Anti-Common Core Candidates Trounce Indiana Incumbents In Primaries

John Hames shared with you:   Anti-Common Core Candidates Trounce Indiana Incumbents In Primaries thefederalist.com - On Tuesday, two nationally-eyed primaries here in Indiana had Tea Party challengers knocking out sitting state representatives over two major issues: National Common Core education mandates and GOP leaders' refusal to protect natural marriage despite supermajorities in both houses. Although Politico reported, "Nisly and Judy both put up a major fight against the Common Core in the state and made the fight against the standards one of their top campaign issues," and Common Core has perhaps been Indiana's hottest political topic for the past year, local outlets are pretending the race's outcome is largely due, instead, to support for natural marriage. The Indianapolis Business Journal didn't even mention Common Core as an electoral factor. The state's flagship paper, the Indianapolis Star, only mentioned Common Core because a source quoted it, also spending their story noting Heuer and Kubacki's refusal to vote for amending the state constitution to define marriage as one man, one woman. Available on the App Store.

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