Kim Reynolds Ends Campaign With Steve King In Sioux County (Iowa)

[brooklynite]

Source: Iowa Starting Line

Governor Kim Reynolds’ final rally of her campaign will be held in Sioux Center with Congressman Steve King.

Mired in state and national controversy over the past two weeks for his history of racist statements, King has become radioactive to many leaders within the Republican Party. The chair of the NRCC condemned King for promoting white supremacy, while conservative opinion leaders from The National Review to the Wall Street Journal editorial page has called for King to go.

But when pressed by reporters last week, Reynolds refused to remove King as her campaign co-chair, something she’s faced pressure over multiple times during her candidacy. Now she’ll share a stage with King in the final campaign event of her extremely close race for governor.

Read more: https://iowastartingline.com/2018/11/05/kim-reynolds-ends-campaign-with-steve-king-in-sioux-county/

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Desperation, devotion or denseness?

[2naSalit]

1. Perhaps all of the above.

One can only hope they are not well received and it turns into a soured event for both of them.

[olegramps]

2. The Republican Party is morally bankrupt. A path they chose with Nixon and Reagan.

[Mrs. Overall]

3. This is a poorly written headline--it can be read both ways.

Reynolds is ending her support of King OR Reynolds is concluding her campaign and supports King.

[exboyfil]

5. The second

and you are right about the headline. Joni Ernst will be there as well to make a three headed beast.

[47of74]

10. A beast with three...nah never mind.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Oh eww but don't forget the runt 4th head - which will be Grassyassly.

[rsdsharp]

8. Since King is co-chair of the Reynolds campaign

I had no problem figuring out what it meant.

[rurallib]

9. And what it means is Kim Reynolds is doubling down on the bet that King's racism

will bring her votes in Iowa.

Shameful, shameful, shameful.

[exboyfil]

4. Gets her more votes in Iowa than she loses

[George II]

6. Not your headline, but it gives the impression that she's dropping out.

[beachbum bob]

7. Kim Reynolds might have just cost herself the election...wouldn't that

be fitting?

[JT45242]

12. My email to Reynolds last week

I posted this in the Iowa forum, but it might be seen by a larger audience here, below. Rather than respond to my email with a form letter, she goes out in public with this hate-spewing White Supremacist. I hope all decent people of Iowa stand up and reject her and King. I can't vote against King because, he is not my congressman (thankfully). But I will encourage everyone I know that even if they think she has done a good job, you cannot vote for people who support Neonazis and the like.


Governor Reynolds

As a voter for 30 years, I always review the positions, platforms, and performance of the candidates for every office before I vote. I comb through interviews with groups like the League of Women Voters, newspapers, and read through the transcripts of the debates so that I can best select the candidate that I believe can meet the needs of my current community in the present and moving forward.

However, before I get to that stage, I have a very simple bar that every politician must cross before I can even consider him or her for public office. The candidate must denounce Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, White Nationalists, the KKK and other hate groups.

To even have a chance of earning my vote, you would have to clearly and unequivocally state that those groups are abhorrent to everything you believe in and that anyone who aligns themselves with those groups is completely unfit for public office.

To date, one of the chief architects of your campaign is Representative King who has not only accepted junkets from these groups but endorsed them. Unless you publicly denounce the hateful speech of the White Nationalists and other groups and remove Mr. King from your campaign, I cannot ever even consider voting for you.

This seems like a pretty low bar to jump to me – denounce Neo-Nazis and related groups. Sadly, I doubt that you will.

If you do so before I vote on Tuesday then I will look at your record as an advocate on the Iowa STEM council as Lt Governor and other positions. If not, you will have disqualified yourself from ever being a viable candidate for office as someone who aligns herself with racists and white supremacists.