Spotlight on the IN 9th Congressional District

Republican Winner, Todd Young
The Indiana 9th Congressional is located in the south-central and south-eastern regions of the state. As a result of Democrat gerrymandering, it includes most of Bloomington (Indiana University) in its area. Since it borders Kentucky and southwest Ohio, conservative voters are well represented. John McCain kept the district in the Republicans’ presidential column in 2008 with a narrow 2% point margin, but President George W. Bush enjoyed a large margins of victory there. Democrat Baron Hill, incumbent, and Republican Mike Sodrel faced off against each other for this seat in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. Hill won in 2002, 2006 and 2008 and Sodrel won in 2004. All except the 2008 race were decided by thin margins. Todd Young, in his initial run for elective office, defeated Mike Sodrel in the Indiana May 4 primary and proceeded to reclaim this seat for the GOP by a 52% to 42% margin over Hill.
Todd Young
  • Fifth generation Hoosier
  • United States Naval Academy graduate, 1995, BS in Political Science, class officer and varsity soccer player
  • U.S. Marine Corps active duty, 1996-2000: rifle platoon commander at The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, expert rifleman qualified; Naval Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Top Secret security clearance; leader of the intelligence department of VMU-2 (unmanned aerial vehicle squadron); trained in Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection; manager, Marine Corps officer recruiting operations, greater Chicago and NW Indiana, 1998
  • MBA, University of Chicago’s School of Business
  • Univ. of London’s Institute of United States Studies, 2000-2001, Class President, advisor to IUSS’s Chairman, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on student concerns, MA  in American politics
  • Leipzig Graduate School of Management, 2001, studied transition of former Communist countries to free markets
  • Legislative assistant for energy policy to Senator Richard G. Lugar
  • Volunteer for the Mitch Daniels for Governor campaign (energy and military veterans policy development team) and adjunct professor of public affairs at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 2003
  • Management consultant on state/local government client services, Indiana-based Crowe Chizek and Company, 2004
  • J.D., Indiana Univ., 2006, Pres. of the school’s Federalist Society chapter
  • Tucker and Tucker, P.C. (law firm), 2006
  • Part time Deputy Prosecutor for Orange County, IN since 2007
  • President Orange County Bar Assoc., 2008
  • Community volunteer: Big Brothers/Big Sisters; Indiana Sports Corp.; Board of Directors of HVAF of Indiana; Indiana Civil Rights Commission; Board of Directors Crisis Pregnancy Center; American Legion; AMVETS; NRA
  • Political activities: Delegate to the Indiana Republican State Convention; Vice Precinct Committeeman; named “Southern Man of the Year” in 2007 by Indiana’s Young Republicans
  • Founder, National Organization for People vs. Irresponsible Government Spending (“NO PIGS”- www.nopigs.org)

ISSUES

  • Bring down the cost of health insurance through market based reforms; reject calls to implement caps on carbon dioxide; invest in energy, transportation and telecommunications infrastructure; fix job-killing provisions in our Tax Code; exercise of power limited to Constitution authorization; right to keep and bear arms; necessary investments in our military to keep it strong; pro-life and pro-adoption
"We need leaders who do not see the expansion of government as a solution to almost every problem. We need to rethink the endless and diffuse morass of programs. We need to return to constitutionally limited government. As your Member of Congress, I pledge that, before voting on any proposed act, I will ask whether the exercise of power is actually authorized by the Constitution."
Todd Young for Congress - Hill's Ideas
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