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Democrat-turned-independent candidate William Meyers, who hoped to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Latham in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, told the Iowa Independent yesterday that his name would not appear on the ballot this November.
But he said it is not for lack of signed petitions.  Those, he said, he “surrendered” to “Democratic leaders.”
Nor is it for lack [...]

Independent Congressional candidate William Meyers, who lost his district’s Democratic primary last month, has launched a new Web site he hopes will become the focal point for the movement to repeal the recently enacted statewide smoking ban. The site attacks most Democrats in both chambers of the state legislature.

Independent congressional candidate William Meyers said a meeting this morning with a member of the Democratic Party’s 4th District Central Committee has not swayed him to give up his campaign.

Democrats from around the state said William Meyers’ Independent run for the 4th District Congressional seat will have little or no impact on the party’s chances of defeating incumbent Republican Tom Latham in November.

William Meyers, a former Marine who came in third out of four candidates Tuesday in the Democratic 4th Congressional District primary, will run as an Independent this fall against Democrat Becky Greenwald and Republican incumbent Tom Latham.
Meyers said he began gathering the 300 signatures he needed to get his name on the ballot for [...]

William Meyers sees himself as the Jimmy Stewart character in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” only in this edition, Mr. Smith is a Marine.

Meyers specialized in counterterrorism in the Marine Corps before sustaining a back injury in a training exercise in 2000. After returning home, Meyers became an activist for veterans’ rights, lobbying the Department [...]