By Bob Zaltsberg
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Ninth District U.S. Rep. Todd Young and his election opponent, Democrat Shelli Yoder, offer clear differences to voters considering whom to support Nov. 6, and not just in gender and hair color. This is not an endorsement, in which we would suggest which one we believe would be the best choice; but rather, some reflections from editorial board interviews with each candidate in the last couple of weeks. Specific differences and one point of agreement emerged. (more…)

By PHILLIP M. BAILEY
 

 
Democrat Shelli Yoder is running a grassroots campaign for Indiana’s Ninth Congressional District seat against freshman Republican incumbent Todd Young.
 
The former Miss Indiana is a first-time candidate who won a competitive five-way Democratic primary earlier this year. Since then she has been traveling across the broad souther Indiana district meeting as many constituents as possible. (more…)

Yoder, a former Miss Indiana, is running against 9th District Rep. Todd Young, a first-term Republican who beat a Democratic incumbent in the 2010 wave, to represent Bloomington and the rest of southern Indiana. Yoder’s campaign stands out as one of the few to highlight poverty and to call for concrete measures, such as increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit and allowing those on welfare to keep child support payments, to reduce it. (more…)

 
LOUISVILLE, Ky (WHAS11) — It’s the debate over debates.
 
Ninth Congressional District incumbent Todd Young (R-IN) has agreed to two debates with Democrat challenger Shelli Yoder, but Yoder wants at least five more, if not her original proposal for 13 debates.
 
“We should be able to have a very positive town hall discussion in every single county,” Yoder explained, “so the constituents can hear their options.” (more…)

Yoder criticizes Young on Medicare, other mailings
By DANIEL SUDDEATH
 
SOUTHERN INDIANA — Ninth District Congressional candidate Shelli Yoder criticized incumbent Rep. Todd Young this week for his House mailings regarding issues such as Medicare that she regarded as an abuse of policy.
 
Yoder’s campaign stated that according to House disbursement records from April 1 of 2011 to March 31 of this year, Young sent out 651,072 pieces of mail at a cost of more than $293,000 to taxpayers.
 
“Todd Young ran for Congress back in 2010 promising voters that he would reduce spending in Washington,” said Yoder, a Democrat from Bloomington. “This kind of political hypocrisy represents what I think Hoosiers know is going on with Congress today, and I want to change that.” (more…)

IPFW graduate Shelli Yoder, a Democratic candidate for Congress, signs a poster for Myra Elliott of Orleans.

Ex-Miss Indiana hopes to unseat incumbent in 9th
 
Brian Francisco | Washington editor
 
FORT WAYNE – Shelli Yoder felt right at home at her first Democratic Party state convention.
 
Yoder, the party’s candidate for Congress in southern Indiana’s 9th District, is a graduate of IPFW. While in Fort Wayne, the Bloomington resident drove by a house where she lived while working on her bachelor’s degree in interpersonal and public communications.
 
“What a great education I got from IPFW,” Yoder said Saturday in an interview at Grand Wayne Center, site of the convention. “I have such fond memories of living here. It’s such a great city.” (more…)

By Grace Schneider 812-949-4040
 
Democratic primary voters in Southern Indiana’s 9th Congressional District swung their support behind Shelli Yoder, a first-time candidate who works as a professional development director at Indiana University in Bloomington.
 
Yoder, a 43-year-old mother of three young children, won the five-way race to set up a general election battle against GOP freshman Rep. Todd Young of Bloomington, who defeated incumbent Baron Hill in 2010.
 
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By Laura Lane 812-331-4362 | [email protected]
 
Political newcomer and former Miss Indiana Shelli Yoder beat four opponents, two with political experience in Washington, to become the Democratic challenger to Republican 9th District U.S. Rep. Todd Young in November.
 
Yoder, a Bloomington resident and associate director of professional development at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, entered the congressional race on the final day, saying she had grown weary of Washington politicians’ inability to collaborate and compromise on issues affecting Americans.
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Contact: Alexa Lopez, Communications Director for Shelli Yoder for Congress
 
Email: [email protected]
 
(Bloomington, IN) Shelli Yoder, candidate for Congress from the 9^th Congressional District, today denounced the lack of services for veterans who are suffering from homelessness, mental, and substance use disorders. “It is a source of shame that we would allow those who served us so nobly to return home to a paucity of services,” she stated. (more…)