An Apology To Ed Fallon
June 10th, 2008 at 11:09am Geraldine
Some of the posts on this blog got to be a bit overly negative towards Ed Fallon during the primary. In particular, a post that compared Fallon to Benedict Arnold for his endorsement of Ralph Nader in 2000. In retrospect, Fallon clearly learned his lesson from his endorsement of Ralph Nader in 2000 and accepted his defeat in last week’s primary.
The same however cannot be said of William Meyers. William Meyers is an ex-Marine who has been using his government disability pay to allow himself to be a full time candidate for Congress over the past year. Meyers, as an outsider who didn’t raise any money, finished third in a four-way primary to be the Democratic nominee in the 4th District against Tom Latham. Meyers, like most candidates who receive 11% of the vote, came to the obvious conclusion about why 89% of voters rejected him. He was robbed.
Meyers claims that he was shut out of certain central committees by biased county chairs and this inability to meet central committee members in a handful of counties robbed him of the 7,986 votes that he needed to defeat the winner, Becky Greenwald. Meyers has never stated how he was “denied access.” The county central committee membership is public information and as far as Iowa Progress knows, no County Central Committee employs bouncers to keep out unwanted guests from meetings.
It seems Meyers is just a sore loser looking for someone to blame for his own failings. However, we’re still reserving final judgment. After all, it’s entirely possible that large, muscular men kept Meyers from attending the Kossuth County Central Committee. But we don’t think its likely
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2 Comments Add your own
1. desmoinesdem | June 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
At last, a post by Geraldine that I agree with!
I find it amusing that Meyers says he is doing this so that the next young person will get a fair shake from the Democratic Party.
All he is doing is ensuring that the next person who runs for office with no political experience or history of working on behalf of Democratic candidates will be viewed with more suspicion by party elders.
2. Megan | December 12th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Know why no one takes this site seriously? Group of college punks are acting as communists and deleting messages here as they deem fit.
YOU ARE ALL AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE STATE OF IOWA!
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