INDIANA — Democrat Destiny Wells on Monday announced that she’s running for Indiana attorney general. It’s the party executive, lawyer, and veteran’s second bid for public office. She lost a 2022 race for secretary of state.
Wells said incumbent Republican Todd Rokita has used his powers “in an abusive way” — and said that as attorney general, she’d “get back to serving Hoosiers” instead of using the office as a “platform for national talking points.”
The campaign will focus on medical privacy, workers’ rights, and ethical standards, according to Wells.
She criticized Rokita’s use of subpoena-like investigative demands for gender transition-related care, directed toward multiple Hoosier medical providers.
The office’s work, Wells stated, “is not supposed to be an overzealous witch hunt.”
She also said it’s time for a “fresh look” at how the office can better serve residents — and proposed a new division dedicated to labor law. Wells continued, “The office would work with other state agencies and local law enforcement to crack down on wage theft and worker misclassification.
And Wells said she’d “restore the highest ethical standard” to the office — drawing a stark contrast between herself and Rokita.
She noted that Rokita became the second straight attorney general to earn a reprimand from the Indiana Supreme Court for his televised comments about Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard. In 2020, predecessor Curtis Hill’s law license was suspended for 30 days for committing the criminal act of battery and for violating other professional conduct rules.
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