Jefferson Shreve Running For IN-6th, Hopes For Balanced Budget

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INDIANAPOLIS — Not even a year after mounting an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Indianapolis, businessman Jefferson Shreve is running to succeed Greg Pence in representing Hoosiers in Indiana’s 6th congressional district.

That district encompasses areas of the state from far southeastern Indianapolis down to Jefferson County, up to Delaware County, and over to the southeast border with Ohio.

Shreve, a Republican, is running on a wide base of issues, at the center of which is a desire to make things more affordable for Hoosiers.

“Inflation is a problem,” Shreve told All Indiana Politics. “And it arises from the government spending that we have run wild with over the last many years. Housing is part-and-partial with that. You can’t keep people in communities without housing. You have to find ways to make it affordable.”

One way he says that can happen is by reigning in government spending with a balanced budget. Shreve said he is all for passing a balanced budget amendment to the constitution if elected.

Shreve is also all for completing the border wall in an effort to secure the southern border.

“We need a physical barrier that runs across the southern border and we gotta compete that job and the fix our broken immigration system,” he said.

He spoke frankly saying that anyone in the country illegally needs to be deported or go through the channels to become a U.S. citizen. Shreve another part of the economic problem is that the country cannot sustain people who are in the U.S. illegally, adding that the country’s education and healthcare system cannot afford it.

Shreve is running against Democratic candidate Cynthia Wirth and Libertarian James Sceniak. Wirth ran against Pence in the last congressional election and lost.