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http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politic...ernor/27088667/

A state senator from northwest Indiana plans to officially announce Tuesday she plans to run for governor in 2016, saying she offers Indiana voters statewide a new choice.

"Somebody needs to stand for the Democratic, progressive point of view, because in that last election there's almost half the people in the state of Indiana whose voices were not recognized," state Sen. Karen Tallian, D-Ogden Dunes, told The Times of Munster in a story published Sunday. "I am a clearer choice, and a more progressive choice."

The 10-year state lawmaker, appointed to the Senate in 2005 after her predecessor resigned to become town clerk-treasurer, has since won three four-year terms and is the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. She said Indiana voters deserve better than a rerun of 2012, when Republican Gov. Mike Pence defeated Democrat John Gregg, a former Indiana House speaker, in a close race.