{h/t Iowa Independent's Douglas Burns]
You know who Joe Trippi is. Who is Rob Hubler?
In his own words:
I am the candidate for Congress who is going to retire Congressman Steve King.
In my words: Rob Hubler is the candidate who will relieve Iowans from the deep embarrassment of being represented by a human gaffe machine. Steve King is like the accursed victim in a fairy tale: when he opens his mouth, snakes and toads fall out.
Rob Hubler is a passionate progressive with lifetime roots in western Iowa’s vast fifth congressional district. He is a retired Presbyterian minister, a Navy veteran who served on submarines, a teacher of severely disabled children, and has experience working for both Dick Clark and Tom Harkin. He is a candidate that Iowans of any party can be proud to have as their representative—a serious, competent, compassionate public servant with a lifetime of service to his country and his fellow citizens.
Joe Trippi didn't invent the internet, but he may have invented the internet campaign. Howard Dean’s legendary fundraising bat and emails to supporters were the inspiration for many campaigns since. Trippi has a long career in politics, but with Dean he took on an insurgent progressive candidate and enlisted the growing netroots community to help him. He has continued that work, on the Edwards campaign and helping other congressional candidates. Now he will be providing his considerable talent to help Rob Hubler defeat one of the worst members of Congress by any measurement.
Steve King cannot let a week go by without saying something to which the appropriate response is: "He said what???" For more on that topic, go here and here. He was one of 11 Republicans to vote against relief for Katrina victims. He is expert on numerous subjects, from drilling our way to energy independence, to the similarities between Mexicans and livestock, to the marriages that result when soldiers get drunk in Bangkok, to the real story on that Niger yellowcake. Really, you can't make this stuff up.
Donate to the Steve King Retirement Fund here.