Indiana Republican With Disabled Daughter Revolts on Redistricting After Trump's Slur: 'Words Have Consequences' [View all]

Indiana state Senator Mike Bohacek (R) publicly declared he will vote against President Donald Trump-backed redistricting efforts in his state as he raged against the president’s use of a slur Friday to insult Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D).

Bohacek, a Republican from Michiana whose daughter has Down syndrome, said Trump’s Friday remark – using the word “retard” – crossed a personal line. The president hurled the slur in a late-night anti-immigration tirade during which he branded the Democrat “seriously retarded.”

Taking to Facebook, the lawmaker warned that “words have consequences” and he would be voting “NO” on redistricting efforts until Trump could prove his “policies and behavior deserve a congressional majority”:

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