Yeah, John Laesch is in the contest at Feingold’s PAC, but David Loebsack, my college advisor is in there. Dave’s raised just under $100,000 and has no primary opponent–long story about how he’s getting on the ballot, but he’s running in Iowa-2 which is currently held by Republican Jim Leach. Leach is a moderate, but also an enabler of the current House Leadership. Dave needs to kick up the fundraising, but Leach raises very little out of District so this won’t be the most expensive race to run either.
I like Loebsack, but if he couldn’t get 10 more signatures on his petition to get on the ballot, how can he beat Jim Leach? He’s fortunate the state party has agreed to let him be nominated at convention.
Leach will win. It’ll be better to give the money to someone else who has a better chance of winning a GOP seat.
I hear you Howie, but I pull out the personal friend exemption in this case, he was my advisor in college. I’m still trying to figure out what happened with the damn signatures.
I understand the personal connection. If I were in your shoes, I’d do the same thing.
Apparently, Dave got some huge labor endorsements this week. That’s encouraging.
BTW, good blog–I’ll add it to my rss feeder–
Thanks! I voted for Loebsack. I figure, I live in Iowa now… may as well help my party in my state.