Children’s Book By Indiana Senate Candidate Trashes His GOP Primary Rival

UNITED STATES - APRIL 4: Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., who is running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Indiana, addresses voters in South Bend, Ind., on April 4, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) addresses voters in South Bend, Indiana, on April 5, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate candidate Todd Rokita is releasing a politically themed children’s book that trashes one of his Republican primary opponents.

Titled “Oh, the places you’ll forget!” the book goes after Luke Messer, who moved his family to the Washington, D.C., area after his election to Congress.

It’s the latest barb in a race that has been called the nation’s nastiest primary.

The book includes illustrations and is written in rhyme. It characterizes Messer as an absentee elected official, who has left Indiana behind.

Messer’s campaign says the book amounts to a publicity stunt by a failing campaign. But spokesman Chasen Bullock wished Rokita good luck in his new career as a children’s book author.

The two congressmen are locked in a tight race with former state lawmaker Mike Braun.

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  1. Avatar for yskov yskov says:

    That’s not a children’s book, it’s a parody of a children’s book. Actually, strike that. It’s a parody of an embarking-on-adulthood book.

    Geez.

  2. While the article doesn’t mention it, I’m going to go way, way, way out on a limb and hypothesize that Todd Rokita is a Republican?

    He sure fits the GOP template…

    Defeat the Elite? ROFLMAO…

    And Columbia should sue him for trashing their corporate image…

  3. “Indiana Senate candidate Todd Rokita is releasing a politically themed children’s book that trashes one of his Republican primary opponents.”

    “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Kill The Poors!”

    (In the tradition of Pence’s classic, “Oh, The Rubles You’ll Take!”)

  4. I know Indiana is the home of underage drinking and marriages, but I didn’t know they let toddlers vote?

    Although that would explain how they ended up with Mikey Pants…

  5. And the Rubes Who You’ll Fake!

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