Sheriff Joe Arpalo, “America’s Toughest Sheriff”,  is coming to Sullivan on Aug. 21st.  Sheriff Joe – as he is known, will be at the Sullivan County 4-H building at 12:00 noon for a cookout fund-rasier sponsored by the 8th District GOP. Tickets to this event are $25 per person or $40 per couple.

Best known for his tent city and pink underwear, Sheriff Joe is no stranger to controversy, or to up holding the law in Maricopa County, Arizona. According to media outlets, the Sheriff and his deputies conducted another illegal alien round-up today. Even though Arizona’s new tough immigration law was striped of most of it’s teeth by a President Clinton appointed judge, he wouldn’t stop enforcing the law.

If you would like to attend this event, the Bloody8th has your ticket! Simply email me at tjbrink@sbcglobal.net. Tickets are limited and will be on a first come / first served basis.

Proceeds from this event will further assist candidates throughout the 8th District.

This from the Evansville Courier

EVANSVILLE — Larry Bucshon, 8th District Republican congressional candidate, will speak to conservative group Women Right of Center Thursday night in Evansville.

The event, which will be free and open to the public, will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Oaklyn Branch Library on Oak Hill Road.

Bucshon, a Newburgh-based heart surgeon, is competing with Rep. Trent Van Haaften, D-Mount Vernon, for the U.S. House seat to be vacated by Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind.

For more information about Thursday’s Women Right of Center meeting, contact Melissa Mauser at womenrightofcenter@yahoo.com or at (812) 480-2675

What? We have a candidate? Who is it?

Those must have been the words muttered out of the mouths of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) this past week.

Tiger Trent was awarded with membership to the  Red to Blue program. According to the press release

The Red to Blue program highlights Democratic campaigns across the country, and offers them financial, communications, grassroots, and strategic support. The program will introduce Democratic supporters to new, competitive candidates in order to help expand the fundraising base for these campaigns.

In other words, the candidate has pledged to vote along with Nancy Pelosi for raising taxes on the middle class, killing jobs and keeping Obamacare. The candidate pledges to vote for every spending bill that the President wants, vote for tax and cap, vote for a 1.3 Trillion dollar deficit and vote for debt over GDP.  

Wow. Congratulations to Tiger. It’s nice to see the DCCC finally realized they had a candidate in Indiana’s 8th District.

Just for the record, Dr. Bucshon was selected to the RCCC Top Gun program shortly after he announced his candidacy.

Let the games begin!

More trouble for Congressman Brad Ellsworth – remember his vote for healthcare – well the Susan B. Anthony group does. They are still just a little upset that Brad campained as a “pro-life” candidate, but voted with Nancy Pelosi for government paid abortion.

“We are going to do everything we can to point out that Democrats who said they were pro-life caved on the big one,” said Marilyn Musgrave, a former Colorado congresswoman who is project director of the Votes Have Consequences campaign for the conservative women’s group Susan B. Anthony List.

In addition to Dahlkemper, Musgrave will be targeting Ohio Rep. Steve Driehaus and Indiana Reps. Joe Donnelly and Brad Ellsworth, who is running for Senate. Mus­grave said Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia was also a target of her campaign, and he was defeated in the Democratic primary by anti-abortion candidate Mike Oliverio.

Musgrave hopes to raise a few million, but her top target is Ellsworth’s Senate race. Korzen is aiming for less than a million dollars in advertising to divide among his races.

At a recent City Council meeting, Pat Clark told a story about how he met FDR when he was a child. Pat said that if FDR could run the country from a wheel chair, he could run the city from a walker. Well Pat, here’s a story for you!

I make no secret about it, I am a big fan of Anne Hathaway. For those who may not know Anne, she is a rock star to us political junkies. Yesterday, the Politico ran a story about the “Top 50″ movers and shakers in politics and Anne was listed as one of the top staffers to watch.

Recently, Democrat candidate for 8th District Trent “Tiger” VanHaaften visited Terre Haute to talk about something he knows nothing about – job creation.

Tiger has a dismal rating from both the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as well as the Indiana Builders Association. He talks about creating jobs as a congressman, but didn’t do anything toward job creation as a State legislator. He voted in lock step with the Pat Bauer on all major issues. Each bill that came his way that would cut taxes or put people to work, he voted against.

Why would anyone think that Tiger would stand up against Nancy Pelosi and vote against his party and do something for job creation. Brad Ellsworth didn’t.

Apparently,  Brad Sheriff Congressman Ellsworth isn’t banking on winning this November. Actually, he is planning his next job – as a US Marshall.

Reliable sources are telling us that Brad has had conversations with the Marshall’s services about a possible job after November. the catch is, he may not be in Indiana. Both the Norther and Southern Marshall were recently appointed so Brad may be moving out of state in 99 days.