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Indiana GOP governor candidate picks auditor as running mate

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TOM DAVIES

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - New Indiana Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Holcomb said Friday that he has picked the state auditor, Suzanne Crouch, as his running mate.

The decision by Holcomb, the current state lieutenant governor, comes three days after the Indiana Republican state committee voted to have him replace Gov. Mike Pence on the November ballot in a reshuffling caused by Pence becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate.

Crouch is from Evansville and was a state legislator and a Vanderburgh County commissioner before Pence appointed her state auditor in early 2014. She won election to a full term as auditor later that year.

Holcomb said Crouch has valuable experience in local and state government that has prepared her to become lieutenant governor.

“She is full of energy and passion and is a natural at barnstorming the state,” Holcomb said in a statement. “She is a relentless campaigner, a great fundraiser and will be the perfect governing partner.”

Holcomb, 48, is running against Democrat John Gregg, a former Indiana House speaker who narrowly lost to Pence in the 2012 election. Gregg’s running mate is state Rep. Christina Hale, of Indianapolis.

Holcomb faced a Friday deadline to select a running mate, as whoever he selected had to file paperwork with state election officials 72 hours before a Monday meeting of the GOP state committee to formally select the candidate.

Holcomb, who has served as the state Republican Party chairman but has never been elected to office, became lieutenant governor in March after Pence’s 2012 running mate, Sue Ellspermann, resigned to seek the presidency of Ivy Tech State College.

 

Posted 7/29/2016

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

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