His voice grew somber as he talked about the day last winter when Carrier announced it was moving more than 1,000 jobs to Mexico.make the Indiana case, it was clear that the die was cast,” Pence said. “The simple truth was that policies coming out of our nation’s capital were literally driving jobs out of this country.”
The media began tweeting furiously. The president-elect had just admitted he’d spaced on a major campaign promise and had only been reminded by a chance encounter on the nightly news! But tonight, Jones’ wrath was for Pence. I grabbed Jones coming in from a smoke break and asked about Pence’s role in the Carrier deal.I reminded Jones that he had met with Pence in March. Jones smiled a sad smile.In March, Pence met with Carrier’s parent company’s executives. Jones was there at the Statehouse with some union members carrying “Keep It Made in America” signs. As the cameras rolled, Pence invited him back for a meeting.
During my travels across the self-proclaimed Crossroads of America, I learned that Mike Pence had once paid his mortgage with campaign funds, dragged his feet during an HIV epidemic and a lead-poisoning outbreak, signed an anti-gay-rights bill that nearly cost Indiana millions of dollars, lost his mind on national TV with George Stephanopoulos, and turned away Syrian refugees in an unconstitutional ploy laughed out of federal court.
And here’s the frightening thing: Unlike his boss, Mike Pence has an actual ideology. Pence proclaimed at the 2016 GOP convention that “I am a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.” However, his actual record – including turning down up to $80 million in federal pre-K funding – is the antithesis of Jesus’ “whatever you do for one of the least of my brothers, you do for me” theology.
He stayed close to home and went to Hanover College. There, he became fascinated with evangelical Christianity and had His conversion reportedly caused consternation among his family, especially for his mother. He met Karen at church while he was studying at Indiana University Law School. Karen carried a gold cross with the word “yes” on it in her purse in anticipation of the moment when Mike would propose.
While this was not an illegal practice at the time, there was a delicious irony, since Pence’s main campaign plank was that Sharp was beholden to special interests, and here was Pence buying spaghetti with his donors’ money.
Egads! A Bible thumper in the White House. Please tell me it’s not true.
Fellow Hoosier, DanQuayle2000 would like a word.
I vomitted last year too- don't need to 'remember'