{"id":209,"date":"2024-11-06T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/?p=209"},"modified":"2025-04-17T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T19:01:45","slug":"afp-in-congratulates-endorsed-candidates-in-successful-state-legislative-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"AFP-IN Congratulates Endorsed Candidates in Successful State Legislative Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong>\u2014Americans for Prosperity-Indiana (AFP-IN) congratulated\u00a0endorsed candidates on their successful runs to serve in the Indiana state legislature.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Incumbent State Senators<strong>\u00a0Brian Buchanan\u00a0(SD-07), Justin Busch (SD-16),\u00a0Scott Baldwin (SD-20),\u00a0Aaron Freeman (SD-32),\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Cyndi Carrasco (SD-36)<\/strong>\u00a0won reelection to the Indiana State Senate.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Incumbent State Representatives<strong>\u00a0Dale DeVon (HD-05), Jake Teshka (HD-07),\u00a0Kyle Pierce (HD-36), Gregory Steuerwald (HD-40),\u00a0Joanna King\u00a0(HD-49), Ben Smaltz\u00a0(HD-52), Dave Hall (HD-62),\u00a0Zach Payne\u00a0(HD-66), and Martin Carbaugh (HD-81)\u00a0<\/strong>won reelection to the Indiana House of Representatives. In addition, AFP-IN endorsed incumbent\u00a0<strong>Becky Cash (HD-25)\u00a0<\/strong>where she is currently leading, but the race is too close to call.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">Non-incumbent\u00a0<strong>Brett Clark<\/strong>\u00a0won his race and will represent the 24th senate district next session, and non-incumbents\u00a0<strong>Hunter Smith,\u00a0Alaina Shonkwiler,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Tony Isa<\/strong>\u00a0also won their races and will represent the 24th, 29th, and 51st\u00a0house districts next session.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><strong>AFP-IN State Director\u00a0Josh Webb issued the following statement after the races were called:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><em>\u201cAFP-IN is proud to have backed these winning candidates to ensure that Indiana continues to make progress on expanding educational opportunity, taking on regulatory reform, and increasing access to affordable, quality healthcare. We are excited to work with these members of the legislature in the next legislative session. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\"><em>\u201cWe applaud our grassroots activists and volunteers for reaching out to over 420,000\u00a0voters to support our policy champions. With these policy majorities, Indiana will continue to advance limited government solutions that empower Hoosiers and increase our state\u2019s competitiveness throughout the Midwest.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">This has been a record-breaking year as AFP and AFP Action separately engaged in a staggering 647 races, including 7 critical U.S. Senate races and 44 U.S. House races.\u00a0AFP and AFP Action\u2019s\u00a0grassroots army across the country reached out to more than\u00a019.5\u00a0million voters \u2013 AFP and\u00a0AFP Action\u2019s largest effort in our 20-year history. AFP Action\u2019s engagement in federal races is critical as we get back to\u00a0promoting candidates who will advance\u00a0good policy in Washington and AFP and AFP Action\u2019s engagement in state legislative races continues\u00a0their\u00a0commitment to championing policy solutions and limited government principles that empower states across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS, IN\u2014Americans for Prosperity-Indiana (AFP-IN) congratulated\u00a0endorsed candidates on their successful runs to serve in the Indiana state legislature. Incumbent State Senators\u00a0Brian Buchanan\u00a0(SD-07), Justin Busch (SD-16),\u00a0Scott Baldwin (SD-20),\u00a0Aaron Freeman (SD-32),\u00a0and\u00a0Cyndi Carrasco (SD-36)\u00a0won reelection to the Indiana State Senate. Incumbent State Representatives\u00a0Dale DeVon (HD-05), Jake Teshka (HD-07),\u00a0Kyle Pierce (HD-36), Gregory Steuerwald (HD-40),\u00a0Joanna King\u00a0(HD-49), Ben Smaltz\u00a0(HD-52), Dave Hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.americansforprosperity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}