Sen. Amy Klobuchar sees roads and levees as an unglitzy path to the presidency

[brooklynite]

PACIFIC JUNCTION, Iowa — The rain started on St. Patrick’s Day, and didn’t stop until Jason and Fran Parr’s century-old house near the Iowa-Nebraska border was knee-deep in cold, murky water. They managed to wade in to rescue family photos of their twin 4-year-olds, but most everything else was lost.

For 11 years, the levees had been enough to protect their home from the worst flooding of the Missouri River. This time, they weren’t.

On Friday, after another surreal day spent taking in her loss, Fran Parr found herself hugging Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota. Then, for the rest of the weekend and into this week, Parr’s story became part of the presidential candidate’s stump speech.

“I will never forget when she said, ‘But I loved my kitchen,” Klobuchar told Democrats in Council Bluffs a few hours after meeting the Parrs, a description she would repeat Monday at a liberal multicandidate event in Washington. “She is literally 2½ miles from the river. And that [flooding] happened because that levee broke.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-amy-klobuchar-sees-roads-and-levees-as-an-unglitzy-path-to-the-presidency/2019/04/02/6f62d8c0-50a4-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html?utm_term=.1023653f3731