Comments on: What Boswell’s Win Means http://iowaprogress.com/2008/06/12/what-boswells-win-means/ Politics in Iowa from a progressive viewpoint. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: desmoinesdem http://iowaprogress.com/2008/06/12/what-boswells-win-means/#comment-25629 desmoinesdem Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:34:40 +0000 http://iowaprogress.com/2008/06/12/what-boswells-win-means/#comment-25629 You are wrong about the gubernatorial campaign. The $21,000 of "debt" was for the FEC report Fallon's gubernatoiral campaign filed at the end of 2005. He finished the 2006 campaign in the black. Are you telling us that it's a great achievement for Boswell to have beaten Fallon 61-39 after going hard negative against him for months? Most incumbents never even face a primary challenge. Do you think a challenger to a good Democrat like Tom Harkin would even get 2 percent of the vote? Representative Jane Harman of California ignored her primary challenger in 2006 and was able to win her primary by a larger margin than Boswell. Boswell's overall voting record improved because Democrats took control of the chamber, but on several specific issues, his stance only changed because of the primary challenge. The key examples are the Safe Climate Act, which Boswell declined to co-sponsor in the summer of 2007 but signed onto in December, and the FISA bill, on which Boswell changed his position 180 degrees between February and March of this year. You are wrong about the gubernatorial campaign. The $21,000 of “debt” was for the FEC report Fallon’s gubernatoiral campaign filed at the end of 2005. He finished the 2006 campaign in the black.

Are you telling us that it’s a great achievement for Boswell to have beaten Fallon 61-39 after going hard negative against him for months?

Most incumbents never even face a primary challenge. Do you think a challenger to a good Democrat like Tom Harkin would even get 2 percent of the vote?

Representative Jane Harman of California ignored her primary challenger in 2006 and was able to win her primary by a larger margin than Boswell.

Boswell’s overall voting record improved because Democrats took control of the chamber, but on several specific issues, his stance only changed because of the primary challenge. The key examples are the Safe Climate Act, which Boswell declined to co-sponsor in the summer of 2007 but signed onto in December, and the FISA bill, on which Boswell changed his position 180 degrees between February and March of this year.

]]> By: noneed4thneed http://iowaprogress.com/2008/06/12/what-boswells-win-means/#comment-25632 noneed4thneed Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:36:36 +0000 http://iowaprogress.com/2008/06/12/what-boswells-win-means/#comment-25632 So the Republican controlled Congress didn't have any votes on the Iraq War from say 2002 to 2006? It is really too bad that Boswell didn't have a chance to support the vast majority of his party and his constituients when it came to the Iraq War during those year and he had to wait until he got a primary challenge to do so. The point of the Fallon campaign to get a Representitive that voted like a Democrat. Even though Fallon lost, he accomplished this goal. So the Republican controlled Congress didn’t have any votes on the Iraq War from say 2002 to 2006? It is really too bad that Boswell didn’t have a chance to support the vast majority of his party and his constituients when it came to the Iraq War during those year and he had to wait until he got a primary challenge to do so.

The point of the Fallon campaign to get a Representitive that voted like a Democrat. Even though Fallon lost, he accomplished this goal.

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