Ninth district Democrats debate who is best suited to unseat Houchin
Four contenders for the Democratic Party’s 9th District nominee faced off Saturday at Bloomington City Hall.
Jim Graham and Tim Peck of Clark County, Keil Roark of Floyd County and Brad Meyer of Bloomington agreed on ending the war with Iran, raising the federal minimum wage and other Democratic Party staples. But they disagreed on how to win the general election against a party which has controlled the Southern Indiana house seat for 15 years.
Peck, an emergency medical doctor, lost to Republican Erin Houchin by more than 30 percentage points in 2024. But he said continuing to run proves to voters that he’ll show up.
“I've worked for three years at this point to build a campaign,” he said. “We’ve knocked at this point tens of thousands of doors.”
Of the candidates, Peck spent the most time talking about what he sees as government infringement on civil rights.
“That includes reproductive rights, that includes First Amendment rights, especially here in Bloomington at IU in terms of our …