#736 | Sunday, September 20, 2026 | The Political Spotlight

In this 736th episode of The Political Spotlight, Host Kristopher H. Bilbrey brings back an old favorite right up front: Winchester, Indiana! It all began with a Winchester Board of Works meeting that two sources sent to Bilbrey for very different reasons. While reviewing the meeting, something caught his attention—and suddenly, an old controversy came back to mind. That's right. Bilbrey revisits former Winchester Mayor Shon Byrum (D), the five bumbling Republicans who served on the Winchester City Council, and the disastrous decision that brought the "Winchester House" drug treatment facility to Winchester. Bilbrey recounts what he sees as Byrum's attempt to jump-start his political career by putting Volunteers of America (VOA)'s interests ahead of his responsibility to Winchester's citizens. But that was roughly TEN YEARS AGO! VOA has been gone from Winchester for years. So what brought all this back now? Bilbrey shares what caught his attention at the Winchester Board of Works meeting and takes a well-deserved, long-awaited victory lap! From there, the spotlight shifts back to Muncie, where the City Council is preparing for three key meetings about the proposed 2027 budget. All three meetings are scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. ET: Meeting 1 - Tuesday, September 22, 2026... Meeting 2 - Thursday, September 24, 2026... Meeting 3 - Wednesday, September 30, 2026... The next couple of weeks in Muncie will be critical, and Bilbrey explains why citizens need to pay attention! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ VIDEO version of Ep 736: https://youtube.com/live/Dx0F4IssGXE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe: https://bit.ly/subTPS Become a Member: https://bit.ly/MembershipTPS Merch: https://bit.ly/Spotlight_Merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Political Spotlight Airs LIVE (Sunday — Thursday at 9 p.m. ET) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Audio Podcast: https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm & All Other Podcast Hosting Sites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with The Political Spotlight team on social media: Facebook 1: https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 Facebook 2: https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight Twitter: https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚨🚨🚨 'The Political Spotlight' LIVE Sunday - Thursday @ 9 p.m. (ET) Hosted by: Kristopher H. Bilbrey Produced by: Kate Thornburg & Brandon Rudd https://www.youtube.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://rumble.com/c/ThePoliticalSpotlight https://ThePoliticalSpotlight.fireside.fm https://www.facebook.com/Bilbrey318 https://www.facebook.com/PoliticalSpotlight318 https://www.tiktok.com/@ThePoliticalSpotlight https://x.com/BilbreyLIVE Email: [email protected] © 2026 Mud Creek Studio. —