Subject: Re: [EL] Iowa to do time warp on felon voting?
From: Kieran Williams
Date: 1/5/2011, 2:03 PM
To: "election-law@mailman.lls.edu" <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

Admittedly I have lived in Iowa only since 2002, so I don't know whether that qualifies me to pass judgement on what goes on here. I agree that Mauro could have hustled harder to get re-elected. Otherwise you are reading way too much into my original post (during Iowa winters speech tends to condense to the essentials).

Kieran

From: Jeff Patch <jpatch@campaignfreedom.org>
To: Doug Hess <douglasrhess@gmail.com>; election-law@mailman.lls.edu
Sent: Wed, January 5, 2011 3:31:05 PM
Subject: Re: [EL] Iowa to do time warp on felon voting?

Perhaps Iowa-hating was too strong a characterization (and I don’t necessarily think Kieran was being mean-spirited), but the title of his post was “Iowa to do time warp on felon voting?” I thought that implied Iowa’s politicians (and voters, considering the additional references to Mauro’s race and the state Supreme Court vote) are backward knuckle-draggers.

 

From: election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu [mailto:election-law-bounces@mailman.lls.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hess
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:23 PM
To: election-law@mailman.lls.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Iowa to do time warp on felon voting?

 

 

I didn't read anything remotely meanspirited toward Iowans in the original post by Kieran. (I was born, raised, and went to college in Iowa....if that matters and I don't see why it should.)

 

However, confusing Iowa with Kansas....that's just East Coast elitism! (Tongue in cheek.)

 

-Doug

 

From: "Jeff Patch" <jpatch@campaignfreedom.org>
Subject: Re: [EL] Iowa to do time warp on felon voting?
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       Williams'" <kierandwilliams@yahoo.com>, "'Election Law'"
       <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>
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No. That's the Kansas SOS, Kris Kobach.

 

To respond to Kieran's Iowa-hating, I don't know if Kieran is from Iowa or
not-or if he's familiar with the state's politics. However, it's worth
noting that Mauro, though indeed highly regarded, barely campaigned for
reelection. His challenger and successor, Matt Schultz, was an extremely
aggressive campaigner, despite operating on a shoestring budget and living
out of his parents' basement.

 

Kieran's post seems to assume Iowans are backward hicks who couldn't fathom
Mauro's brilliance, but there were other factors at play.

 

Jeff