Vaudt Considering Run For Governor?
May 18th, 2008 at 05:45pm Geraldine
On Iowa Press the other day, State Auditor Dave Vaudt ducked the question of whether he would consider running for Governor in 2010. While Vaudt doesn’t have much of a public profile, he’s still one of two statewide Republican elected officials and has few negatives attached to his name. However, it’s worth noting that Vaudt would not have been in the position to even contemplate a 2010 run for Governor if the Democrats had bothered to nominate a candidate to oppose him in 2006. While leaving legislative seats uncontested hurt Democrats in 2006, failing to run a candidate for Auditor hurt Democrats even more. With the sole exception of Denise O’Brien, who narrowly lost her underfunded campaign for Secretary of Agriculture after it was revealed that she didn’t feed her cows, every statewide Democrat won by a healthy margin and Democrats made gains statewide. If Democrats had found a distinguished nonentity to merely place his name on the ballot, Vaudt probably would have been defeated. Instead, there is now a Republican statewide elected official who can plot a run for Governor from inside the heart of state government.
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1. desmoinesdem | May 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Do you have to repeat every smear against a progressive?
It is false to say that Denise O’Brien didn’t feed her cows.
She handled the poultry operations at the family farm, not cattle.
A farmhand her husband hired wasn’t doing his job properly. When O’Brien’s husband found out, he fired the employee. This all happened about 20 years ago. No sanctions were ever imposed. This is a non-story dragged out by Republicans to prevent an opponent of CAFOs from getting elected to statewide office.
If O’Brien’s opponents cared about animal welfare, they would be doing something about the conditions in CAFOs.
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