacation and he is spending his

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Speaker 2: time in the city of Brownberg gathering Brownsburg, gathering signatures

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Speaker 2: so that he can make that community better, and then

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Speaker 2: inviting you to just publicly debate him about whatever gripes

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Speaker 2: you have.

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Speaker 1: Does McDonald's know this is happening? Has he warned the

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Speaker 1: management there of what's about to take place?

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Speaker 2: The Hamburglar is going to be very upset about. I

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Speaker 2: guess so.

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Speaker 1: Indiana lawmakers they all agree that families are struggling with

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Speaker 1: high costs. However, they disagree on how much the state

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Speaker 1: government should do to help. The Indiana General Assembly returning

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Speaker 1: January fifth, it's going to be a short session and

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Speaker 1: a study back in July found that electric bills in

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Speaker 1: Indiana rose seventeen and a half percent. This was the

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Speaker 1: largest increase since at least two thousand and five and

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Speaker 1: the House Minority leader from Fort Wayne. He suggested eliminating

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Speaker 1: these seven percent sales tax that has tacked on to

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Speaker 1: residential utility bills as a way to provide some immediate

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Speaker 1: relief to Indiana consumers. However, you've got your House Speaker,

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Speaker 1: Todd Houston. He expressed concern about the government's budget. Not

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Speaker 1: your budget, the government's budget.

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Speaker 2: This is this is a disgusting quote from the Speaker

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Speaker 2: of the House, Todd Houston. This is an absolute quote.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little sensitive about the conversation about taking away

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Speaker 2: the sales tax only because at the very moment you

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Speaker 2: take away that sales tax, this is the worst part.

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Speaker 2: My friends will want to spend government money somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: This is the guy that opposed pretty tax relief for you.

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Speaker 2: This is the same guy that's been speaking of the

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Speaker 2: House for a very, very long time. He's overseen the

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Speaker 2: creation and operation of the IEDC that wasted hundreds of

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Speaker 2: millions of your taxpayer dollars, still doing it on crony capitalism.

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Speaker 2: Hand out to friends. Go just google three Kings in Indiana.

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Speaker 2: You'll see that great article that was written about how

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Speaker 2: all the corruption that took place in the IEDC. But

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Speaker 2: it's my friends, my friends will want to spend the

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Speaker 2: government money somewhere else, having no accountability for himself and

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Speaker 2: the massive spending that's taken place under his overseeing of

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Speaker 2: the House.

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting because the Democrats, they say they want

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Speaker 1: to focus on utility bills, housing costs, childcare access, healthcare affordability,

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Speaker 1: and preventing surprise utility rate hikes. Now, if you're a

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Speaker 1: Democrat in this stay and you're running for office, all

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Speaker 1: you have to do is say I want to lower

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Speaker 1: the cost of living for you, over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again.

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Speaker 2: This is where we are at the state of politics

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Speaker 2: in Indiana. It's they that's what they should do. It's

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Speaker 2: the Democrats that are coming out and saying, hey, let's

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Speaker 2: eliminate this tax, and the Republicans are going, well, I'd

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Speaker 2: kind of like to buy.

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Speaker 1: My friends my local government.

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Speaker 2: Friend will spend more, My friends will spend more. The

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Speaker 2: Democrats are the ones that are coming out and saying

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Speaker 2: we need to cut taxes, and the Republicans are balking

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Speaker 2: at it. In fact, Laquinta had a great line. He said, hey,

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Speaker 2: we give data centers a sales tax exemption. Why can't

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Speaker 2: we do that for our customers? And again Todd Houston,

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Speaker 2: Speaker of the House, not concerned about you the taxpayer.

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Speaker 2: He's talking about how the government is going to manage it.

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Speaker 2: What's going to happen to the government if we do this.

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Speaker 2: Let Laquinta, the Democrat, he's talking about what we can

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Speaker 2: do for consumers, what we can do for the taxpayer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Giaquinta is his name. So the session is going

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Speaker 1: to be a little shorter than usual. Bills must pass

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Speaker 1: their chamber by January twenty fifth, and they have to

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Speaker 1: reach the governor by February twenty fourth. And the lawmakers

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Speaker 1: they're warning about rushing bills because that could cause mistakes.

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Speaker 1: This is the Kendall and Casey Show. It's ninety three WYBC.