Former state lawmaker Terry Goodin is Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jennifer McCormick’s pick for running mate.

McCormick choosing the conservative Democrat is rankling some in the party.

Goodin most recently worked for the U-S Department of Agriculture. He’s a former school superintendent and ten-term state lawmaker.

At the Statehouse, he voted to ban gay marriage in 2011 and was a regular vote against abortion.

Now, he says his gay marriage vote was wrong and that the U-S Supreme Court’s reversal of abortion rights was an “all-out assault.

McCormick, a former Republican, waves aside concerns about discontent among Democrats.

”“We are a huge tent. And in that big tent comes a lot of ideas anda lot of opinions and a lot of big hearts and a lot of big personalities. And just like a family, we will come together.”

Goodin will have competition for the nomination at the Indiana Democratic Party convention. Two others — Bob Kern and Clif Marsiglio  — have also filed to run for lieutenant governor.