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IOWA CITY COUNCILMAN MATT HAYEK ENDORSES CHRIS DODD FOR PRESIDENT
Rising Star Community Leader Cites Dodd’s Ability to Produce Results, Calls Dodd “Most Electable and the Best Qualified”
IOWA CITY – City Councilman Matt Hayek, a rising star in the community leadership of Iowa City, announced last night that he is endorsing Chris Dodd for President. Hayek cited Dodd’s ability to produce results, international experience, and electability in a speech introducing Senator Dodd at a holiday party in Iowa City.
“Once every four years, we get to go into a gymnasium or a church or someplace and vote our conscience,” said Hayek. “And you go in there, and you look at all the candidates you could support, and hopefully by then you’ve made a decision to go with the person you think is the most electable and the best qualified for the job, and you vote with your heart and your mind. And my conscience leads me to Chris Dodd, and that’s why I stand before you today.”
Hayek is a sixth-generation Iowa City native and, like Senator Dodd, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. Hayek served for two years in the mountains of Bolivia. He praised Dodd’s international experience and reputation.
“Whether it’s brokering peace accords in Central America, helping bring about peace in Northern Ireland, or working with various parties in the Middle East, he’s done it,” Hayek said. “He’s been there, he’s done it. He’s been a leader. He’s highly respected across the globe within these leadership positions and in the Congress itself. He’s respected, and I think that’s what appeals to me most.”
Hayek also praised Dodd’s leadership on restoring American security by restoring the Constitution and the rule of law here at home.
