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AWB reporting from 3rd District Caucus in Columbia City:

Caucus is voting again with Stuzman, Thonert and Wright to replace Souder in Congress.

Thonert and Wright apparently left the caucus without ‘signing off’ to replace Souder on the November Ballot.

2nd Round results from AWB, reporting from 3rd District Caucus in Columbia City:

204 needed to win

Marlin Stutzman–229

Liz Brown–39

Ryan Elijah–46

Bob Thomas–17

Randy Borror–69

AWB Reporting from 3rd District Congressional Caucus in Columbia City:

Round 1 voting:

Need 21 to stay on after first ballot. 204 to win.

Marlin Stutzman–180

Liz Brown–46

Randy Borror–67

Ryan Elijah–43

Lonnie Powell–1

Greg Dickman–0

Mike Foster–5

Rachel Grubb–1

Richard Thonert–0

Soctt Welsh–0

Bob Morris–16

Dennis Wright–11

Joe Schomburg–4

Bob Thomas–21

Wes Culver–11

AWB reporting from 3rd District Caucus in Columbia City:

407 Delegates here. Voting starts soon.

AWB reports from the 3rd District Congressional Caucus in Columbia City:

Precinct Committeeman Dave Dupee, from Allen County, made a motion to have the same candidate be nominated in the voting for both the Special Election and General Election. They are currently in recess and are discussing rules.

Motion was withdrawn.

Voting may start in half an hour or so.

Stay tuned…AWB will be calling in and posting results as they happen from the 3rd District Caucus in Columbia City.

This is getting more confusing my the minute. Here’s the new instructions.

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FWOb is reporting:

The 3rd District Caucus will be moved from the Columbia Joint High School to the Indian Springs Middle School due to water in the basement of the high school that has shorted out the electrical system

Click here for a Google map.

Maybe all the rumormongers will read this and come to the conclusion that until they know the facts, maybe they should keep their mouths shut.

House rules on flying for candidates for Congress are different than for the US Senate.

Mark Souder and Brian Sikma from Hoosier Access are talking House rules. Stutzman flew during a Senate campaign under Senate campaign rules. Sikma should have checked his facts before spouting off in hopes of deflecting Sutzman support to his boss, Wes Culver. Sikma stated here:

The most important of those updated rules states that a candidate/campaign is now required to reimburse – at competitive commercial rates, or close to competitive commercial rates – all air travel service providers.

He then referenced a document he found on Barnes and Thornburg’s web site, but it was the wrong reference as it did not relate to Senate campaigns.

The Stutzman campaign today will be disclosing the invoices of the flights that are in-kind contributions by both pilots for a total of 5 flights between the two in the 2nd quarter report. Both are under the contribution limitations for donations of $4800 per couple, $2400 per individual.  The Code of Federal Regulations, section 11CFR113.5 explains this (link – text file).

(d) In-kind contribution. Except as provided in 11 CFR 100.79, the unreimbursed value of transportation provided to any campaign traveler is an in-kind contribution from the service provider to the candidate or political committee on whose behalf, or with whom, the campaign traveler traveled. Such contributions are subject to the reporting requirements, limitations and prohibitions of the Act.

It is further explained in lay terms in the National Business Aviation Association’s, (NBBA) Carriage of Elected officials Handbook. Below are the relevant sections, click to enlarge the image to a readable size.

Here’s how I see this playing out, up to the last vote, but not including it. Nothing scientific here.

Eliminated in the first round with less than 5% of the vote each:

Lonnie Powell
Greg Dickman
Mike Foster
Rachel Grubb
Richard Thonert
Scott Welsh
Bob Morris
Dennis Wright
Joe Schomburg

Eliminated in the second round with less than 10% of the vote

Bob Thomas
Wes Culver
Ryan Elijah

Eliminated in the third round

Randy Borror

And that will leave…

Liz Brown
Marlin Stutzman

What’s your spin?

It’s called, Hoosier Truth.

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