Young, Todd Sen 8%

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took out dem baron hill b/c waxman markey cap and trade?

almost primaried/ flanked by TP stutzman, Bopp 2016

https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/todd-young

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U.S. President Donald Trump was furious when, on January 8, five GOP senators — Kentucky's Rand Paul, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, Maine's Susan Collins, Missouri's Josh Hawley, and Indiana's Todd Young — joined Senate Democrats in a War Powers Act resolution opposing military escalation in Venezuela. Trump railed against them relentlessly, saying that they "should be ashamed" and "should never be elected to office again."

But in a column published on Thursday, January 15, MS NOW's Steve Benen laments that two of them — Hawley and Young — have caved in to "bullying" from Trump.

"Three of the five GOP senators who voted with Democrats last week — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky — stuck to their guns, but two did not," Benen observes. "Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was the first to fold, announcing his reversal on Wednesday morning, and Indiana's Todd Young soon followed suit. It's worth appreciating why."

Benen continues, "Almost immediately after last week's vote, the president made no effort to hide his disgust…. In the days that followed, MS NOW confirmed that Trump called each member of the quintet, berating the GOP members who defied him. The president, as MS NOW's source summarized, was 'very upset, angry, yelling.' Trump was especially animated with Young, whose phone meeting with the president was 'very heated.' On Tuesday, during remarks in Detroit, Trump continued to target the senators who'd disappointed him, slamming Paul as a 'stone-cold loser' and describing Collins and Murkowski as 'disasters.'"

The MS NOW columnist and "Rachel Maddow Show" producer argues that Hawley and Young underscore Trump's ability to intimidate Republicans who disagree with him.

"Paul, Collins and Murkowski, however, followed through on their beliefs," Benen argues. "Hawley and Young reversed course under pressure…. Trump wasn't willing to tolerate any attempt to limit his authority in Venezuela — even if the Senate vote wouldn't have actually limited his authority in Venezuela — and so, he tried to scold Senate Republicans into submission. By surrendering, Hawley and Young sent an unsubtle reminder to the White House: Sometimes, with some people, bullying works."

*Steve Benen's full MS NOW column is available at this link.

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Hill ran for reelection, challenged by Republican nominee Bloomington attorney Todd Young. During the campaign, the National Republican Congressional Committee ran ads asking "Is Baron Hill running for Congress in Indiana, orChina?”^[14] He was defeated on November 2, 2010.

[ Post-congressional career

Following his defeat in 2010, Hill was hired by APCO Worldwide. The firm's clients include COSCO, PhRMA, Solar Trust and Dow Corning.^[14]

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context: see frontline pwr of big oil on BO blindsided on cap & trade wonky issue, signs commie

campaign event mod rw radio xian asked bob inglis climate, trey gowdy smacked him down 12 yr incumb 29% cap & trade?

note no mention of KOCH

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html

no lnx

JASPER, Ind. — At a candidate forum here last week, Representative Baron P. Hill, a threatened Democratic incumbent in a largely conservative southern Indiana district, was endeavoring to explain his unpopular vote for the House cap-and-trade energy bill.

It will create jobs in Indiana, reduce foreign oil imports and address global warming, Mr. Hill said at a debate with Todd Young, a novice Republican candidate who is supported by an array of Indiana Tea Party groups and is a climate change skeptic.

“Climate change is real, and man is causing it,” Mr. Hill said, echoing most climate scientists. “That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”

A rain of boos showered Mr. Hill, including a hearty growl from Norman Dennison, a 50-year-old electrician and founder of the Corydon Tea Party.

“It’s a flat-out lie,” Mr. Dennison said in an interview after the debate, adding that he had based his view on the preaching of Rush Limbaugh and the teaching of Scripture. “I read my Bible,” Mr. Dennison said. “He made this earth for us to utilize.”

Skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement, here in Indiana and across the country. For some, it is a matter of religious conviction; for others, it is driven by distrust of those they call the elites. And for others still, efforts to address climate change are seen as a conspiracy to impose world government and a sweeping redistribution of wealth. But all are wary of the Obama administration’s plans to regulate carbon dioxide, a ubiquitous gas, which will require the expansion of government authority into nearly every corner of the economy.

“This so-called climate science is just ridiculous,” said Kelly Khuri, founder of the Clark County Tea Party Patriots. “I think it’s all cyclical.”

“Carbon regulation, cap and trade, it’s all just a money-control avenue,” Ms. Khuri added. “Some people say I’m extreme, but they said theJohn Birch Society was extreme, too.”

Whatever the party composition of the next Congress, cap and trade is likely dead for the foreseeable future. If dozens of new Republican climate skeptics are swept into Congress, the prospects for assertive federal action to control global warming gases, including regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency, will grow dimmer than they already are.

Those who support the Tea Party movement are considerably more dubious about the existence and effects of global warming than the American public at large, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted this month. The survey found that only 14 percent of Tea Party supporters said that global warming is an environmental problem that is having an effect now, while 49 percent of the rest of the public believes that it is. More than half of Tea Party supporters said that global warming would have no serious effect at any time in the future, while only 15 percent of other Americans share that view, the poll found.

And 8 percent of Tea Party adherents volunteered that they did not believe global warming exists at all, while only 1 percent of other respondents agreed.

Those views in general align with those of the fossil fuel industries, which have for decades waged a concerted campaign to raise doubts about the science of global warming and to undermine policies devised to address it.

They have created and lavishly financed institutes to produce anti-global-warming studies, paid for rallies and Web sites to question the science, and generated scores of economic analyses that purport to show that policies to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases will have a devastating effect on jobs and the overall economy.

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Their views are spread by a number of widely followed conservative opinion leaders, including Mr. Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, George Will and Sarah Palin, who oppose government programs to address climate change and who question the credibility and motives of the scientists who have raised alarms about it.

Groups that help support Tea Party candidates include climate change skepticism in their core message. Americans for Prosperity, a group founded and largely financed by oil industry interests, has sponsored what it calls a Regulation Reality Tour to stir up opposition to climate change legislation and federal regulation of carbon emissions. Its Tea Party talking points describe a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions as “the largest excise tax in history.”

FreedomWorks, another group supported by the oil industry, helps organize Tea Party rallies and distributes fliers urging opposition to federal climate policy, which it calls a“power grab.”

“Any effort to make electricity and fuel more expensive or to cap or regulate CO2 will only exacerbate an already critical situation and cause tremendous economic damage,” FreedomWorks says on its Web site.

The oil, coal and utility industries have collectively spent $500 million just since the beginning of 2009 to lobby against legislation to address climate change and to defeat candidates, like Mr. Hill, who support it, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a left-leaning advocacy group in Washington.

Their message appears to have fallen on receptive ears. Of the 20 Republican Senate candidates in contested races, 19 question the science of global warming and oppose any comprehensive legislation to deal with it, according to a National Journal survey.

The only exception is Mark Steven Kirk, the Republican Senate nominee in Illinois, who was one of only eight Republicans to vote for the House cap-and-trade bill sponsored by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats. (One of the other Republican “yes” votes was cast by Representative Michael N. Castle of Delaware, who blames that vote in part for his primary election defeat by Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate and a global warming skeptic.)

A large majority of Tea Party-supported House candidates also doubt global warming science and oppose energy legislation designed to address it.

Mr. Young, the Indiana Republican nominee trying to unseat Mr. Hill for the Ninth Congressional District seat, strongly opposes cap and trade and other unilateral measures to combat global warming. He says he is uncertain what is causing the observed heating of the planet, adding that it could be caused by sunspots or the normal cycles of nature.

“The science is not settled,” he said in an interview in his headquarters in Bloomington, Ind. And he said that given the scientific uncertainty, it was not wise to make major changes in the nation’s energy economy to reduce carbon emissions.

A third candidate in the Indiana Congressional race, Greg Knott, a libertarian, said he accepted the scientific consensus on climate change but opposed a nationwide cap-and-trade system as the answer.

Lisa Deaton, a small-business owner in Columbus, Ind., who started We the People Indiana, a Tea Party affiliate, is supporting Mr. Young in part because of his stand against climate change legislation.

“They’re trying to use global warming against the people,” Ms. Deaton said. “It takes away our liberty.”

“Being a strong Christian,” she added, “I cannot help but believe the Lord placed a lot of minerals in our country and it’s not there to destroy us.”

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Todd Christopher Young (born August 24, 1972) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator for Indiana, a seat he has held since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Young previously served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district. He was elected to the United States Senate in the November 8, 2016, general election, succeeding retiring Republican Dan Coats. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Young was reelected in 2022.

Todd Christopher Young (born August 24, 1972) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Indiana's 9th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Early life

Young was born August 24, 1972 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the second of three children of Nancy R. (née Pierce) and Bruce H. Young.^[1] He lived in Marion County for several years before settling in Hamilton County, where he attended public schools and won a state soccer championship. In 1990, Young graduated from Carmel High School.

Military career

Just a few weeks after graduating high school, Young enlisted in the United States Navy and reported for duty in Newport, Rhode Island. In May 1991, Young received an appointment from the Secretary of the Navy to attend the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where his classmates elected him a class officer and he earned a varsity letter as a member of Navy's NCAA Division I soccer team. He graduated cum laude in 1995,^[2] earning a B.S. in Political Science, and accepted a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Upon graduating from Annapolis, Young trained for six months as a rifle platoon commander at The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, where he qualified as an expert rifleman. In 1996, he completed the Naval Intelligence Officer Basic Course in Dam Neck, Virginia and was entrusted with a Top Secret security clearance. Young then led the intelligence department of VMU-2, an unmanned aerial vehicle squadron based in Cherry Point, North Carolina, where he participated in various military operations, including counter-narcotics activities in the Caribbean, and was trained in Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection. In 1998, Young was transferred to Chicago, Illinois, where he managed all Marine Corpsofficer recruiting operations in the greater Chicago and northwest Indiana region. Meanwhile, Young attended night school at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, earning an MBA.

Post-military career

Young was honorably discharged from active duty in 2000 as a Captain. After leaving active duty, Young spent a year inLondon, England attending the University of London's Institute of United States Studies. As class president, Young regularly advised IUSS's Chairman, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on student concerns. After writing a thesis on the economic history of Midwestern agriculture, in 2001 Young received his MA in American politics.

In the summer of 2001, Young traveled to former Communist countries in Eastern Europe where he studied the transition from centrally-planned economies to free markets through an executive education program with the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the first private business school in eastern Germany.

He worked as an adjunct professor of public affairs at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and attended law school at night. In 2004, Young joined Indiana-based Crowe Chizek and Company as a management consultant, helping state and local government clients improve service delivery to Indiana citizens.

In 2006, Young earned his J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where he was President of the school's Federalist Society chapter. He joined Paoli, Indiana-based Tucker and Tucker, P.C. upon graduation.^[3] Young is a member of the 2007 class of the Indiana Leadership Forum.^[4] Since 2007, Young has also served as a part-time Deputy Prosecutor for Orange County, Indiana. In 2008, Young's peers elected him President of the Orange County Bar Association.

Early political career

In 2001, he moved to Washington, DC, where he briefly worked at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think-tank. Then he joined the staff of U.S. Senator Richard Lugar as a legislative assistant^[5] for energy policy. In 2003, Young volunteered for Mitch Daniels' campaign for Governor of Indiana.

Young was a Delegate to the Indiana Republican State Convention and as a Vice Precinct Committeeman. In 2007, Indiana's Young Republicans named Young the "Southern Man of the Year" for his leadership on behalf of the Republican Party in southern Indiana. In 2007, Young also founded a fiscal responsibility advocacy group, the National Organization for People vs. Irresponsible Government Spending.

U.S. House of Representatives

2010 election

On January 26, 2009, Young announced that he would run for the United States Congressional seat in Indiana's 9th district as a Republican.^[6][7][8]

Young competed with fellow Republicans Mike Sodrel and Travis Hankins for the party's nomination for Congress and won, challenging incumbent Democrat Baron Hill in the general election. Young received endorsements from former Vice-President Dan Quayle.^[9] Other state Republican endorsements include: Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman, Attorney General Greg Zoeller, Secretary of State Todd Rokita, Auditor Tim Berry, and Treasurer Richard Mourdock.^[8]

Young won the primary and general elections, defeating incumbent Baron Hill on November 2, 2010, and was seated in the 112th Congress in January 2011.^[10]

2012 Congressional campaign

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in Indiana, 2012 § District 9

Young defeated Shelli Yoder by a 55–45% margin in the newly redrawn 9th district.^[11]

Tenure

Since being elected, Young has voted with the Republican Party 95% of the time.^[12] He sponsored 14 bills that would temporarily suspend duties, mostly on fabric.^[13] In July, he took over as the lead sponsor of the REINS Act, a bill that passed the House in 2011.^[14]

In the 112th Congress, Young was a member of the House Budget Committee and the House Armed Services Committee. On the latter, he focused on seapower, electronic warfare, and military grand strategy of the United States. During the first session of the 112th Congress, he employed one of the German Marshall Fund's Congressional Fellows as military legislative aide.

In 2010 Young signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any Global Warming legislation that would raise taxes.^[15]

Committee assignments

Committee on Ways and Means
- Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures
- Subcommittee on Human Resources Caucus Memberships
Congressional Cement Caucus

2023

Political positions

Young is a member of Republican Main Street Partnership, a group that presents what it describes as centrist Republican solutions in politics; it is considered a center to center-right Republican organization.^[60] He was given a 0% grade in 2016 by the progressive Americans for Democratic Action. The American Conservative Union, a fiscally conservative political action committee, has given Young a 77.26% lifetime rating as of May 2023.^[61] As of April 2020, according to Five ThirtyEight, Young voted with President Trump's position on legislation about 84% of the time.^[62] The nonpartisan National Journal determined, based on its 2013 voting analysis, that Young has a composite 69% conservative score and a 31% liberal score.^[63]

Abortion and reproductive issues

Young opposes abortion. He was endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), which gave him a 100% rating in 2018; he has a 0% rating from the abortion rights groups NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood.^[63] Young also believes that employers with religious objections should not be required to provide birth control to their female employees.^[64] He was a co-sponsor of legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and voted to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood.^[65] Young believes Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. On the day the 2022 overturning of *Roe v. Wade* was announced, he called it "a monumental day for the protection of life in America" and that the Supreme Court had "corrected a historic injustice."^[66]

Gun law

The National Rifle Association (NRA) endorsed Young for Senate in 2016 and has given him an "A+" rating.^[67] In 2018, Gun Owners of America, a gun rights organization, gave Young a 50% score while the NRA gave him a much higher 100% rating.^[68]

Young voted to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in June 2022.^[69]

Immigration

Young opposes the DREAM Act and a pathway to citizenship for the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.^[64] NumbersUSA, which wants to restrict and reduce immigration, has given him a lifetime 80% rating while the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which also seeks to restrict immigration, gave him a 100% score; the American Immigration Lawyers Association, which supports immigration reform, gave Young a 33% rating.^[63] UnidosUS, formerly La Raza, which supports immigration reform, gave Young a 59% rating in 2014.^[63] Young has said he wants an immigration system based on merit and job skills.^[70] In 2018, he introduced a bill cosponsored with Senator Ted Cruz to end family separations at the border that resulted from President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.^[71]

LGBT rights

The organization On the Issues considers Young to be neutral on the issue of same-sex marriage; he was given a 30% rating by Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which supports same-sex marriage and gay rights, indicating a mixed record.^[72] In 2016, the HRC gave him a 2% rating.^[68] Young believes same-sex marriage should be left to the states to decide.^[73] He said that he supports the current policy allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military.^[74] In 2016, Young was among the Republicans who voted with Democrats in favor of a spending amendment to uphold President Obama's executive order prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation for federal contractors.^[75] He was one of 30 Republicans who voted for an amendment to prohibit discrimination by federal contractors, but voted against a similar amendment in a military spending bill.^[76] In 2022, he was one of 12 Republicans voting to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation to codify same-sex marriage into federal law.^[77]

Supreme Court

On October 6, 2018, Young voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.^[78]

In March 2019, Young was one of twelve senators to cosponsor a resolution that would impose a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices. The resolution was introduced following multiple Democratic presidential candidates expressing openness to the idea of expanding the seats on the Supreme Court.^[79]

Foreign policy

In July 2017, Young voted in favor of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act that placed sanctions against Russia together with Iran and North Korea.^[80]

Young supported an Anti-Boycott Act,^[81] which would make it illegal for U.S. companies to engage in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.^[82]

Young condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and called for a stronger response to the crisis.^[83][84]

In February 2019, Young was one of seven senators to reintroduce legislation requiring sanctions on Saudi officials involved in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and seeking to address support for the Yemen civil war through prohibiting some weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and U.S. military refueling of Saudi coalition planes.^[85] In May 2019, he was also one of seven Republicans who attempted to override President Trump's veto of the resolution regarding Yemen.^[86] In June 2019, Young was one of seven Republicans to vote to block President Trump's Saudi arms deal providing weapons to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Jordan, and was one of six Republicans to vote against an additional 20 arms sales.^[87] In 2020, he was one of eight Republicans who voted with Democrats for a resolution limiting the president's ability to strike Iran.^[88]

In 2021, Young introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Tim Kaine that would repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations of war, which have been used by the executive to wage prolonged conflict in the Middle-East without congressional approval.^[89]

In 2023, Young visited Taiwan from January 16-18, as part of a larger visit to the Indo-Pacific region. Young met with the Taiwanese President, Tsai Ing-Wen, senior leaders and private sector representatives to discuss U.S.-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade and investment, global supply chains, and other significant issues of mutual interest.^[90]

2021 storming of the United States Capitol

On May 28, 2021, Young voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.^[91]

Personal life

Todd Young and Jennifer Tucker, niece-in-law of former vice-president Dan Quayle, married in 2005. The couple has four children.^[92]

As of 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org, Young's net worth was negative, owing more than $1.3 million.^[93]

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target ppl who believe in AGW:

The race for a congressional seat in southern Indiana underscores the difficulty many people have arguing against the Tea Party or its candidates. This is especially true when it comes to climate change.

The New York Times explored a recent debate in Jasper, Ind., to showcase the arguments the Tea Party is using to unseat Democratic Rep. Baron Hill, who voted for the cap-and-trade energy bill in 2009.

To his credit — though probably not in his best political interest — Hill, who faces Tea Party-backed Todd Young, explained exactly why he voted in favor of the bill.

“It will create jobs in Indiana, reduce foreign oil imports and address global warming,” the Democrat said before committing further political suicide in the largely conservative district. The final blow likely came when he said, “Climate change is real, and man is causing it. That is indisputable. And we have to do something about it.”

According to the story, Hill’s science lingo was received with boos and a few direct comments about the Bible, redistribution of wealth and a conspiracy to create one world government. That kind of backlash is difficult for any candidate to counter — not because it's factual, but because challenging it plays right into the Tea Party’s hands.

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INDIANAPOLIS – Few things are as nasty as a family fight.

And that is what Indiana Republicans find themselves facing right now – a good old-fashioned donnybrook in which siblings pound on each other without mercy and inflict maximum damage because, as siblings, they know exactly where all the tender spots are.

The siblings in this case are U.S. Rep. Todd Young, R-Indiana, and U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Indiana. Both want the same thing – the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by retiring fellow Republican Dan Coats.

That race had been pretty much a snooze fest until a couple of things happened.

The first was that the third candidate in the campaign – former Indiana Republican Party chairman Eric Holcomb – dropped out so he could become embattled Gov. Mike Pence’s running mate as lieutenant governor, replacing current Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann on the ticket. Holcomb’s departure from the Senate race was supposed to clear the way for Young to dispatch Stutzman in the May primary. That would reassure much of the Republican establishment and the state’s business community, both of whom view Stutzman, a tea party favorite,with the same sort of enthusiasm they reserve for substances they have to scrape off the bottoms of their shoes.

But then the second shoe dropped.

To qualify to be on the May ballot, candidates for the U.S. Senate must collect 500 signatures of registered voters in each of Indiana’s nine congressional districts. In one district, the Young campaign came up at least two signatures short.

Oops.

The news that Young might not make it onto the ballot has transformed the fighting between the Senate hopefuls from sleepy into savage.

Stutzman has done almost daily victory dances about the fact that he may cruise through a primary campaign he otherwise would have been hard-pressed to win.

Latching onto the fact that Democrats also have challenged whether Young can be on the ballot in May, the Young campaign has responded by accusing Stutzman of collaborating with – horror of horrors – Barack Obama in trying to thwart the will of the people.

It now is a rare press release from the Young campaign that doesn’t find a way to place the words “Stutzman,” “Obama” and “Democrat” right next to each other.

For his part, Stutzman has fired back by bringing in rightwing constitutional lawyer James Bopp Jr. to argue that Young is trying to treat the Constitution like a piece of toilet paper. Bopp’s contention is that Young wouldn’t be allowed on the ballot if he didn’t meet the minimum age or several other constitutional requirements.

His – and Stutzman’s – implied questions aren’t subtle:

Just how many constitutional provisions is Young going to ignore or choose not to follow?

And can we trust him if he won’t obey fundamental law?

On both sides, these are deadly insults.

In the atmosphere that permeates the GOP these days, having one Republican accuse another of working with or imitating Barack Obama or assaulting another conservative for not being a constitutional purist is the equivalent of one schoolboy questioning the chastity of a classmate’s mother.

A brawl will follow.

That’s what has happened with the state GOP.

It’s hard to know how this will play out.

By a strict interpretation of the requirements, Young doesn’t qualify to be on the ballot. If he had the necessary signatures, he would have produced them and shut this debate down a long time ago.

The election commission voted 2-2 along partisan lines on the matter. A tie means Young stays on the ballot for now, but there’s a chance this ends up in court. What happens there is anyone’s guess.

What is clear is that Young, Stutzman and their respective partisans now are coming after each other with meat axes and sledgehammers. Both sides are willing to hit and hit hard where it will hurt most.

That’s because this fight isn’t just about two signatures. It’s about who controls the Republican Party – the business-heavy GOP establishment or the tea party-flavored social conservatives.

It’s about which sibling will dominate.

Family fights – they sure can be vicious.

John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism, host of “No Limits” WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.