LaPorte County

Uh, we got a lot to get into, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna burn through this real quick.

Uh, first of all, for those of you who are not familiar, uh, LaPorte County, Indiana, we have a Republican majori- majority, there it is, on, um, pretty much the entirety of the county.

So in that case, you would think, "Well, why are we raising taxes?" Or, "Why would we even think about raising taxes?" Well, I'm gonna tell you guys, I went into this a few days ago, uh, with the knowledge that they were going to have this LIT hearing tomorrow afternoon, 5:30 PM, at the, uh, county council, uh, in the annex.

The county council meeting room in the annex right next to the courthouse.

Hang on.

How much money? Well, let's see what AI says.

How much money does Laporte County give Paladin? What is it, Paladin LLC or Pala- I forgot what it's called.

Paladin Inc.

Sure.

Uh, LaPorte County.

What's one of your f- I would say your, or the, the most favorite thing about LaPorte County to you?

Well, I like that it has a little bit of a mix of everything.

I mean, you have the more urban centers, obviously, in Michigan City and LaPorte.

Wow, wow.

Um, what, just out of curiosity, so we all know, like, it, it's pretty common knowledge, even people who aren't involved in the legal profession, public defenders are, like, the worst paid attorneys out there, right? Is that correct?

Well, yeah, you know, in LaPorte County, the public defenders are, are independent contractors.

Um, especially like, 'cause if you have, if you have other people on that aren't of the same party, they start getting a little funky, but you know how it goes.

Uh, he's running for state rep District 9, which for those of you maybe not from D9 or not familiar with it, uh, it is northwest LaPorte County, northeast Porter County, kind of stretches over.

Uh, so he has agreed to come onto the show to let us meet him and learn what he's all about.

He's actually a pretty interesting guy, although he's kind of soft-spoken sometimes, and, uh, you gotta g- gotta kind of break through that, but here we go.

Yeah, of course.

Uh, all right, guys.

Chris Cleveland running for District 9, which is Northwest Indiana, uh, Nor- excuse me, Northwest LaPorte County, Northeast Porter County.

I am very, very familiar with that area, as many of you know.

The size of Connecticut.

I thought Laporte County was big.

Good lord.

There is a good chance that the fentanyl being sold outside Union Station right across the street or in your hometown came through my county.

Northwest Indiana sheriff afoul of public trust in Flock.

Wow.

LaPorte County, Michigan City police officer resigns amid investigation.

Former Michigan City cop and Joliet officers under investigation.

You know, we can get into the gerryman- gerrymandering discussion and all that crap, but some of these districts are very strangely drawn.

Um, District 9, which is, like, right next door, um, that's the one that I ran for, and it's in Porter County and LaPorte County, and then they changed it, but this one just seems to be Porter County.

So Porter County peeps, you do have, uh, people on the ballot that do wanna offer you different.

I won't say better 'cause I don't know, but I will say different.

Um, I actually was waiting on some stuff with the Secretary of State's race and the primary, but let's, let's jump into it.

Uh, as you guys know, it was a very, very interesting primary election season here in La Porte County.

Uh, without further ado, let's jump into it.

So, uh, the...

Percentage is 57.18% for Kurt, 42.82% for Guy.

Um, some of the other ones, uh, District 1, uh, US Congress, uh...

This is just La Porte County, guys.

We all know, uh, Barb Regness won the entire race.

But-

In northwest Indiana, Denise Scarborough told us on Friday that Mother Nature has finally cooperated with them in a big way, allowing them to really get going with soybean harvest in La Porte County this past week.

It seems like most of the guys harvesting RipeGold tomatoes wrapped up this last week.

We haven't gotten in- into any commercial corn.