Mark Small

On September 22 at 7 p.m. the candidates for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District (INCD5) from the Democratic Party, Christina Hale, and the Republican Party, Victoria Spartz, will participate in a virtual town hall meeting. 1/14

Spartz uses buzz words & phrases to stoke her campaign: “socialism” (bad); “trump” (good in her view, unless one of the 200,000 dead (unnecessarily) from Covid is a loved one); “gun rights” (good - unless you or a loved one have been harmed by gun violence). 2/14

I have one question for Ms. Spartz: Will you repudiate Vladimir Putin as a dictator? And please don’t dodge the question by saying “there are other forms of evil.” Putin has put a bounty out on U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. 3/14

I don’t believe we should have troops deployed all over BFE - look it up - but neither do I think it’s acceptable to tolerate a superpower paying taliban members so many dollars - or rubles - to kill our people in uniform. 4/14

In fairness, we (kinda) did that to Soviet forces after they invaded Afghanistan. “Charlie Wilson’s War” told the story of our arms to Afghanistan rebels who then shot down Soviet choppers and fixed wing aircraft. Putin bears a grudge over that. 5/14

Putin hates USA & compared USA 2 the 3rd Reich & he hates our democratic form of govt. He’s a dictator. I’d say trump “adores” Putin, but Putin owns trump. A hooker has greater latitude than trump vis-a-vis Putin. A hooker can spit things out & it’s a temp gig. 6/14

There are reasons trump does not release his tax returns: we’d see all those ties to Russian banks & Russia is controlled by Putin. So trump will continue to assume the position however way Putin wants him, or else suffer a radioactive enema. 7/14

Spartz harps how she was raised in socialist-controlled Ukraine & experienced 1st-hand the dark side of socialism. She stimulates salivary glands of some INCD5 GOP voters, but never defines “socialism”/simply uses it as bait. (Putin was part of that socialism system, btw.) 8/14