Seymour’s Trish Whitcomb has announced plans to run for House District Seat 69.
Whitcomb’s worked in Indiana politics in various capacities, including as the president of the Indiana Federation of Democratic Women, and as the campaign manager in 2012 for the former state superintendent of public instruction, Glenda Ritz.
She planned to run for the chair of Indiana’s Democratic Party in 2021 but withdrew when her son died shortly after.
She’s also worked as the executive director of the Indiana Retired Teachers Association.
The daughter of Edgar D. Whitcomb, who was Indiana’s governor from 1969 to 1973, Trish Whitcomb will run as a Democrat for the House seat. Her father was a Republican.
She publicly criticized current District 69 Representative Republican Jim Lucas in a letter published in the Seymour Tribune this summer. The letter faults his support of policy allowing guns in schools and his arrest on charges of drunken driving .
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Lucas won the election for district 69 in 2022, which means the seat will be up again in 2024. He won with 73 percent of the vote against Democratic opponent Chad Harmon.
District 69 covers parts of Bartholomew, Jackson, Scott, and Washington Counties.
Whitcomb’s announcement said her campaign will kick off Thursday at Mellencamp Plaza in Seymour – and invites Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to attend.
