Press-Citizen has a bit more on the appointment of Iowa City's Jim Larew as chief legal counsel to Governor Culver.
Jim's been one of our leading lights here in Johnson County for some time. Early in his career he made a run for Congress, taking on Jim Leach in 1980. He was one of the local leaders for Bill Bradley in 2000 (we won locally and Johnson County was in fact the number one Bradley county in the nation) and John Edwards in 2004.
In 2005 Larew was a co-chair for the public power campaign in Iowa City and made a good case for municipal electricity that was unfortunately drowned out by a million dollars in Mid-American corporate campaign spending.
Jim was one of the first Johnson County folks on board with Culver pre-primary and, to be honest, one of the few, as most of the local labor and legislative leadership was on the Blouin bandwagon. The first big post-primary unity event here was when John Edwards came to Jim's office with Culver and that political science professor with a beard. What was his name again?
Some in-state coverage of Loebsack's swearing in:
"It's very overwhelming. It's going to be very challenging," he said. "At the same time, I'm not nervous. I'm confident I'm going to be able to do the job the people of the Second District sent me here to do."
Walking from his rental home to the Capitol on Thursday morning, "it hit me more today than it has up to this point" that he's now really a member of Congress, the former college professor said.
I can't resist the line Snakes On A Plain Dubuque is in fact not flat but rather hilly; but I'm on a plain, I can't complain.
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