State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald confirmed today that he has decided against running for governor next year.
“Democrats have three good candidates out there and I look to running on the ticket with any one of them,” Fitzgerald told Radio Iowa.
He says there wasn’t any one particular thing that made him decide not to run for governor. “I think it was a combination of things and it boiled down to I can serve the State of Iowa better as state treasurer,” he says.
Fitzgerald is the country’s longest-serving state treasurer and will be heavily favored for re-election in 2014. He defeated Republican challenger Dave Jamison by approximately 53 percent to 47 percent despite the massive GOP landslide of 2010.
State Representative Tyler Olson and former State Representative Bob Krause are already running for governor, and State Senator Jack Hatch plans to kick off his gubernatorial campaign with events in several cities on September 17.
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Good idea. I don’t really have the impression that Fitgerald would have started with any real name identification advantage in the primary. He could have hypothetically finished third and that would be a bit embarrassing for him in my estimation.
moderateiadem Fri 30 Aug 9:08 PM