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🕑 Added 2018-02-01 19:17:07 +0000 UTC

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Matt, I am very grateful for your hard work at keeping us in Fly Over America informed. Here's a story from my home state that got me spitting mad this week. Once again, the Republicans of the Indiana Congress squashed a Hate Crimes bill for Indiana, leaving us as only one of five states without one. Apparently, the old school conservative farts balked at the idea of adding "transgender" to the list. I also read that the primary family values hate group protesting this bill was jubilant on its inability to even go beyond committee, its spokesperson commenting that it was important that "these people not feel special." There is also an interesting side note for folks who remember the Indiana RFRA mess from 2015. The evening after the bill died I was watching my local news on TV, and in a brief story that one call almost call a retraction, one of the anchors mentioned that Governor Holcomb's office had been working behind the scenes to get an all-inclusive version passed. Holcomb is a much more pragmatic version of the former Governor Pence (Putz). This tells me two things: 1) Holcomb doesn't want to repeat Putz's mistakes; 2) He doesn't want to repeat said mistakes, but is too terrified of his base to openly do the right thing. The fact that that brief fifteen second statement burp was on the local news tells me that his office must have been swamped with messages from angry Hoosiers. Thanks again, Matt. It is the work of people such as you that has inspired me to get off my fat complaining ass and get active in 2018. Keep the news coming!


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