Although she said “no” the first time she was asked to run for public office, Coumba Kebe changed her mind when, she said, the Indiana General Assembly ignored the pleas of advocates and instead gutted Medicaid.
Kebe, the owner of a home-health-care business, votes and follows politics but never considered herself the right person to run in an election. After seeing how cuts to programs like Medicaid hurt seniors and the aging population, she reconsidered.
“I feel like we’re at a point in our country, in our state, where it’s important to be transparent, to be honest and to tell people the truth, call out hypocrisy, and to be a voice of the people and work for people,” Kebe said. “So that’s why I’m doing this.”
