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Sometimes it's the message, and sometimes it's the messenger. In the case of Ed Fallon running for Congress against Leonard Boswell, it's definitely the messenger.

Let's review the facts.

When Al Gore was running for president in 2000, Ed famously came out in support of Ralph Nader. All the while, he was going around telling people that a vote for Al Gore and a vote for George Bush were the same thing. Wrong answer, Ed.

One of the only things that Ed had a hand in that has been marginally successful is 1000 Friends of Iowa, a grassroots organization that fights urban sprawl. I can think of no other place on the planet that has more of a need for that. Fallon abandoned that organization when he decided to run for governor. Smooth move, Exlax.

When he was a member of the legislature, he fought so hard against the establishment that he forgot that he was a part of it. Fallon constantly alienated his colleagues in the House by voting against carefully crafted compromises. Fallon doesn't seem to realize that economic development is the front line of pulling people out of poverty. You can have both good economic development and compassionate care for others, co-existing together. Fallon treated businesses and employers like the enemy. It must have been very lonely on that moral highground. He was so unwilling to compromise that he screwed the very people that he came up there to help.

Boswell has taken some hits for being more conservative than the rest of the democrats in the Iowa delegation. I guess someone has to take that title. But Leonard has done a decent job for Iowa during his time in Washington, and I am willing to vote for him until he decides to retire.

After a failed attempt at running for governor, Ed Fallon should give it up. I for one am sick of his self-serving B.S. Here's more from State 29, including some drivel from the "man" himself.