Iowa Defense Alliance

Iowa’s Senate District 18 is the site of another Republican primary battle. This primary is between candidates Joe Childers and Karla Sibert. Of course the Iowa Brigade sent questions to both candidates to assist us in making a decision as to who would make the better candidate to challenge the Democrat for the seat left vacant by retiring Senator Mary Lundby.

For Karla Sibert the only information that we have been able to gather is from her website and a letter from one of her supporters. As stated before we have sent Ms. Sibert questions regarding a variety of issues, including some not listed on her website. For the life of me I cannot understand why the woman did not want the free advertising that we have provided for the candidates via the blog. Of well it’s her own foot she is shooting. When one looks at Ms. Sibert’s website you can see that she does have positions on a variety of issues, however her website is lacking a few issue that I feel are a must for the Republican Party. She does not have a position or conviction on abortion, she does feel that children and elderly must be predicted, but there is no mention of the unborn. This is a very troubling prospect for me. She states that she wants to make the State of Iowa’s school system the number one in the nation again, yet she does not appear to have a plan to accomplish this lofty goal. She does not even provide her opinion on what is wrong with the school system as it is now. In essence her website is full of platitudes and offers no real solutions only words and promises. I could have overlooked this development if she had responded to our repeated requests for answers. Unfortunately she decided that she did not need to answer questions from people that just might have been allies in her quest.

http://www.karlasibert.com/index.html

http://iowabrigade.wordpress.com/category/karla-sibert/

Ms. Sibert is being challenged by a lawyer from Marion, IA by the name of Joe Childers. So far we have found Mr. Childers to be the opposite of Ms. Sibert, he has been open and seemed to be perfectly honest with us. Among some of the answers that he has provided us with are the assertion that he is pro-life, whereas we do not know about his opponent. Mr. Childers has made the claim that he will fight for traditional families and traditional marriage. With Ms. Sibert we just don’t know, I almost wonder if she would know herself. When you look at Mr. Childers website, it is well developed and contains numerous issues that have been well thought out, exactly the opposite of the website for Ms. Sibert’s website. Mr. Childers has backed up the responses that he has provided us with by having a well designed website that details his values and what he believes in.

http://www.childers2008.com/Home.html

http://iowabrigade.wordpress.com/category/joe-childers/

Of course Mr. Childers could be blowing smoke at us, but somehow I do not believe that is the case. I think that he is an honorable man that is both moral and intelligent. His opponent Karla Sibert may be a good woman, but she has lost this horse race through inaction and silence. If she had responded to us she may have won my support, but that is enough ifs. If this was the Kentucky Derby she would have just been blown away by the underdog. On June 3rd I hope that District 18 sees the light and votes for the winner of the horse race, Joe Childers.