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Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock's attempt to block Chrysler's bankruptcy last year has been the central issue in this year's race for the office.
Pete Buttigieg, a South Bend businessman and the Democratic nominee for treasurer, has criticized Mourdock's effort to block the proceeding, saying thousands of Indiana autoworkers would have lost their jobs had Chrysler been forced into liquidation.
Mourdock, a Republican running for his second term as treasurer, has firmly defended the lawsuit. He said state pensioners, who were secured creditors holding Chrysler debt, were stripped of their rights during the government-brokered bankruptcy.
As a state official who took an oath to uphold the law, Mourdock said he had to oppose what he...