TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — With just less than 35 days away from election day, Hoosiers will soon cast their votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor for the state of Indiana.
Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Micah Beckwith, running alongside Mike Braun shared their Braun/Beckwith campaign main points.
“I think that’s what we’ll bring, a great entrepreneurial spirit to the state, and I think we’re going to soar to heights that we’ve never seen before,” said Beckwith.
Micah Beckwith, serving as a longtime teacher, pastor, and small business owner, says the first thing the campaign will address if elected is the education system.
“We believe parents need to be in the driver’s seat of their children’s education,” Beckwith said. “When you let parents choose, things work better for the kids, so put the parents in the driver’s seat using school choice, making sure they have access to their money, the taxpayer dollars that are theirs, to be able to then send their children to the schools that they want to send their children to. I think that’s how you begin to fix it, it’s a free market principle, opening up competition is going to better the entire system and so that’s how we’re poised to do that.”
Not only students, but the Braun/Beckwith campaign says they want to give small businesses in Indiana a greater opportunity to succeed.
“Mike Braun, myself, we both, we’re entrepreneurs,” Beckwith said. “We have business backgrounds, we understand that the two greatest burdens on any small business owner are taxes, a tax burden that they can’t bear, also government regulations, so red tape. We’re committed to cutting that red tape, making it easier to be a business owner, working on property taxes, we’ve put out a good property tax plan that will help start alleviating some of that burden off of homeowners and business owners.”
Across the state of Indiana, another ongoing issue is the use of cannabis or marijuana. Being surrounded by all states who have legalized the drug, Beckwith says their campaign has been clear where they stand.
“Once the genie is out of the bottle, it’s not coming back in,” Beckwith said. “We have to be very careful to open that up, but I do believe there is a place for Medical marijuana, I just do not like what I see from states that have already legalized recreational marijuana. It’s been a burden on their society more than a benefit.”
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