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Lining up with our longtime friend
We Offenburgers endorse & support Christie Vilsack for the U.S. Congress
AMES, IOWA Christie Vilsack, a Democrat and the former first lady of Iowa, today announced her candidacy for U.S. Congress in Iowa's newly-drawn 4th district, which covers roughly the northwest fourth of the state and then some - and includes our Greene County. She will oppose Republican Steve King.
Chuck Offenburger, a Republican, has been friends with Vilsack for more than 30 years. Carla Offenburger, a Democrat, has been a friend of hers for nearly 20 years. Vilsack, a teacher and a journalist, wrote columns for us for three years and you can read those in our Archives on this Internet site.
In this new congressional race, Vilsack already has our endorsement and our support.
Chuck announced that in a column he wrote February 25 of this year for the "KMAland Advantage Club Newsletter" for radio station KMA in his hometown of Shenandoah. You can read that column by clicking here.
But Chuck has known Congressman King for a long time, too - more than a decade. And among the many times he has written about King, he highly recommends two stories.
The first of those was from the special convention of 5th district Republicans in 2002 in Denison, where King first secured the GOP nomination to run for Congress. Offenburgers were among his constituents back then, and Chuck was an alternate delegate to that convention. 'Many people today think Steve King is invincible," Chuck said, "but they've forgotten how thin his victory was for the 2002 nomination. This is something to keep in mind." You can read that story by clicking here.
The second story about King that Chuck recommends ran in October of 2002, during the general election campaign, which King won easily. The story came from an interview of more than an hour that Chuck had with King, who accepted Chuck's invitation to talk even though he recognized the political differences they have. "It's a very insightful story about Steve's personal background and outlook," Chuck said. You can read it by clicking here.
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