Todd Young for Congress – Take Back Your Congress
Oh Baron, you made it so easy for Todd. The only video he had to shoot for this was of him sitting at a desk. You did all the hard work. So kind!
Remember November!
h/t default2freedom
Dan Coats’ television ad ‘Judgment’ has been on the air for almost a week and campaign momentum continues to grow. Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the Dan Coats for Indiana Law Enforcement Coalition. Citing national security as a top issue, over 100 members of the law enforcement community including sheriffs, patrol officers and prosecutors have joined together to support Dan’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate.
In a web video available here, Wayne County Sheriff Matt Strittmatter, Co-Chair of the Law Enforcement Coalition, cites as one of his major concerns “the very real threats facing our nation from terrorists.” He adds, “As our Senator, Dan Coats will fight the extremely dangerous attempt by President Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress to transport terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States – and house them right next door to Indiana in Thomson, Illinois. If this happens, the terrorists could have the same legal rights as you and me.”
You can watch the video here. A full transcript of Sheriff Strittmatter’s remarks are below. A full release will come later today.
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(The following post was written by Micah Clark and appeared in the American Family Association of Indiana Weekly Newsletter)
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One of the biggest responses I have received from readers of this email in the last month came about after I mentioned Senator Richard Lugar’s vote in favor of Elana Kagan and talk of whether he should be challenged in the Republican Primary.
Talk of challenges to Senator Lugar in the 2012 Republican Primary has become a hot topic of discussion in some political circles. Some see a challenge to the longest serving Republican member of US Senate (34 years) as a fool’s game. In light of the recent Arizona primary results, there may be evidence that taking on a legendary figure is a lot harder than some think. That does not mean that discussion or consideration of a challenge is akin to blasphemy, but that is how the establishment seem to be reacting. This is very interesting in light of Indiana’s most recent primary.
An article in the state’s largest newspaper by Matthew Tully titled, “Far-Right Attack on Lugar Would Be Just Wrong” went to an interesting source in the defense of Senator Lugar. (By the way, just out of curiosity I need to ask Matthew, whom I talk with often, if he has ever written an article with a title saying anything about the far left being wrong.) Tully quoted former Director of the Republican Party, Luke Messer, as a defense of Lugar’s 84% record of support in voting with the party this year. Messer stated that Lugar is “deeply respected by Republicans.”
The irony of this goes to the very reason why so many in the base of the GOP are upset with Senator Lugar. Luke Messer nearly defeated Congressman Dan Burton in May, in part, by saying that the Congressman had been there too long. Burton has been a Congressman six years less than Lugar has been a Senator. Yet, Messer does not seem to have the same concerns about Richard Lugar’s 34 years. There’s a difference, of course, between Lugar and Burton. Representative Burton is a consistent conservative. Yet, when he had five challengers in May, no one in the Indianapolis Star or the political establishment, and certainly not Luke, the former State Party leader, spoke of Dan Burton as an untouchable legendary Hoosier icon who deserved respect and a free pass through the primary.
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National security has become a front burner issue in the U.S. Senate race after the release of ‘Judgment’ – Dan Coats’ first television ad of the fall campaign season. In the ad, and on the road this week, Dan has been discussing the contrast between his vigilance and record of service and incumbent Congressman Brad Ellsworth’s dangerously naïve national security record.
Visiting with veterans at VFW Post 9820 in South Bend yesterday, Dan said Congressman Ellsworth’s votes on the Guantanamo Bay issue constitutes “poor judgment on his part, and another in a long list of votes and decisions that pretty much rubber-stamped whatever the Obama-Pelosi agenda called for.”
While Dan has been consistent in his message – that closing Guantanamo Bay’s detention facility and transporting detainees to the United States where they could have the same rights as Americans is wrong – Congressman Ellsworth has been all over the map attempting to distract, deflect and ignore the issue the important difference of opinion on this issue.
First Congressman Ellsworth rubberstamped the plans to transfer terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States then he said he didn’t, then he said he did again.
So is that a flip-flop-flip?
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On Tuesday’s show, we debunked the “Party of No” mantra the Democrats have thrown about willy-nilly about the Republicans. We talk about the:
- Paul Ryan’s Roadmap
- John Boehner’s “Five Steps President Obama Can Take To Help Our Economy Create Jobs”
- 50 health care solutions that Republicans offered, but were hidden in committee
We also talked with my friend and Florida political consultant, Jacob Perry, about the primary results in Florida and the prospects for Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Allen West in November.
You can find previous episodes of “Gillespie” archived here.
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We are pleased to announce that Hoosier Access will be a Co-Sponsor of the 9-12 Rally to be held in Washington DC on Sept, 12th 2010! We were honored to be asked to be a co-sponsor of this major event and important rally. It is imperative that we hold our elected leaders accountable. This rally continues that goal. Our government is out of control with wasteful spending, bloated budgets (and non-budgets!) as well as implementing programs that continue intrude on our freedoms that poll after poll show, the American people just don’t want.
Below you will see all the information for the Taxpayer March in DC. If you can make it out to this event I would highly recommend it!
This event will be organized by the same coalition that organized the original 9/12 March on Washington — including FreedomWorks, Tea Party Patriots, National Taxpayers Union, The Institute for Liberty and a host of other great free market groups from around the country.
Who: FreedomWorks and allied conservative groups
What: 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington, DC – 2010
When: Sep. 12th, 2010, 10:00am until 5:00pm
Where: The Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol building (MAP)
Why: To protest big government and support lower taxes, less government and more freedom
I will be in DC the week of this event and am looking forward to it! Be on the look out for the Hoosier Access banner as well!
Hoosier Access is pleased to bring you this exclusive op-ed by U.S. House of Representatives member Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN 6).
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Providing Small Business Owners with Certainty
By Rep. Mike Pence
Unemployment in Indiana is at 10.2 percent, and higher in many eastern Indiana counties. Families are hurting in the city and on the farm.
Hoosier families I talk with are anxious about this economy. They are concerned about runaway spending in Washington. Most of all, they are worried about jobs.
In Indiana and across the country, we need more good-paying jobs. We need Washington to foster a climate in which small businesses have the opportunity to innovate and to expand.
Instead, the opposite is happening. Job creators are discouraged, confused and waiting to see what Washington will do next.
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with more than 50 small business owners from across eastern Indiana. As I listened to the folks at that meeting, one word kept popping up: uncertainty. Job creator after job creator said that uncertainty in Washington is affecting the decision-making process in the private sector. Small business owners are unsure of what Washington will do next, and rather than take on new payroll or expand operations they decide to stick with the status quo.
These job creators expressed in clear terms that the problem with our economy is not a shortage of ideas, individuals with dreams or would-be entrepreneurs. The problem is that looming tax hikes, increasing regulation, escalating government intervention, and skyrocketing debt have created widespread uncertainty, limited available credit, and effectively frozen investment and hiring.
The American people know that at our core we are a country built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work forged a nation of economic prosperity. We need to get back to an approach that will bring certainty to our economy and encourage the kind of investment that will put America back to work.
To start, we need to get spending under control. Massive government spending has failed to alleviate our economic woes. Instead, it has intensified them. Since President Obama took office, 3.6 million Americans have lost their jobs.
In that same period of time, Washington Democrats have spent nearly $5.6 trillion – $292 billion per month. A $1.3 trillion annual budget this year and a $13 trillion national debt with no plan to bring spending under control are crowding out private investment and impeding economic growth.
Additionally, Democrats are poised, in the midst of that spending spree, to allow what could be the largest tax increase in American history to take effect on January 1, 2011. Unless Congress takes action before years end, taxes will increase by $3.8 trillion next year. Small business owners are concerned about whether taxes are going to go up on January 1, and by how much they may increase.
Instead of job-killing tax hikes, the American people want a new approach that focuses on job creation and gets runaway federal spending under control.
Today, uncertainty is the enemy of our prosperity in America. It is time to give job creators the stability they need to usher in a new era of economic growth in America.
How Obama Got Elected… Interviews With Obama Voters
And the worst thing is their stupidity took everyone else down too.
Two words: REMEMBER NOVEMBER!
(h/t HoosierEm)
This afternoon, incumbent Congressman Ellsworth plans to enlist a leading advocate for the rights of terrorists to defend moving Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil in a conference call with reporters. But before we get to that, let’s re-cap the past few days.
- On Friday, Dan Coats released a “smart ad” titled ‘Judgment’ contrasting Congressman Brad Ellsworth’s dangerously naïve record on national security with Dan’s vigilance and record of service by specifically highlighting the Obama-Ellsworth plan to close Guantanamo Bay prison and transfer terrorist detainees to the United States for prosecution and incarceration.
- The Ellsworth’s kneejerk reaction was to distract and ignore the real issue: did he or did he not cast votes the New York Times said were “a step forward for President Obama’s efforts to close the Guantanamo prison.” The Congressional record says he did, is the record wrong?
- In Jeffersonville yesterday, Congressman Ellsworth followed up by demanding the Coats campaign pull the ad off the air (we won’t) saying it was “misleading” regarding his thoughts on Guantanamo. He then later said, “If and when Gitmo is shut down, I have full confidence in our federal prisons.” Sounds like he’s on board with the plan, so how is the ad wrong again?
- Later in the day, the Ellsworth campaign announced a conference call to be held today with Morris Davis, a former prosecutor at the Guantanamo Bay facility. Guess if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Here’s some background on the Ellsworth campaign’s star-witness.
Although this morning’s Courier & Press says Davis has “become a harsh critic of the military commissions” like those at Guantanamo Bay since leaving his post, in a November 2009 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Davis wrote, “Military commissions satisfy the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, which are the source of the detainees’ rights. The rights in federal courts surpass the Geneva Conventions requirements and give detainees more than their status and the law demand.”
The Washington Post reported in 2008 that Davis “initially defended the commissions process” while on the government payroll. So, Davis went from fan to critic back to fan? Will the real Morris Davis please stand up?
We can only go by his own words, in which Davis admits military commissions are just fine and that bringing terrorist detainees to the United States would give them rights that “surpass the Geneva Conventions” and give them “more than their status and the law demand.”
Furthermore, Davis is probably best known for what he did on April 28, 2008, in Guantanamo Bay – testifying on behalf of Yemeni born Salim Ahmed Hamdan – more commonly known as “bin Laden’s driver.”
But now he’s defending Congressman Ellsworth who has rubberstamped the Obama plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay and transport terrorist detainees to the United States where they could have the same rights as American citizens! Don’t take our word for it, just read what Davis wrote above.
So the big question is this: if the ad was wrong then why is Congressman Ellsworth tapping a proponent of legal rights for terror detainees to defend his bad votes?
I received this following information from the Lake County GOP:
The Lake County Democrat machine has mounted an offense to remove 2 of our candidates that are expected to win this November. These wins would be the first county wide win(s) for our Republican Party in decades. Fearing that these candidates will win and also bring many other Republican wins county wide, they are now attempting to take away voters’ choice of having to vote for a qualified candidate or an unqualified candidate.
Their challenge is weak. They state that our Republican Party resolution that our Republican Precinct Committeemen voted on in 2009 was only good as long as John Curley was alive. We have yet to find any Republican Party rule which limits the duration of such a resolution to the tenure of office of the individual who occupies the office at the time the resolution was adopted. No one will find such a rule because none exists.
The Lake County Board of Elections where Hank Adams’ challenge will be heard is a 3-2 Board with 3 Democrats and only 2 Republicans. They can in essence vote to uphold this challenge no matter how right we are and how flawed their challenge is. If that happens, I do not have the specifics yet, but I believe there would have to be some sort of filing in a court of law which would then get very expensive for the party and candidates to defend. And seeing how it would be in a court of where there would be a Democratic judge, we may lose anyway.
The Indiana State Election Board is where Mr. Fine’s challenge will be heard. That commission is a 2-2 board, and I believe there is no one to break a tie. Mr. Dan Dumezich is the newly appointed President of that Commission and Mr. Jon Myers is a newly appointed Republican member of that Commission. Although both are Republicans, without at least 1 democratic vote, this could end in a tie and need to be appealed elsewhere.
I have been in contact with the Indiana Republican Party who is well aware of the challenge that was filed in Indianapolis and Lake County. Since this could affect many other counties besides Lake, I have been told they will be working with the 2 Republican members of the commission in Indianapolis.
Time is of the essence though because if this is not resolved by September 3rd, I am told that these 2 candidates’ names will not appear on the November ballot. So they are essentially guilty until proven innocent.
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