Mourdock Campaign Calls on Lugar to Give Back Award from Liberal Group

Lugar should explain ties to leftist think-tank

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard Mourdock's campaign for U.S. Senate called on Senator Dick Lugar to fully explain his relationship to the Roosevelt Institute's Campus Network, a liberal think-tank and student organizing group with ties to the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. Senator Lugar abruptly resigned from the group's board last Thursday after the Mourdock campaign raised the question of why a Republican Senator would affiliate with such a group.

Since then, it has come to light that Senator Lugar received an award from this group in 2007. That year, Senator Lugar shared the Roosevelt Institute's "Four Freedom's Award" with liberal Democratic Senator Carl Levin (D-MI).

"We are calling on Senator Lugar to fully reject this radical group's agenda by returning the award," said Mourdock campaign spokesman Christopher Conner. "Senator Lugar should also explain why he joined the group's board in the first place."

This past Friday, a Lugar spokesman told reporters that a "friend" had invited Lugar to join the Campus Network board in 2008.

"Despite the assertion that Lugar never attended a meeting, Hoosier Republicans deserve to know who this 'friend' was. Was it Robert Reich, Dee Dee Myers, or one of the other far-left members from the advisory board on which Lugar sat?" stated Conner.

SOURCE Hoosiers for Richard Mourdock, Inc.

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