By AP in Indianapolis Star:
Republicans typically invoke Ronald Reagan’s “11th Commandment” when they’re fighting within the family, and there’s been plenty of infighting recently over Gov. Mike Pence’s tax cut at the Statehouse.
Reagan made famous the rule that no Republican shall speak ill of a fellow party member. Pence invoked it at the Marion County Reagan Day Dinner last week as he looked down from the stage at his sharpest critic of late, House Speaker Brian Bosma, and asked Republicans to cool their heels.
That Bosma and Pence can’t agree on the governor’s proposal to cut the personal income tax 10 percent is hardly news. Bosma threw cold water on the idea one month before Pence was elected governor and has done everything he can to dissuade Pence since then, including passing a $30 billion budget that doesn’t include the cut.
Pence has refused to consider any alternative to his cut and has conducted a statewide campaign asking residents to press lawmakers to support it. A concurrent ad campaign launched by tea partyers Americans for Prosperity against House Republicans has only angered Bosma and other Republican lawmakers. But throughout the battle, the two Republican leaders had been cordial, if a bit coy, in public.
That changed last week after some tense moments involving the two at the Indianapolis fundraiser.
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