{"id":197605,"date":"2008-01-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/lets-get-rid-of-bush-dog-leonard-boswell\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:00:00","slug":"lets-get-rid-of-bush-dog-leonard-boswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/lets-get-rid-of-bush-dog-leonard-boswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get Rid of Bush Dog Leonard Boswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Fallon is challenging Leonard Boswell <a href=\"http:\/\/openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=3361\"> in the Iowa primary<\/a>.  (I guess that they only do the caucus for presidential stuff, could someone confirm?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good idea to take<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, Gore barely won in 2000, and Bush barely won in 2004, so it&#8217;s a competitive district, but if this isn&#8217;t a year for Democrats, particularly given the economy, it I&#8217;ll eat my hat.)<\/p>\n<p>You can contribute via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/entity\/fundraisers\/18727\">Act Blue<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fallonforcongress.com\/\">Fallon&#8217;s web site<\/a> is not yet up.<\/p>\n<p>Fallon is popular in the district, he carried it in the gubernatorial primary that he lost state wide, and Boswell has never connected well with the district, he moved following redistricting in 2000, and he&#8217;s voted for the war without condition and the Patriot act.<\/p>\n<p>The primary is on June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Fallon is challenging Leonard Boswell in the Iowa primary. (I guess that they only do the caucus for presidential stuff, could someone confirm? It&#8217;s a good idea to take FWIW, Gore barely won in 2000, and Bush barely won in 2004, so it&#8217;s a competitive district, but if this isn&#8217;t a year for Democrats, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}