Dear Voters
During the Indiana legislative session, the amount of work to accomplish in such short time is staggering and the decisions made hold enormous influence over the entire State of Indiana. Yet, the men and women who make these decisions are paid a fairly modest salary. A freshman Representative in the Indiana legislature makes only $22,616 per year! So why should our Representative, Wendy McNamara, need to raise more than $500,000 in campaign funds from the Republican Party, Special Interest groups, and big business? That type of big money support coming into a State House District election is absurd. That’s more than 14 times the median household income in Vanderburgh County and beyond 11 times more than the median household income in Posey County. That’s enough money to pay tuition for 18 students to attend USI for four years! I don’t believe Wendy McNamara’s loyalties are with the working men and women of southwestern Indiana, but instead with her Party and the suits and ties of Indianapolis.
The Republican Party has bought Representative Wendy McNamara. Financial support from the Indiana Republican Party and its satellite committees add up to over $200,000 of her campaign funding. This makes it somewhat easier to understand why a lifelong educator, working for the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation as Director of Early College High School would be so quick to vote against support for public schools. Instead, she voted in favor of ex-State Superintendent, Tony Bennett’s, charter school legislation as well as expansion of the state voucher program. Both of these programs directly and negatively affect the very institution she is currently employed by.
Big money coming from the Party also explains why Wendy McNamara has yet to speak out against Governor Mike Pence’s request to all state universities to abstain from spending two percent of this year’s annual budgets. This, added to the two percent of total budget Pence asked state universities to keep from spending last year, equates to more than $50 million dollars for higher education blocked by the Governor and our Representative. Wendy McNamara is the EVSC’s lead individual responsible for planning and preparing our area high school students for higher education, yet as your Representative she has done nothing to denounce the Governor’s plan to cut into the already suffering budgets of the very institutions she prepares her students for.
According to Ballotpedia our Representative Wendy McNamara has received over $115,000 from Special Interest groups across the state in her campaign for Indiana House District 76. Most of this money comes from northern Indiana where she is from and these groups range from the Aiming Higher PAC to the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. With political and economic groups such as these donating large sums of financial backing to our Representative, she should be able to work with these groups to rally economic growth in our region. Instead, she has no track record of bringing any form of economic boost to southwest Indiana whether it be creating jobs or increasing wages for our work force. In fact, she voted against higher wages for our labor force, our teachers, and our public workers all while the median household income in her district falls well below the Indiana average and she has done nothing to better the economic well-being of the middle and lower class whom she represents. What Wendy McNamara has done with that money is turn her back on her those who elected her, those she works for, and all hard working men and women in her district.
Now is the time to make a substantive change in Indianapolis. Now is the time to have the residents of District 76 voices heard. Now is the time to bring common sense back to the Legislature. Now is the time for Hoosier values in the Capitol!
Sincerely,
Tony Goben District 76 State Representative Candidate
THIS LETTER WAS POSTED BY CITY COUNTY OBSERVER WITHOUT OPINON, BIAS OR EDITING.
I just wrote on the Is it true column about the divorce her husband is suing her for in Daviess County. I didn’t trust her before and now I really don’t. Good luck in the election. You got our votes.
Did you volunteer or were you recruited to smear McNamara?
Get off of it. Ms McNarmara’s divorce has zero to do with the issues of the election or the policies and votes Ms McNarmara has made. As far as I know she has not spouted the tired old hypocritical “republican family values” nonsense, nor used her husband as a prop, therefore this is pure tabloid gossip and in general the kind of cheap gutter politics usually engaged by the republican party.
Representative McNamara has made votes that betray her gender and here profession and her loyalties do not lie with her district but rather with the oligarchs as Mr. Goben correctly points out.
If you want to rain down the political artillery for those votes and actions, be my guest, open fire, fire at will, she richly deserves it. However, lay off the irrelevant personal issues that have nothing to do with the issues.
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