INDems Statement on INGOP’s Redistricting Tour Announcement

Indiana Democratic Party responses to the Statehouse Republicans announcing their statewide listening “tour” on redistricting ahead of September’s formal process to approve state and congressional district maps for the next decade.

“Over the last decade, Hoosiers have witnessed ‘right to work’ laws create a ‘work more for less’ economy, manufactured culture wars like RFRA unfairly attack our friends and family members, and a system that has gutted public school funding and diminished our children’s future – all tracing back to gerrymandered district maps drawn by the Indiana Republican Party. Hoosiers need balance to be restored. The Indiana Republican supermajority will no doubt be tempted to continue to rig the system against Hoosiers who simply want to choose their representatives in free, fair, and competitive elections. Indiana Democrats are ready to take this vital democratic debate across the state and demand that Republicans value and respect all Hoosier voices – not just elected Republican officeholders and operatives behind closed doors. Our state cannot go through another decade with this imbalance in our government. We will hold them accountable now — and in future electoral cycles — and we will never stop fighting for a better Indiana.” – Mike Schmuhl, Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party