Eli Lilly and Co.—among Indiana’s largest employers—on the state’s new near-total abortion ban: “Given this new law, we will be forced to plan for more employment growth outside our home state.”
NEW: The powerful Indiana attorney Jim Bopp told POLITICO the 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion here should have carried her pregnancy to term and would have been required to do so under his law. W/
@meganmesserly
.
Democrat
@BSakbun
—a 27-year-old former Army Ranger—wins Terre Haute mayoral race, beating four-term incumbent Republican Duke Bennett.
@INDems
Chairman Mike Schmuhl has compared him to Pete Buttigieg. (Buttigieg did not become mayor of South Bend until age 29.)
Scoop: Rob Portman’s former chief of staff and George W. Bush’s former director of the Domestic Policy Council—John Bridgeland—is endorsing Tim Ryan w/
@natalie_allison
New: The Michigan Republican state senator who falsely described
@MalloryMcMorrow
as a “groomer” in a fundraising email raised less than $300 in the days following the solicitation. McMorrow raised more than $1m from 11,000 donors in all 50 states.
New statement from
@PeteButtigieg
on Stabenow:
“I am fully focused on serving the President in my role as Secretary of Transportation, and not seeking any other job. We are hard at work to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, grow the economy, and create good-paying jobs.”
“The most important thing for our kids isn't worrying about whether they're going home to two moms or two dads, but making sure they get home safe to begin with,”
@PeteButtigieg
says in Royal Oak, Michigan.
"He's from Indiana, he thinks he's seen everything, but he hasn't seen the Minnesota State Fair, which is the biggest state fair in the country," Klobuchar said. "I will be bringing him to the butter carving."
"All Nazis weren't bad,” the school board candidate said. “They did horrible things and were in a group frenzy….Who is to say if we were both there in the same place and time, that we wouldn't have done the same thing."
In her state of the state,
@GovWhitmer
put neighboring states on blast:
“I’ll go to any state that restricts people’s freedoms and win business and hardworking people from them. I’m looking at you, Ohio and Indiana."
Worth noting: Lilly pledged to not donate to lawmakers who voted against certification of the electron. They reversed course 6 months later, and have since donated more than $30,000 to those lawmakers.
Eli Lilly and Co.—among Indiana’s largest employers—on the state’s new near-total abortion ban: “Given this new law, we will be forced to plan for more employment growth outside our home state.”
It’s wild to have covered both Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 and Mike Pence’s 2024 presidential campaigns. One of them ran as the incumbent mayor of Indiana’s fourth-largest city and raised more than $100 million and won the Iowa caucuses. One of them was VP and has $1.2m cash on hand.
Eli Lilly and Co.—among Indiana’s largest employers—on the state’s new near-total abortion ban: “Given this new law, we will be forced to plan for more employment growth outside our home state.”
I took this photo, despite this account with nearly half a million followers scraping content w/out credit.
Here’s the far more nuanced
@POLITICOMag
story that goes with it.
The former mayor of Indiana’s fourth largest city made it deeper into his party’s primary than the sitting governor of Florida did in his respective primary.
In 2020, a gay Democratic Indiana mayor was falsely accused of fixing bread prices.
In 2023, a gay Republican Indiana senate candidate was found guilty by a jury of actually fixing egg prices.
.
@VivekGRamaswamy
has the NRA crowd eating from his hand, and his biggest applause lines include "shutting down the FBI," and calls for shutting down the ATF.
New:
@SecretaryPete
sent a letter today to Norfolk Southern’s CEO regarding the derailment in East Palestine, OH:
“[T]he future must not resemble the past when it comes to your company’s…follow-through on support for stringent safety policies.”
NEW —
@VivekGRamaswamy
posted a larger small-dollar donor haul than Florida
@GovRonDeSantis
, who raised more from bigger donors.
The wealthy biotech entrepreneur raised $2.8 million from donors giving less than $200.
In just the last *4 months* at the Northern Border:
- US Border Patrol arrested a former Brazilian military officer who fled Brazil after being convicted of murdering 11 people.
- A Mexican man was charged with being in the country illegally and for smuggling four people across…
Spotted at the edge of French Lick ahead of
@PeteButtigieg
’s meeting with Indiana Democrats later today—the same kind of sign that preceded the launch of his state treasurer campaign in 2010.
New: Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is in full swing. It appears destined for the same fate as her late dog Cricket: dead in a gravel pit somewhere near Pierre.
W/
@natalie_allison
and
@politicoalex
“Wisconsin hasn’t chosen a Democratic governor in a midterm with a Democratic president since 1962,”
@benwikler
tells me. “But this year—thanks to Governor Evers’s decency, Tim Michels’s extremism, and an extraordinary campaign—is poised to defy history.”
Few Indianapolis folks talk about how Eli Lilly, the grandson of Col. Eli Lilly, who went on to become the company’s third CEO, did his 1907 thesis on medical cannabis, or how Conner Prairie was once a Marijuana farm.
Scoop:
@MalloryMcMorrow
has turned a viral April speech in the Michigan Senate into a $2.35 million national windfall — and, potentially, lasting political power as she tries to flip her reliably Republican state legislative chamber in November.
Indiana Republicans nominated Diego Morales as their Secretary of State candidate—a man who in 2009 was terminated for poor performance, and rehired again in 2011, and then put on a performance plan again and then resigning from the very office he could now lead next year.
I've just recently learned thumbs-upping text messages is considered passive aggressive, but I promise I was thumbs-upping like the earnest Midwesterner I am. My thumbs-upping was sincere, & I owe amends to so many of you. I was acknowledging your text and being nice, I thought.
I introduced myself to Attorney General Todd Rokita today before asking him whether he’s angling to be Trump’s attorney general.
“Adam Wren?” he said. “Take a hike.”
New:
@PressSec
on
@Mike_Pence
’s comments re:
@SecretaryPete
at the Gridiron: “The former vice president’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he treated women suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline.”
.
@SecretaryPete
on Trump’s planned visit to East Palestine, Ohio this week:
“There’s a chance for everybody who has a public voice on this issue to demonstrate whether they are interested in helping the people of East Palestine or using the people of East Palestine."
After a lot of Republican consternation over East Palestine earlier this year, not one House T&I Republican, asked to do so by Buttigieg, has committed to back the rail safety bill—after nearly six hours of testimony.
Exclusive for
@politico
: Mitch Daniels won't run for Senate.
"I conclude that it’s just not the job for me, not the town for me, and not the life I want to live at this point," he tells me in a statement.
.
@indystar
columnist
@JamesEBriggs
: “…
@AGToddRokita
proved on Fox News that he is a depraved, despicable person. He’ll pile onto the pain of a 10-year-old rape survivor before he’ll pass up an opportunity to advance his career.”
New:
@SecretaryPete
will go on a 4-day, 6-state tour, visiting Florida, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, and New Hampshire next week as a part of the administration’s Building a Better America Tour.
Yeah, your state might have mountains, oceans and world class museums and theaters, but have you ever been in and out at an Indiana BMV on a Saturday morning in 12 minutes?
This is beyond the pale: If accurate, it appears Hamilton County GOP posing as progressive Indiana Democrats inviting people to a Free Palestine rally.
@HCRP_IN
@HCRP_IN
A friend of mine just sent pics of an unsolicited text he received. Check out the reply when he texted “STOP”!! This is absolutely disgusting and astonishingly stupid.
My reply to the board members of
@FishersIN
and
@NoblesvilleIN
seeking to remove my books (and over a hundred others) from the young adult literature shelves in their libraries. Heartbreaking for this to happen in Central Indiana, where I live and strive to support.
Normal people: Wow, there’s a hushed silence as we all share in this ancient astronomical phenomenon in the heavens, like those long before us.
Hoosiers: Get a load of my 84-shot Toxicado firework I purchased from that place off the interstate in Richmond.
New: Ahead of the midterms, Pete Buttigieg is out around the country delivering oversized novelty checks as he tries to make infrastructure real to voters.
“That’s a story that I think we do need to do more work to tell, because it doesn’t tell itself.”
.
@VivekGRamaswamy
has the NRA crowd eating from his hand, and his biggest applause lines include "shutting down the FBI," and calls for shutting down the ATF.
“I look forward to supporting
@TheDestinyWells
,” an influential Indiana Republican texts after
@indgop
nominate Diego Morales as their Secretary of State candidate.
Democrat
@BSakbun
—a 27-year-old former Army Ranger—wins Terre Haute mayoral race, beating four-term incumbent Republican Duke Bennett.
@INDems
Chairman Mike Schmuhl has compared him to Pete Buttigieg. (Buttigieg did not become mayor of South Bend until age 29.)
Happy birthday to my favorite Hoosier today who has no immediate plans to run for president, and is just happy to be doing what he is doing, focused on the task at hand:
Clive Wren, who is 3.
New:
@PeteButtigieg
is returning to the place where his political career started more than a decade ago next week: French Lick, Indiana, where he announced his bid for state treasurer—and where he’ll gather with Indiana Democrats.
Pete Buttigieg on Pence's support of Trump: "How could he allow himself to become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency. Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in Donald Trump?" Via CNN
Indiana’s Senate—in a state that has the nation’s 3rd highest maternal mortality rate—passed a near-total abortion ban with narrow exceptions, the first state legislature post-Dobbs to convene a special session on the matter. The bill heads to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk.