Micah Beckwith [FN1] aims to be IN’s GOP nominee in 2024 for Lt Gov. Voters don’t pick that. Delegates to the GOP State convention say who is the running mate voters choose as nominee for Gov. From Beckwith’s words & conduct, we know what he’ll do as Lt Gov Beckwith. 1/10

Words: Beckwith has said he won’t be “ceremonial” or a “yes person.” [FN2] He will be “a proactive Lt. Governor” and “fight for our constitutional rights, lead the war against the woke culture and get the politics out of the classroom.” [FN3] Problems: 2/10

1) Beckwith does not say what power resides in the office of Lt Gov to let him do these things.
2) Beckwith has little knowledge of or regard for the Constitution and when he says “our” rights, many of us are excluded from his first-person plural, as seen in 3/10

3) “War” on “woke culture” inherently attacks OUR rights of association, expression & religion protected by the 1st Amendment. “Wokeness” is “a new strawman to use to reenergize & promote continued racism & disenfranchisement.” [FN4] 4/10

4) Beckwith & his ilk shove their politics into our classrooms & daily lives any way they can.
5) Beckwith has weapons training for people in his church. Since 1990 acts of far-right extremists have resulted in far more homicides than leftist violence in the USA. [FN5] 5/10

Actions: Beckwith, based on past conduct, will make grandiose plans w/no basis in reality & quit when those plans inevitably fail. We need only look at what Beckwith did as a member of the board of HEPL. [FN6] Beckwith pushed a policy to remove from publicly accessible 6/10

“young adult” shelves books that needed to be subjected to some sort of review. A lot of $$$ was wasted, Hamilton County was ridiculed and Beckwith quit. A Governor would be crazy or stupid to let a #2 control things, but we are talking about this iteration of the GOP. 7/10

IN Lt Gov has less authority than U.S. V.P., an office of which LBJ said was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.” One can hope Beckwith has a tantrum in the next few months and quits before he can do to the State what he did to HEPL. He shouldn’t have even that bucket. 8/10

Footnotes:
FN1. Ham County preacher/wannabe elected political official who claims to talk w/the “Lord” about political issues.
FN2. Leslie Bonilla Muniz, “Pastor Micah Beckwith launches bid for lieutenant governor,” Indiana Capital Chronicle, 06/06/23. 9/10

Footnotes:
FN3. Id.
FN4. Janice Ellis, “Campaigns to kill ‘wokeness’ are efforts to perpetuate racism, disenfranchisement,” Missouri Independent, 03/20/23.
FN5. National Institute of Justice, “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism,”
01/04/2024.
FN6. Hamilton East Public Library. 10/10