Indiana's Politics Follow Trump Into Decadence (Redistricting & Gerrymandering)

 Republican senator against Indiana redistricting not seek reelection (Indiana Capital Chronicle)

Kyle Walker announced his redistricting opposition last month despite his close ties with a leader of a pro-redistricting group and being a member of the 24-person Indiana Republican Party State Committee as the party’s 7th Congressional District vice chair.

“I’ve spent the past several months listening closely to my constituents on mid-decade redistricting,” Walker said at the time. “With 93 percent opposed, and as their voice in the Indiana Senate, I’ll be voting no.”

A Walker spokesman told the Indiana Capital Chronicle that Walker has resigned from his position as executive vice president of MO Strategies, a political consulting firm where he worked for several years that is led by Marty Obst.

Obst is the chair of Fair Maps Indiana, a nonprofit group that launched a six-figure advertising effort targeting undecided Republican senators pushing for their support of redistricting. Obst served in senior leadership roles in Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns and was a senior political adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence.

Over a dozen Indiana lawmakers targeted with threats, intimidation (Axios Indianapolis)

Driving the news: Rep. Ben Smaltz, the Auburn Republican carrying the redistricting bill, said Tuesday that he received a threat that his family would be killed in front of him before he was killed.

• He's at least the 13th member to say they've received some kind of threat, and the intimidation has reached lawmakers on both sides of the issue.
• Gov. Mike Braun said he's also been targeted. So has Indiana Republican Party Chair Lana Keesling.

We are in the hands of idiots, spoiled children, and those with wiser heads, who have attained the maturity we call adulthood have abdicated the responsibility that is the duty of a citizen in a democratic republic. It is a disgrace to this state.

What has become of Indiana's Republicans? Where is the common sense, the probity, the integrity they once claimed for themselves? Listen to the following, and understand Donald J. Trump only uses the Republican Party for his own purposes, and remember that anyone who has tried to profit from Trump winds up paying the bill. Indiana Republicans may get done what Trump wants them to do, they will get nothing for their work other than dishonor.

Donald J. Trump is a rich guy who depends on other people to clean up his messes.

Hoosiers take part in redistricting listening session (wthr.com)

Protecting The Right To Vote (Sheila Kennedy) has many good ideas, but does not mention banning gerrymandering.

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