Indiana onAir

The Indiana onAir Hub supports Hossiers to become more informed about and engaged in local, state, and federal politics while facilitating more civil and positive discussions with their representatives, candidates, and fellow citizens.

  • Indiana onAir is one of 50 state governance and elections hubs that the US onAir Network is providing to help reinvigorate US democracy.  This post has short summaries of current state and federal representatives with links to their complete Hub posts.  Students curate post content from government, campaign, social media, and public websites.  Key content on the Indiana Hub is also replicated on the US onAir nations Hub at: us.onair.cc.
  • Indiana students will be forming onAir chapters in their colleges and universities to help curate Hub content.  As more students participate and more onAir chapters are started, we will expand to include more state and local content as well as increase the number of aircasts – student-led, livestreamed, online discussions with candidates, representatives, and the public.

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Eric Holcomb – IN

Current Position: Governor since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2022 Governor
Former Positions: Lt. Governor from 2016 – 2017; Chair of the Indiana Republican Party from 2011 – 2013

Holcomb served in the United States Navy for six years, first at Naval Station Great Lakes and later in Florida and Portugal. Holcomb was nominated to fill the remainder of Lieutenant Governor Sue Ellspermann’s term after she resigned on March 2, 2016. He won the 2016 election for governor of Indiana over Democratic nominee John R. Gregg. Holcomb was reelected in 2020 over Democratic nominee Woody Myers and Libertarian nominee Donald Rainwater.

Featured Quote: 
“The Hoosier State has taken sustainability to heart. Indiana lives up to its Crossroads of America motto, with four major interstate highways coming together in Indianapolis, and easy access to much of the Eastern half of the U.S.”

Trine University 2021 Commencement Address – Eric Holcomb

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IN General Assembly

The Indiana General Assembly is the state legislature, or legislative branch, of the state of Indiana. It is a bicameral legislature that consists of a lower house, the Indiana House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Indiana Senate. The General Assembly meets annually at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis.

Members of the General Assembly are elected from districts that are realigned every ten years. Representatives serve terms of two years and senators serve terms of four years. Both houses can create bills, but bills must pass both houses before it can be submitted to the governor and enacted into law.

Currently, the Republican Party holds supermajorities in both chambers of the General Assembly. Republicans outnumber Democrats in the Senate by a 39-11 margin, and in the House of Representatives by a 71-29 margin.

Source: Wikipedia

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Todd Young – IN

Current Position: US Senator since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative from 2011 – 2017
Other Positions: Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism
Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy

Young received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where his classmates elected him a class officer and he earned a varsity letter as a member of Navy’s NCAA Division I soccer team. Young then led the intelligence department of VMU-2, an unmanned aerial vehicle squadron based in Cherry Point, North Carolina. In 2000 while stationed in the Chicago area, Young earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. In 2001, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he briefly worked at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Then he became a staffer for U.S. senator Richard Lugar.

Featured Quote: 
We Americans have always been drawn to the frontier. As we face the threat of China, we must decide once again to invest in ourselves and science – the endless frontier. #EndlessFrontierAct

Todd Young and Chuck Schumer JOIN FORCES to combat the rise of China

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Mike Braun – IN

Current Position: US Senator since 2019
Affiliation: Republican
Former Position: US Representative from 2014 – 2017
Other Positions:  
Ranking member, Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety

After graduating from Harvard, Braun moved back to Indiana and joined his father’s business manufacturing truck bodies for farmers. When the economy of the mid-1980s hit farmers hard and his father’s business nearly went under, Braun steered the business in the more lucrative direction of selling truck accessories. The business subsequently grew from 15 employees to more than 300.

Featured Quote: 
Democrats’ reckless tax-and-spend spree will create an inflation bomb that will be exploding from now until the 2022 midterms. @TeamCavuto

Senator Braun: No more COVID mandates, masking, things that didn’t work

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Indiana Votes in 2024

Federal & state elections on the ballot: US Senator, 9 US House members, and State Senate and House members

Ballot measures:

The Indiana Election Division, part of the Secretary of State, oversees all Indiana elections.

OnAir Post: Indiana Votes in 2024

Indiana Collaborators

The US onAir Network will be working with volunteers from Indiana universities, colleges, and nonprofit organizations to oversee the curation and moderation of posts, aircasts (online discussions), and in person events for the Indiana onAir Hub …  related to federal, state, and local elections and government.

Our first outreach will be to Indiana University partly because of its proximity to the state capital. We have identified many of Indiana University ’s civic engagement, academic, internship and research programs related to making democracy and civic responsibility a focus of higher learning on their campus … for students, faculty, staff, and local community. This post, over time, will have similar information on other collaborating organizations in the state.

Contact ben.murphy@onair.cc for more information on how to involve your organization.

About Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. It is bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west.

Government Website    Wikipedia page 

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