***Cross Posted from No Nussle Blog
Mark C. Falb
770 Mount Carmel
Dubuque, IA 52003
$25,000 Contribution to the Nussle Campaign on Jan. 31, 2006
(Campaign Disclosure 1/19/06)
Falb has an interesting "history" as a textbook publishing "magnate". Mark C. Falb is the owner and Chief Executive Officer of Kendall/Hunt Publishing. Kendall/Hunt is based out of Dubuque, IA and a base of conservative support for Representative Nussle's campaign for the governorship in Iowa. Well, you say "So what?"
Little background. Kendall/Hunt is a publisher of textbooks - in particular, college level textbooks. Personally, I know how expensive textbooks can be for a college student (or a public school district). A typical semester at UNI would find me paying over $400 for textbooks on average (while one semester I paid over $600 for books). Imagine how expensive it is for a school district to pay for new books for entire SCHOOLS at these rates (even if bulk discounted). So, as you can expect - Mark Falb is loaded.
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