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Tue Jan-08-08 09:09 PM
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Ed Fallon to Challenge Bush Dog Boswell in Primary

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Edited on Tue Jan-08-08 09:10 PM by pstans

So it is official that former State Rep. Ed Fallon of Des Moines will be challenging Rep. Leonard Boswell in Iowa's 3rd district. Boswell has been named a Bush Dog Democrat by Open Left, as one of the Democratic Rep's that supports Bush the most. Fallon won a surprising 3rd place finish in the 2006 Democratic primary for Governor by gaining 26% when he was expected to get less than 5%.

Here's some more background...
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000002653032

The caucuses showed there is a populism wave riding across Iowa and Fallon could ride that to Congress. Fallon is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. He has pushed public financing of elections, universal health care, ending corporate tax give aways, and has never taken money from lobbyists and PAC's.

So what are your thoughts?

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