Rebecca Sink-Burris for U.S. Senate

A good story on Rebecca from Jason Thomas in the C-J...

Rebecca credits her reading of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged with her embrace of Libertarian views: "limited government with a focus on civil liberties".

Sink-Burris will use that platform as she campaigns for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who announced in January that he would not seek re-election...

Voters “would really like to have some new faces and have some anti-incumbent feeling, but what did they get for the Senate race?” she said. “Two strong members of the system who have voted for the same kind of policies that people are unhappy with.”

Sink-Burris, a former elementary arts teacher whose passion is gardening and landscaping her and her husband's 100-acre Outcrop Farm that skirts the Morgan-Monroe State Forest near Bloomington, offers campaign experience and an eloquent voice.

“We wanted someone who could articulate the Libertarian stance on a variety of issues, someone with a lot of character and well-respected within the party,” Spangle said. “We think a majority of Hoosiers will look at Rebecca and say, ‘She would be an honorable candidate who stands on principle.'”

Despite her zeal for defending the Libertarian way, Sink-Burris admits she's an introvert and “would much rather stay home and tend my landscaping.”...

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of Aug. 4-7 had Sink-Burris attracting 7 percent of the vote, behind Coats' 50 percent and Ellsworth's 29 percent, with 14 percent undecided...

And then, this great quote to wrap things up:

“I no longer believe we're a two-party country. I think it's a one-party country of big government that has two wings: one (Democrat) that likes to talk about your civil liberties but doesn't come through, and one (Republican) that likes to talk about your economic liberties but doesn't come through...I see it as a choice between big government and small government. There's only one small-government party out there, and that's the Libertarian Party.”