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Rants ends his campaign for Iowa governor
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| Last Edited | COSDem Feb 20, 2010 05:00pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican Chris Rants of Sioux City has ended his campaign for governor. “It’s time for me to pay more attention to my family and what their future is rather than just continuing to pursue a political future that, inevitably, isn’t going to turn out the way I want it to,” Rants said earlier this afternoon during a telephone interview with Radio Iowa.
When former Governor Terry Branstad entered the race, Rants said his own campaign funding “dried up.” “But I thought this fall and this winter and up until recently that it was worth hanging in there because in the course of a campaign it’s supposed to be about ideas and issues, that there was an opportunity to try to help shape the public debate,” Rants said.
Rants put more than 54,000 miles on his vehicle traveling the state since he entered the race last June. In December, Rants appeared in six public debates around the state, each 90-minutes-long, featuring Rants and a former Des Moines school board member who has been mulling a bid for governor. |
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