From the News & Tribune

Republican congressional candidate Mike Sodrel wants an independent committee to evaluate all political advertisements related to the campaign between himself and Democratic Party incumbent Baron Hill. He’s also proposing a series of 20 town hall style forums.

Hill responded to the proposals with a letter that didn’t address the specifics of either idea.

Sodrel’s proposal is an effort to raise the level of discourse during Indiana’s 9th District congressional race, a press release from the campaign said. Campaigns between the two in the last six years have featured a host of negative advertisements. Sodrel admits that 2006’s effort was “a pretty ugly campaign to behold.”

“Congressman Hill said he wanted to ‘elevate the level of discourse’ during this campaign, so my proposal to him will help accomplish that,” Sodrel said.

The cowardly congressman won’t have any of that, or this..

The second part of Sodrel’s proposal calls for 20 town hall-style debates, one in each county in the 9th Congressional District. Sodrel said he hopes Hill at least counters the offer.

Hill responded to that part of the request by saying that time is running out and that he already has commitments to which he has to attend.

From Hoosier Access

Baron Hill won’t let the 9th District have a peaceful election. He is counting on his lefty allies in Indianapolis, Washington, and San Francisco to run an unequaled campaign of negative attacks and personal smears to cover up his liberal voting record, snow over Hoosier voters, and send him back to Congress.

Your mailbox will overflow, your phone will never stop ringing, and your television will have nothing but non-stop negative ads if Baron has his way.

Hill’s liberal allies have already pledged $1.6 million in negative firebombing for the 9th District, and before it is all said and done they’ll easily spend three or four times that to try and send Baron back to Congress to continue voting the way they tell him to.

Baron Hill’s not about to agree to a bipartisan commission to assure a clean and positive campaign; he doesn’t want one.

Baron wants another repeat of 2006, and he first went negative on Mike Sodrel last year, when Sodrel wasn’t even a candidate yet.

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It’s going to be interesting to see what Montagano’s campaign will do in the 3^rd district with all of their new-found money.

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