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Mike Sodrel is the same guy Southern Indiana has grown to know and respect for many years, but this time around he has a renewed determination to improve the future. Mike is on a mission for a great return to liberty. Mike believes that our country must return to the important principles upon which our republic was founded. We must educate ourselves and others on these principles; we must never forget and should continuously study the Constitution of the United States of America. Mike is on a mission to improve the unnerving future our children and grandchildren.
Southern Indiana residents have benefited in many ways from the success of Mike Sodrels keen business expertise, common sense sophistication, and his passion to as a student of history. Under Mikes leadership, with the help of his family, Sodrel Truck Lines, Free Enterprise Motor Coach, and Sodrel Logistics (SOLO) these businesses grew, from less than 100 to over 550 employees. Using his success in the business world, Mike sought to benefit communities throughout Southern Indiana and the Midwest. Mike has been recognized as the Southern Indiana Small Business Person of the Year, by his fellow businessmen and women, and elected as Chairman of the Southern Indiana Chamber of Commerce. He has received many community leadership awards and has been honored with distinction by several service organizations.
Southern Indiana sent Mike to the U.S. Congress to fight for lower taxes and smaller government, stronger economy with good-paying jobs, and a safer America. His business experience counted when it came to making tough votes choosing whether a bill would help the economy, if a bill would create new jobs, whether many of these bills would keep taxes low. What has encouraged Mike and inspired him to run a new campaign are the many times over the past year seeing Americans standing up in town halls, holding signs on street corners, and thousands walking on Washington demanding a smaller government. Never in his lifetime has Mike seen Americans ask for smaller government. Mike is inspired and invigorated by the passion he sees in others, which is the same passion he has held for years; to return to a smaller, Constitutional United States government.
Mike has served Southern Indiana and his country in many ways, including as a Staff Sergeant in the Indiana Army National Guard, U.S. Congressman, community leader and small businessman. More important than any of those life accomplishments is his relationship with God and his family. Mike has been married to his wife, Keta, for forty-two years now; they are the proud parents of two wonderful married children and seven beautiful granddaughters. Mike wants to pass onto his children, his granddaughters and their children an America that returns to the days of sacrificing for the next generation; so that they can live a better life, rather than stealing from the next generation as the Congresses and the government has done as of late.
A Few Words From Mike:
I was born on December 17,1945 in Louisville, KY. My parents brought me home to Wainwright Court in the Beechwood Housing Projects in New Albany, IN. Dad was a Tasty Bread truck driver in the morning and drove a mail truck in the evening. Mom and Dad got divorced when I was about 2 years old. After the divorce, Mom married Ed Keller. He was from from Georgetown, Indiana and was attending Purdue University Pharmacy School. When he graduated, we moved to Champaign, Illinois and lived over a drug store. Then back to New Albany to live on Olive Avenue, Indiana Avenue, State Street, Hill and Dale Subdivision in Sellersburg, Lilly Lane in New Albany, then 41st Avenue North in St. Petersburg, Florida ( in that order ). Before finishing the 6th grade, I attended State Street ( now Lillian Emery ), Fairmont Elementary, State Street ( again ), Sellersburg Elementary, Mt. Tabor and 74th Street Elementary in St. Petersburg, Florida.Then on to Tyrone Jr. High School, then back to Indiana, to attend New Albany High School ( NAHS ) , then back to Florida to Dixie Hollins High School, THEN back to Indiana to graduate from NAHS. WHEW!!
Got my Chauffers License to drive a truck in December of 63. I went to Basic Training at Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri in March 67. On November 5 1967, I met Keta. I asked her to marry me on the first date. She said I was crazy and we married on the 24th.
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I was born in Manchester, KY on May 5th, 1949. My family had a restaurant and pool hall called Mark Deans Cafe in our hometown, Oneida, Kentucky. My parents divorced in 1963, which brought my mother, my sisters, my brother and I to Jeffersonville to live with our grandmother for the next 3 years. Senior year of High School, we moved to Park Place Apartments in Jeffersonville, where we lived until we all graduated from Jeffersonville High School. I met Mike in November of 1967. Six months after I graduated. I knew him 19 days before we got married at the Justice of the Peace. He asked me on the first date, but I had to think about it some. It only took that long because I had lost my birth certificate and had to drive to Frankfort, Kentucky to get it. Weve been married for over 40 years. We have two children and 7 granddaughters.
The rest..as they say, is history!
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