Courage + Vision = Results.
Since 2003, Mitch and Becky haven’t stopped
traveling. They have visited places no one
else has bothered to visit in a long time
and probably couldn’t find with a road map. Mitch
has stayed overnight in the homes of close to a
hundred different Hoosier families.
Make no mistake, this is where the New Crew gets
their instructions
– from you.
Your neighbors asked Mitch for action, results,
and for positive change and he made that our mission.
Thanks to you, and thousands like you, we got the
chance.
Indiana is becoming a leader nationwide for leaner,
cleaner government, solving problems without raising
taxes, and creating good paying jobs.
- Mitch achieved Indiana’s first two
honestly balanced budgets in nearly a decade.
- Indiana now ranks #12 nationally for our business
climate, #4 for our overall cost of doing business,
and #1 in international investment in the country
in 2007 (Forbes Report, July 2007, Tax
Foundation’s
State Business Tax Climate Index, midwestbusiness.com)
- Since taking office, over 60,000 new good-paying
jobs have been committed by 2012 and some 100,000
more Hoosiers have jobs now than in 2005.
- Mitch is securing good paying jobs, with an
average annual salary of more than $39,000, or
about $5,500 more per year than the average Hoosier
salary.
- Indiana’s unemployment rate is the lowest
in six years – and the lowest in the Midwest. All
of our neighboring states’ unemployment
is increasing, while Indiana’s is decreasing. One
economist described Indiana as an “island
of growth” (IBJ, Dec 24-30, 2007).
- Mitch provided the only plan to permanently
cut and cap property taxes forever, helping
every Hoosier homeowner, including seniors, and
young families alike.
- Mitch took the previous administration’s
$200 million deficit to a billion dollar surplus.
- Indiana is the only state in the nation
with a record-breaking 10 year transportation
program without raising taxes or borrowing
money. We
have money in the bank, earning interest to
pay for 400 road and bridge projects.
- Indiana is now a national leader in agriculture
production and alternative energy, and Mitch
has received the
“Excellence in American Agriculture Award
for his dedication to agriculture throughout
the nation.
- Mitch paid back $750 million to all K-12
schools, universities, and local government
units that were owed to them from the previous
administration’s
deficit spending.
- Mitch has made child protection a top priority,
earning a national award for the reforms adopted
to protect Hoosier children. Over 600
new child caseworkers have been hired and 200
more on the way to reduce caseloads.
- Indiana is now a national leader in providing
health insurance coverage for 132,000 low-income,
uninsured Hoosiers.
- Over 200,000 Hoosiers have qualified for
free or discounted prescription medicines through
Mitch’s RX for Indiana program.
- Indiana is now a national leader in the fight
against Meth.
- After decades of neglect, Mitch expanded benefits
for Hoosier veterans and military families.
- Mitch created regional fire training academies
long sought by career and volunteer firefighters.
- Indiana is now a national leader in Telecom
reform connecting more Hoosiers than ever to
broadband internet service.
- Mitch trimmed over $250 million in unnecessary
spending from state government and saved a
total of $190 million by renegotiating the
previous administration’s some 30 contracts.
- Indiana has supplemented the state’s
revenues with federal grants. In 2006,
Indiana received more than $100 million in federal
grants – an increase of $46 million from
the previous administration.
- Mitch fixed the BMV, with an average wait
time at any statewide BMV branch now set at 8
minutes, and an overall satisfaction rate of
96 percent.
These successes
are only a fraction of what Mitch, Becky, and the
New Crew have managed to achieve during the past
three years.
Stay tuned
for more!
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