LIVE FROM INDIANAPOLIS, IT’S SUNDAY NIGHT 6:45 UPDATE
Jill Long Thompson is taking the stage. She was introduced by Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez. She got a nice round of applause and some standing ovations. She thanked Hillary and Barack for inspiring Hoosiers in a way that hasn’t been done since 1968. She said the two will help Indiana go from red to blue this election year. She also invoked the memory of U.S. Senator Birch Bayh, calling him a hero and the passing of the Voting Rights Act and Title IX which required funding for female college sports programs.
She said Hoosiers have a new generation of problems such as job losses, rising health care costs and unemployment. She called for an end to the Bush-Daniels era. She also invoked the family farm, which she has done in just about every campaign speech. She said she can provide the leadership to get Indiana back on track. She repeated her theme of reforming the tax structure, health care, capping the sales tax on gasoline and working to end No Child Left Behind. She also said she would stop the “Governor’s obsession” with selling off state assets.
