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Christie Vilsack Should Sack Steve King Not Congressman Loebsack
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Apr 10, 2011 08:16pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, April 9, 2011 02:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BFIA could not disagree more with Bleeding Heartland's analysis of Christie Vilsack's claim on the second District. Perhaps Vilsack is not even considering such a preposterous notion. We hope not. We hope that she would not consider needlessly causing turmoil among Democrats and dredging up old political wounds for no apparent reason. We ask, what possible value would there be for anyone but Republicans by primarying a successful 3rd term Democratic congressman?
Congressman Dave Loebsack has been an extraordinary representative for Iowa, knocking off an entrenched, 30-year GOP incumbent Jim Leach in 2006 in a stunner that absolutely no one predicted. He won re-election in 2008 without even campaigning, and then won re-election again in 2010 against a well-funded right-wing tea party candidate. He ultimately survived the national GOP comeback and fared better than the other members of the Iowa delegation with 51% of the vote. Even Bruce Braley in a highly democratic district came scarily close to being defeated by another well funded GOP hack (who spent an ungodly amount of money on deceptive attack ads).
In election year 2010 Congressman Loebsack won a clean sweep of the district's major newspaper endorsements, each one, including the conservative CR Gazette, and also including the challenger's own hometown paper, the Ottumwa Courier, commenting on what an upstanding hard-working congressman Dave Loebsack has been. One who has truly made his first priority representing his constituents' interests. |
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