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		<title>Tom Latham Votes Against Motherhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Tom Latham joined 177 other House Republicans to vote against H. Res 1113, a resolution &#8220;That the House of Representatives celebrates the role of mothers in the United States and supports the goals and ideals of Mother&#8217;s Day.&#8221; This was part of an attempt of House Republicans to make an attempt to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/05/11/tom-latham-votes-against-motherhood/</link>
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		<title>What Will Ed Fallon Run For Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is increasingly unlikely that Ed Fallon will win the Third District Primary as his campaign is both broke and languishing far behind Leonard Boswell in the polls. The question now arises what will professional candidate Ed Fallon run for next? Fallon is a professional candidate at this point (and, thanks to the still open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/05/05/what-will-ed-fallon-run-for-next/</link>
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		<title>Polk County Bond Issue Fails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bond issue to renovate the Polk County Courthouse failed yesterday by just over 4,000 votes as only 43% of voters supported badly needed repairs and additions to the facility. It&#8217;s saddening that a small group of anti-tax zealots were able to take advantage of low turnout special-election in order to defeat a badly needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/30/polk-county-bond-issue-fails/</link>
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		<title>Ed Fallon Displays Agricultural Expertise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite being a city slicker from Sherman Hill, Ed Fallon displayed his agricultural expertise last week when he reaped what he sowed with Al Gore&#8217;s endorsement of Leonard Boswell. To paraphrase what Fallon said about the former Vice President, Gore can&#8217;t support Fallon, won&#8217;t support Fallon and thinks Democratic primary voters in the 3rd District [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/28/ed-fallon-displays-agricultural-expertise/</link>
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		<title>Tom Latham&#8217;s Assault On Working Iowans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Latham, despite representing a swing district, has signed on to some rather extreme pieces of legislation in Washington DC this session. Latham has co-sponsored a bill that would gut what remains of the Wagner Act by passing so-called &#8220;right-to work&#8221; legislation, (HR 697) Many Republicans in the Iowa State House have taken similarly despicable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/26/tom-lathams-assault-on-working-iowans/</link>
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		<title>Collective Bargaining Moves Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All signs are positive that Governor Culver will sign  the collective bargaining bill that will give public employees the same rights as those in the private sector. Iowa Progress previously commented on this bill before and Culver&#8217;s reluctance to sign it-although perhaps displaying the some of the same pique that the post attributes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/24/collective-bargaining-moves-forward/</link>
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		<title>Fallon Can&#8217;t Take What He Dishes Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Fallon attacked a mailing by Leonard Boswell today that criticized Fallon for his support of Ralph Nader as &#8220;very cynical [and] very deceptive&#8221; today. Iowa Progress has previously addressed Fallon&#8217;s support for Nader, including his statement that &#8220;I can’t, I won’t and you shouldn’t [vote for Al Gore] either&#8221; in a speech that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/23/fallon-cant-take-what-he-dishes-out/</link>
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		<title>State Senate Helps Close The Fallon Loophole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, the Iowa State Senate voted by a margin of 47-2 to close the Fallon Loophole that allows candidates to pay themselves with campaign funds. The issue of candidates paying themselves salaries with campaign funds came to the fore after it was revealed that Fallon paid himself nearly $14,000 in campaign funds after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/23/state-senate-helps-close-the-fallon-loophole/</link>
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		<title>The Tragedy of Russell, Iowa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small towns in Iowa have always feared losing their schools. While businesses can always come back to Main Street, once the school has left, it is gone forever and a large part of town goes with it. Typically, the loss of the school is the tipping point that sends a town into an oblivion from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/22/the-tragedy-of-russell-iowa/</link>
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		<title>Fallon Attacks Barney Frank As Insufficiently Pro Gay Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As much there was the hope that something would emerge to comment upon, other than Ed Fallon&#8217;s continued trawl through the gutters of dishonesty, sleaze and self-aggrandizement, it is disappointing that it is just Fallon&#8217;s political tone-deafness. Barney Frank, as the first openly gay man in Congress, has led the effort to pass a bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/18/fallon-attacks-barney-frank-as-insufficiently-pro-gay-rights/</link>
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		<title>Why The Fallon Loophole Needs To Be Closed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Fallon has attacked the attempt to close the &#8220;Fallon Loophole,&#8221; the practice of professional politicians paying themselves salaries with campaign funds, as &#8220;status quo politics at its worst.&#8221; As laughable as this statement may be, Fallon&#8217;s own reprehensible actions show why the legislature must take action.
While Fallon defend paying himself from campaign funds by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/17/why-the-fallon-loophole-needs-to-be-closed/</link>
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		<title>4th District Fundraising Less Than Promising For Dems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While most of the attention paid to Iowa fundraising numbers in the first quarter of this year went to the 3rd District primary, it&#8217;s worth noting that there is a Democratic primary in the 4th District too. However, the haul for Democrats there was much less promising. Two of the candidates, William Meyers and Kevin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/16/4th-district-fundraising-less-than-promising-for-dems/</link>
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		<title>Fallon Sleaze Hurts Fundraising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the top of Ed Fallon&#8217;s balance sheet shows a very solid fundraising quarter, the details hide a sad truth. Fallon&#8217;s ethics woes have hurt him badly among potential donors. Fallon&#8217;s credibility gap  over issues related to I&#8217;M for Iowa has led to fewer and fewer donors trusting him. While Fallon claimed 2,082 total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/15/fallon-sleaze-hurts-fundraising/</link>
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		<title>Legislature Passes Smoking Ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth noting that the Iowa General Assembly finally passed an indoor smoking ban this week. This bill had been working its way through the legislature all session and ping-ponged between the House and Senate on the issue of whether to exempt casino floors from the ban. While, unfortunately, casino floors were exempted, it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/10/legislature-passes-smoking-ban/</link>
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		<title>Fallon Credibility Gap Grows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although we find it a bit repetitive and dull writing about Ed Fallon, one would think that the Fallon campaign would feel the same way about lying. Unfortunately, Fallon&#8217;s now endemic dishonesty was exposed again. A Fallon press release claimed that the FEC had given Fallon a clean bill of ethical health after mounting evidence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/03/fallon-credibility-gap-grows/</link>
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