Not sure if I can take this anymore

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4. I am with you- this is not the Iowa I grew up in

That Iowa had men and women with integrity who really wanted to do the best for the country and state.

Iowa got caught up in the whole "movement conservative craziness, led by Terry Branstad. More than anyone else I blame Branstad and their kneeling before the Koch brothers. There are lots of other very bad people in the saga, but Branstad is the one who welded it together.

I continually go back to the picture of Branstad signing the union busting bill alone in his office on a Friday night with one other person in the room. That person was Drew Klein of Americans For Prosperity. AFP is the Koch brothers main political arm. I always say Klein was the Kochs 'minder' of Branstad.

I believe he is still around and shall we say a huge influence on Reynolds (aka Branstad's revenge)?

And the money - you become a Republican elected official and you are set for life if you do what you are told.

Yeah, Iowa stinks any more. We used to be the top of the US I education and other good categories. Now we are fighting Mississippi for the bottom.