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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIndiana Dems need our help!
If they're going sacrifice and stand up for us, we should stand up with them.The new law levies a fine of $1,000 per day against each lawmaker who sits out more than three days in a row. Republicans established the new penalties after Democrats left the state last year to block the right-to-work measure.
The House Democratic caucus meanwhile opened an account on the Democratic fundraising website ActBlue and sent out an appeal Wednesday on Facebook seeking donations of between $5 and $250. "The Indiana House Democrats NEED YOUR HELP! Please support our caucus as we fight another battle against the Republicans as they try to push RTW legislation through without listening to working Hoosiers," the Democrats wrote in their appeal.
Indiana Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Wagner said her group did not pay for any of the penalties accrued last year and did not plan to pay any fines this year.
A lawsuit challenging fines from last year's session filed by Rep. Bill Crawford, D-Indianapolis, is still being weighed by a Marion County Superior Court judge.
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Indiana Dems need our help! (Original Post)
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Jan 2012
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(70,781 posts)1. R#1 & K n/t
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(35,392 posts)4. You know, I heard a local radio station doing their "morning poll" at 6:20am ... "40,000 of these
are made each year" ... and the answer was "new laws" ...
However, when they say things like this, everybody thinks "Democrats/Liberals" ...
And yet, what is it ... some Indiana lawmaker decides to make a new law fining people for not singing the National Anthem perfectly (with, of course, a loophole which protects tone-deaf people from being fined, probably to protect the lawmaker) ...
along with this "new law" ...