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Political Note #258 Christina Hale IN CD 05
2020 General Election
Indianapolis is in the middle of Indiana. People in Indiana, suspicious of people on the East Coast and the West Coast, suspect that first sentence might be followed by another one. Indianapolis is in the middle of nowhere.
Indianapolis is a big city. With almost 900,000 people, it is the United State’s 13th largest. Bigger than Jacksonville, Florida. Smaller than Austin, Texas. Big enough to have major league football and basketball teams. Big enough to have one of the ten largest art museums in the country. Big enough to have theater and a symphony orchestra. Big enough to house some major national and international organizations. Big enough to have suburbs.
IN 05 is in the far north of the city of Indianapolis and its northern suburbs. Suburbs and exurbs. The district reaches about half way to Fort Wayne. It leans a little right and surrounds Muncie. The district leans a little right politically as well as geographically. Despite a twelve point victory by Trump in 2016, that lean had diminished. GW Bush won by 39 points against Al Gore in 2000.
The Republican incumbent, Susan Brooks is retiring. Her margins of victory were not declining, at least not by much. She was first elected in 2012 – by 21 points. She won by more in 2014. By even more in 2016. But not in 2018. She won by 13 points.
Big city suburbs are the kind of district that Trump has been turning Democratic. Google it. A characteristic online headline: “Trump has turned the Suburbs into a GOP Disaster Zone.”
When a Congressional seat is an open seat, without an incumbent, the calculus changes. When a popular incumbent is not running, the calculus changes more. Democrat could win an election in IN 05. Democrat Christina Hale . https://haleforcongress.com is the kind of person who could win an election in IN 05
Christina Hale is a local figure. A popular state Rep, she was chosen to be the Democratic candidate for Lt. Governor in 2016. Party insiders liked her. She was ousted an incumbent Republican in a district that leaned Republican. As a state Rep, she focused on health issues and women’s issues. Fighting the opioid epidemic. Supporting access to health care – by whatever means that could be achieved. Preventing sexual harassment and violence against women. Her approach to these issues sounded so much like common sense that both the state AFL-CIO and the Indiana Chamber of Commerce endorsed her. She is not be confrontational in Congress.
Party insiders like Christina Hale partly because she raises money. After the September 30, deadline, she reported having raised about $350,000. None of the other Democrats; none of the Republicans had raised $100,000. Christina Hale has a head start and will capitalize on it.
Christina Hale did not have a head start in life. Her heritage is part-Cuban. She describes herself as going to college as a single mom at age 19, relying on student loans and ultimately paying them off. Getting ahead, she said, required “sacrifice, hustle, and drive.”
Christina Hale got work in one of Indianapolis’s international institution. She worked for Kiwanis International for eight years. Housed in Indianapolis, Kiwanis International describes itself as a community of clubs all over the world, clubs that improve the lives of children. Christina Hale was the organization’s Director of Communications. She left the national organization to focus on local projects, on local leadership. Then she ran for state Rp and defeated the Republican incumbent.
Christina Hale wants to repeat her state legislative experience and win in a district that leans Republican. She has more experience now. Running statewide for Lt. Governor made her a state-wide figure. After the unsuccessful run for Lt. Governor, she was welcomed back by Kiwanis International, which appointed her Executive Director of youth programs.
A Christina Hale victory would be an expansion of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. This is the kind of victories that will make the Democrats that majority party in the country. Help Christina Hale https://haleforcongress.com and help us all. Contribute and/or volunteer for her campaign.
Below are Democratic Congressional trying to flip. These are either the only candidate or the probable primary winner. I will write about more, but some races with multiple races do not have a sufficiently clear front runner for me to write about yet. Read my Note about these candidates or check them out some other way. The candidates with asterisks ran in 2018*
Congress
California 50 Ammar Camp-Hajjar* to win this open Republican seat
Florida 16 Margaret Good to beat incumbent Vern Buchanan
Illinois 13 Betsy D Londrigen* to beat incumbent Rodney Davis
Indiana 05 Christina Hale to win this open Republican seat
Iowa 04 JD Scholten* to beat incumbent Steve King)
Michigan 06 Jon Hoadley to beat incumbent Fred Upton
Minnesota 01 Dan Feehan* to beat incumbent Jim Hagedorn
New York 21 Tedra Cobb* to beat incumbent Elise Stefanic
Pennsylvania 10 Eugene DePasquale to beat incumbent Scott Perry
Texas 23 Gina Ortiz Jones* to win this open Republican seat
