96  John,

Yesterday, delegates to the 2022 Indiana
Republican Party State Convention received the below email from Platform
Committee Co-Chairs Randy Head and Jodi Smith, providing an update on
our 2022 party platform process.

On Saturday, May 21, the Platform
Committee convened and voted unanimously to recommend the 2022 Indiana
Republican Party platform draft to the Resolutions Committee. I wanted
to make sure that you — as a member of the Indiana Republican Party —
also got a chance to see the draft before our upcoming convention.

On
behalf of the State Central Committee, I want to offer our gratitude to
Randy and Jodi for leading this process and to our committee members for
their time, as well as to all of you who provided input.

— Chairman
Kyle Hupfer
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As the co-chairs
of the Platform Committee, we are writing to inform you that on
Saturday, May 21, the committee convened and voted unanimously to
recommend the 2022 Indiana Republican Party platform draft, with 29 of
33 members present. We would like to thank all the members of the
committee for the time they dedicated to attending our public hearings
across the state to listen to the thoughts and ideas from Hoosier
Republicans, as well as for the time they spent reviewing submitted
testimony. With this input, committee members worked diligently to craft
a document that clearly states what we believe in and stand for and that
we believe will guide our party forward.

If there is one thing that
we heard throughout our public hearings, it was that the 2018 Indiana
Republican Party platform was a good document. Bearing that in mind, we
worked around its edges, restructuring it slightly, and adding a few
sections on important topics that were discussed at our public hearings
and in written testimony.

Here are a few changes we want to
highlight:
We strengthened our core beliefs of “free, fair, and
transparent elections” and “legal immigration and the rule of law."We
strengthened our language on the sanctity of life and voiced our support
for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We added a subsection on “Working
Hoosiers” under our renamed “A Party for All” section, recognizing the
important inroads that President Donald Trump made with working Hoosiers
across the state. We updated our “Republican Policy Initiatives” section
to highlight past accomplishments of Republicans and re-focused on six
key areas: 1) Responsible, Efficient Government: Our Foundation 2) Jobs
and the Economy: Building a 21st Century Economy 3) Infrastructure:
Indiana as the ‘Crossroads of America’ 4) Education and Workforce
Development: Investing in Tomorrow 5) Health and Well-being: A Chance
for All Hoosiers 6) Safety and Security: A Primary Responsibility. We
re-emphasized our commitment to agriculture and expanded it to include
rural communities more broadly.We re-emphasized our belief that parents
are the primary educators of their children and that political
indoctrination has no place in Hoosier classrooms, especially concepts
like Critical Race Theory and its progeny. We stated our support for
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which ensures equal
opportunity for women and girls in all facets of education — including
athletics — and our belief that biological males should not participate
in women or girls sports.We added a subsection on adoption, supporting
actions that improve the adoption process and that encourage and
incentivize adoption in order to place children in loving homes as soon
as possible. We added a subsection on mental health, supporting the
expansion of mental health services across the state and the improvement
of public health infrastructure.The 2022 Indiana Republican Party
platform draft, as unanimously recommended by the Platform Committee,
will now go before the Resolutions Committee before being presented to
you at our convention on June 18, 2022.

You can see that version of
the platform
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_Pgs.pdf here.

We would like to thank all of those Hoosier
Republicans who provided input, and we look forward to seeing you in a
few short weeks.

Sincerely,

Randall “Randy” Head, Platform
Committee Co-Chair
Jodi Smith, Platform Committee Co-Chair
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