Iowa Voters

No, I don’t have any inside information about the Republican’s sending an S-O-S because they can’t find a candidate to run for Secretary of State. But how bad is this?

Council Bluffs businessman Jeff Ballenger said he is “pretty confident” he will not run as the Republican Party candidate for Iowa Secretary of State. . . .

A member of that committee contacted Ballenger a few days ago and expressed the committee’s confidence he could be a good candidate, Ballenger said.

Ballenger was a political unknown when he ran for Congress in 2002. He ended up third in a four-person race, finishing ahead of a longtime state lawmaker from Sioux City.

“They (the committee) said I had the energy and the ability to win the secretary of state race, and they seemed to think I still have name recognition,” Ballenger said.

Name recognition? Jeff Ballenger???? Who’s that?

Ballenger evidently saw through that flattery.

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