The Outstater

November 5, 2022

Bon Voyage, Governor

AS HIS TERM-LIMITED administration heads into its home stretch, Gov Eric Holcomb this year hastaken four thinly disguised overseas vacations, all couched as trips doing the people’s business. But several have a globalist character, the antithesis of his job description. And last week, he announced he would attend a United Nations climate conference in Egypt, the tone of which would not go over well in a typical Hoosier town square.

As each trip is announced, Holcomb’s office likes to assure us that it is “free,” having been paid for by donations to the heavily political Indiana Economic Development Foundation. The governor doesn’t think we know that he knows who contributes what to whom.

They think we’re fools, don’t they? — tcl

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