Andy Horning

Andy Horning (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Indiana. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Horning completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Andy Horning was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1979. Horning's career experience includes working as a senior product manager with Spacelabs Healthcare, an author, and an adjunct scholar with Indiana Policy Review before retiring.^[1]^[2]

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Indiana

Jim Banks defeated Valerie McCray, Andy Horning, Phillip Beachy, and Antonio Alvarez in the general election for U.S. Senate Indiana on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jim Banks (R)	58.6	1,659,416
		Valerie McCray (D)	38.8	1,097,061
		Andy Horning (L)	2.6	73,233
		Phillip Beachy (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	168
	Submit photo	Antonio Alvarez (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	19

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,829,897
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Sean Dada (Independent)
Richard Kent (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Indiana

Valerie McCray defeated Marc Carmichael in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Indiana on May 7, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Valerie McCray	68.0	121,734
	Marc Carmichael	32.0	57,256

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 178,990
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Indiana

Jim Banks advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Indiana on May 7, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jim Banks	100.0	475,729

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 475,729
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. Senate Indiana

Andy Horning advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. Senate Indiana on March 2, 2024.

		Candidate
✔		Andy Horning (L)

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Endorsements

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Pledges

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U.S. Term Limits

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Indiana District 8

Incumbent Larry Bucshon defeated Ray McCormick and Andy Horning in the general election for U.S. House Indiana District 8 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Larry Bucshon (R)	65.7	141,995
	Ray McCormick (D)	31.5	68,109
	Andy Horning (L)	2.7	5,936

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 216,040
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 8

Ray McCormick defeated Adnan Dhahir and Peter Priest II in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Indiana District 8 on May 3, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ray McCormick	69.7	16,465
		Adnan Dhahir	18.7	4,429
	Submit photo	Peter Priest II	11.6	2,731

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 23,625
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 8

Incumbent Larry Bucshon advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Indiana District 8 on May 3, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Larry Bucshon	100.0	47,557

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 47,557
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Gabriel Whitley (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 8

Andy Horning advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Indiana District 8 on March 5, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Andy Horning (L)

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2016

See also: Indiana's 8th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Larry Bucshon (R) won re-election in 2016. Bucshon defeated Ron Drake (D) and Andrew Horning (L) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Bucshon defeated Richard Moss in the Republican primary. On the other side of the aisle, Ron Drake defeated David Orentlicher to win the Democratic nomination. The Democratic primary race remained uncalled for months following the election. The primary elections took place on May 3, 2016.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

**U.S. House, Indiana District 8 General Election, 2016**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Larry Bucshon Incumbent	63.7%	187,702
	Democratic	Ron Drake	31.7%	93,356
	Libertarian	Andrew Horning	4.6%	13,655
Total Votes				294,713
Source: Indiana Division of Elections

**U.S. House, Indiana District 8 Republican Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Larry Buchson Incumbent	65%	72,889
Richard Moss	35%	39,168
Total Votes		112,057
Source: Indiana Secretary of State

**U.S. House, Indiana District 8 Democratic Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Ron Drake	50.1%	29,270
David Orentlicher	49.9%	29,206
Total Votes		58,476
Source: Indiana Secretary of State

2014

See also: Indiana's 8th Congressional District elections, 2014

Horning ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Indiana's 8th District.^[7] Horning ran as a Libertarian candidate. Andy Horning lost the general election on November 4, 2014.

**U.S. House, Indiana District 8 General Election, 2014**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Larry Bucshon Incumbent	60.3%	103,344
	Democratic	Tom Spangler	35.8%	61,384
	Libertarian	Andrew Horning	3.8%	6,587
Total Votes				171,315
Source: Indiana Secretary of State Official Results

2012

See also: United States Senate elections in Indiana, 2012

Horning ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Indiana. He won the nomination on the Libertarian ticket.^[8] The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run was February 24, 2012. The primary elections took place on May 8, 2012.

According to the website Daily Kos, this race was one of nine top-ballot 2012 races that contained Libertarian candidates who received more total votes than was the difference between the Democratic winner and the GOP runner-up. In this case, Horning took in over 4,800 more votes than the number that separated Donnelly and Mourdock.^[9]

**U.S. Senate, Indiana General Election, 2012**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Joe Donnelly	50%	1,281,181
	Republican	Richard Mourdock	44.3%	1,133,621
	Libertarian	Andy Horning	5.7%	145,282
	Independent	James Johnson, Jr.	0%	15
	Independent	Amy Willis	0%	3
Total Votes				2,560,102
Source: Indiana Secretary of State "United States Senate Election Results"

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

Andy Horning completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Horning's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm a grateful husband and wistfully empty nester who's mostly retired to our little farm in Freedom, Indiana. I've been an author, activist, columnist, protester and advocate for constitutional peace, prosperity, liberty and justice...for all.

In a successful run as a Republican in 2004, and "unsuccessful" Libertarian campaigns before and since, I debunked most of what we're told about parties, money, odds and the nature of the Two Party System (described in my most recent book).

I also became convinced that, election fraud or no, we have what we've been voting for, and we can fix that any time we wake up and make better choices.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

We all know our government is corrupt. But that's because we no longer understand either what's already ours by the constitutions, or our power over everything.
...And I mean everything. Government is just our avatar. We The People have all the power, and accountability, for our culture, our civility, and our politics. While this is detailed in my book, "Relighting the Torch," the truth is that toppling the bad guys is very simple.
Let's talk!
The Federal Reserve System must go away. I go into detail in my book, "Relighting the Torch," but the short answer is that it is the mechanism of transgenerational theft. It monetizes political promises and lies, building an enormous bubble of unsustainable war, debt and wealth transfer to all the wrong people. The fix is already law; we need only invoke it.
We'd been warned by our founders and several Presidents against government secrecy, secret societies, and the horrors committed under the dark veil of "national security." Eisenhower was right about the "military-industrial complex" and "scientific-technological elite." Spying, lying, toppling governments, assassinations, war and lost individual rights has cost us far more than most of us know. This all has to stop, and I have plans to restore sanity to security.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Peace, prosperity, security, civility, justice and freedom...

My plans are proven to work better than anything else humans have tried.
Today's government is our most ancient, brutish default authoritarianism. What I'm offering, as described by "Austrian School" economists, libertarians from Frederick Douglass to Ron Paul, and our nation's founders, is still the newest, most scientific and proven system of social organization, economics, personal and national security ever devised.

We really ought to try it...

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

You wouldn't know the ones who're living. They're not politicians. And some of them are dead. Some of them, like Jesus Christ, have associations in some people's minds that lead to wrong conclusions about me anyway.
How about we just judge me, by me?

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

Yes! None of the other candidates have written as much as I have over the past three decades. The best book on my philosophy is one I wrote myself: "Relighting the Torch," available as hardcover, paperback, Kindle Edition and audiobook.
My description of problems and solutions is all in there. You can hold me to it!

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Understanding that none of us should be considered "leaders." We The People should insist on being in charge of, and accountable for, our governance.

Not only would that engender more accountability and openness to the public, it would also right the great wrong of both establishing an unaccountable political ruling class, and thinking that's The Way Things Are.

Politicians should also have a clear record of being right, as opposed to the usual record of being wrong, that somehow has become tolerated. In politics, there should be consequences for being wrong, and advantages to being right. That has not been the case for generations now.

And civil servants should understand that politics, governments, and other corporate entities are dangerous abstractions. Individual humans are real. Humans have rights, governments and corporations do not.

Governments and other abstract incorporations should be much more regulated and accountable to the public than private citizens.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

"Success" is a frustrating word in politics. I'm not impressed by most successful politicians, and I've been more favorably impressed by those we tend to call "losers."

Ron Paul, for example, was highly principled, correct on most issues, and yet was, by any practical measure, very unsuccessful.
I'd rather discuss qualities that'd make for a good officeholder:

Principled, takes the oath of office seriously and without exception - limiting government to only what's constitutionally authorized, communicates frequently with constituents about what's happening in their government, and has all the political promises written down, and not variable by audience.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Constitutional US Senators are supposed to defend their state against encroachment by Washington D.C. or global powers. They promise to uphold and defend the constitution against all enemies both foreign...and domestic. I'm likely the only candidate who actually understands what that even means. It's detailed in my book, "Relighting the Torch," but it's also in the plain writing and obvious sense of the US Constitution as written and amended.
That constitution is simpler and shorter than we've been led to believe. We all ought to read it and see for ourselves.

What legacy would you like to leave?

That I was a good husband, father, friend, made people happy...
And did a good job as a servant to civil society, holding true to my promises and oath of office.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

The JFK assassination. I was five.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Paperboy! A few years. Then I worked at the Indianapolis zoo...the old one. That latter, I believe, is good experience for what I'm doing now.

What is your favorite book? Why?

It changes! I'm not sure I can answer in such a way that'd tell you anything useful.

But the first book to spring to mind was Dickens' "Bleak House."

But I'm not even sure I should call that a favorite. I've too many I've enjoyed.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

I don't know. I'd have to think on that, and I'm not sure I should. I'm pretty cool with who I am. I'm blessed. And I'd likely make ghastly mistakes as an eternal Superman or whatnot.
Better to stay human with both feet on the ground, I think.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

DANG IT!!! WHY DID YOU REMIND ME?!?!?
"Casper the Friendly Ghost" was a terrible theme song for a terrible cartoon when I was a kid.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Optimism. Since becoming politically more aware and active, I've tended to become more cynical and curmudgeonly. Perhaps more amusingly to some, I've also struggled against profanity.
I'm working on both optimism, and curbing my invectives.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Our culture, and its avatar, our government. We have no international threats as bad as the ones within our borders.

The unconstitutional, inherently divisive Two Party System our founders warned against, has torn us apart, and down. We've lost our vision and purpose as a nation, and have become yet another of history's authoritarian empires on the verge of collapse.
We're in a truly existential crisis of character, morality, civility and basic social functionality.
We've thus fallen victim to genuinely awful global authoritarians and politically protected corporate cronies (ask me about Big Pharma!) who've been deconstructing and destroying every aspect of our individual liberties, and even bodily autonomy and health.

We're a hot mess, people. We need to wake up!

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Limiting terms is what voters are supposed to do. But I have come to believe very strongly that we need to extend constitutional limits onto every political officeholder, bureaucrat, agency, bureaucracy and law. It's all in my book, "Relighting the Torch."

What qualities does the U.S. Senate possess that makes it unique as an institution?

There is such a thing as a wrong question, and this is one. The U.S. Senate is not only not unique, it's much less unique than it's supposed to be since the 17th Amendment. It is just another body of political elites now, that is mostly controlled by corporate and global interests like the WEF, the military, monetary and spy agencies, as well as corporate lobbyists and the investor-class leaders.
Today's US Senate is more about insider trading and hobnobbing than defending citizens against political abuse of power.

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for senators to have previous experience in government or politics?

Isn't it now obvious that "experience in government or politics" can be more accurately described in a single word...corruption?

No.
Politicians should go in, do what they promised during their election campaign, and get out quickly.
I wish voters would take the lead by firing incumbents, instead of reelecting incumbents until they die of mildew.
But I have, in writing, proposed strict term limits, because voters have not been taking their primary role seriously. We've fallen asleep at the switch.
The whole point of elections is NOT to hire politicians! Politicians exist everywhere and always where and when there aren't any elections at all.

The point of elections is to fire politicians. It's our weapon of peaceful revolution, so we don't have to have the other kind of revolution to clean our our rats nests.

What do you think of the filibuster?

Eh. It's not anywhere near my list of priorities. It has its uses, amusements and embarrassments. But it is among the very least important of issues.

Is there a particular senator, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Rand Paul's lately been doing a good job on many things.

But "model" myself on anybody in office now?
No. They've all chosen to play on an unconstitutional Two Party System puppet show stage.
I like him a lot, but I've chosen to oppose that whole corrupt system of bundlers, permanent partisan staffers and bureaucrats, party kingmakers and duopoly games.

I tried that already. It's a no-win proposition. In fact we all lose when we keep breathing life into what we all know is a broken system.

Tell us your favorite joke.

No, I'd better not.

How would you evaluate a judicial nominee?

I would require fidelity to the federal constitution as written. No exceptions.
We've been screwing that up for way too long.

What kind of relationships would you build with other senators?

Well, to the public it seems they need something like a marriage counselor. But the biggest problem is that they agree on too many things - unconstitutional wars, spending, debt, corruption, insider trading...

A few would want to do the right thing if a "third way" would give them cover to do so. I would certainly help with that, just by being elected as a Libertarian. A very few Senators are like Rand Paul, with whom I'd want to talk, and maybe have lunch, on my first day. I'd make allies of people like him, and House Reps like Thomas Massie. I've been surprised lately by John Fetterman, with whom I've found unexpected agreement on some key issues (though not his attire).
Personally, I'm a very agreeable, polite and...dare I say...nice guy. I'd be totally civil and cooperative ...when appropriate.
But let's talk reality:
1. Many Senate incumbents should've been gone long ago. To such D.C. denizens, I'd be seen as the enemy, and I'd be under considerable pressure and attack should I get the sort of media coverage that'd make me a threat to them.
2. It's voters who really hold all the power. The power of my election would be that voters had a change of heart and mind, and voted against the status quo. I'd be the emblem of a shift in public mood.

3. Most of my work would be with the public. That's where the real power is, you know.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

This question comes from a faulty paradigm of unconstitutional, multi-thousand-page bills, and an inherently divisive system that my election would prove is falling out of public favor.

Yes, compromise happens all the time. But that should be inherent in the votes, not the principles and laws that I would promise to uphold fully. When I get outvoted, I'd shake hands with the "winners," and take my side of the story to voters, who should understand what happened, and how.
We've seen "compromise" get perverted into corruption and deceit.
That's got to stop.

Truth is truth. Some things work, most things don't. We need to start making sense. That's got to start.

How should the U.S. Senate use its investigative powers?

That's an awfully broad question, and it's under too much Two Party System baggage right now.

It's obvious that it's a corrupt mess. The Senate investigates the wrong things, and doesn't investigate the right things because there is no constitutional basis or agreement on principles.

I've a plan to fix that.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

I won't be the official candidate until the first weekend in March. But I've had lots of endorsements in past campaigns. My biggest contributor when I ran as a Republican was Ron Paul.

What criteria would you apply when deciding whether to confirm presidential appointees to their Cabinet?

What I'd described as traits of any politician, along with their understanding and fidelity to the US Constitution.

What committees interest you?

There are too many, and I'd likely be disappointed by the welcome I'd receive. But certainly Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Intelligence, Taxation and Budget.

What are your views on financial transparency and government accountability?

Absolute. As previously mentioned, secrecy is our enemy. We can't hold government accountable for what is hidden from us.
I've written about this in a recent press release. I described the only tolerable secrets, and the way to keep them controlled by our US Congress reps.

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Campaign website

Horning’s campaign website stated the following:

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Issues
We have more than plenty of problems. The Border Crisis; Spies, Liars and Hackers of of the Public Mind; Foreign threats; Massive, global and corporate corruption; “Cancel Culture” and the loss of our First Amendment; The Fed – with its inflation/monetary corruption… The list is long, and you’ll find many of my proposals and solutions on my News & Media page. But what most of us are calling “issues” are really just symptoms of a much greater, deeper, more existential crisis of our cultural disease. We’ve lost our vision. We’re angry, divided and at each others’ throats.

So I’m running for office for three main reasons:

Our culture is self-destructing by the agency of two inherently divisive private organizations, operating by campaign donation strings, under an enormous, costly, anti-constitutional, global corporate and semi-secret system of corruption that depends and thrives upon conflict. I wish I were exaggerating, but you likely know I’m not. What’s worse, though, is that I’m the only US Senate candidate actually opposing this puppet show.
US Senators were intended to be the voice of the sovereign states in a bicameral congress – One house representing the people directly (House of Representatives), and the other defending state autonomy against the encroachment of centralizing powers (Senate). We’ve not had such a bicameral house for well-over a century. I’m the candidate who would fulfill the constitutional role of US Senator.
I am the only US Senate candidate putting constitutional design on the ballot as an option. By the clear text of state and federal constitutions, our government is ungoverned, our police are unpoliced, our lawmakers are lawless (and most are unelected bureaucrats anyway), and our justice is unjust. We need to govern our government by clear, written law, and I’m the only one proposing we do just that – for laws that are few enough for everyone to know, simple enough for everyone to understand, and important enough for everyone that they’re applied equally to all without special classes, exceptions, provisos or cheating.

What’s needed is for us to stop playing partisan ping-pong as if yet another “Red Wave” and then “Blue Wave” and another “Red Wave” and another blue and another red…etc., etc., et cetera… will fix anything at all.

Four key facts:

Independents outnumber both Ds and Rs. People are turning in droves from the status quo private clubs we call the Two Party System. In a three-way race, the whole “Two Party System” would have already lost… if we’d only vote the way we talk.
But despite that turn from party loyalty in at least rhetoric and polls, most people haven’t been voting like independent thinkers, and THAT needs to CHANGE if we want anything to get better, because…
The Two Party Scam has driven a brutal, hateful wedge between us in essentially every aspect of our lives.
We’re surrounded by lies and liars. To sort this out, we really need to start talking with people, face to face, and in a sympathetic and civil manner. We need to get to know each other as people…not as (D) or (R).

I’m qualified to hold this office as the only one who’d take the oath of office literally.

This isn’t a personal attack on the other candidates, since, for generations, people have increasingly become less familiar with, and more disdainful of, our founders’ actual intent in regulating politics. It’s only relatively recently that anybody of prominence (for example Ron Paul) ever even mentioned the constitutions. So it’s just plain truth, by the written words of the constitution, and the words and actions of the candidates, that I’m the only constitutionalist running. It’s up to voters to decide what they want. I’ve read every one of the USA constitutions (federal and all states), and have for decades made available my annotations to both federal and Indiana constitutions, so that anyone can read, and hold me to, my reading of those once-cherished, but never-fully-followed social covenants. I’ve become known as both an expert on, and advocate for, constitutional rule of law for decades. I’ve published both my defense of constitutional rule of law/design, and proposals for fixing our fundamental problems on Amazon.

My record is even more lengthy and well-documented in every form of media than the multi-term incumbent’s, and I’ve been right, over and over again, far more than I’ve been wrong. That’s unusual in politics. One of the worst things about today’s politics is that there’s no electoral advantage to being right, and no demerit in being continuously wrong about how things work and what we’re doing. It doesn’t take a Cassandric gift of prophesy to read human history and see what works and what always fails. I’ve been writing down what I’ve seen and what I propose to do about it for thirty years as an organizer, activist, advocate, candidate, former weekly columnist for the Indianapolis Star, and Adjunct Scholar with the Indiana Policy Review.

Our nation’s four main issues (and how to fix them) are:

The aforementioned corruption. The self-appointed, unconstitutional, wholly corrupt and inherently divisive “Two Party System” that our founders warned us about, is tearing us apart. More and more every day. “Cancel culture,” violence, and partisan contempt disgorging from increasingly cancerous US Presidential elections, are the worst in my lifetime, certainly. The ever-more-restrictive ballot access and partisan laws that favor the mighty and crush any offering an alternative, are increasing the urgency with which we must use our votes as intended – as weapons of peaceful revolution. We must unite against those who profit from this insane tug of war over who loses the most on every Election Day.
We’ve been provoking, funding, training and arming enemies, both foreign and domestic, for too long. We have got to stand-down our global “whack-a-mole” foreign policy, and concentrate on real dangers within, and across, our own borders. We’ve ignored the threat posed by the CCP and its allies for too long (Trump was right about this). Our culture of self-righteous violence and misunderstanding of our constitutional design is inexcusable as well as self-destructive. We’ve put our domestic police into increasingly adversarial roles against citizens (with the incumbent’s votes, BTW) while blurring the line between military and domestic force in both weaponry and rules of engagement. This must stop.
Monetary/financial cronyism and banking/lending reform. There’s unfortunately a rather long, complicated story about why we’re such a mess, and why this is such a terrible problem that the incumbent political parties will not, and can not, touch. We do not have the free markets and sound money that we’re owed by both our state and federal constitutions. Property ownership, free trade, free association and in short, full sovereignty over our commerce has been stolen by politicians and politically-advantaged corporate cronies. That crime would stop as soon as we assert our constitutional leash against our elected, literal armed robbers. Short answer: End the Fed, and make the US House of Representatives accountable to our monetary system, as still demanded by our constitution.
The Border Crisis. This is an older issue than we’ve been led to believe. And it’s been both Democrats AND Republicans who’ve made this a catastrophe. Please read this: https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/crisis-at-the-border-or-in-dc/

Some of my solutions for the previous are detailed here: https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2017/12/15/eight-steps-to-success/. There are even more in my book, Relighting the Torch. But the short answer is that we must first end the monolithic rule of the obviously corrupt Two Party System if we wish any sort of rule of law.^[10]

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—Andy Horning’s campaign website (2024)^[11]

2022

Andy Horning completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Horning's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I love my life...so I want politicians out of it. I know I'm not alone in that sentiment.

If you want to know a little more about my life on a little farm in Freedom, Indiana, you start here, https://horning4congress.com/about-andy/

...and then ask me whatever you want to know.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Our nation is divided by two political tribes we all know to be corrupt.
Our government is corrupt and out of control.
Inflation, shortages, mandates and prohibitions are the result of letting too few people have too much power for too long.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Monetary policy - sound, constitutional money and free market options.

Constitutional rule of law - we really ought to try it at long last.
Anti-corruption - keeping political power divided and on a tight leash of written law and vigilant culture.
Anti-violence - putting a leash on both the Military-Industrial Complex, and Scientific-Technological Elite that Eisenhower warned us about.

Freedom - This used to be considered precious, you know.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Separation and limitation of power, trust in the genius of individuals and free markets, and a desire to return to private life.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Restrain power, maximize individual liberty, and stick to the constitution as written.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

NO! Absolutely not. It's better for politicians to have lived in the real world first, have a brief and energetic stint in politics, and then go back to real life.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Overcoming the existential problems created by the unconstitutional, self-appointed, immoral and destructive "Two Party System" that so many founders and wise people warned us against.
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution." - John Adams, letter to Jonathan Jackson, 2 October 1780.

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

Committees are themselves problematic - an erosion of the one-person-one-vote intention.
I'd like to be on several committees, but until we do something about the Two Party System corruption, it's not likely I'd be granted any crony power. In fact I'd like to be a troublemaker.

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

Yes. No longer. And I think there ought to be a three-term limit.

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Let’s face it; voters haven’t been doing their part in firing politicians, and there’s no procedural fix for bad choices. Term limits won’t happen until after voters make better choices. Similarly, I have for decades favored alternative voting schemes like Condorcet, Ranked Choice or Approval Voting (RCV or AV). And I definitely love the idea of increasing the number of representatives to better suit our population - we have the technology to keep politicians in their districts with more local accountability. But we won’t get such changes UNTIL we get rid of the politicians who like things the way they are.
We’ll get term limits only after a sufficient number of people wake up and act appropriately such that we fire the bad guys and, at least for the short term, defuse the huge advantage of incumbency… particularly the power of “committee” rulers based on tenure. …But after that cultural epiphany and revolution, those voters' kids and grandkids will gradually fall asleep again. That’s just how civilizations inevitably decay and die. If we’re to delay our self-destruction at least a little, we need term limits shorter than human life expectancy…particularly in the context of tenure/corruption-based power structures.

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Many good ones in the past, like "Mr. Republican" Robert A. Taft, Ron Paul, Justin Amash. Thomas Massie is a good current congressman.

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Sometimes. But mostly no - not where money and power concentrate.

I like the written rules - we should try them:

https://wedeclare.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/constitutional-rule-of-law-is-intelligent-design/

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Andy Horning campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. Senate Indiana	Lost general	$0	N/A**
2022	U.S. House Indiana District 8	Lost general	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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↑ LinkedIn, "Andrew Horning, RDCS," accessed April 22, 2022
↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 17, 2024
↑ Indiana Secretary of State, "May 3, 2016 Primary Election," accessed February 8, 2016
↑ The New York Times, "Indiana Primary Results," May 3, 2016
↑ Indiana Public Media, "Orentlicher Cedes Race To Drake Before Recount Official," August 13, 2016
↑ Indiana Secretary of State, "November 8, 2016 General Election," accessed September 6, 2016
↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named run
↑ Libertarian Party of Indiana, "Andy Horning Announces Bid for US Senate in 2012," September 16, 2011
↑ Daily Kos, "Libertarians provided the margin for Democrats and at least nine elections," November 15, 2012
↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ Andy Horning’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed September 26, 2024

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Indiana's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Jim Banks (R)

Todd Young (R)

Representatives

District 1

Frank Mrvan (D)

District 2

Rudy Yakym (R)

District 3

Marlin Stutzman (R)

District 4

Jim Baird (R)

District 5

Victoria Spartz (R)

District 6

Jefferson Shreve (R)

District 7

André Carson (D)

District 8

Mark Messmer (R)

District 9

Erin Houchin (R)

Republican Party (9)

Democratic Party (2)

[bio-1] LinkedIn, "Andrew Horning, RDCS," accessed April 22, 2022

[2] Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 17, 2024

[cong16-3] Indiana Secretary of State, "May 3, 2016 Primary Election," accessed February 8, 2016

[primaryresults-4] The New York Times, "Indiana Primary Results," May 3, 2016

[5] Indiana Public Media, "Orentlicher Cedes Race To Drake Before Recount Official," August 13, 2016

[genlist16-6] Indiana Secretary of State, "November 8, 2016 General Election," accessed September 6, 2016

[run-7] Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named run

[8] Libertarian Party of Indiana, "Andy Horning Announces Bid for US Senate in 2012," September 16, 2011

[9] Daily Kos, "Libertarians provided the margin for Democrats and at least nine elections," November 15, 2012

[quotedisclaimer-10] Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

[11] Andy Horning’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed September 26, 2024

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