September 10, 2025 • 29 mins
State Public Safety Secretary Jennifer-Ruth Green abruptly resigned last week, raising red flags across Indiana. Then via reporting from the Indiana Captial Chronicle, it came to light that the wheels had apparently been in motion for quite some time, following a remediation agreement in July. The agreement came while Green was the subject of an investigation from the Inspector General. What will be the fallout from the once rising Republican star calling it quits under a cloud of alleged scandal? Rob Kendall, Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, and Jim Merritt discuss on Statehouse Happenings.
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Speaker 3 (01:45):
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Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hello, good morning, my friend.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
How's it going alrighty well?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Mirror Mirror on the wall is the latest disgrace of
them all.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh it's Jennifer Ruth Green. Okay, So she was Argie.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
She was the US Indiana's Public Safety secretary, and before
that she was a failed congressional candidate running in the
first congressional district against Frank Mervan.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And we got wind well.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, So the story came down Friday that all of
a sudden poof, she had resigned a two hundred and
seventy five thousand dollars cushy government position with no explanation
whatsoever and sort of some vague thank you from the governor.
And I said to myself, Jim Marrire, and I said,
(02:33):
something smells rotten in Denmark, because nobody just gives up
a two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars position.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, it's it's really kind of an interesting point in
our in the Brown administration. And it's really not over.
It's not been a year yet. And and Jennifer Ruth
Green was a favorite of the governor's and everybody told
why well, that he really liked her.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
And I don't know the answer, because I remember last
year she was initially his pick to be lieutenant governor.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes, that's what you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Why yes, there's nothing about her, like like I've tuk
to numerous people have met her, and it's just like
why what, Like, what is the thing about her?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I don't think we we we get the why.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You don't get to know. You just have to know.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah, but I do know that he was she was
a favorite of his. I think this redistrict king was
made to order for her. It was. Yes, she didn't
make it to the end of the and when Buck now,
when they go into session and do redraw the maps,
the first district will be wide open, and it's an
(03:44):
invitation for her or was to run for Congress and
she might fit in out there.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay, so let's let's because So she quits Jennifer Ruth Green.
She quits this position. She's making tw hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, she's only been there eight months, and
immediately start to hear sort of her campy type people
dripping out, well, they're going to redraw that district and
it's gonna be perfect for her, and and she she
could run for Congress, and she could she could win.
(04:10):
And then she posts this photo of her in her
military garb off to military service, trying to present like
a Jim Banks type of thing where I'm out of
here to go to military service and get huge credit
to our friends at the Capitol Chronicle because initially they
were like, eh, eh, that's a National Guard one week
deal that that she ain't quitting because of that. So
then you start saying, well, if she was gonna run
(04:32):
for Congress, the worst thing she could do would be
quit now because she's in this uber high profile position
where she gets name ID, so that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And then yesterday, so what is today? Today's Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Right? Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Man, Today's Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
On Tuesday, the Capitol Chronicle they got to the truth,
and boy, howdy is it not good for not only
Jennifer Ruth Green but the governor.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
When I when I sat there and read it, I
was like, Okay, I'm sick right now, so I can't
be reading this. Then I was like, you know what,
I am reading this because I've been hearing stories about behavior,
sexual harassment, a very toxic work environment, people complaining having
staff do personal business, have to do personal business for
(05:17):
her on government time, all the things you're kind of
not supposed to do, and government she.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Was checking a lot of the boxes allegedly.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Yes she was, and like, you're not helping. I was like, writing,
joke was is she might beck with her diego morales,
you know, in which one is this? If they were transgender?
Of course, But I was like, good lord, people, you
gotta be kidding me, Like what are you doing? And
then that next question is, Okay, Mike, who the hell's
running the show in your office to let this stuff
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go on for eight months at a time.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, okay, so let's talk about what the Capitol Chronicle
alleges in their piece. There was a remediation agreement signed
in July that at the time it was signed, according
to Capital Chronicle, there was a subject of she Jennifer
Ruth and was subject of an inspector general investigation and
as you said, alleged misuse of state resources and workplace misconduct.
(06:07):
So Jim ad remediation agreement and these are just in
state government. There's a hey, you're messing up bad and
we're about done with you, and here's we're checking our
HR box right and ABC through Z better be accomplished
or yeah, here.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Is that kind of a we really mean it type of.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, you were thirty years in the state. That's what
that is.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, it is. And do remember she did not take
office on January one, like most of the cabinet. She
was on duty. She was deployed somewhere in the military.
And I don't believe she really took office until late
February or March. And so she had let's just let's
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give it February fifteenth to whatever time it was in
June that this, so it was a very timeframe of
all these situations that she's created in her office.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Four months.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Four months.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, yeah, let me read this from the Capitol Chronicle
because I want to make sure they get the credit
on this, because I I broke the story yet Monday,
and I said, I had a rock solid source that
was like, oh yeah, this is way way deeper than
her getting out of there. And then they started talking
about the Inspector General's investigation we talked about on the air,
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and I was told by a second source who backed
up the first source. They said, yeah, several members of
the media have this. So I figured I'll just break
the story and then let everybody else fill in the details,
because that seems like a lot of work to have
to do that. But here, so here's what the Cavol Chronicle,
who deserves the credit said. Among the allegations against green
Or claims that she used state vehicles and travel cards
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for personal and political purposes, and then she directed state
employees to assist with those activities during work hours. Additional
accusations sent around inappropriate workplace conduct, ranging from quote, conversations
with employees about personal relationships, intimate objects, or sexual activities,
to uninvited touching of employees and retally, I mean retaliation.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
She checked that is one and twenty days.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's amazing that you could check that many boxes allegedly
and in whatever time period she was actually there.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
And she's a go getter.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yeah, and and and also you stop stop. Uh, And
really the basis of all this is the the job
of Secretary of Public Policy is an enormous one. Indiana
Department of Correction needs it needs a complete overhaul. And
(08:43):
and uh, they're building a prison up in northwest Indiana.
There are so many things that this secretary is that
that position has incredible importance. And uh, for all these accusations,
and and really the fire behind the smoke is so
disappointing and such wasted time.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
And by the way it one thing. It was just
one incident. Okay, everybody's in toe to one incident. Okay,
don't do it again. And what's yours.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We don't work in the state government.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Well infinity plus one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
But the thing is, if it's again and again and
again and again and again, like okay, miss Ruth Green,
maybe it's you and all this. Maybe it's not the staff,
maybe it's not the governor. Maybe maybe you're the problem.
It's like a friend of mine who's on his third wife.
What's the one constants equation you are? Maybe you shouldn't
be married anymore. It's coming thread out.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Here's the problem with this though, Braun when she left
gave what I mean, look, those of us here in
the media been around this like you guys don't enough
with that, right, Eh, that's something that's something very nah,
something's going on here, because nobody dumps on a Friday,
right if you want people to know something's going on.
And so, but Braun didn't rebuke her in her schedoodle
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out the door. And by the way, I was told,
I was told by the same source that got it
right about the investigation that she showed up to work
allegedly on Friday and basically was volunteered. This will be
your last day. Don't let the door hit you the
where the Good Lord split you.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So the problem for Braun though, is, according to this article,
his people knew about all of this and the build
up and then he doesn't mention any of it and
basically gives her a pat on the back on her
way out the door.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Based on his public statements.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, so he can't come out now and be like, oh,
I've appalled to learn about this like this article. La.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You see, here's the problem with Braun.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh how long you got?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Is Ron is loyal to a to a fault, and
if you think about it, he wasn't to the tax banker.
Well well no, but but if you think about the
snap you have had issues, whether it's Jennifer, whether it's Josh,
Kelly Weentz, other folks us. Always he never chastised him,
so to speak, as much as like, hey, well we'll
take care of you. Just leave quietly and we'll we'll
take it from there. Braun has never been one to
(11:09):
to actually though, put his foot down, so to speak,
at least at least not publicly.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Well you also you see that with the Lieutenant governor.
You know they have walled him off from the Governor's office.
But but you don't really hear any negative uh, any
negative idea through the establishment or anything like that that
that they are overtly upset with Lieutenant governor on a
(11:34):
on a timely, daily, weekly basis. But you know that
he steps on their message all the time. But you
don't hear any kind of you don't hear any negativity
coming out of the Braun office out in the public
about Micah.
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Rob Kendall, Jim Merrittfdill keep Shabas the program of State
House Happenings, your weekly look at what's going on with
Indiana politics and government. And this week what's going on
with Indiana politics and government is the resignation of Jennifer
Ruth Green as the Public Safety Secretary for the State
of Indiana. Okay, So then there's a second part of this,
which is who he put in her place, and that
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is Anthony Scott, the State Police Superintendent.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Now give me just a moment here.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I know the award winning panel is are the take people,
But let me set this up for everybody about why
this is very concerning to several of us. So, Doug
Carter was the former State Police superintendent, and while he
was State Police super intendant, there was an eighty page
probable cause affidavit leveled against the guy by the name
of Tom Kleinhilter.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And I think we've talked about Clein Helter on the
show before.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He is the Dubois County sheriff and a very close
political ally of Governor Mike Braun. This eighty page probable
cause affidavit was related to Kleinelter allegedly misusing commissary money
to pay for, amongst other things, his wife to go
on trips with him. Carter has been on our Kendell
and Casey show. He has said all of these things publicly.
(14:31):
He felt this was an iron cloud case which was instigated,
by the way, by an investigation from State Board of
Accounts that they felt they had an iron cloud case
against this guy in the eighty page probable cause affidavit.
They felt the case with a special prosecutor, was moving
towards charges being filed. And then all of a sudden,
Braun becomes the governor. He appoints this guy, Anthony Scott,
to be the new state Police superintendent, and all of
(14:54):
a sudden, the charges disappear against his close political ally,
Tom Kleinhelter and now all of oh and by the way,
in the process of the guy who did the investigation
in the eighty page probab will cause AFFI David, he
gets demoted. And now wouldn't you know Anthony Scott is
in this new public Safety director position and presumably taking
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over the two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars salary
that comes with it. That really smells to a lot
of people.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Jim Merritt, Well, again, it's the Secretary of Public Safety.
I don't know what the correct term is or the title,
but the secretary from this cabinet position, this is an
enormous job, and public safety is job number one. Is
a government official as well as a fact department. Correction
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needs a complete overhaul. And like I said, they're building
a prison, and they decided to keep open the prison
that they were going to close when all the COVID
money came out of the federal government, and they put
four hundred million dollars into building a new prison to
replace the prison. But both prisons are going to be
open now. And so this is a very very you know,
(16:05):
put the politics aside of what is going on du
Bois County, but you know, it is so important that
this part of government has the very best individual And
you know, throughout the thirty years I served in the Senate,
there were always calls to have the Senate or the
House as oversight and and a lot like what happens
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in Washington with with cabinet secretaries that they would go
in front of the legislature, albeit probably the Indiana Senate
and get confirmation. And I always kind of pushed that
aside because you know, I always felt the governor needed
to have his or someday her selections in there. But
(16:50):
it's going to be really interesting to see how mister
Scott or Secretary of Scott comes through for us.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
I agree because, like I said, the well thing about
du Bois County, it's it's a cloud. It's another issue
that they don't necessarily need right now with all those
stuff going on here between Jennifer's green and now this
the whole nine yards, I want to say, it just
kind of makes you wonder, Okay, who's running the show
over here and who's calling the shots, because the chief
of staff should be the person who is, like, you know,
keeping clams down all the all of the sudd But
(17:18):
Josh Kelly has his own issues right now. So it's like,
good lord, people, what the hell are you guys doing
all day?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, so real quick though, because this Anthony Scott stuff,
a lot of people had it as the antenna is
up because now you've caught Braun. I mean, look, Braun's
been caught in several how do you word it? The
statements are inconsistent with the fact, yes, thank you in
his time as governor, and now you've got him basically
covering up Jennifer Ruth Green going out the door. What
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we know, his office was fully aware of what was
going on with her. And and they've tried to sweep
the klient Helter thing under the ruck. And but we
didn't have anything to do with this. We didn't know
about any of this. But it doesn't make any sense
that an eighty page probable cause affidavit would just disappear.
And the one thing that changed as you became the
governor and put somebody new in charge of the state police.
(18:05):
And now you're promoting this guy. People look at this
and go, why would we trust anything that you have
to say?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, you know, you also when when your governor, every
day means something. Mitch Daniels had a had an hour
glass on his desk and with the sands of time
and and and you have four years and we're what
now into the ninth month of of the administration, and
and every day is an opportunity for good public policy
(18:34):
or good governance and and and look at what they've
they've they had a session where uh, you know, property
taxes were an enormous situation Washington, and all that came
with the tariffs and the stock market and everything, Uh
blew apart their budget, and and and Lieutenant Governor is
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Uh has had all his controversies came in and and
so you really want open field. You want an opportunity
to talk about the good things that you want to
do or you're doing for the state of state state
government in Indiana. And and they it keeps on that,
they keep stepping on their message. We're we're talking about
(19:16):
this on this on this program because it's interesting to
the public and the establishment, But they would much rather
us be talking about something that they've done that's positive
for UH for the coming days.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
This is the question we had the other day here
in the at the radio station, was did these scandals
always because I think we even had this conversation with you, Jimmy,
you were mosying around, Did we did these scandals sort
of things always exist in the pre inter or not
even necessarily pre Internet, but pre social media, pre citizen
journalist era and we just never knew about them? Or
(19:51):
have they just become more prevalent now? And you were
obviously here in a pre even a pre internet era.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What what say? What say you?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I mean, the just we just didn't used to know
about these things? Or has the incompetency gotten worse.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Well, well, I think, uh, they've always been here, Uh
as well as I can tell you five or six
things had happened in the nineties to buy an abandoned
administration that the legislature, you know, Uh, people resigned. Uh,
and it wasn't disgraced, They resigned quietly. Uh. What what
(20:23):
should have happened was when all this trouble happened with
with this paper that she signed and everybody signed remediation agreement. Uh,
she should have resign then, and and and and gotten
away from the media and and uh done it very quietly,
because you always have leaks and and uh people have
(20:44):
been talking about this for the last two months and
and so what I'm saying here is that in the past,
people would have been honorable and left on their own
court and and and and done it very very quietly.
But now now we're talking about it, and we probably
will talk about her for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
There's no there's no phrase I remembers from a television
like years ago where I said whether whether well the
politicians would be a total disgrace. They give him a gun,
a bottle of whiskey and a lock and lock the
door and tell them to go do the right thing.
He drink, he drink the whiskey, shoot off the lock,
and then leave the road. Because in a nutshell, that's
that's that that that that my friend is. The is
the is the world we're in now, we're like I said,
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it's now, it's the TikTok, It's Facebook, it's how many
likes do I get on X? You know how many
people retweet this? And it is it is almost sort
of instantaneous instantaneous analysis, like no, real the job right,
it's gotta take time. You don't just add water mix
and you know, bake the three hundred and fifty degree.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, So the the obvious the obvious question then becomes
her being Jennifer Ruth Green.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
She's done right, I mean in.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Terms of politically, if I like, I'm not saying she's
not maybe going to run, because it seems like she
really wants and needs to be in politics and government.
But if you're gonna run against her, now you've just
got all the ads and some rich guy or girl's
gonna run and be like here's a million dollars in
the primary to like everyone, what you did, thank you goodbye.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I've been told for my sources of North it's gonna
be a very competitive primary if the if the maps
are redrawn.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean, how would how would she how would she explain?
Because like the truth will, I mean, come out whatever
this Inspector General report is gonna say. And I mean
then people start talking and.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I may responsibly fake news. Yeah, well you know if
you'll say fake news like I was. I was attacked
by the liberal establishment, the insiders. You know, they don't
want change, blah blah. I could write the script tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Yeah, and this thing this, so you I still think
she's gonna run. Oh, I think it's probably good. Seventy
five percent chances eighty percent chances are shameless. We look
at Congress today, you know, I mean she fits in Washington,
d C. Yeah, right, And so you know I really
think that, you know, if and you're right, I think
(22:59):
she would have been lieutenant governor, uh if something happened
to Micah and uh. And I would imagine that if
if if the governor had the convention all over again.
And I and I love Julie, she was my intern.
But but I think if you had to do it
all over again, he would have put Jennifer Ruth Green
up as is lieutenant governor.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But okay, but let's say he picked her. So think,
let's think about this little soup of ridiculousness. Here were
our three options, Micah, what a dumpster fire that's been,
Jennifer Ruth Green, what a dumpster fire that's been? Or
Julie Maguire, who seemingly couldn't speak on her own, like
why what? What can't we get normal people who can speak?
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Can't we get normal regular people who can speak well?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Where the people this.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Is obviously radio and Abdulla and I are looking at
like that there are any faults.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Like welcome to the twenty first wire.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The normal regular people in this in this business.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Normal regular people don't want to be bothered with you.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah, it goes back to you know, the reason why
Mss Ruth Green has a chance to run for Congress
is people are so they're not my optic that they're
they're so focused on getting their kids to bed, making
a paycheck that they they just a pox on all
their houses and they just don't care. The turnout is
low and and Jennifer Ruth Green has a very good
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opportunity to go to Congress next year.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Wow, if you could win, well, I mean, look at
the stuff that goes on in Congress.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
This actually isn't all that bad comparativeity.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
And I don't know a competitive primary. Uh, there might
people be people that announce. And if if it's that
ghost like map that we saw a week or two ago,
I don't know anybody in those areas that that might
be able to pull what she can pull out of
Lake County because she has a lot of friends up
in northwest Indiana.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
We just remember, you don't have to live in the
district to run for Congress.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
That's exactly right, That's exactly right when you serve ye yeah, yeah,
Rob Kettle will gives you buys.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Jim Merrick program of State House Happenings, your weekly look
at what's going on with Indiana politics and government. Got
about three minutes left here speaking of running for Congress
and the and the district redistricting.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
According to the.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Capitol Chronicle, nine thousand signatures were delivered to the State
House the other day against early against redistricting. Uh, this
is gonna move the needle at all? Is this gonna
make any no difference?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
None.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
None, that's a waste of time. Yeah, people will just
not not it will be ignored. Uh, the legislature will
do what the legislature will do. Uh, and the governor
will call the legislature into special session. And you know
time is burning abdull. You know where they're gonna be lawsuits?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
There they obviously we know that the map is ready
to be almost blessed by the legislature.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
And but here's thing I think this is. I think
this was a little bit different and because of the
political environment we're in today because they got nine thousand signatures,
but they weren't all just from Marion County or Allen
County or Lake County. They were from all ninety two counties,
which means there you've got potentially about people who volunteer,
who will advocate to vote out whoever voted for these
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new maps. So I don't think you can necessarily write
it off like when we couldn't in the past, like no,
four thousand signatures all Marion County, Okay, fine, whatever, But
I think this one's a little bit different. Nine thousand
signatures all ninety two counties, that that that that that's
for lawmakers should be a wake up call.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yeah, I just kind of wonder how many of our
registered voters that how many people, I mean did they
did they did they follow a track where this is
registered voter, this is somebody that is going to vote,
this is a Republican Democrat. I'd love to know the
cross stabs on that, the insight information. I think that uh,
(26:51):
you know, it's ignored the governor will will There's been
so much in the media and so much in social
media about this that and it hasn't deterred anybody in
the legislature from I don't think the legislator has come
out and said we shouldn't do this. They did and
then they've backtracked.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
All right, So the groups concluded that we're part of
this Indiana Concert Conservation Voters, Women for Change, Indiana Common Cause,
Indiana Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, Legal Women Voters of Indiana,
count us in. There's too many to read. I didn't
know there were all these groups out there. How are
all these people.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Like they certainly have time in their head.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Where does all the money come from?
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The the American Asian hoosir Asian American power Like I
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there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Of We need to find some of this money that's
out there fueling these people.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Could be sponsors appropriate.
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Speaker 3 (01:45):
Doilla keep Shabaz.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hello, good morning, my friend.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
How's it going alrighty well?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Mirror Mirror on the wall is the latest disgrace of
them all.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Uh it's Jennifer Ruth Green. Okay, So she was Argie.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
She was the US Indiana's Public Safety secretary, and before
that she was a failed congressional candidate running in the
first congressional district against Frank Mervan.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
And we got wind well.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, So the story came down Friday that all of
a sudden poof, she had resigned a two hundred and
seventy five thousand dollars cushy government position with no explanation
whatsoever and sort of some vague thank you from the governor.
And I said to myself, Jim Marrire, and I said,
(02:33):
something smells rotten in Denmark, because nobody just gives up
a two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars position.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Yeah, it's it's really kind of an interesting point in
our in the Brown administration. And it's really not over.
It's not been a year yet. And and Jennifer Ruth
Green was a favorite of the governor's and everybody told
why well, that he really liked her.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
And I don't know the answer, because I remember last
year she was initially his pick to be lieutenant governor.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes, that's what you wanted to be.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Why yes, there's nothing about her, like like I've tuk
to numerous people have met her, and it's just like
why what, Like, what is the thing about her?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
I don't think we we we get the why.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You don't get to know. You just have to know.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yeah, but I do know that he was she was
a favorite of his. I think this redistrict king was
made to order for her. It was. Yes, she didn't
make it to the end of the and when Buck now,
when they go into session and do redraw the maps,
the first district will be wide open, and it's an
(03:44):
invitation for her or was to run for Congress and
she might fit in out there.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Okay, so let's let's because So she quits Jennifer Ruth Green.
She quits this position. She's making tw hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars, she's only been there eight months, and
immediately start to hear sort of her campy type people
dripping out, well, they're going to redraw that district and
it's gonna be perfect for her, and and she she
could run for Congress, and she could she could win.
(04:10):
And then she posts this photo of her in her
military garb off to military service, trying to present like
a Jim Banks type of thing where I'm out of
here to go to military service and get huge credit
to our friends at the Capitol Chronicle because initially they
were like, eh, eh, that's a National Guard one week
deal that that she ain't quitting because of that. So
then you start saying, well, if she was gonna run
(04:32):
for Congress, the worst thing she could do would be
quit now because she's in this uber high profile position
where she gets name ID, so that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And then yesterday, so what is today? Today's Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Right? Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Man, Today's Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
On Tuesday, the Capitol Chronicle they got to the truth,
and boy, howdy is it not good for not only
Jennifer Ruth Green but the governor.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
When I when I sat there and read it, I
was like, Okay, I'm sick right now, so I can't
be reading this. Then I was like, you know what,
I am reading this because I've been hearing stories about behavior,
sexual harassment, a very toxic work environment, people complaining having
staff do personal business, have to do personal business for
(05:17):
her on government time, all the things you're kind of
not supposed to do, and government she.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Was checking a lot of the boxes allegedly.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Yes she was, and like, you're not helping. I was like, writing,
joke was is she might beck with her diego morales,
you know, in which one is this? If they were transgender?
Of course, But I was like, good lord, people, you
gotta be kidding me, Like what are you doing? And
then that next question is, Okay, Mike, who the hell's
running the show in your office to let this stuff
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go on for eight months at a time.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, okay, so let's talk about what the Capitol Chronicle
alleges in their piece. There was a remediation agreement signed
in July that at the time it was signed, according
to Capital Chronicle, there was a subject of she Jennifer
Ruth and was subject of an inspector general investigation and
as you said, alleged misuse of state resources and workplace misconduct.
(06:07):
So Jim ad remediation agreement and these are just in
state government. There's a hey, you're messing up bad and
we're about done with you, and here's we're checking our
HR box right and ABC through Z better be accomplished
or yeah, here.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Is that kind of a we really mean it type of.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, you were thirty years in the state. That's what
that is.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, it is. And do remember she did not take
office on January one, like most of the cabinet. She
was on duty. She was deployed somewhere in the military.
And I don't believe she really took office until late
February or March. And so she had let's just let's
(06:53):
give it February fifteenth to whatever time it was in
June that this, so it was a very timeframe of
all these situations that she's created in her office.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Four months.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Four months.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, yeah, let me read this from the Capitol Chronicle
because I want to make sure they get the credit
on this, because I I broke the story yet Monday,
and I said, I had a rock solid source that
was like, oh yeah, this is way way deeper than
her getting out of there. And then they started talking
about the Inspector General's investigation we talked about on the air,
(07:30):
and I was told by a second source who backed
up the first source. They said, yeah, several members of
the media have this. So I figured I'll just break
the story and then let everybody else fill in the details,
because that seems like a lot of work to have
to do that. But here, so here's what the Cavol Chronicle,
who deserves the credit said. Among the allegations against green
Or claims that she used state vehicles and travel cards
(07:51):
for personal and political purposes, and then she directed state
employees to assist with those activities during work hours. Additional
accusations sent around inappropriate workplace conduct, ranging from quote, conversations
with employees about personal relationships, intimate objects, or sexual activities,
to uninvited touching of employees and retally, I mean retaliation.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
She checked that is one and twenty days.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That's amazing that you could check that many boxes allegedly
and in whatever time period she was actually there.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
And she's a go getter.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yeah, and and and also you stop stop. Uh, And
really the basis of all this is the the job
of Secretary of Public Policy is an enormous one. Indiana
Department of Correction needs it needs a complete overhaul. And
(08:43):
and uh, they're building a prison up in northwest Indiana.
There are so many things that this secretary is that
that position has incredible importance. And uh, for all these accusations,
and and really the fire behind the smoke is so
disappointing and such wasted time.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
And by the way it one thing. It was just
one incident. Okay, everybody's in toe to one incident. Okay,
don't do it again. And what's yours.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
We don't work in the state government.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Well infinity plus one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
But the thing is, if it's again and again and
again and again and again, like okay, miss Ruth Green,
maybe it's you and all this. Maybe it's not the staff,
maybe it's not the governor. Maybe maybe you're the problem.
It's like a friend of mine who's on his third wife.
What's the one constants equation you are? Maybe you shouldn't
be married anymore. It's coming thread out.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Here's the problem with this though, Braun when she left
gave what I mean, look, those of us here in
the media been around this like you guys don't enough
with that, right, Eh, that's something that's something very nah,
something's going on here, because nobody dumps on a Friday,
right if you want people to know something's going on.
And so, but Braun didn't rebuke her in her schedoodle
(10:03):
out the door. And by the way, I was told,
I was told by the same source that got it
right about the investigation that she showed up to work
allegedly on Friday and basically was volunteered. This will be
your last day. Don't let the door hit you the
where the Good Lord split you.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
So the problem for Braun though, is, according to this article,
his people knew about all of this and the build
up and then he doesn't mention any of it and
basically gives her a pat on the back on her
way out the door.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Based on his public statements.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Well, so he can't come out now and be like, oh,
I've appalled to learn about this like this article. La.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
You see, here's the problem with Braun.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Oh how long you got?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Is Ron is loyal to a to a fault, and
if you think about it, he wasn't to the tax banker.
Well well no, but but if you think about the
snap you have had issues, whether it's Jennifer, whether it's Josh,
Kelly Weentz, other folks us. Always he never chastised him,
so to speak, as much as like, hey, well we'll
take care of you. Just leave quietly and we'll we'll
take it from there. Braun has never been one to
(11:09):
to actually though, put his foot down, so to speak,
at least at least not publicly.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Well you also you see that with the Lieutenant governor.
You know they have walled him off from the Governor's office.
But but you don't really hear any negative uh, any
negative idea through the establishment or anything like that that
that they are overtly upset with Lieutenant governor on a
(11:34):
on a timely, daily, weekly basis. But you know that
he steps on their message all the time. But you
don't hear any kind of you don't hear any negativity
coming out of the Braun office out in the public
about Micah.
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House Happenings, your weekly look at what's going on with
Indiana politics and government. And this week what's going on
with Indiana politics and government is the resignation of Jennifer
Ruth Green as the Public Safety Secretary for the State
of Indiana. Okay, So then there's a second part of this,
which is who he put in her place, and that
(13:42):
is Anthony Scott, the State Police Superintendent.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Now give me just a moment here.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I know the award winning panel is are the take people,
But let me set this up for everybody about why
this is very concerning to several of us. So, Doug
Carter was the former State Police superintendent, and while he
was State Police super intendant, there was an eighty page
probable cause affidavit leveled against the guy by the name
of Tom Kleinhilter.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And I think we've talked about Clein Helter on the
show before.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
He is the Dubois County sheriff and a very close
political ally of Governor Mike Braun. This eighty page probable
cause affidavit was related to Kleinelter allegedly misusing commissary money
to pay for, amongst other things, his wife to go
on trips with him. Carter has been on our Kendell
and Casey show. He has said all of these things publicly.
(14:31):
He felt this was an iron cloud case which was instigated,
by the way, by an investigation from State Board of
Accounts that they felt they had an iron cloud case
against this guy in the eighty page probable cause affidavit.
They felt the case with a special prosecutor, was moving
towards charges being filed. And then all of a sudden,
Braun becomes the governor. He appoints this guy, Anthony Scott,
to be the new state Police superintendent, and all of
(14:54):
a sudden, the charges disappear against his close political ally,
Tom Kleinhelter and now all of oh and by the way,
in the process of the guy who did the investigation
in the eighty page probab will cause AFFI David, he
gets demoted. And now wouldn't you know Anthony Scott is
in this new public Safety director position and presumably taking
(15:16):
over the two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars salary
that comes with it. That really smells to a lot
of people.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Jim Merritt, Well, again, it's the Secretary of Public Safety.
I don't know what the correct term is or the title,
but the secretary from this cabinet position, this is an
enormous job, and public safety is job number one. Is
a government official as well as a fact department. Correction
(15:44):
needs a complete overhaul. And like I said, they're building
a prison, and they decided to keep open the prison
that they were going to close when all the COVID
money came out of the federal government, and they put
four hundred million dollars into building a new prison to
replace the prison. But both prisons are going to be
open now. And so this is a very very you know,
(16:05):
put the politics aside of what is going on du
Bois County, but you know, it is so important that
this part of government has the very best individual And
you know, throughout the thirty years I served in the Senate,
there were always calls to have the Senate or the
House as oversight and and a lot like what happens
(16:28):
in Washington with with cabinet secretaries that they would go
in front of the legislature, albeit probably the Indiana Senate
and get confirmation. And I always kind of pushed that
aside because you know, I always felt the governor needed
to have his or someday her selections in there. But
(16:50):
it's going to be really interesting to see how mister
Scott or Secretary of Scott comes through for us.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
I agree because, like I said, the well thing about
du Bois County, it's it's a cloud. It's another issue
that they don't necessarily need right now with all those
stuff going on here between Jennifer's green and now this
the whole nine yards, I want to say, it just
kind of makes you wonder, Okay, who's running the show
over here and who's calling the shots, because the chief
of staff should be the person who is, like, you know,
keeping clams down all the all of the sudd But
(17:18):
Josh Kelly has his own issues right now. So it's like,
good lord, people, what the hell are you guys doing
all day?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, so real quick though, because this Anthony Scott stuff,
a lot of people had it as the antenna is
up because now you've caught Braun. I mean, look, Braun's
been caught in several how do you word it? The
statements are inconsistent with the fact, yes, thank you in
his time as governor, and now you've got him basically
covering up Jennifer Ruth Green going out the door. What
(17:43):
we know, his office was fully aware of what was
going on with her. And and they've tried to sweep
the klient Helter thing under the ruck. And but we
didn't have anything to do with this. We didn't know
about any of this. But it doesn't make any sense
that an eighty page probable cause affidavit would just disappear.
And the one thing that changed as you became the
governor and put somebody new in charge of the state police.
(18:05):
And now you're promoting this guy. People look at this
and go, why would we trust anything that you have
to say?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Well, you know, you also when when your governor, every
day means something. Mitch Daniels had a had an hour
glass on his desk and with the sands of time
and and and you have four years and we're what
now into the ninth month of of the administration, and
and every day is an opportunity for good public policy
(18:34):
or good governance and and and look at what they've
they've they had a session where uh, you know, property
taxes were an enormous situation Washington, and all that came
with the tariffs and the stock market and everything, Uh
blew apart their budget, and and and Lieutenant Governor is
(18:55):
Uh has had all his controversies came in and and
so you really want open field. You want an opportunity
to talk about the good things that you want to
do or you're doing for the state of state state
government in Indiana. And and they it keeps on that,
they keep stepping on their message. We're we're talking about
(19:16):
this on this on this program because it's interesting to
the public and the establishment, But they would much rather
us be talking about something that they've done that's positive
for UH for the coming days.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
This is the question we had the other day here
in the at the radio station, was did these scandals
always because I think we even had this conversation with you, Jimmy,
you were mosying around, Did we did these scandals sort
of things always exist in the pre inter or not
even necessarily pre Internet, but pre social media, pre citizen
journalist era and we just never knew about them? Or
(19:51):
have they just become more prevalent now? And you were
obviously here in a pre even a pre internet era.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What what say? What say you?
Speaker 2 (19:59):
I mean, the just we just didn't used to know
about these things? Or has the incompetency gotten worse.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Well, well, I think, uh, they've always been here, Uh
as well as I can tell you five or six
things had happened in the nineties to buy an abandoned
administration that the legislature, you know, Uh, people resigned. Uh,
and it wasn't disgraced, They resigned quietly. Uh. What what
(20:23):
should have happened was when all this trouble happened with
with this paper that she signed and everybody signed remediation agreement. Uh,
she should have resign then, and and and and gotten
away from the media and and uh done it very quietly,
because you always have leaks and and uh people have
(20:44):
been talking about this for the last two months and
and so what I'm saying here is that in the past,
people would have been honorable and left on their own
court and and and and done it very very quietly.
But now now we're talking about it, and we probably
will talk about her for the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
There's no there's no phrase I remembers from a television
like years ago where I said whether whether well the
politicians would be a total disgrace. They give him a gun,
a bottle of whiskey and a lock and lock the
door and tell them to go do the right thing.
He drink, he drink the whiskey, shoot off the lock,
and then leave the road. Because in a nutshell, that's
that's that that that that my friend is. The is
the is the world we're in now, we're like I said,
(21:23):
it's now, it's the TikTok, It's Facebook, it's how many
likes do I get on X? You know how many
people retweet this? And it is it is almost sort
of instantaneous instantaneous analysis, like no, real the job right,
it's gotta take time. You don't just add water mix
and you know, bake the three hundred and fifty degree.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Okay, So the the obvious the obvious question then becomes
her being Jennifer Ruth Green.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
She's done right, I mean in.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Terms of politically, if I like, I'm not saying she's
not maybe going to run, because it seems like she
really wants and needs to be in politics and government.
But if you're gonna run against her, now you've just
got all the ads and some rich guy or girl's
gonna run and be like here's a million dollars in
the primary to like everyone, what you did, thank you goodbye.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
I've been told for my sources of North it's gonna
be a very competitive primary if the if the maps
are redrawn.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean, how would how would she how would she explain?
Because like the truth will, I mean, come out whatever
this Inspector General report is gonna say. And I mean
then people start talking and.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I may responsibly fake news. Yeah, well you know if
you'll say fake news like I was. I was attacked
by the liberal establishment, the insiders. You know, they don't
want change, blah blah. I could write the script tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Yeah, and this thing this, so you I still think
she's gonna run. Oh, I think it's probably good. Seventy
five percent chances eighty percent chances are shameless. We look
at Congress today, you know, I mean she fits in Washington,
d C. Yeah, right, And so you know I really
think that, you know, if and you're right, I think
(22:59):
she would have been lieutenant governor, uh if something happened
to Micah and uh. And I would imagine that if
if if the governor had the convention all over again.
And I and I love Julie, she was my intern.
But but I think if you had to do it
all over again, he would have put Jennifer Ruth Green
up as is lieutenant governor.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But okay, but let's say he picked her. So think,
let's think about this little soup of ridiculousness. Here were
our three options, Micah, what a dumpster fire that's been,
Jennifer Ruth Green, what a dumpster fire that's been? Or
Julie Maguire, who seemingly couldn't speak on her own, like
why what? What can't we get normal people who can speak?
(23:39):
Can't we get normal regular people who can speak well?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Where the people this.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Is obviously radio and Abdulla and I are looking at
like that there are any faults.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Like welcome to the twenty first wire.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
The normal regular people in this in this business.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Normal regular people don't want to be bothered with you.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah, it goes back to you know, the reason why
Mss Ruth Green has a chance to run for Congress
is people are so they're not my optic that they're
they're so focused on getting their kids to bed, making
a paycheck that they they just a pox on all
their houses and they just don't care. The turnout is
low and and Jennifer Ruth Green has a very good
(24:22):
opportunity to go to Congress next year.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Wow, if you could win, well, I mean, look at
the stuff that goes on in Congress.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
This actually isn't all that bad comparativeity.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
And I don't know a competitive primary. Uh, there might
people be people that announce. And if if it's that
ghost like map that we saw a week or two ago,
I don't know anybody in those areas that that might
be able to pull what she can pull out of
Lake County because she has a lot of friends up
in northwest Indiana.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
We just remember, you don't have to live in the
district to run for Congress.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
That's exactly right, That's exactly right when you serve ye yeah, yeah,
Rob Kettle will gives you buys.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Jim Merrick program of State House Happenings, your weekly look
at what's going on with Indiana politics and government. Got
about three minutes left here speaking of running for Congress
and the and the district redistricting.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
According to the.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Capitol Chronicle, nine thousand signatures were delivered to the State
House the other day against early against redistricting. Uh, this
is gonna move the needle at all? Is this gonna
make any no difference?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
None.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
None, that's a waste of time. Yeah, people will just
not not it will be ignored. Uh, the legislature will
do what the legislature will do. Uh, and the governor
will call the legislature into special session. And you know
time is burning abdull. You know where they're gonna be lawsuits?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
There they obviously we know that the map is ready
to be almost blessed by the legislature.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
And but here's thing I think this is. I think
this was a little bit different and because of the
political environment we're in today because they got nine thousand signatures,
but they weren't all just from Marion County or Allen
County or Lake County. They were from all ninety two counties,
which means there you've got potentially about people who volunteer,
who will advocate to vote out whoever voted for these
(26:15):
new maps. So I don't think you can necessarily write
it off like when we couldn't in the past, like no,
four thousand signatures all Marion County, Okay, fine, whatever, But
I think this one's a little bit different. Nine thousand
signatures all ninety two counties, that that that that that's
for lawmakers should be a wake up call.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yeah, I just kind of wonder how many of our
registered voters that how many people, I mean did they
did they did they follow a track where this is
registered voter, this is somebody that is going to vote,
this is a Republican Democrat. I'd love to know the
cross stabs on that, the insight information. I think that uh,
(26:51):
you know, it's ignored the governor will will There's been
so much in the media and so much in social
media about this that and it hasn't deterred anybody in
the legislature from I don't think the legislator has come
out and said we shouldn't do this. They did and
then they've backtracked.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
All right, So the groups concluded that we're part of
this Indiana Concert Conservation Voters, Women for Change, Indiana Common Cause,
Indiana Concerned Clergy of Indianapolis, Legal Women Voters of Indiana,
count us in. There's too many to read. I didn't
know there were all these groups out there. How are
all these people.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Like they certainly have time in their head.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Where does all the money come from?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
The the American Asian hoosir Asian American power Like I
didn't even know if some of these groups existed, but
there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Of We need to find some of this money that's
out there fueling these people.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Could be sponsors appropriate.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, that's right, they should be sponsoring state own's happenings.
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