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Two Iowa leaders on ’12 Ron Paul campaign might compete for U.S. Senate
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/...compete-for-u-s-senate/article?nclick_check=1
Both the chairman and the vice chairman of Ron Paul’s Iowa presidential campaign are now seriously considering running for U.S. Senate.
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Drew Ivers
Conservative activists Drew Ivers, who was Paul’s 2012 Iowa chairman, and David Fischer, who was vice chairman, are making moves toward a possible bid for the seat U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin will leave open in 2014.
Four Republicans are already declared candidates and at least six others are contemplating it. The more candidates that enter the race, the more likely the primary will end up in a deadlock. If no single candidate gets 35 percent of the June 4, 2014 primary vote, the decision goes to a state convention, usually attend by only the party’s most diehard activists. Paul backers turned out in force to the county and state conventions last year, successfully securing key roles in the Republican party infrastructure for like-minded Iowans.
Ivers and Fischer share the same circle of political allies and very similar political philosophies.
“David is a good friend and I wish him all the best,” Ivers told The Des Moines Register today. “If it gets to the point that we would come very, very close to making a final decision I would have to factor in his process.”
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David Fischer
But, added Ivers, a Webster City resident who is retired from genetics research: “I don’t think it would be exclusionary.”
Fischer, who is co-chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, said today he doesn’t have a timeline for a decision. “The primary is nearly a year away and I don’t feel any rush to jump in right away,” he told the Register.
Fischer was born in Cedar Rapids and graduated first in his class at Southeast Polk High School, he said. He earned an engineering degree at Iowa State University and started a consulting business in 1993. He lives in rural Polk County with his wife and two children.
The declared candidates are Sam Clovis, a conservative radio talk show host and business professor at Morningside College in Sioux City; David Young, who was U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s chief of staff for seven years; Matt Whitaker, a Des Moines lawyer who is a former U.S. attorney; and Paul Lunde, an Ames lawyer. Several others have yet to officially enter the race, including former state Rep. Rod Roberts, state Sen. Joni Ernst, businessman Ron Langston and retired energy company CEO Mark Jacobs.
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http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/...compete-for-u-s-senate/article?nclick_check=1
Both the chairman and the vice chairman of Ron Paul’s Iowa presidential campaign are now seriously considering running for U.S. Senate.
dmrdc5-6936hzk190mdacpudwh_original
Drew Ivers
Conservative activists Drew Ivers, who was Paul’s 2012 Iowa chairman, and David Fischer, who was vice chairman, are making moves toward a possible bid for the seat U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin will leave open in 2014.
Four Republicans are already declared candidates and at least six others are contemplating it. The more candidates that enter the race, the more likely the primary will end up in a deadlock. If no single candidate gets 35 percent of the June 4, 2014 primary vote, the decision goes to a state convention, usually attend by only the party’s most diehard activists. Paul backers turned out in force to the county and state conventions last year, successfully securing key roles in the Republican party infrastructure for like-minded Iowans.
Ivers and Fischer share the same circle of political allies and very similar political philosophies.
“David is a good friend and I wish him all the best,” Ivers told The Des Moines Register today. “If it gets to the point that we would come very, very close to making a final decision I would have to factor in his process.”
david.fischer.jpeg
David Fischer
But, added Ivers, a Webster City resident who is retired from genetics research: “I don’t think it would be exclusionary.”
Fischer, who is co-chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, said today he doesn’t have a timeline for a decision. “The primary is nearly a year away and I don’t feel any rush to jump in right away,” he told the Register.
Fischer was born in Cedar Rapids and graduated first in his class at Southeast Polk High School, he said. He earned an engineering degree at Iowa State University and started a consulting business in 1993. He lives in rural Polk County with his wife and two children.
The declared candidates are Sam Clovis, a conservative radio talk show host and business professor at Morningside College in Sioux City; David Young, who was U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s chief of staff for seven years; Matt Whitaker, a Des Moines lawyer who is a former U.S. attorney; and Paul Lunde, an Ames lawyer. Several others have yet to officially enter the race, including former state Rep. Rod Roberts, state Sen. Joni Ernst, businessman Ron Langston and retired energy company CEO Mark Jacobs.
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