Grassley continues to support Campbell nomination despite opposition

Senator Charles Grassley refuses to torpedo the judicial nomination of a democrat who served as Iowa Attorney General. Conservatives in Grassley’s own republican party have called on Republican Senators to reject Bonnie Campbell, a democrat who also ran for Governor in Iowa in ’94. Grassley says he’s supporting Campbell, and predicts she’ll win U-S Senate confirmation in September.Many republicans don’t want to appoint the democrats Bill Clinton nominates to the federal bench, as they hope George W. Bush will win the election and start appointing republican judges. Grassley has this message for conservatives in his party, the should’ve worked harder to elect Bob Dole president in ’96.”Grassley got democrat Senator Tom Harkin’s cooperation in getting Senate approval for five Republican judges when Republicans held the White House in the 1980s and early ’90s. So Grassley says he returns the favor.There are eight federal judgeships in the Midwest which Harkin and Grassley have a hand in shepherding through the U-S Senate. Grassley, by the way, is the number two Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley made his comments during taping of the Iowa Public Television program, “Iowa Press.”