There’s a major piece of business that Republicans will address Tuesday: Officially nominating Trump for president and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for vice president. The comedian highlighted that Pence – a strong social conservative who supported Ted Cruz in the primaries – isn’t exactly the most excitable thing to happen to the 2016 election. During his speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention he rattled off a laundry list of claims about his record as governor that our team of fact checkers researched. A brutal labor union-sponsored TV spot aired during an Indianapolis Colts game blaming a handful of roadway deaths on Pence’s desire to build a budget surplus at the expense of properly funding infrastructure. IN has more than 2 billion in reserves, cash saved away for a rainy day.
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IN and 15 other states have AAA ratings according to Standard and Poor’s.
In June 2015, Pence wrote to Obama saying that Indiana, America’s eighth largest coal-producing state, would not comply with the Clean Power Plan regulating power plant emissions, calling it “ill-advised”.
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Verify: Both those items are true. His campaign for governor received more than US$850,000 from the energy sector, about 3 per cent of the total, according to campaign finance disclosures. It’s true the raw number of workers is at an all-time high, but that’s due to population growth. The Indiana Public Utility Commission had estimated the program would create more than 18,600 jobs. While the IN unemployment rate has dropped from 8 percent when he took office to 5 percent IN May, the state’s population is also at a record level. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Indiana’s population has grown almost 9 percent, or about 540,000 people, since 2000 to some 6.6 million residents in 2015.
