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When Indiana Gov. Mike Braun arrives for a big-ticket fundraiser in his honor at one of Hammond’s premier spots, Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. and whoever joins him will be jeering Braun on.

McDermott told the Post-Tribune Monday that a friend alerted him to Braun’s fundraiser at The Banc, a recently completed $20 million mixed-use development. He didn’t feel any particular way about it, though he wondered why someone who had nothing to do with The Banc would choose it as a venue, he said.

Then a second friend who called him later in the day let him know the price of admission, and where he didn’t care before, the eye-watering ticket price crawled under his skin, he said.

“Politicians have fundraisers all the time, but $10,000? I was just stewing,

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