Young Explains Why He Can Beat Bayh
August 11, 2016 at 7:45 p.m.
Young Explains Why He Can Beat Bayh
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What was going to be a race against Democrat Baron Hill changed quickly this summer when Hill stepped aside and was replaced on the ballot with former Sen. Evan Bayh.
The Senate seat became open after Sen. Dan Coats announced plans to step down.
“We’re going to win,” Young (IN-9) said in an interview Wednesday after a political fundraiser at Noa Noa.
“The race, of course, has gotten closer on account of Evan Bayh’s entry, but there’s no doubt in my mind that with the help of so many Hoosiers across this state on the ground, and the generosity of Americans who understand the importance of this race, Republicans will keep control of the United States Senate and be able to shape the U.S. Supreme Court for two generations. That will not happen if we don’t win this race against Evan Bayh for United States Senate.”
Young said he intends to win the election by “educating Hoosiers that Evan Bayh has changed.”
“Evan Bayh says he’s non-partisan or bipartisan, but he cast the deciding vote for Obamacare, a hyper-partisan piece of legislation, which is deeply flawed and unpopular among Hoosiers,” he said.
“He also has voted with Hillary Clinton 85 percent of the time, certainly not an indicator of his bipartisanship.
“And he doesn’t live here in Indiana. He maintains a $50,000 apartment in Indianapolis for voting purposes, but has two mansions in Washington, D.C., which is really his home.”
When people learn these facts and more about Bayh “who has been more hostile to the medical device industry than any United States Senator in living memory, then I have a high level of confidence that we will be victorious come November,” Young stated.
On Obamacare, another name for the Affordable Care Act which went into effect in 2014, Young said it still needs to be repealed.
“Let’s replace it with a series of laws that actually drives down the cost of health insurance as opposed to leaving unchecked this trend of increasing health insurance costs. Let’s replace it with a series of health care laws that doesn’t impose confiscatory and anti-job, anti-worker taxes on our most innovative industries like the medical device industry. Let’s replace it with a system that actually allows people to keep their doctors if they like them and fulfills the promises that were made by Evan Bayh and others before this hyper-partisan healthcare law was finally passed in 2010,” Young explained.
He repeated that Obamacare wouldn’t exist had Bayh not voted for it.
“And that, more than anything else, is something that he’s going to have to stand to account for. He chose not to in 2010, and instead he chose to retire from the state senate, join a lucrative lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., and then enrich himself in part by lobbying for clients who had problems with Obamacare,” Young said, saying it was akin to an arsonist applying for a job at the local fire station.
On Jan. 6, 2015, Young and Dan Lipinski (IL-3) led a bipartisan effort to introduce H.R. 30, the Save American Workers Act, a bill that would repeal the 30-hour definition of full-time employment in the Affordable Care Act and restore the traditional 40-hour definition. The bill was introduced with 145 co-sponsors, according to Young’s campaign website.
“So Obamacare, because it was considered so quickly, without public debate and drafted behind closed doors, and then rammed down the throats of Republicans, carries many flaws that it wouldn’t have otherwise had. One of these flaws is the redefinition of full-time employment as 30 hours per week. There’s no doubt in my mind it wasn’t intended to create a new threshold for full-time employment that led to the significant reduction in hours and wages for workers who can’t afford to see their household incomes drop by a quarter every month, but that’s precisely the impact of this new 30-hour work week because many employers can’t afford to provide Obamacare insurance to their employees who happen to work 30 or more hours, therefore they’re being reduced from 39 hours, in a very dramatic scenario, down to 29 or 28 hours,” Young explained.
He said the rule very publicly impacted the universities and colleges. It has led to dozens of Indiana school corporations to file a lawsuit against the federal government. He said the administrative burdens of keeping track who has worked how many hours so they don’t breach that threshold is “punitive” for employers and disrupts their operations.
“So what I did was, I merely drafted a bipartisan piece of legislation to restore the 40-hour work week, and a companion piece of legislation was introduced by Sen. (Joe) Donnelly and a Republican Senator over in the U.S. Senate,” Young said.
Asked for his thoughts on U.S. president contenders Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, Young, a U.S. Marine, kept his responses focused on Clinton.
“So we have to have a firewall against another four years of the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton agenda. We need a check and a balance. I will be that check and balance, that Marine guard against continued expansion of the size and scope of government, continued underperformance of our economy, and a continued foreign policy which is leaving us less safe and less secure. I’ll be able to fight against that,” he said.
“Evan Bayh will be a rubber stamp for Hillary Clinton’s agenda. I support that with the fact that when Evan Bayh was in the United States Senate, at the same time Hillary Clinton was in the United States Senate, he voted with her 85 percent of the time. They’re two peas in a liberal pod.”
He said Clinton will appoint very liberal Supreme Court justices and Bayh only votes for liberal justices.
“So if Hoosiers want a liberal Supreme Court, making laws about guns, and First Amendment rights and social issues, then Evan Bayh would be the choice for those Hoosiers. If instead they want a conservative Supreme Court, that doesn’t legislate from the bench, I would be the appropriate choice for those Hoosiers,” he continued.
When asked about Trump and how even some Republicans find him polarizing, Young responded, “I actually think Hillary Clinton is an incredibly polarizing public official. A Marine Corps intelligence officer that had top secret security clearance, above top secret security clearance, I am deeply disturbed that we have someone who aspires to be our commander-in-chief, but would compromise our national secrets by establishing a private server as secretary of state in her own basement. My Marine Corps friends would be serving jail time if they did that. I would be serving jail time if I did that. So Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh are members of the political class and they believe that different rules should apply to them.”
Young said he’s a Hoosier who lives in Indiana and he thinks “the Republican nominee for U.S. president and Bernie Sanders both won their respective primaries in this state because they spoke to a lot of the challenges being faced by working class Americans. Hillary Clinton doesn’t speak to those challenges in the same way.”
What was going to be a race against Democrat Baron Hill changed quickly this summer when Hill stepped aside and was replaced on the ballot with former Sen. Evan Bayh.
The Senate seat became open after Sen. Dan Coats announced plans to step down.
“We’re going to win,” Young (IN-9) said in an interview Wednesday after a political fundraiser at Noa Noa.
“The race, of course, has gotten closer on account of Evan Bayh’s entry, but there’s no doubt in my mind that with the help of so many Hoosiers across this state on the ground, and the generosity of Americans who understand the importance of this race, Republicans will keep control of the United States Senate and be able to shape the U.S. Supreme Court for two generations. That will not happen if we don’t win this race against Evan Bayh for United States Senate.”
Young said he intends to win the election by “educating Hoosiers that Evan Bayh has changed.”
“Evan Bayh says he’s non-partisan or bipartisan, but he cast the deciding vote for Obamacare, a hyper-partisan piece of legislation, which is deeply flawed and unpopular among Hoosiers,” he said.
“He also has voted with Hillary Clinton 85 percent of the time, certainly not an indicator of his bipartisanship.
“And he doesn’t live here in Indiana. He maintains a $50,000 apartment in Indianapolis for voting purposes, but has two mansions in Washington, D.C., which is really his home.”
When people learn these facts and more about Bayh “who has been more hostile to the medical device industry than any United States Senator in living memory, then I have a high level of confidence that we will be victorious come November,” Young stated.
On Obamacare, another name for the Affordable Care Act which went into effect in 2014, Young said it still needs to be repealed.
“Let’s replace it with a series of laws that actually drives down the cost of health insurance as opposed to leaving unchecked this trend of increasing health insurance costs. Let’s replace it with a series of health care laws that doesn’t impose confiscatory and anti-job, anti-worker taxes on our most innovative industries like the medical device industry. Let’s replace it with a system that actually allows people to keep their doctors if they like them and fulfills the promises that were made by Evan Bayh and others before this hyper-partisan healthcare law was finally passed in 2010,” Young explained.
He repeated that Obamacare wouldn’t exist had Bayh not voted for it.
“And that, more than anything else, is something that he’s going to have to stand to account for. He chose not to in 2010, and instead he chose to retire from the state senate, join a lucrative lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., and then enrich himself in part by lobbying for clients who had problems with Obamacare,” Young said, saying it was akin to an arsonist applying for a job at the local fire station.
On Jan. 6, 2015, Young and Dan Lipinski (IL-3) led a bipartisan effort to introduce H.R. 30, the Save American Workers Act, a bill that would repeal the 30-hour definition of full-time employment in the Affordable Care Act and restore the traditional 40-hour definition. The bill was introduced with 145 co-sponsors, according to Young’s campaign website.
“So Obamacare, because it was considered so quickly, without public debate and drafted behind closed doors, and then rammed down the throats of Republicans, carries many flaws that it wouldn’t have otherwise had. One of these flaws is the redefinition of full-time employment as 30 hours per week. There’s no doubt in my mind it wasn’t intended to create a new threshold for full-time employment that led to the significant reduction in hours and wages for workers who can’t afford to see their household incomes drop by a quarter every month, but that’s precisely the impact of this new 30-hour work week because many employers can’t afford to provide Obamacare insurance to their employees who happen to work 30 or more hours, therefore they’re being reduced from 39 hours, in a very dramatic scenario, down to 29 or 28 hours,” Young explained.
He said the rule very publicly impacted the universities and colleges. It has led to dozens of Indiana school corporations to file a lawsuit against the federal government. He said the administrative burdens of keeping track who has worked how many hours so they don’t breach that threshold is “punitive” for employers and disrupts their operations.
“So what I did was, I merely drafted a bipartisan piece of legislation to restore the 40-hour work week, and a companion piece of legislation was introduced by Sen. (Joe) Donnelly and a Republican Senator over in the U.S. Senate,” Young said.
Asked for his thoughts on U.S. president contenders Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, Young, a U.S. Marine, kept his responses focused on Clinton.
“So we have to have a firewall against another four years of the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton agenda. We need a check and a balance. I will be that check and balance, that Marine guard against continued expansion of the size and scope of government, continued underperformance of our economy, and a continued foreign policy which is leaving us less safe and less secure. I’ll be able to fight against that,” he said.
“Evan Bayh will be a rubber stamp for Hillary Clinton’s agenda. I support that with the fact that when Evan Bayh was in the United States Senate, at the same time Hillary Clinton was in the United States Senate, he voted with her 85 percent of the time. They’re two peas in a liberal pod.”
He said Clinton will appoint very liberal Supreme Court justices and Bayh only votes for liberal justices.
“So if Hoosiers want a liberal Supreme Court, making laws about guns, and First Amendment rights and social issues, then Evan Bayh would be the choice for those Hoosiers. If instead they want a conservative Supreme Court, that doesn’t legislate from the bench, I would be the appropriate choice for those Hoosiers,” he continued.
When asked about Trump and how even some Republicans find him polarizing, Young responded, “I actually think Hillary Clinton is an incredibly polarizing public official. A Marine Corps intelligence officer that had top secret security clearance, above top secret security clearance, I am deeply disturbed that we have someone who aspires to be our commander-in-chief, but would compromise our national secrets by establishing a private server as secretary of state in her own basement. My Marine Corps friends would be serving jail time if they did that. I would be serving jail time if I did that. So Hillary Clinton and Evan Bayh are members of the political class and they believe that different rules should apply to them.”
Young said he’s a Hoosier who lives in Indiana and he thinks “the Republican nominee for U.S. president and Bernie Sanders both won their respective primaries in this state because they spoke to a lot of the challenges being faced by working class Americans. Hillary Clinton doesn’t speak to those challenges in the same way.”
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