Political Football

Many of us in Muscatine will be spending our summer and fall finding as many independent votes for MMM as we can.  Muscatine County Republicans voted overwhelmingly for MMM (almost 70% of the votes in a 4 candidate race) but Muscatine is almost equaly divided R / I / D – maybe slanted I at this point.

Although there was some talk of a mass voting movement to get D’s to cross over in the primary to vote for BVP, IMO the weaker candidate against Culver – I don’t think that happened much in Muscatine.  I know for a fact that some D’s switched to vote for MMM, but the ones I know about, I’m confident will vote for MMM in the general election.

The State GOP convention June 26, will be less stressful,  now that all of the federal races have been decided in the primary.  No one outside MMM’s team expected her to win with 51% of the vote but she has a very strong “ground game” and has worked extraordinarily hard for the last two years.

One of her opposing candidates insisted that she shouldn’t be nominated because she lost to Loebsack already (in 2008) but that is hogwash.  In 2008 she had very little name recognition, especially in LINN County.  During the Summer of 2008, everyone was more occupied with the eastern Iowa flooding than the election.  As I noted elsewhere – there were frequent times when we wanted her to make calls to raise campaign funds, and we found her helping with sandbags in one of the counties affected instead.

Hopefully this will also be a November election that sends a message to Washington about spending money and leadership.  We have seen NO leadership out of this White House.  Faced with his own “disaster” all this President is doing is calling out the lawyers.  How clear is that message.  This isn’t about coming together to solve a problem this is about pointing fingers.  Plenty of time to do that in the future, Mr. President.  We need to see some leadership. 

When other countries offered to help because they had experience in oil spills, why were they denied access?  My sense is this President’s decision making has been made in the favor of special interest groups (Unions especially) not in the favor of the American People.  Also, let’s look at what all elected people own in stock or have received in campaign contributions.  Campaign contributions typically favor those in power.  We hope to change at least one branch of goverment’s power base in November and send a message to the others.  “We’re mad as H3LL and we’re not going to take it any more!!!”

!!!Vote Miller-Meeks for Congress 2010!!!

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