Congressional candidate and former Green Beret Charles Bookwalter warns against U.S. involvement in Israel’s war in Gaza 

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** CONTACT:  (765) 670-1221 THORNTOWN, Indiana | Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023: Charles Bookwalter, a former Green Beret running for Congress in Indiana’s 4th Congressional District, issues the following statement: The push for the United States to support another war in the Middle East is incredibly dangerous as such a war will almost inevitably lead to war…

Charles Bookwalter: Stop the plan to pull water out of Tippecanoe aquifer and defund the IEDC!

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** CONTACT:  (765) 670-1221 THORNTOWN, Indiana | Friday, Oct. 20, 2023: Congressional candidate Charles Bookwalter called for Tippecanoe County to immediately stop the plan to pull up to 100 million gallons a day out of the Teays river aquifer to be used for a $50 billion semiconductor plant in Boone County, saying it’s a project…

Charles Bookwalter raises more than $137,000 in campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Jim Baird

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** THORNTOWN, Indiana | Monday, Oct. 16, 2023:  Congressional candidate Charles Bookwalter showed total receipts of $137,580 on his campaign’s latest report to the Federal Election Commission and 108 individual contributors. “I’m supported by real Americans, the majority of them Hoosiers who live in the 4th Congressional District who are frustrated and ready to fight…

Statement from Charles Bookwalter on Rep. Jim Baird’s announcement that he is running for re-election in the 4th Congressional District

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* THORNTOWN, Indiana | Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023:  I welcome Rep. Jim Baird’s announcement that he is running for re-election. While Jim Baird and I are both lifelong Hoosiers, combat veterans, and business owners, the contrast between us could not be more clear. While Jim Baird has voted to spend $113 billion of…

Conservative challenger Charles Bookwalter outpaced Rep. Jim Baird in fundraising and had twice as many individual contributors; says FEC reporting shows Baird being propped up by Washington lobbyists

THORNTOWN, Indiana | Thursday, July 27, 2023: Charles Bookwalter, the conservative who’s challenging Rep. Jim Baird in the Republican primary in Indiana’s 4th Congressional District, outpaced the sitting congressman in fundraising in late May and June, showing $39,214 raised since May 21 when he announced, while Baird, the sitting congressman, raised only $13,250 during this same…

Rep. Jim Baird votes NO on reinstating pilots who were fired for not getting the Covid-19 experimental vaccines

THORNTOWN, Indiana | Monday, July 24, 2023: U.S. Rep. Jim Baird voted NO on an amendment to the FAA bill last week that would require airlines to re-hire pilots who’d been fired for not getting the Covid vaccine. “No voter in the 4th Congressional District should vote to re-elect someone who thinks our airline pilots…

Former Green Beret to primary Rep. Jim Baird, calling Baird a ‘Big Government Republican’ for voting for red flag law and funding Biden’s Green New Deal, for co-sponsoring vaccine tracking bill and sending $100+ billion to Ukraine as Americans struggle to pay for gas and food

THORNTOWN, Indiana | Monday, May 22, 2023:  Charles Bookwalter of Boone County announced Sunday that he’s running for Congress, challenging incumbent Rep. Jim Baird for the Republican nomination in Indiana’s 4th Congressional District. Bookwalter is a former Green Beret, a former medical sales representative with Intuitive Surgical, a commercial property developer, and the co-owner of a Jimmy…