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Candidates for Indiana House District 61 lay out competing plans on housing, health care, climate and voting access
Summary
At a League of Women Voters forum in Bloomington, Liliana Young and Matt Pierce framed the May primary as a choice between working-class accountability and progressive defense of democracy: Young emphasized wages, Medicaid access and constitutional protections for LGBTQ people; Pierce pressed IEDC transparency, renewable energy and student voting access.
Liliana Young, a Bloomington city commissioner and candidate for Indiana House District 61, and Matt Pierce, the other Democratic candidate in the May primary, appeared at a League of Women Voters forum to outline contrasting approaches to wages, economic development transparency, climate policy and voting access.
Young opened by identifying as a working-class candidate who aims to increase state government accountability, raise wages and expand access to health care. "We have a state government filled with people who are moneyed and insulated from the problems that the actual working people of this state have to contend with every day," Young said, arguing for "hard coded legislation" that prevents executive or agency leaders from evading transparency rules.
Pierce framed his campaign around…
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