"The taxpayers in Porter County can save hundreds of thousands of taxpayer money, if only our elected Republicans demand a retraction and an apology from Jeremy Rivas ."
Two years to the day after a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of Joe Biden as the nation’s next president, a Portage attorney filed a tort claim against Porter County Council President Jeremy Rivas asking for $300,000 in damages for defamation because of a Facebook post on Oct. 30 in which Rivas called him “an insurrectionist” for traveling to Washington, D.C.