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ITW: Guests discuss Ind. road taxes, LGBT fights

Posted at 2:44 PM, Feb 06, 2016
and last updated 2016-02-07 10:51:06-05

INDIANAPOLIS -- On Indianapolis This Week, we covered politics at the Statehouse and on the presidential campaign trail.

There is a current debate on whether to increase taxes in Indiana to help fund road repairs.

We talked with one of the chief voices in the debate, Rep. Ed Soliday. 

Soliday is the House Roads and Transportation Committee Chairman.

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The bill to extend anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community may have died in the Senate, but the fight is far from over for those groups. Rafael Sanchez talks with Tech for Equality.

Tech for Equality is a group of Indiana companies that support updating the state civil rights code to include the LGBT community.

ALSO READ | LGBT rights bill dead for current session

Indianapolis This Week's Jason Fechner talked one-on-one with Eric Holcomb, the former leader of the Indiana Republican Party who is now seeking to be Indiana’s next senator.

Holcomb also discusses his memories of former Indiana Gov. Edgar Whitcomb, who died on Thursday.

RELATED | Former Governor Edgar Whitcomb dies at age 98

Finally, our Political Insiders Kip Tew, Mary Beth Schneider and Abdul-Hakim Shabazz talk about the possible trouble for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the fallout from the end of the LGBT rights bill in the Senate.

You can watch the full show in the video player above.

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