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Hostettler: Bayh to Cast Right Health Care Vote for Wrong Reasons

By W. James Antle, III on 12.17.09 @ 2:30PM

On the main site, RiShawn Biddle has a piece looking at Evan Bayh's unexpected challenges in 2010. Today, John Hostettler, the best-known Republican to have declared for the Senate seat, argued that Bayh's personal interests play a bigger role than principle in motivating his health care vote. "A vote for President Obama's most important legislative initiative will create a clear conflict of interest at home, literally, for Indiana's junior senator," Hostettler said. "The fact is that his wife, Susan, serves on the Board of Directors of one of America's largest health insurance companies, and she has been paid more than $1 million since first being named to that Board shortly after Senator Bayh's reelection in 2004."

Hostettler continued with some backhanded praise for his Democratic rival. "I do not support the Senate bill or any other government takeover of the best health care system in the world," he said. "Though I oppose the Senate bill for other reasons, I am nonetheless encouraged that Senator Bayh will listen, if not to his constituents, to his family's economic interests."

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K Cannon| 12.23.09 @ 1:10PM

John Hostettler will give the voters a true choice in 2010. There is a world of difference (both politically and ethically) between the Jeffersonian John Hostettler and the neo-scocialist Evan Bayh. Fundamentally Hostettler holds to the views of limited federal government akin to our founding fathers and would work to scale back the federal government’s expansion into our lives, businesses, and culture. He has campaigned to scale back the size and scope of the Federal government to where it was in the 70’s to 80’s. Bayh on the other hand has established himself as a neo-socialist, supporting the expanded role of government both domestically and abroad. His habit of voting with the left leaning democrats on an expanded and more costly federal goverment has shattered his ability to call himself a conservitive or moderate democrat. He has no ground to stand on to call himself a fiscal conservitive. He is not a conservative who wishes to conserve the constitution or reduce the confiscation of taxpayer’s money needed to support the ever expanding and invasive Federal Government. Support www.dailyhostettler.com