Local House candidates band together to demand more for rural voters, kicking off a six-stop event tour at Jasper Strassenfest.
The Indiana Rural Summit, nine Democratic State House candidates from districts representing 24% of Indiana across 22 counties, rallying around a unified message of hope for Hoosiers: Rural communities and small towns can have better healthcare, schools, and jobs. Turning disempowering gerrymandered districts into a secret superpower, they are uniting to spread this hopeful message to thousands of rural voters, too often left without a choice on the ballot for state representatives due to unopposed races.
Inspired by our first national motto, “E Pluribus Unum” (“Out of many, one”), these candidates are kicking off a six-stop tour around the region this August and September to connect with some of Indiana’s most ignored and poorly represented voters. First stop: Jasper’s popular Strassenfest, home to the Indiana Rural Summit member Teresa Kendall, who is running for House District 63.
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Our tour will be throughout August and September, culminating in a statewide Zoom call in October with statewide candidates, launching GOTV initiatives.
Who we are:
HD 46 Kurtis Cummings [Vigo/Clay/Owen/Monroe Counties]
HD 47 Michael Potter [Johnson/Shelby Counties]
HD 60 Michelle Higgs [Monroe/Morgan/Johnson Counties]
HD 62 Thomas Horrocks [Monroe/Brown Counties]
HD 63 Teresa Kendall [Davies/Martin/Pike/Dubois Counties]
HD 66 Jennifer David [Scott/Jefferson/Clark Counties]
HD 69 Trish Whitcomb [Bartholomew, Jackson, Scott, and Washington Counties]
HD 70 Sarah Blessing [Harrison/Clark/Floyd/Washington Counties]
HD 73 Hollie Payton [Shelby/Bartholomew/Decatur/Jennings Counties]
Please SAVE THE DATE of Tuesday, September 24, 2024 – that will be our Morgan County Summit Tour Stop.
