The Megathread for All Things Hoosier!

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I have a dear friend who lives in Brooks's district and would be delighted to see her go down.

I think Indiana's political geography has been ground zero for a realignment of American political cleavages away from both material issues and "classic" social issues and towards 1. degree of formal education and 2. level of comfort with the outside world. I say this not to cast aspersions on either side of this new cleavage but to try to define it in as morally neutral a way as possible.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hoosier Republicans are lining up to pass a hate crimes bill:

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2018/11/15/sen-ron-alting-follows-up-indiana-hate-crime-bill-promise/2011768002/

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This is pretty significant.  A bill of this nature almost passed the session earlier this year, but a couple of obstructionists got in the way, and it never even made it to a vote.  Let's hope 2019 is the year.

Interesting that the GOP in what's steadily becoming a Titanium R state is contemplating taking these steps while swing-state Republican legislators have been at full wingnut for almost a decade.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hoosier Republicans are lining up to pass a hate crimes bill:

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2018/11/15/sen-ron-alting-follows-up-indiana-hate-crime-bill-promise/2011768002/

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This is pretty significant.  A bill of this nature almost passed the session earlier this year, but a couple of obstructionists got in the way, and it never even made it to a vote.  Let's hope 2019 is the year.

Interesting that the GOP in what's steadily becoming a Titanium R state is contemplating taking these steps while swing-state Republican legislators have been at full wingnut for almost a decade.

ask RI dems.

I'm familiar with the Rhode Island Dems. I'm not fond of them. This thread is about Indiana.