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Rowley does her own thing in offbeat campaign for House
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Nov 29, 2005 01:32pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Star Tribune, The (Minneapolis - St. Paul) |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - Former FBI agent Coleen Rowley concedes she's running an offbeat congressional campaign, hammering away at President Bush for launching the war in Iraq and trying to pin some of the blame on GOP Rep. John Kline.
She dismisses as "total nonsense" the advice of some fellow Democrats that she must broaden her focus to domestic issues, such as education, to win the House seat in Minnesota's conservative-leaning Second District.
But Rowley, who won fame for publicly assailing the FBI's pre-Sept. 11 lapses, is struggling to raise money and could face a challenge from within her own party.
State Sen. Sharon Marko, a centrist DFLer from Cottage Grove, says she'll decide within weeks whether to jump into the race for the Democratic endorsement.
Rowley's theme has been "ethical decisionmaking," and she has blanched at traditional high-dollar campaign fundraising that can create awkward appearances. She says that "the playing field is very uneven," that Kline will probably outspend her by three to one.
"Democrats have been a little critical of me," Rowley said in phone interviews. "They'll say, 'We're the Democrats. You should talk on education or on domestic issues. Let the Republicans have the foreign policy and the national security issues.' That's nonsense, total nonsense. I'm not real controllable, and they don't like that." |
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