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Seems after a certain smarta** blogger infiltrated the Baron’s town hall meeting in Seymour with a “media credential” and a tape recorder and posted it for all to hear, the Baron’s campaign has been in a tizzy over who gets to record the Congressman’s comments. At first it was “credentialed media” and now it’s “pre-registered media” - in other words - the left-wing MSM such as the Ryerson Rag and the Louisville C-J that isn’t afraid to line up and kiss the Baron’s ring.

Hoosier Access has brought you the saga of Indiana 9th District State GOP Chairman Larry Shickles and his request to have lie detectors at the Jasper debate. The latest is allowing the use of voice analysis. Now the Baron, using his court jester Dean Alan Johnson of Vincennes University, has pulled the plug and decided that, once again, his loyal MSM subjects shall be the only ones permitted to record the Baron’s likeness and voice.

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As I noted on Sunday, the gloves have come off. Mike Sodrel’s surge in recent polling has terrified Baron Hill and his liberal allies in Washington, and has spurred them to return to the same old negative campaigning we saw in 2006.

Mike Sodrel, as I noted before, made a proposal to avoid such unpleasantness, but was rudely rebuffed by Baron Hill. A positive campaign wouldn’t suit Baron it seems; he says that negative ads work.

Following their opening salvo of negative mail containing lies about the Fair Tax, Baron’s allies in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee have put forward this ad:

Let’s fact check this, shall we?

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 Baron’s been exceptionally transparent with his phony pandering of late, and the Indiana Daily Student calls him on it:

Lately, Baron Hill has been looking more like a populist than an economist. This was evident in his support of the Commodity Markets Transparency and Accounting Act, which recently passed through the U.S. House of Representatives.

The bill is supposed to increase regulation on oil speculators and lower the price of gasoline. The problem is that speculators aren’t to blame for the dramatic rise in oil and gas prices.

Hill would have us believe that this bill will significantly lower the price of oil, but almost any economist would disagree.

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At a recent town hall meeting, Baron Hill proclaimed repeatedly his support for oil drilling:

Baron’s conversion did not exactly happen on the road to Damascus and it is not very believable. Once again, his assertions here in Indiana do not match his voting record in Washington.

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For the first six years that he was in Congress, the Republican majority effectively allowed Baron Hill to hide his liberal policy views from Hoosiers.

For the fourteen years they controlled Congress, the Republicans never once raised taxes, so the only votes Baron Hill had to cast were in opposition to tax cuts.

And, make no mistake, Baron Hill voted plenty of times in opposition to keeping taxes low or to lowering them further.

In 2001, he voted twice (here and here) against the tax cuts passed in 2001 (and also against making them permanent).

As early as 1999, Baron Hill voted twice against (here and here) the Financial Freedom Act of 1999, which included (PDF warning) a 10% across-the-board cut in income tax rates, the abolition of the Alternative Minimum Tax, lower the marriage penalty in the tax code, cut capital gains taxes, abolish the Death Tax, and a 100% tax deduction for personal (non-employer-provided) health insurance costs. The bill also expanded Medical Savings Accounts, included deductions for long-term care insurance, and a deduction for anyone having to take care of an elderly family member.

Remember all of those health care tax deductions the next time that you hear Baron Hill talking about how he wants to help Hoosiers pay for the rising costs of health care. Nine years ago, when costs were much less, he could have voted to help keep them low. He didn’t.

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The News & Tribune has an article about Baron Hill’s efforts to close the so-called speculator loophole:

Rep. Baron Hill, D-Ind., plans on pushing stricter regulations for oil speculators when Congress reconvenes in September.

The idea of cracking down on oil speculators may sound like “Washington speak,” but the congressman feels it could result in lowering prices at the pump for the short-term, said Katie Moreau, communications director for Hoosiers for Hill, his campaign organization.

“What Baron wants to see happen is his bill enacted to put back regulations that were taken out in 2000,” Moreau said.

The basis of a measure Hill is pushing — which Moreau said will be supported by several other Congress members and will be presented to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi next month — is that speculators are artificially driving up the price of oil based on a presumed shortage.

As I have already noted in extensive posts, this is a crock.

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It’s before Labor Day, and Baron Hill has his first campaign ad of the season out. I saw it twice last night on Fox News (which is pretty surprising in and of itself).

Let’s just say that the ad, while ostensibly positive, is about as disingenuous as any run in the 9th District in any prior race.

First of all, let me say that Baron has a remarkably empty and uncluttered desk for a member of Congress who has supposedly been so busy for the past 19 or so months.

Transcript:

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As blogger, and contributor to Hoosier Access, Scott Tibbs has already noted, Baron Hill doesn’t have much of a problem with Barack Obama or the Obamassiah’s extremely radical position in favor of leaving babies that survive botched abortions to die.

Baron was on WGCL in Bloomington on August 8, and Scott called in to ask him about this position. Baron took exception to being criticized for his endorsement of Barack Obama:

Now that endorsement was also made in the face of the clear support of establishment and rank-and-file Democrats in the 9th District for Hillary Clinton.

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Over the weekend, I blogged about Baron’s new-found opposition to oil price speculators.

Baron now says that there is a loophole in the law that needs to be closed, and this loophole is responsible for the rise in gas prices since Baron was elected (up about 75% as of this posting).

Baron, of course, promised when he ran in 2006 that he would reduce gas prices if sent back to Congress, something that quite clearly has not happened.

In fact, Baron has said that anyone that points out his campaign promise to lower gas prices is an “adversary.”

But anyway, I noted that such opposition to oil speculators was interesting, given that the speculator legislation Baron now denounces came before a committee Baron Hill sat on, and Baron voted for the legislation that created the very speculator loophole he now says he wants to close.

The creation of this loophole was sought by now-defunct energy giant Enron; heck, the loophole itself is frequently dubbed the “Enron loophole” for just that reason.

It turns out, after a bit of digging, that Enron was a contributor to Baron Hill’s reelection campaign.

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Under heavy fire for promising in his 2006 election bid to lower gas prices and failing to deliver, Baron Hill has made much of the menace of “speculators.”

“Speculators,” Baron says, are largely responsible for the price of gasoline. Without them, he says, gasoline would cost $2.75.

Now, when Baron was running in 2006, gasoline cost $2.16 a gallon. Why Baron would think that amount was too high then, but that $2.75 would be okay now, is a mystery to me.

But I digress. Baron Hill obviously thinks that speculators are a major cause for the high price of gasoline.

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It seems our co-conspirator Dan Turkette - the Angry White Boy of Fort Wayne - has stirred the pot with regards to Baron “Don’t Tape Me, Bro” Hill’s “Town Hall Meetings”. It appears Baron Hill doesn’t like answer questions when he is not already aware. Would Baron Hill’s campaign stoop so low as to provide cue cards for those attending?

Maybe. This from a handout provided to AWB:
“Only credentialed media will be permitted to record– audibly and visually– at Congressman Baron Hill’s official events. Credentialed media are those members of the media associated with major news outlets, their affiliates or recognized television, radio or print sources”

In other words - f*** off bloggers, these events are for the uber-liberal MSM only. Unless you’re a moonbat blogger on the State Dem party payroll then its OK.

From Baron Hill’s response to Mike Sodrel’s initiative for a positive campaign and town hall debates across the district:

I am also disappointed that at this stage in the campaign you still have not explained to the people of Southern Indiana why after the last election you closed your official offices early. This left Hoosier families without congressional representation. You also refused to transfer constituent casework, all the while continuing to collect taxpayer’s money in the form of salaries for you and your staff. Quite honestly, I believe this is a poor reflection of your real desire to be a public servant.

When you apologize for closing the offices early, abandoning the citizens of Indiana’s Ninth Congressional Distict and taking a salary for work that you did not complete, we can then sit down and have a productive conversation about the campaign.

These are particularly egregious lies that Baron has been peddling ever since late 2006. They are manifestly and demonstrably untrue, and are a distortion of history.

First of all, regulations set by the General Services Administration require the vacating of “satellite” Congressional offices within the district well before a defeated Congressman leaves office, usually by December 1st. The phone lines to these offices are cut, the office furniture in them is moved out, and rent and utility payments are concluded.

Those offices are closed not by the wish of the defeated Congressman, but by the edict of a government agency and some Federal bureaucrats over which the defeated Congressman has no control. Baron should be familiar with this; his offices were ordered to be vacated by the GSA in 2004, just as Sodrel’s were in 2006.

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