If I understand this article correctly, instead of working out of the Governor’s mansion, which is already maintained by our tax money, and is close to the offices Braun is forcing everyone back into, let’s put a pin in that, and it already has quarters for state police details…
he’s spending more of our tax money on his private residence, planning to work from home, and wants to get flown in a fucking helicopter?
Couple things:
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helicopters cost 2-4 thousand dollars per flight hour depending on aircraft
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He made everyone return to offices
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Some offices or rented floors in the downtown Sheridan cost about a million per year to rent (I need to fact check this, I just heard from an insider)
Am I misunderstanding wats going and I’m at fault for thinking he’s a huge fucking douche bad and hypocrite?
I know this place is a bit of an echo chamber not favoring republican politics, but this seems more bipartisan and plainly fucking stupid?
It is plainly fuckin stupid. But it is the republican way.
I think a lot of the people who don’t “favor republican politics” have a solid understanding of that platform and see the harm it causes.
Like actual harm.
My mom was laid off over 10 years ago by the decision of a republican governor. The ability for schools to feed poor kids was more or less cut off (i was one of those poor kids. They scaled back 21st century & state SNAP; thankfully my parents were able to achieve upward economic mobility before conservatives in indiana really squashed that.)
Mitch Daniel’s claim to fame before Purdue was closing an orphanage. Thanks to economic uncertainty surrounding conservative leadership it is likely Purdue’s semiconductor manufacturing facility will not take off.
Mike Pence helped to make sure more cases of AIDS would develop in his state.
This place isn’t an echo chamber because “orange man bad” or “mike braun stole my elephant ear at the state fair” but because many of us critically analyze the impact of conservative policy and understand the harm it causes.
I’ll be less biased against the conservative cause when they stop going after personal liberty and slowing down the economy so their favorites can get richer. Mike Braun’s leadership is hurting farmers and decreasing Indiana’s ability to make sure industrial waste doesn’t end up in the water table.
I’m sure there’s more they are making suck but i was only involved at Purdue for the last decade, and family is in DNR - at least for now.
I wanna empathize more with the conservative struggle but i don’t see how any aspect of life is improved by forcing us all to be a certain religion while ensuring we put women and minorities back at a disadvantage.
Idk Indiana republicans suck. The progressives in indiana worked hard to make sure i could afford to pay taxes but i get the gist the republicans would never have liked me given I was on welfare growing up.
I just want to say, I really appreciate this well thought out and written response. I never cease to be amazed at the stupidity our Republican politicians bring upon us, and how many people in this state they are actively harming but still for some reason keep voting for them.
How has Purdue faired under Mitch? The only thing I ever heard about is how he kept tuition from going up for a while.
Yes, keeping tuition frozen for 10+ years, but employed Republican “starving the beast” strategies.
He froze employees’ wages for years. Froze hiring. He combined departments and the leftover employees had to pick up extra work. Scaled back benefits. He privatized (outsourced) departments to out of state and out of country firms.
Purdue used to pay a little less than private industry, but had stellar benefits. Now it pays a little less than that, and has so-so benefits.