BIDEN RECEIVES THE ENDORSEMENT OF PHYLLIS HUGHES EWING DAUGHTER OF HAROLD HUGHES
Des Moines, IA (October 2, 2007) - The Biden for President campaign today announced the endorsement of Phyllis Hughes Ewing, daughter of former Iowa Governor and Senator Harold Hughes. Hughes was a revered Governor of Iowa and later a courageous United States Senator who took on the political establishment to help end the war in Vietnam.
“Sen. Biden best exemplifies the courage and the character of my father,” said Hughes Ewing. “No American public official has worked harder or longer to end the senseless war in Iraq or to bring attention to the genocide occurring in Darfur. Joe Biden is the right man to lead our country.”
“We are delighted to have Phyllis’ support for our campaign,” said Biden for President Political Director Danny O’Brien. “Her conviction in associating the characteristics that defined father’s greatness with Sen. Biden’s will touch Iowans in a way no other surrogate can.”
Sen. Biden, who served with Sen. Hughes in the U. S. Senate for two years following his election in 1972, expressed his appreciation to Hughes Ewing for her enthusiastic support. “We miss her father in the Senate during this critical time in our history,” he said. “We could use his powerful voice today in the cause of peace and justice.”
Hughes Ewing, in a letter to the editor published on Monday by the Des Moines Register, wrote that “this is not a time for the inexperienced to learn on the job, nor is it a time for leaders who do not have the ability to inspire the American people. As Iowans, we have an awesome responsibility. What we do on a cold night in January will largely determine who will be the next president of the United States. It is about Iowa Democrats having the courage to go against conventional wisdom and demand the best.”
Urging her fellow Iowans to join her in “helping Joe Biden become the next president of the United States,” Hughes Ewing challenged “the conventional wisdom in the national press that only money matters and our choices are limited” to the current frontrunners in the polls. “Time after time, we’ve seen candidates, seemingly out of the running, emerge on caucus night to become the most serious contenders for the nomination.”
