Iowa City-Chelsea Clinton connection (very tenuous)
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Chelsea Clinton's mystery man at the opening of Tao nightclub is no stranger to family politics. Marc Mezvinsky's mother is former Pennsylvania Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a Republican, and his father is former U.S. Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, D-Iowa, who pleaded guilty to fraud charges in 2002.
None of which is really important... except that Ed was from Iowa City at the time of his Congressional service and was the last Democrat to beat Jim Leach (in 1974; Leach knocked him off in `76.) Ed also has one of the funniest name ID ads I ever saw - long before my time in Iowa City, we actually viewed it in an undergrad political science class. It showed people-on-the-street butchering the name Mezvinsky.
And, Ed and Marjorie, jointly, were my last-ever news story, right after she won her primary in 1992 but before her shocking upset win, her one term tenure, and the chants of "Bye-bye Marjorie" on the House floor. Which makes the newspaper mis-ID-ing her as a Republican all the more inexcusable.
Of course, I doubt that the younger Mr. Mezvinsky has ever set foot in Iowa City.
The worst.
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