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Henry Benson machinist https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/nyregion/herman-benson-who-fought-union-corruption-dies-at-104.html

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Indiana Referendums
In 2010 Indiana residents voted in favor of a property tax cap amendment to the Indiana constitution of 1 percent of homes' assessed values, with 2-percent caps on farmland and rental property and 3-percent limits on business property. Property taxes imposed after being approved by the voters in a referendum shall not be considered for purposes of calculating the limits to property tax liability under subsection

Law Delayed
St. Joseph county and Lake County where given a 10 year exception to the tax cap law due to massive debt. The tax cap law went into effect in 2020.

Opposition to tax cap law
Indiana Daily Student Editorial Board

Brian Snedecor
Brian Snedecor. (born in 1959) is an American politician from the state of Indiana serving as the 20th mayor of Hobart, Indiana. He took office on January 1, 2004, the first elected government office he has held. He is a member of the Republican Party. After winning the general election in Nov 3, 2019 for an unprecedented fourth term, Snedecor became the longest-serving mayor in Hobart's history.

Career
Snedecor served as a police officer for 27 years, he served as the Hobart police chief for 4.5 years before being elected to mayor. Snedecor was elected as a Democrat for 4 consecutive terms,

In 2008 Snedecor joined 7 Northwest Indiana mayors in Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President.

Snedecor made national headlines after switching parties from Democrat to Republican in August of 2020. Snedecor said “I must be true to my God, my family, myself and those that have supported and believed in me,”

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John T Wilson (born January 29, 1861 in Riceville, Tennessee) was a trackworker/foreman and founder of the labor union  Order of Railroad Trackmen later known as the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes.

Early Years
John Was born in Riceville, Tennessee and raised on a farm. He started working on the railroad at a young age and worked for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway and was foreman at 26 years of age by the time he founded the Order of Railroad Trackman.

Freddie N Sipmson
Freddie Simpson (born September 22, 1945) is a former American labor union leader.

Born in Walnut Grove, Missouri, Fleming began working for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) in 1968, and joined the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees. He was soon elected as chair of his local union, and then became a system federation officer, serving for six years as general chair of the AT&SF system federation. He was elected as secretary-treasurer of the international union in 1986, and then as president of the union in 1990.

As leader of the union, Fleming campaigned for improved safety and security, protection of workers' rights, and better funding of Amtrak. He undertook the largest example of negotiated rulemaking at the time, producing a proposal to improve safety for rail maintenance workers. In 1995, he was additionally elected as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. In 2004, he retired, due to poor health.

Jack A. Schaap
Jack S Schaap (born 1958) is a former past of First Baptist Church (Hammond, Indiana)