SEYMOUR, Ind. — Seymour Democrat Trish Whitcomb announced her candidacy Thursday for Indiana’s House District 69 seat, challenging Republican incumbent Rep. Jim Lucas, who earlier this summer pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crash.
Whitcomb champions her long history of work in Indiana politics in various capacities, including as the president of the Indiana Federation of Democratic Women, and as the campaign manager in 2012 for the former state superintendent of public instruction, Glenda Ritz.
She has also worked as the executive director of the Indiana Retired Teachers Association. Although she planned to run for the chair of Indiana’s Democratic Party in 2021, she withdrew her bid when her son died. Whitcomb graduated from Seymour High School and earned a degree in education from Butler University.
At a Thursday evening rally in Seymour, Whitcomb told supporters that many of the issues currently facing Indiana are the result of what she calls “limestone fever.”
“It is what happens to some legislators and officeholders when they enter the Statehouse, which is made of Indiana limestone,” Whitcomb said. “They forget the constituents who elected them. They believe their constituents are the lobbyists, the other legislators, and the big-monied interests that want special laws to make outrageous profits and pay little-to-no taxes. This is not public service — it is self-service — and it must change.”
Whitcomb is the daughter of Edgar D. Whitcomb, who served as Indiana’s governor from 1969 to 1973. Her father was a Republican. But Trish will run as a Democrat for the House seat.
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