In which the JCDems own Sarah Swisher is pictured with, it appears, Doonesbury's Mr. Butts.
Swisher said Rants received more than 76 percent of tobacco-related contributions to Iowa House members in 2004...
The GOP is playing really really dumb on this one by lumping the tobacco tax in with their read my lips pledge. Smokers are less popular than anyone except sex offenders right now. People, even many smokers, don't look at cents per pack as a tax - they see it as a "stupid fee" that people "choose" to pay. That may fundamentally misunderstand the biochemical nature of addiction, but that's the political reality.
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