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Kroeger drops bid for U.S. House seat
Mar. 2, 2016 11:21 am
DES MOINES - Gary Kroeger is ending his bid for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. House seat and setting his sights on the Iowa Statehouse.
The Cedar Falls advertising executive launched his campaign a year ago to be a federal 'legislator for the people, championing progressive ideas.”
Today, he announced that a 'true politician … must be willing to go where you are needed most.”
The former Saturday Night Liver cast member said he believes it is 'imperative to put more progressive legislators in the Statehouse in order to stem the tide of (Gov. Terry Branstad's) agenda that does not support working families, labor, students or the infirmed.”
So he is looking at running in Iowa House 60 against Rep. Walt Rogers, R-Cedar Falls, who briefly was a candidate for the 1st District U.S. House seat in 2014.
Linn County Democratic Party Chair Bret Nilles (from left) talks with Gary Kroeger, then a potential candidate for U.S. Congress, at a fundraiser benefiting The Iowa House Truman Fund at the IBEW Hall 1362 in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, Mar. 21, 2015. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
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