FYI Bill: Baron Won't Come Cheap

From Brian Howey:

President Clinton’s lobbying has not convinced Rep. Baron Hill (D-9th CD) to back Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Hill (pictured) had a “lengthy conversation” with the former president on Monday morning but remains undecided on whether to endorse Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama, Hill said in an HPI interview Monday night.

“I like both of them,” Hill said as he departed a Purdue University reception at the Library of Congress. But he is leery of backing either because he is not sure whether voters in southeast Indiana want him involved in a national race.

“I have a district (where) I have to be careful politically whether I endorse anybody,” Hill said. “One of the things I’ve learned is to make sure I stay local.” Hill said a decision on whether to line up behind Clinton or Obama before the May 6 Indiana primary will be based on “lots of conversations” with people in the district and elsewhere.

As a Democratic super delegate, he said he will weigh the results in the 9th CD with what may be best for the party as the election season heads for this summer’s conventions. “I have to find the balance,” he said. “Obama’s got the edge right now” in the race in Indiana, Hill said.

So much of an edge that Hillary Clinton leads him in Indiana by nine points in a new poll.

Baron won't come cheap, but his wife apparently likes herself some Barack Obama (or at least wears his t-shirts while on taxpayer-funded Congressional junkets to foreign countries).

Obama has already made a $12,500 down payment on buying Baron Hill; Hillary Clinton has given him only $2,500.

The former President better have brought his checkbook to that meeting.

Where will Baron stand?

With Hillary Clinton, and cause Republicans and conservatives in the 9th District to surge against him and result in the the liberals and lefties in Bloomington turning upon him?

Or with Barack Obama, and cause conservative Democrats that cannot stomach Obama (for reasons that go back generations) to turn on him?

Decisions, decisions.