Looks like John Hostettler used up his 9 lives already. It’s being projected that he will go down to defeat to Brad Ellsworth in the bloody eighth. I respected him for voting against the war in Iraq and generally voting his conscience. But Hostettler was far too radical with some of his views for my tastes. For example he characterized the Democrats as “demonizing and denigrating Christians.” He was against “divorce on demand.” In an effort to establish fully human life begins at conception, he proposed giving people a child tax credit if they had a miscarriage. And, he was in favor of defunding the U.S. Marshal’s Office in order to prevent them from enforcing judicial orders with which he disagreed.
I think Brad Ellsworth is conservative enough to represent the vast majority of people in the 8th District. But he’s not going to be a wingnut about it.
If Hostettler had remained completely true to form (keeping his integrity in the process) and voted against tornado relief for his own district one could have chalked him as being as much a character as an Earl Landgrebe or a Bill Jenner. One final, outlandish vote, and he could have gotten out in front of the crowd running him out of town, and made it look like a parade.
Everybody loves a parade!
Don’t know much about Evansville and the 8th district, but I do wonder if not showing up in the area in the immediate aftermath of the tornado–just one year ago–was a factor in Hostettler’s demise.