Posts Tagged “Marlin Stutzman”

The Democrats have been circumventing the legislative process and shoving things through left and right. They’ve been consistently voting to “suspend the rules” in order to bring bills to the floor for a vote that haven’t been voted on in committee.

Such was the case with the Dream Act. Congressman Stutzman had been feverishly working between not only an extremely busy day of votes, meetings and interviews, but in addition still trying to hire staff, move into an office and be on the ready for anything the Democrats decide to throw our way. Read the rest of this entry »

A new poll is out. It was contracted by the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics with SurveyUSA to conduct a statewide poll in Indiana and one in Indiana’s third congressional district. Read the rest of this entry »

Charlotte Weybright is a typical good sheeple democrat. She never waivers from the party line, in spite of the obvious. Earlier this week she wrote the following: Read the rest of this entry »

Sylvia Smith is bemoaning the fact that the Stutzman campaign reached out to Fort Wayne Community School teachers and offered them a chance for students to participate in a political campaign.

A Stutzman field worker contacted the schools and obtained teacher’s email addresses and then offered them an opportunity to allow their students to work as volunteers. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Indiana News Center recently ran this headline.

DOES STUTZMAN CAMPAIGN EVENT AT TINCAPS GAME CROSS LINE TO “BUYING” VOTES?

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I could have broke the story some time ago, and I choose not to. I’m not a journalist. I’m a blogger, and I do not report to an editor. I thought long and hard about breaking the story, but to what end? 15 seconds of fame? Not for me.

This was a personal decision, and one I made because I did not want to hurt Mark Souder, his family or the party. I knew the national media would run with it sooner or later.

The MSM wants to take advantage of the opportunity before the opportunity expires. The Washington Post has been bugging me today for all of the salacious details. They’re not getting them. Mark admitted his transgression, and now he has to live with it while working on rebuilding the trust of his family, friends and associates. Opportunity expired.

There are a lot of pundits out there, and some suggest there was a GOP conspiracy to have Souder withhold his resignation until after the primary to keep Bob Thomas from winning. It’s not true.

Then you have the haters. For them, all I can do is quote this:

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

It’s time to move on. We have work to do. For me, that means calling every precinct committeeman in the 3rd district to garner support for Marlin Stutzman.

UPDATE: we’ll post the questions that were asked in a bit.

A recent SurveyUSA Poll show Dan Coats trailing two of his opponents in the Indiana US Senate race.

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Josh Gillespie at Hoosier Access has a story regarding Marlin Stutzman this morning that needs addressing.

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