It's very clear that ever since Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock said his controversial "God intended it to happen" comments, Mourdock has been cratering and his Democratic opponent, Joe Donnelly has been surging. Donnelly currently represents the Indiana 2nd Congressional District which is in Northern Indiana. The Democrat who is running to replace Donnelly(who will likely be Indiana's next Senator) is Brendan Mullen (warning: autoplay video), who has honorably served this country as an Army vet. The Republican who is trying to take this seat is Jackie Walorski, a Tea Party loon who couldn't win in 2010. Walorski supports privitizing Social Security and Medicare, and she shares Mourdock's position on abortion.
Mullen's top priority according to his issues page is the economy and jobs. And Mullen states clearly that he would end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. Walorski's jobs plan? Ending Obamacare, which will not create one job.
Mullen also protect Medicare and fight against the privitization of Social Security. Walorski in 2010 made her position clear:
Also in the 2010 campaign, she voiced support for privatizing Social Security — as unsuccessfully proposed by President George W. Bush — though it didn’t seem to be a burning issue for her.
“I think the one thing we have to do is the thing that Bush acually tried to do a couple years ago, which is privatize Social Security and allow people to invest in their own retirement,” she said in a March 18, 2010, radio program. Critchlow, the Walorski critic, provided a copy of the audio.
Mullen hasn't stated his exact views on choice but he did tell a
Roll Call that he was a "pro-life, pro-gun" Democrat. He may hold similar views to Donnelly, who has an anti-choice record, but is not extreme like the GOP is. Walorski on the other hand has a record of being
extremely anti-choice
In 2006, Walorski co-authored (Indiana) House Bill 1096 which would have made ANY abortion a felony with an exception for the life of the mother. That's right: she would make rape survivors into felons if they made medical decisions that the Indiana state government disagreed with. In 2010, in a newspaper interview, Walorski confirmed that she would not make a rape exception to a ban on abortion
On November 6th, Indiana voters have a chance to reject Tea Party extremism. A vote for Brendan Mullen would be on for sanity and against hostage-taking and misogyny.
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