It seems as though Joe Donnelly’s big campaign secret has surfaced: he’s a … Democrat. The Congressman in Indiana-02 has tried mightily to hide that fact from voters this cycle, spending more time running against Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama than some Republicans in other districts. Now that the secret is out, Donnelly has fallen back to an alternate strategy, one perhaps even less convincing than the Name That Party plan:
“U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly has voted for Nancy Pelosi to be speaker of the House during both of his terms in Congress.
But Donnelly, D-Granger, also has distanced himself from the Democratic speaker in two of his campaign ads this year. One ad highlights his differences with party leaders on immigration policy — he says he doesn’t work for “the Washington crowd” — and another calls cap-and-trade legislation “Nancy Pelosi’s energy tax on Hoosier families.”
So will Donnelly vote for Pelosi to be speaker for another two-year term if he’s re-elected in November?”
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