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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Mainstream Iowan: Blouin Running Mate Andrea McGuire

Excerpted from this post at Mainstream Iowan

Democratic candidate Mike Blouin is expected to announce today that he has chosen Des Moines physician Andrea McGuire to be his running mate.

McGuire, 49, is chief medical officer and vice president of American Republic Insurance Company and has been Blouin's campaign co-chairwoman.McGuire supports abortion rights and has been active in promoting Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa.

Blouin has said he would make no changes to Iowa law to restrict or enhance Iowa's laws concerning abortion. In the last presidential election, Bush won the Roman Catholic vote over Kerry (a supposed Roman Catholic) Democrat. It will be interesting to see if Roman Catholic Deacon Blouin loses the Roman Catholic vote in Iowa...

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