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Newcomer or not, Miller-Meeks confident she’d do well in Congress

By Lynda Waddington 8/8/08

When political newcomer Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks squeaked out a victory in Iowa’s 2nd District congressional primary, a few Republican eyebrows raised. None of those eyebrows, however, were attached to the people who met the Ottumwa ophthalmologist and learned her story. When considered in context with the rest of her life, the primary was just one more challenge she met with planted feet.

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