Steve King...

[Counciltucky]

Does anyone else think this dude is a neocon lunatic?

[pstans]

1. Yes

Yes and I am glad that he is way out in Western Iowa and I am central Iowa.

[ISUGRADIA]

2. The Bob Dornan of Iowa

[rurallib]

3. Absolutely

but I think he mostly reflects his constituency in west Iowa. He's a whack job.

[Counciltucky]

4. Trust me when I say this...

No he doesn't. Council Bluffs is a center-right city, and most people who voted for King probably did so simply because of the R by his name. If they knew what he *really* supported, they wouldn't vote for him. King's psychotic. He's basically a brown-noser for Bush and Hastert. If people really got to know Joyce Schulte, she could've won -- and she'd make a hell of a congresswoman.

[Counciltucky]

5. Steve King website

I made a parody/harassment site about Steve King.

Click here!

(It's still pretty rough -- I'm gonna add more to it later.)

[queeg]

6. I would love to run against him

I grew up in Malvern, and every few years think about moving back.

[Counciltucky]

7. You have my support...

I'm from Council Bluffs and have a few relatives in Malvern. Anyone who runs against King will have my unconditional support (well unconditional assuming you're not a fellow neocon, lol).

[queeg]

8. Neocon---no, I am a liberal pragmatist

First thing that I think the feds could do in Iowa is provide a taxing situation where small businesses (under100 employees) would want to locate in small towns. I.E. providing some sort of incentive for small manufacturing. My family owns a couple sections in mills county, the original part of the farm has been in the family over 125 years.

I have seen the complete loss of small business in the area. Yes, farming and farm related business may continue but even that in some areas of the state has been mainly a 2 crop business. It's either corn or soybeans. The original part of the farm I grew up on was an apple orchard. there are still a few of the more exotic trees there.

Would not there be a cost advantage in being able to grow some products like that locally and shipping them to Omaha, CB, even Chicago rather than having to have them trucked in all the way from California or Oregon? With that comes the manufacture of applesauce and cider. A small manufacturing factory could employ dozens, yet the local tax situation would prevent something like that being started.

I would also like to see Hemp grown for fuel and fiber. As most of Iowa knows there is enough Hemp growing in the ditches in western Iowa for us not to even need any more land to maintain a vigorous hemp industry. This junk is unsmokeable so it isn't really a drug matter. its just that the environment is perfect for it. People think I am joking when I tell them how much hemp I have had to spray round-up on. And I for one know first hand how strong a fiber hemp is from haveing made the mistake one summer attempting to cut an acre or so with a corn knife out of what should have been a field of soybeans.

It is going to be someone with progressive pragmatic, reasonable ideas that can win any seat in that area against a right wing incumbent. They cant come off as a lock step liberal nutcase, but need to be seen as one of their own.