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Blouin's republican support???
The Mike Blouin gubernatorial camp is abuzz with its latest round of fundraising success, although the optimism is guarded, as most of the $400,000 he's picked up is merely "committed" and cannot be delivered until 30 days after the current legislative session is complete (Iowa rules state candidates for governor cannot take dollars from PACs or restricted donors until then). So with 36 days until the primary, that means the Blouin campaign will be forced to take out loans in order to stay competitive television-wise with Chet Culver. "We'll be up as much as Chet," said a confident campaign source. "But we're waiting for the session to end." But are Republican legislators stalling to keep Blouin from getting too cash heavy? A source close to the Jim Nussle campaign told us a few months ago that Nussle would prefer to face Culver (or Ed Fallon) because Blouin could pull some moderate Republicans away from Nussle, who pandered to the extreme right with his selecting Bob Vander Plaats as his running mate and alienated heavy hitters like Jim Cownie and Bill Krause, while making the Bob Ray Republicans nervous by being so extreme. And it's happening. "We have had any number of five-figure checks coming in from big Republicans," said a Blouin source. "That's money we don't have to wait on. But there's a large chunk sitting out there we can't touch." A Nussle insider said the conspiracy theory of Republican legislators keeping the session going so Blouin can't cash in is "a joke." "If Vilsack, who is obviously supporting Blouin, spent a little time here, would be wrapped up. You sound like one of those blogs."
In other Nussle/Blouin news, the Iowans for Tax Relief have been bad-mouthing Nussle as an "out-of-control" spender who doesn't understand Iowa culture. Whether they would abandon Nussle (who has carried the water of a Bush administration that inherited no deficit when Bill Clinton left office and has butchered the bottom line) depends on who he faces. If it's Blouin, we've been told, there could be some quiet support.
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From 'The List'
9 Nussle on the boob tube
Republican candidate for governor Jim Nussle launched the election-year's first TV ads this past weekend despite not knowing who his opponent in the race will be. Nussle, who is favored to win in November and has raised the most money, will focus on four issues in his first round of commercials: Education, healthcare reform, renewable fuel expansion and economic development. The campaign did not say when his "How to score hot ass in Washington and still be able to say you are a family man with a straight face" spot would hit the airwaves, however.
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