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Democratic candidate for senate Bob Krause is not happy about statements made by his party’s chairman regarding a fourth candidate entering the race to unseat Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley. In fact, said the talk “may threaten the integrity of the Iowa Democratic Party before the voters of Iowa”
During a taping of IPTV’s “Iowa Press,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said another candidate, with high name recognition, was “100 percent” committed to running against Grassley in 2010, joining the field of Democrats that already includes Krause, Tom Fiegen and Sal Muhammad. He called the mystery candidate “a first-round draft pick” that would give Grassley “the race of his life.”
In a statement released to the media, Krause criticized Kiernan’s decision to tease the possiblity of a fourth candidate without actually naming them.
“The act of promoting the idea that there is a mystery candidate that no one can know about — except equally mysterious rumor mongers — smacks of a throw-back to the era of the king makers,” Krause said. “It is a practice that leads to public distrust and feeds the public perception that the Democratic nominee for the U. S. Senate is being picked by a small elite inner circle. That will be damaging to our chances to unseat the incumbent senator”
Krause then challenges the mystery candidate to “come forth, announce plans to become a candidate, and present his or her case.”
“And I call upon all Democrats to listen to their higher self and not allow king-maker politics to engulf the party,” he said.
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