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Last Updated on Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:46 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 9 October 2008 08:46
From Quad-City Times:
Iowa legislative candidate Jonathan Van Roekel
couldn’t have been more clear in his June 5, 2008, letter to the editor:
“I was arrested for three OWIs (operating while intoxicated charges),” he wrote in a letter published in the Clinton Herald.
“Even though this happened many years ago, I feel it is important that I bring this mistake out in the open prior to the beginning of my campaign. … I used alcohol as a vice to get through a difficult time in my life. It is a decision that I regret.”
So disclosure couldn’t have been the motive when Iowa Democrats included Van Roekel’s convictions in 1994 and 1996 in a binder full of dirt handed out to reporters last week.