In southwest Indiana, the story isn’t complicated.
It’s familiar.
It’s families working harder than ever…
and still feeling like they’re falling behind.
It’s small towns like Vincennes, Patoka, and Haubstadt trying to hold onto what they’ve built, while watching opportunity slowly drift somewhere else.
In this episode, I sat down with Candy Greer—a candidate stepping into Indiana’s 64th House District with a message that feels less like politics… and more like frustration finally turning into action.
And right from the start, you can tell—this isn’t coming from a polished political script.
It’s coming from lived experience.
Candy talks openly about what a lot of people in her generation have felt for years:
Working harder, waiting for things to improve… and watching nothing really change.
That shows up in how she talks about wages.
Indiana’s minimum wage hasn’t meaningfully moved in over a decade, and for her, that’s not just a policy debate—it’s the starting point for everything else.
If wages don’t move, nothing else does.
Not housing.
Not opportunity.
Not stability.
But what stood out wasn’t just the focus on wages—it was how everything connects.
She kept coming back to one idea:
It’s all intersectional.
Healthcare affects small businesses.
Wages affect farming families.
Education affects workforce development.
Mental health affects everything.
And if you don’t address those pieces together—you’re not really solving the problem.
We covered a lot of ground in this conversation:
💰 Raising the minimum wage and restoring worker negotiating power
🌾 The reality of family farms and why many farmers need second jobs
🏥 Rural healthcare access and the need for transportation and funding
🏫 Public school funding and the impact of voucher programs
🏠 Housing shortages and corporate property buy-ups
🚧 Infrastructure—from roads to water systems to broadband gaps
🧠 Mental health and addiction as issues that require real investment, not stigma
But what really stuck with me was her approach.
She’s not pretending to have every answer.
She’s saying she’ll listen.
She talks about an open-door policy. About learning from people who actually live the issues. About working across the aisle if it means getting results.
And in a district that hasn’t even had a challenger in recent elections—that alone is a shift.
We also talked about what pushed her to run in the first place.
It wasn’t a long political plan.
It was a moment.
A local fight over banning Ready Player One in her daughter’s school that turned into something bigger—realizing she wasn’t alone, and that her voice reflected a lot more people than she expected.
That moment turned into a campaign.
And now, she’s part of a growing wave of younger candidates stepping forward in places where voters haven’t had a choice in years.
Then, as always, we put it to the test with Hold ’em or Fold ’em—where the talking points disappear and the positions get clear.
What you’ll see here isn’t someone trying to sound like a politician.
It’s someone trying to represent people who feel like they haven’t been heard in a long time.
And in a district like 64…
that might be exactly what this moment calls for.
