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Libertarian Donald Rainwater announced his intention to run for governor in 2024 after netting a historic 11.4% in the 2020 gubernatorial election as a third-party candidate.
Running again as a Libertarian, Rainwater vowed to focus on education, tax and administrative reform in an announcement on his website, which followed his Friday declaration to run on WIBC’s “The Kendall and Casey Show.”
“Hoosier parents, not the government, deserve to make the choice where their children go to school,” Rainwater’s statement said. “We need to shrink government responsibly and provide Hoosiers a leaner more efficient government.”
Rainwater said the purpose of government is to protect people’s rights and provide a system of justice but that “Hoosiers don’t need the government to run their lives.”
According to Rainwater’s biography, the lifelong Hoosier works in project management and as a software engineer. His blended family includes six children and three grandchildren.
Unless another Libertarian candidate emerges, Rainwater will likely face the eventual Republican nominee.
The three Republican nominees: U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch and Fort Wayne businessman Eric Doden.
No candidate has announced their intention to run as a Democrat in the 2024 gubernatorial election. In the 2020 election, Dr. Woody Myers netted just 32.1% of the vote to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s 56.5%.
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Taxes are too high? Libertarians must still be pushing marijuana legalization …
Rainwater was a deeply unserious person in 2020 and after reading his campaign announcement, it’s clear he hasn’t done any more thinking.
“Hoosiers don’t need the government to run their lives. They need opportunity and a small, efficient government will create that. We need Better Government, NOT Bigger Government.””
Yeah, that’s what we are getting in Indiana these days, a government that stays our of people’s lives.
How can you say that the Indiana government is staying out of people’s lives? Indiana government is at the forefront of micro-control of people’s lives on multiple fronts, mostly in the arena of “culture war” issues. the legislature won’t stay out of Indianapolis City-County government business. Abortion bans , school choice, voting restrictions, transgender care (only 0.53% of the population is trans), don’t say gay restrictions, book banning….and the list of overreaching government intrusion and control of our lives is exhibited by the Indiana government.
On abortion specifically, according to Republican’s own poll, 63% of Hoosiers want abortion to remain under previous rules – legal in most cases with some restrictions. Yet the Republican super-majority will not put the question to the voting public in the form of a referendum, as was done in Kansas, because they know the result will not favor their legislation to ban abortions in Indiana. The will of the people? I think not!
Additionally, Indiana Republicans have gerrymandered the voting districts so severely that the Republicans have a super-majority in both chambers (70% in the House & 80% in the Senate). Yet the breakdown of registered Indiana voters is 42% Republican, 37% Democrat & 20% Independent. Tell me how this makes sense, and more importantly how this imbalance can effectively represent the will of the people in any shape or form.
It was sarcasm.
Rainwater is the preferred candidate for people who vote based on feelings, not facts.
Indiana’s Harold Stassen? (But that’s unfair to Stassen, who at least was elected governor of Minnesota before becoming a perennial candidate.)