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  UA student enters race for congressional seat
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Last EditedRBH  Apr 09, 2008 04:21pm
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News DateWednesday, April 9, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionAbel Tomlinson began thinking about running for Congress when he realized U. S. Rep. John Boozman could be re-elected without challenge this year.

With no Democrat in the race, Tomlinson decided about a week ago that he will seek the Green Party nomination in his bid to unseat Boozman, a Republican.

Tomlinson, a Fayetteville resident and a University of Arkansas graduate student, knows it’s a long shot.

“But I wouldn’t be doing it if I didn’t think I could win,” he said Monday.

Green Party officials hope to recruit candidates to run in all five congressional races in Arkansas this year. Tomlinson, so far the only Green Party candidate seeking the 3 rd Congressional District nomination, announced his candidacy to fellow UA students on Monday afternoon.

He set up a microphone and speaker, taped an American flag to a table and made his speech to a mostly indifferent lunchtime crowd near the Arkansas Union.

About 20 Tomlinson supporters, some standing behind and some sitting in front of him, cheered him on as he described Boozman and President Bush as “joined at the hip like Siamese twins.” He denounced the Iraq war, tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, and the Republican administration’s environmental approach. He described himself as a “social progressive and fiscal conservative.”
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