Helping Our Resident GOP Caucus Voter Make Up His Mind
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 6/5/10 @ 11:26 pm - Filed Under 2010 Local Elections
FWP’s very own Mike Sylvester has a vote in the upcoming 3rd District caucus to select former congressman Mark Souder’s replacement. Here are a couple statements from Mike regarding his feelings towards the field of candidates (original posts here and here).
I still have not decided who I will support at the upcoming caucus; however, I am certainly considering Randy Borror and I have to admit that before tonight I was not considering Mr. Borror.
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For the record I do not know who I am going to vote for at this point. There are a lot of good candidates. I am currently leaning towards Borror, Brown, Stutzman, or Troyer.
Well, hopefully this post will help Mike narrow down his choices by eliminating Randy Borror as an option. And the persuasive evidence I will present is Mike’s own words regarding the legislation that made the “temporary” food and beverage tax permanent:
The state Legislature, with broad support from local Democrats and Republicans in the Indiana Legislature passed a bill at the state level that will make our local tax permenant. They have 100% discounted the will of the people when the tax was passed and they have changed what the tax will be used for; all without consulting the taxpayers.
I will never vote for any of the politicians who voted in favor of this bill.
Randy Borror not only voted for this bill, but also sponsored it and was in charge of the conference committee that finalized all the details.
I realize that time heals all wounds and people change their minds for a variety of reasons. Mike is certainly not bound by something he wrote here over a year ago but I thought he might enjoy the friendly reminder!
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It looks like Marlin Stutzman Is the man we Should be sending to Washington.We nee to change this Obmah thing around and we are going to have to have strong people there.
Souder worked for Coats, Stutzman worked for Souder…I see a pattern that has not really served me well. Someone tell me why I would want to vote for ANYONE in the good ol’ boy circle anymore?
Jeff,
I forgot Borror sponsored that bill. It irritated me very badly!
Mike
And if you vote for Stutzman…
Then I guess you have no problem with someone taking nearly $ 180,000 in government subsidies over the past 13 years.
From Stutzman’s website:
“I (Marlin Stutzman) would never support a federal bailout of private business. In a free enterprise economy, businesses have the opportunity to succeed, and sometimes, even the opportunity to fail. The federal government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.”
Hmmmm….bailout, handout, & subsidies seem to be very similar here to me. I’m left to believe Stutzman don’t like ‘em too good.
Stutzman even sums up his case against big, bad Gov’t getting all up in the private sector by stating the following during his announcement for Souder’s old seat:
“Government is not the answer to the problem, government is the problem”
So which is it ? Accepting Gov’t assistance (bailout, handout, subsidy) good thing or bad thing ??
I guess when Stutzman received the checks from the Federal Gov’t for farm subsidies - then that big ‘ole, bad gov’t was looking pretty darn good.
But…. if its them ‘other’ folk getting gov’t checks - then that’s a bailout/handout and thus part of the “problem” in Washington.
Lord knows Andy and I don’t agree on much, but I gotta admit,he’s got a real good point here. I’m not a fan of farm subsidies at all…and it’s troubling because I like some of Stutzmans attributes but this one does give me pause.
Farm Subsidies are not what you are making them out to be Andy S. You might want to actually check out these mandatory programs. Stutzman answered all these questions in the Senate primary when I asked him about them. He would rather have a solid private industry for crop insurance than subsidies propping up the Ag Industry. BTW you might also want to get your math straight and understand what the actual amounts are before making copies of someones (incorrect) articles.
Hmm..Stutzman and campaign finance disclosures? Sounds like the race for the mayor of Fort Wayne a few years back..What else is he not telling us?
@Roseland -
“Farm Subsidies are not what you are making them out to be”
Really ?
Let’s see if we can get a clear definition of the word subsidy from the folks at Dictionary.com:
sub·si·dy
- a grant or contribution of money
- a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like
* Subsidy, subvention are both grants of money, especially governmental, to aid private undertakings.
And regarding your statement:
“He (Stutzman) would rather have a solid private industry for crop insurance than subsidies propping up the Ag Industry.”
So you admit, subsidies ‘prop’ up the Ag Industry ?
What I find hypocritical (and other voters might) about Stutzman is HIS OWN WORDS regarding the relationship between the Federal Gov’t and the Private Sector:
“I (Marlin Stutzman) would never support a federal bailout of private business. In a free enterprise economy, businesses have the opportunity to succeed, and sometimes, even the opportunity to fail. The federal government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.”
I would argue he (Stutzman) gives the voter the impression - he is against bailouts/handouts/gov’t giveaways…
But - the reality is he cashed nearly $ 180,000 in subsidy checks from the Gov’t.
And regarding the actual amounts Stutzman received, you can find the #’s here:
http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=010157532
I obviously oppose all farm subsidies…
Mike
Like Mike, I would like to see farm subsidies done away with as well, which makes the question today, do you hold it against Stutzman if it was literally “the only game in town” for farmers?
I’m still not convinced Stutzman is the right choice, but I’d be hesitant to rule anybody out if they were more or less “forced” to participate in a farm subsidy program to stay in business…
Interesting dilemma.
Marlin has said on may occasions that he is for phasing out the program. Subsidies only manipulate the market.
Liz Brown is the only one on the list who I’d support with my money and my time. She says what she thinks. If she’d been elected to the school board in ‘06 (she was 3′rd running at large) we wouldn’t have had to listen to four years of bullshit from Clinton Street.
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