Indiana House Democrats Vow to Keep Fighting For Workers

by James Parks, Mar 9, 2011

Indiana House Democrats tonight told Hoosier voters they are going to stand firm and fight to save the state’s middle class. During a telephone town hall meeting the representatives said Gov. Mitch Daniels’ radical anti-worker agenda would destroy the state’s schools and local economies.

Democratic members of the state House are in their third week out of state in an Urbana, Ill. hotel. They left the state to prevent a quorum to consider the anti-worker legislation.

Some 25,000 people are expected to march and rally at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis Thursday for the “We Are Indiana” rally. The mass demonstration will be hosted by “Stand Up for Hoosiers,” a coalition of unions, education, community and social advocacy groups. In the past three weeks, more than 40,000 Hoosiers have protested the anti-worker agenda of Daniels and the state legislature. Smaller rallies also will be held in local communities across the state.

Rep. Scott Pelath said this was a grerat moment in Indiana history and the Democrats were giving up pay and being with their families because they could afford to.


We’re doing it for those who can’t.