Diego Morales Wasted Huge Money on Unused Service

We start with the story that came out. That actually just came out this morning. It wasn't even available last night from the Indiana Capital Chronicle. Of course, we love the Indiana Capital Chronicle. It is another example of how a very powerful person in state government is in the legalized vote buying operation. We use that term legalized vote buying because that's exactly what goes on all over the place at the state level, the federal level, at the local level. What I'm talking about is where government takes money from you and gives it to a very select group of people or does things for a very select group of people that is designed to get their vote, designed to benefit a select group of people. If you are a ... I mean, you can't "buy a vote." You can't hand somebody money and say, "Vote for me." But you can do it through government projects, government resources, and that's what our government does. They take money from us and they give it to things that benefit select groups of people that they want to vote for them. Oftentimes, as we're about to talk about, it is horribly spent. It is unaccountable. It is wasteful. We get horrible bang for our buck. Let me tell you about the latest example of this. From the Indiana Capital Chronicle, our old pal and nobody does this better than him, Diego Morales, Indiana Secretary of State. The Secretary of State's office is in charge of auto dealers. It's one of the many things. We have told you, This is why the Indiana Secretary of State's race, we'll get into this with Greg Ballard later. The Secretary of State's race is so important because I think you can make a compelling case save for the governor of our state the Secretary of State's office is the second most important office in the entire state of Indiana. It oversees such a wide depth of stuff that's very important. Obviously, the two primary things that get all the attention are business licensure and elections. But the Secretary of State oversees a whole bunch of other things, including auto dealers. One of the things that Diego Morales and his office have done is spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money to provide "free" history reports on automobiles. When you are looking at an automobile, you go somewhere or a dealer will do this with you if you're trying to sell an automobile, they pull a history of the automobile. Was it an accident? What is the history of this automobile? Have things happened that I need to know about? What has gone on with this automobile so that I know if I'm purchasing it, I'm getting what's being presented to me? This is a private sector function. This is something the private sector does and does quite well. There was not some need for government to do it. Not some need that we can't get anywhere else. This is an act of the government taking money from people and giving it away to other people to provide a "free" service. Of course, it's 100% not free. You're paying for it because the government wants you to think that they're doing something on your behalf. When in reality, as we're about to get into, all they're doing is taking money from you, more hard-earned money, and they're giving you a horrible return on that money, doing something that's already being done quite well in the private sector. Diego Morales decided his office in a legalized vote buying operation because he wants you to be able to do this and go, "Oh, look at that Secretary of State. He lets me get the credit or gets the vehicle history report for free. Isn't he a great guy? Isn't he wonderful? Look at how he's caring about me." When in reality, we're all paying for it. What he did was he spent, he's already spent, according to the Capital Chronicle, more than $333,000 on a program that enables you to get the vehicle history report on a vehicle without charged you in the moment. Now, of course, you're being charged because it's your money that's being used. There's not a money factory or there's not a money farm that Diego grew this money out of the ground. It's money that comes into a division of his office, and he's spending it on this. It's your money. Once the money comes into the government, it is your money. He's using your money to do this. Now, what's fascinating is that the state, according to the Capital Chronicle, paid for the equivalent of 120,000 reports per year. That $333,000 was supposed to cover 120,000 reports at a cost of, what was it? It was roughly $2.80 a report, I believe is what they were going to pay. Now, this is what's fascinating. On the private sector side, that report will run you somewhere, I'm sorry, $2.38 per report is what the state was paying. They paid for, in advance, you get a discount if you pay in advance, they paid for 120,000 of these reports per year at $2.38 per report. In the private sector, that report would cost you somewhere between probably $20 and $25 to get the report on your own. Now, the problem with this is, well, of course, the problem is the private sector already does it, government shouldn't be doing, government should do things that people can't do for themselves. That should be the job of government and really the only job of government, like a military, the police, the fire, the roads, the sidewalks. Hey, that's something you can't really do on your own. It's a collective, right? It serves the collective community, not things that are already being done fine in the private sector. The state of Indiana paid $330,000 last year for 120,000 of these vehicle reports. The problem is only 2,150 people use them. Let me repeat that because this is the most government thing ever. When we talk about legalized vote buying, when we talk about waste, when we talk about unaccountable government, this is what we're talking about. I present to you exhibit A. The state paid for 120,000 of these reports according to the Indiana Capita Chronicle. The state used 2,150. That is almost 100, 118,000 of these reports that went unused that we paid for at $2.38 a piece. We paid for almost 118,000 reports that went unused. Let's do some math on this. Let's take 333,000, divide it by 2,150. I had to use a calculator to do that. I'm a product of the public education system. 333,000 divided by 2,150 is $154.88 per report. That's your government. That's your Indiana Secretary of State. By the way, this unaccountable bull crap is the stuff he's been pulling from day one for the past three, almost three and a half years now. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. No money to help you with property taxes. No money to backfill. Remember last year, we were going, "Oh, no, the state's broke." No money to pay our bills without raising taxes by a billion dollars. But the state had $333,000 to essentially throw away. By the way, price per unit, 2,150 vehicle reports between July 2025 and February 2026. Do you know how much that should have cost us at $2.38 a report if you just paid for them by the report? $5,100. What do we pay? $333,000. Almost $328,000 just thrown down the drain. No money to help you with necessities. No money to fix I-70 without six and a half billion dollars of tax increases, but we had plenty of money for this. By the way, none of these Republicans in the Statehouse are going to say a word about this. These people that are having aneurysms over Greg Ballard running as an independent, you're not going to hear a word from any of these people. They're not going to speak up because it's not about you. Any one of these Republican State House members or State Senate members that is bitching about Greg Ballard running as an independent, why don't you ask them? Why aren't they having this same fervor and passion for Diego Morales pissing away $300,000 plus of your money? Ask them that. See what they have to say about that. Another example of these people not caring at all about you or about your money, and there's never money to do the necessities. Fix the roads. Fund the schools. Never money for any of the necessities without raising your taxes, but there's plenty of money for Diego Morales to throw $300,000 away on unused vehicle reports. That's Indiana politics. That's Indiana government. That is your Indiana Republican Party.