To the 19th Precinct, Perry Township, Monroe County, Indiana, on the 2020 Race
This is what I’m sending out to people in my precinct.
Where-to-vote info, and recommendations from a Republican
Dear Neighbor,
If you haven’t done Early Voting already, you can still do it. Early voting is open till noon Monday Nov. 4 at Election Operations, 302 S. Walnut St. When voting absentee-by-mail, county election officials must have received the absentee-by-mail ballot no later than 6 p.m. Election Day, but it’s too late to request one. You are in Precinct 19, Perry Township, Monroe County. For Early Voting, they’ll look that up for you.
For Election Day voting on Tuesday, November 5, Precinct 19 people like us vote at SHERWOOD OAKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FELLOWSHIP HALL between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The Indiana voting website is at indianavoters.in.gov. If you have a friend who doesn’t live in Precinct 19, he can go there to find out where he votes.
If somebody isn’t already registed to vote, it’s too late— the deadline was October 7. But tell them to register anyway, to be ready for next time, by going to indianavoters.in.gov.
If you don’t drive, I can give you a ride. Also, the IU Student Government will pay for a free Uber ride to the polls for you— go to iu.turbovote.org. Or, Uber and Lyft have special discounts for rides to the polls that are probably nationwide.
I, Eric Rasmusen, am your Republican Precinctman for Precinct 19. I was the only one to run for the job, so they didn’t even put the race on the ballot this spring. However, since there were only 6 slots for Republican Delegate (to the state convention) and 7 people ran, you will have seen my name on the ballot in that election.
There are lots of open Precinctman positions in Monroe County and you don’t have to live in your precinct. If you’re interested in that, or in helping out, or in putting a campaign sign in your yard for any candidate, let me know via erasmuse61@gmail.com or (812) 345-8573. I do have an extra Trump/Vance sign right at hand, and I could give you my Joe Vandeventer for County Commissioner sign since I live in a cul-de-sac and nobody sees it.
I’ll say a few words about all the down-ticket Republican candidates first, since you probably have heard a lot about Trump v. Harris. I just realized I’ve met personally with all of them except Jim Banks, and it’s not that I’m special— they’re surprisingly accessible. I’ll put a longer set of reasons to vote for Trump/Vance at the end. Everything that follows is just my personal views, not the Republican Party’s. You can find sample ballots here.
Michael Braun. Governor. Mr. Braun will extend school choice, expanding the program of state tax credits to let parents send their children to the private school of their choice. This costs far less per pupil than sending a child to the Monroe County public schools, as well as letting parents have the choice. Braun is very accessible, too. He was willing to meet with me for an hour down in Jasper, where he lives.
Micah Beckwith. Lt. Governor. Mr. Beckwith achieved something nobody else has done in living memory: he upset the establishment candidate to win the nomination for Lt. Governor, by 63 out of 1700+ votes at the state convention. He did this by travelling around the state to Republican Party events, meeting unknown Republican Party workers like yours truly and impressing them.
Todd Rokita. Attorney-General. Mr. Rokita has sued to prevent Indiana towns like Bloomington from being “sanctuary cities” and refusing to cooperate with the federal government’s immigration laws. It isn’t just that Bloomington doesn’t use its police to chase down illegal immigrants—city police don’t do that anywhere— it’s that Bloomington won’t report them to the federal government, or arrest them for immigration crimes if they’re known to be committing other crimes. Somebody wanted for murder in Mexico and caught stealing in Bloomington wouldn’t be reported to the federal government, and we wouldn’t know about his Mexican record.
Jim Banks. U.S. Senator. Mr. Banks was a key figure in the 2021 committee hearings in which the Presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania so embarassed themselves by their hypocrisy in tolerating extreme anti-Israel protests but not conservative speech that they were forced into resigning. (The MIT President was grilled too, but she’s pretty new, so she didn’t look like a hypocrite in being very pro-free-speech). The Saturday Night Live spoof of that is very funny.
Erin Houchin. U.S. Representative. Mrs. Houchin was the star of the House of Representative freshman class of 2022. She was elected by them to be President of the freshman class and was chosen by the Speaker to be a member of the Rules Committee, possibly the most powerful committee in the House. We’re looking at a possible future Speaker of the House here. If you want to meet her sometime on zoom or live, I’ll try to arrange it.
Dave Hall. Indiana State Representative. You’ve all gotten a million flyers i your mailbox for and against Dave Hall. I don’t remember if they mention that when he was on the county council, he helped found the Jackson-Jennings Work Release Center. Prisoners live there, and even pay $600/month rent and for their food, but they go out to work, and leave with enough money to get them going.
Joe Vandeventer. Monroe County Commissioner. Mr. Vandeventer is Director of Street Operations for the City of Bloomington. I have long been impressed by how well the City listens to reports of potholes and then repairs them. Seriously, this is impressive. If you see a pothole, you just have to report it at https://bloomington.in.gov/ureport/streets-parking-and-traffic/25 and Joe will set about fixing it.
Donald Trump. President I think it important that Kamala Harris, or, rather, the people behind Kamala Harris, be stopped from increasing their grip on America’s government, a grip already strong because of the power of the administrative state and the corporate media. Let me give some reasons.
Oppressors versus Oppressed. America has been subverted by the idea that the world is divided into the Oppressors and the Oppressed. All the troubles of the oppressed are due to the oppressors, and the oppressed may use any means necessary to stop the oppressors. It is the politics of resentment— of malice, more than selfishness. That’s why an old white man can like DEI: he hates the other old white men for their treatment of the oppressed and of himself. Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) is one example. “Cancelling” is another. Look to the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s, a movement to destroy the oppressors present and past— because erasing history and culture is part of this. What has always been thought of as human— love of country, love of ancestors, the roles of the sexes, worship of God— must be destroyed. Free speech is Misinformation. Lying is a tactic, not a sin. When I say that the Left hates mankind, it is not hyperbole. They see man as a blank slate that must be erased and rewritten, not as a book written by God (or even evolution) and History. Read C.S. Lewis’s novel, That Hideous Strength, which conveys it better than any nonfiction book.1
Harris and Walz are anti-American and anti-human, Harris by upbringing and patrons if not belief (does she have beliefs?); Walz, sincerely. Trump, on the other hand, likes people. He doesn’t care whether you’re a fry-cook or a millionaire, black or white, Yale grad or community college. It’s no accident that he appeals more to Hispanic and Black voters than previous Republicans.
. . . To read the rest of this, go to “The Biggest Reason to Vote for Trump: The Oppressors/Oppressed Dichotomy”.
I might send you some more emails before November 5, and a reminder one on Election Day itself. If you don’t want any more, reply back with No Thank You or something like that in the subject line.