Word: iowa
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Campaign Insider. Fred Thompson's Iowa press aide is used to the limelight...
...MISS IOWA 2004--CAROLYN NICHOLAS Haugland--had sung at many political events, from Governor Chet Culver's inauguration to visits by President George W. Bush. But former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson was the first candidate to really inspire her. After singing for his Sept. 6 campaign launch in Des Moines, the 27-year-old real estate lawyer gave her résumé to Bob Haus, Thompson's Iowa state director. Within a week she was hired as the campaign's Iowa communications director, even though she had had only one political internship. "I will always take someone with passion as well...
...family tradition--Haugland's great-grandfather was a Lieutenant Governor--and one that she intends to honor, with plans to work for a state representative this spring. And while she has no formal media experience, Haugland earned some stripes on her grandfather's farm in Clear Lake, Iowa, where the family gives summer tours of the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed in February...
...role as Miss Iowa that, Haugland says, helped prepare her for dealing with the media. "Before I was crowned, I was actually nervous and uncomfortable with being in front of people," she says. "But after you're forced to do that for an entire year ... you learn to become comfortable with yourself...
CHELSEA CLINTON, to a 9-year-old reporter for Scholastic News, during presidential campaigning in Iowa...