Aide: Roxanne Conlin will run for US Senate (against Chuck Grassley)

WXOW TV ^ | 11/06/2009 | AP

[iowamark]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An aide says lawyer Roxanne Conlin will announce next week she'll seek the Democratic nomination for US Senate in 2010, seeking to oppose Republican Sen. Charles Grassley...

The 65-year-old Conlin was the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in 1982 and has been one of the nation's most prominent trial lawyers, at one point heading the National Trial Lawyer's Association...

[iowamark]

Conlin ran for Governor against then Lt. Governor Terry Branstad in 1982. She was derailed because she was an alcoholic and because she had used tax shelters to avoid paying income tax on great wealth.

Branstad served 16 years as Governor, has been out of office for 12 years, is running for a fifth term as Governor in 2010.

[Thermalseeker]

and has been one of the nation's most prominent trial lawyers...

The last thing we need in the Senate is another trial lawyer, regardless of party affiliation.....

[iowamark]

Police: Roxanne

[GonzoGOP]

OK this is the kind of opponent we should all hope for. Trial lawyer, Tax Cheat, Addict/drunk. One, two, three strikes your out at the old ball game.

[newgeezer]

run for US Senate (against Chuck Grassley)

As if! (Especially now!)

Run, Roxanne, run! Donate, liberals, donate!

[scooby321]

Grassley is untouchable in Iowa

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Trail lawyer? Just what we need in the senate, another person with no ethics, full body scales, and a forked tongue.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Roxanne clipped Microsoft for something near $75 million in a bogus class action lawsuit and didn't pay a nickle in taxes. She is a far lefty, screaming harpy kook from the Democrat Party's fringe, probably to the left of Claire McCaskill. ACORN will have to do some heavy lifting to get her in Chuck's seat.

[Renkluaf]

The female John Edwards, just what the Senate needs.

[The Comedian]

Oh good. Finally, a brave Democrat reaches out to address the terribly under-represted Lawyer Class in government...

I can only hope she is also a black Muslim, and an illegal alien.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Free Vulcan]

The Viltax’s, Tom or Christie, would have the best shot at getting him, but don’t know if they would.

[xjcsa]

The Viltax’s, Tom or Christie, would have the best shot at getting him, but don’t know if they would.

Christie was rumored, and appeared to consider it, but announced that she's not running.

[xjcsa]

Then again, there's always something that scares me a little about Iowa. For a Midwestern state, it's shown some alarmingly Leftist-kook traits on occasion.

It's a very divided state - lots of conservatives (especially social conservatives), and lots of union/farmer populist liberals. Plus a fair number of Methodist squishes.

Example: it's one of the five "gay marriage" states. Still scratching my head on how that ever happened...

That was a court decision; a referendum would almost certainly go the other way, but it's quite a process to get one to happen at all.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The “gay” decision came from the court, not the people. There will come a time when tar and feathers will be in short supply.

[nonliberal]

They got the one person in Iowa politics who is even dumber than Grassley to run against Grassley.