On COVID-19 response, Holcomb says he has ‘no regrets’

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16 thoughts on “On COVID-19 response, Holcomb says he has ‘no regrets’

  1. Perhaps no person in the history of Indiana has violated more civil rights and hurt the next generation of Indiana children more than Governor Holcomb. The fact he claims “I slept well every night” shows he lacked the leadership or concern for Hoosiers. A real leader would have worried about the long term impact his decisions were making.

    1. Exactly what civil rights did he violate. Please be specific. I don’t think you’ll be able to do so.

  2. I disagree. I think he did well for the State of Indiana. Very well. I am a Democrat, and seldom have good things to say about Holcomb, and certainly not of any of the Republican bozos running to replace him. Indiana doesn’t have Disney World or the beaches, the only reason DeSantis could keep his state close to being on keel. And, I apologize to Bozo, who probably doesn’t deserve to have his name linked to what laughably we call potential governors. These men would destroy Indiana forever…
    Not sure? Keep track of college graduates leaving Indiana upon graduation. If they thought there was a future here, they’d be staying. But they’ve left the farm and been to Paris, and now they’re not going back to the farm. Or anywhere else in Indiana

    1. Yes, because what Indiana needed was Don Rainwater spending four years doing on the job training for a job he wasn’t qualified to handle.

      Of course Hoosier voters turned right around and elected Diego Morales to office, and he’d already been fired from the office he now leads twice. His first action as Secretary of State was to hire his brother-in-law, a car salesman, to a six figure job. Who couldn’t have seen that coming?

      And they also elected Todd Rokita, because they decided that he was in improvement over a bipartisan batterer of woman in Curtis Hill, so Todd could spend their tax dollars tilting at various windmills and losing what feels like 98% of his cases.

      Go on telling me about how establishment Republicans are the worst thing happening in Indiana. Seems to me like they’re the only thing preventing the movie Idiocracy from happening in real life.

    2. Eric was / is a GREAT governor. His mostly centris politics are what we need in Indiana. Of course that’s why the right wing extermists in Indiana don’t like him…. What taxes did he raise?

  3. “We won’t trust the science in a Doden administration”.

    What nonsense. Why don’t we also just close all the hospitals in Indiana while we are at and prohibit the practice of medicine too?

    The cavalcade of stupid things said by 2024 Indiana gubernatorial candidates in a race to gain the affection of Republican primary voters is appalling. What’s the most frightening is that I think most of them have come around to believing this kind of nonsense, too.

    1. Agree – “hurt the next generation of Indiana children ” – but they lived when so many others in states that were more lenient, didn’t. It’s hard t prove a negative, but masking and vaccines saved countless lives. Guess we learned nothing from the polio pandemic.

  4. Governor Holcomb did the best he could with the information that was being spewed out but people that probably did not have any business making such proclamations. They didn’t have the facts but pushed certain points of view. The sad part is that these views became so intransigent that no one would revisit them or re-evaluate them.

    1. Like all these people who claims masks do not work… when in reality masks do not work unless 99.5% of the people in the room are wearing them and we live in a selfish society who values being uneducated over the greater good…

  5. Regardless of why he made decisions or what he knew at the time, what is so wrong about regretting that those decisions shuttered small businesses, put thousands out of work, and put the most vulnerable students further behind in their education? To say he has “no regrets”, and that “he slept well at night”, I see as a very flippant response to those that remain impacted. It says to me, “I really didn’t care, and still don’t care, about the negative impacts”. Lack of empathy much?

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