Iowa Educator Challenging GOP Rep. Latham

[ccharles000]

Iowa educator Bill Maske (D) is planning a 2010 campaign against Rep. Tom Latham (R) in the 4th district.

Maske, who has a background as a school administrator, has filed candidacy paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and created a campaign Web site.

The Iowa political blog Bleeding Heartland said that Maske attended the state party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner last weekend and that volunteers handed out campaign literature.

Latham seems politically secure in 2010 even though Iowa's 4th, which includes Ames, Mason City and other territory in northern and central Iowa, backed Barack Obama (D) over John McCain (R), 53 percent to 46 percent. A senior member of the Appropriations Committee, Latham won 61 percent of the vote in 2008 against Becky Greenwald (D), a party activist who received support from EMILY's List.

Latham's closest race came in 2002, when he beat John Norris (D), a former state party chairman, with 55 percent of the vote after a radical redrawing of Iowa's congressional districts.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/11/iowa-educator-challenging-gop.html

[LWolf]

1. How much educating does he have in his background,

before he became an administrator? Looks like he was a teacher/coach.