Protestors criticize Braun's redistricting plan outside Hammond fundraiser

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As Armando Corpus joyfully blew his kazoo on the corner of Hohman Avenue and Fayette Street in Hammond Tuesday evening, he wondered what the donors were eating inside the digs across the street.

Corpus, of Highland, is the chef for the St. Joseph Catholic Church soup kitchen down the block from The Banc, where the NWI Development Group and Republican Indiana Victory Committee PAC hosted a $10,000-a-plate dinner for Governor Mike Braun. For the 200 people who come through his chow line, $10,000 “would do a lot of good.”

“In a city struggling to recover, it’s so effing rude,” Corpus said of the dinner. “Every opportunity we have to defy this regime, we should take it.”

Around 30 protestors braved the frigid weather outside the nearly $20 milli