Tuesday, June 3rd isn’t just a day of primary elections for presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It’s also a day of the Democratic Party primary in Iowa’s 3rd congressional district, where State Representative Ed Fallon is challenging incumbent Leonard Boswell.

Why is Ed Fallon asking for voters’ permission to replace Boswell? Here’s Fallon’s answer:

“On most of the key issues, this new majority has let America down. Simply stated, too many Congressional Democrats, including Congressman Leonard Boswell, vote too often with President Bush and against the priorities of the American people. That’s why I’m running for Congress. Our country needs and wants change. I’m ready to take on the corporate interests who have corrupted our federal government. I’m ready to give working families and the poor a voice in national politics. I’m ready to do what I can to see that environmental issues are taken seriously inside the beltway. I’m ready to apply what I’ve learned during 23 years of public service in Iowa and be a part of the new solution in Washington.”

Ed Fallon is right. Instead of finding a way to end high gasoline prices, Leon Boswell has been busy co-sponsoring frivolous legislation like a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. Whether you like flag burning or not, the truth is that burning flags just isn’t a big problem in the lives of most Americans. Gasoline prices are, but Congressman Boswell hasn’t brought us any results - just talk.

Leonard Boswell has helped George W. Bush create a royal mess in Iraq, throwing away trillions of American dollars and thousands of American lives as if they were garbage. In 2002, Representative Boswell voted yes on rushing to war in Iraq.

Ed Fallon listens to the Democrats he represents. Leonard Boswell listens to Karl Rove and George W. Bush.

That difference presents a very clear choice to Iowa voters, and that choice is Ed Fallon in 2008.