Posted on 10/19/2009 4:37:34 PM PDT by JSDude1
I suppose the “me too” thing isn’t entirely fair, but I’m at a loss at the moment for something else to put there. If I can think of something different, I’ll edit it into the title instead.
In this, the fourth and final (unless another candidate enters the race) installment of the “Bloody 9th” series, I’m going to look at Travis Hankins of Columbus.
Hankins hasn’t gotten as much attention on this blog (and others) for his campaign, but I’d be remiss if I said he hasn’t been busy. In fact, he’s probably been more active in many ways than the three candidates and one potential candidate in this series combined.
Read more after the leap.
Baron Hill—when he’s not in Washington—has spent the past quarter mostly hiding from his constituents, attending fundraisers in Carmel, giving speeches in Indianapolis, holding closed-door events, and having the occasional town hall blow up.
Mike Sodrel—since he isn’t a declared candidate—hasn’t really been out in public until recently. I’m told that he appeared one night earlier this week at a nonpartisan citizen-organized town hall event in Madison and his unexpected entry caused quite a stir.
Todd Young—with the exception of the county fair in his adopted home of Monroe County—has spent most of his “campaign time” at various local GOP events, giving interviews at coffee shops in Broad Ripple in Indianapolis, and at various fundraisers.
All of this stands in rather stark contrast to Hankins, who has spent the past three months showing up at local and county events (parades, festivals, fairs) in the northern, central, and eastern areas of the district. He—or people from his campaign—have been at about every tea party rally in the district, and he has spoken at several of them. His campaign blog tracks the canvassing of precincts in several counties, a variety of house parties, and so forth. He has also been phone banking GOP primary voters like mad (usually calling individual voters himself, from what I have heard from those he has called).
With the exception of Baron (who appears at the occasional parade), Hankins is the only candidate to be doing this sort of “retail politics” activity so far in the race.
Travis is a stand up guy and a real conservative. He deserves our support.
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