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Article: Obama's ex-foe leads Iowa charge; Comptroller Hynes will knock on some doors for pol who beat him
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 28, 2007
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I received a personal invitation Monday from Illinois Comptroller
Dan Hynes asking me to accompany him to Iowa to help campaign for
Barack Obama for president.
Flattered as I was by the "Dear Friends" letter that arrived via
mass e-mail, I'm afraid I'll have to decline.
Being a columnist gives me more leeway than the average reporter
in terms of voicing my opinions and getting involved, but I don't
think it extends quite that far.
Still, I was intrigued by Hynes' invite to join him for his Dec.
8 outing, during which he says he will be leading a crew of
volunteers campaigning for Obama in eastern Iowa.
Hynes is a more fun guy than the image he casts as the state
comptroller, a ...