Just a little background on Jim Nussle: he's chair of the House budget committee which helped Bush crash the budget in last 4 years and now he's intent on bringing his fiscal policies back to Iowa. He's also one of the members of congress who recently helped tuck a provision into the omnibus bill that would allow him to transfer $333 thousand dollars from his Congressional Campaign Committee to his Gubernatorial Campaign. Most recently he voted to essentially gut the House ethics panel to protect Delay, himself and other Republicans with ethics investigations in the future. He'll continue to chair the Budget committee and most likely raise money for his campaign account because of his chairmanship since Iowa has no contribution limits. Can anyone say reform?
The Republican Gubernatorial primary should be crowded and promises to be dirty, though Nussle should be considered the favorite in the primary because of his stature int the Republican party and a threat in the general since he hails from Democratic Eastern Iowa.
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