It’s a buit amusing to see Indiana 9th District Rep. Baron Hill targeted on billboards by Greenpeace, the enviornmental activist organization.

Hill seemed to find some irony as well when questioned Tuesday morning about the signs, expected to go up later in the day around the district.

“Every day’s a new day, but I didn’t expect this,” Hill said in a phone conversation from Washington, D.C.

The irony and amusement come from the history of Hill with billboards during election years. He’s been targeted by signs in the past, made a poster child for everything liberal and evil by conservative groups and individuals, including Citizens for Truth.

Now Greenpeace, hardly a bastion of conservative policies, is lining up against the Seymour Democrat. It contends that Hill’s weak on fighting global warming.

Greenpeace surely can’t be suggesting that Hill’s likely opponent in the general election this fall, Republican Mike Sodrel, would be a better candidate for fighting Al Gore’s war. That leads one to question whether the billboard campaign might be to favor Hill’s Democratic opponents in the May 6 primary election, John R. Bottorff of Jasper, Gretchen Clearwater of Bloomington and Lendall B. Terry of Versailles.

But Edyta Sitko of Greenpeace’s Bloomington office was quick to stress that the organization doesn’t endorse any political candidates.

Hill isn’t the only congressman being targeted by the billboards. Sitko said about 25 congressmen — Democrats and Republicans — are part of the billboard campaign.

Irony. You have to love it.

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