By STU CLAMPITT
news@readthereporter.com
There has been talk about former Attorney General Curtis Hill considering a run for Indiana Governor. The Reporter reached out to Hill to discuss that possibility and to talk about what challenges Indiana’s next governor may face.
While Hill has not committed to a campaign for governor, he is not ruling it out either.
“I am definitely considering the possibility of a run for governor,” Hill told The Reporter. “I have not made a final decision as of yet.”
When asked what the biggest challenges Indiana will face in the years to come, Hill said they are largely the same ones he believes the nation faces right now: trust in our institutions, trust in our justice system, trust in our education system.
“Over the last few years, we’ve seen such a level of corruption of principles and ideas that people in Indiana are still scratching their heads wondering what’s going on,” Hill said. “Taking education, for example, there’s a lot of negativism about things that are being taught and shouldn’t be taught. Really what we need to focus on is where we should be our education system. We should be focusing on teaching children how to critically think, and if a child can critically think, it almost doesn’t matter what a teacher tries to indoctrinate them with.”
Hill said there is a “groundswell of change” that needs to take place in terms of both trust in institutions and reliance upon our freedom.
“Again, that’s national and state,” Hill said. “We need to make sure that we focus on our public safety apparatus – that we’re keeping Hoosiers safe not only from illness and disease, but certainly safe from crime patterns that continue to evolve as a result of some of the handling of past episodes.”
Regardless of who becomes our next governor, Hill said he thinks there are some key points that will be important to citizens in the years to come.
“I think that education, public safety, building our economy and diversifying our economy to a point that we can suffer through the bad times – those are all the types of things that I think average Hoosiers are going to be very interested in,” Hill said.
If Hill does decide to make a run for Indiana’s highest office, you will certainly read all about it in The Hamilton County Reporter.