An update on “Hold that Happy Meal”

October 10, 2008 by 6 Comments

Some of the “rest of the story”…. and update on a prior post called “Hold that Happy Meal”.

Read and decide if McDonald’s really did have a change of heart or found a different way to support a cause that the said they supported but now do not….

It sounds like the South had success with putting on the pressure and that pressure worked. I have to say that I am surprised that McDonald’s would back down and decide to not participate when their cooperation seemed so openly supportive of the homosexual agenda.

http://www.suntimes.com/business/1213469,CST-NWS-gaymcd10.article

McDonald’s cuts off gay chamber of commerce group

YIELDS TO PRESSURE | Fast-food chain will no longer sponsor group

October 10, 2008

BY CHERYL V. JACKSON cjackson@suntimes.com

“After months of pressure from an anti-gay-marriage group, McDonald’s Corp. has given up a director’s seat and will stop sponsorship of a national gay business organization.

Richard Ellis, who until last month was vice president of communications of McDonald’s USA, has resigned from the board of directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, franchisees were told in a Sept. 23 memo.

McDonald’s USA, which had made a $20,000 donation to the chamber and became a 2008 chamber sponsor, said it would not sponsor the organization in 2009.

Ellis, the company said, “made a personal decision to step down” from the board after he got a new position with McDonald’s Canadian operations. “It is our policy to not be involved in political and social issues. McDonald’s remains neutral on same-sex marriage or any ‘homosexual agenda’ as defined by the American Family Association,” the memo said.

In May, the group called for a boycott of McDonald’s over the fast-food chain’s association with the gay business organization. The American Family Association, based in Mississippi, runs American Family Radio.

“Our concern was: Here is a family-friendly company that has, all of a sudden, joined hands and became a partner and ally with an organization that is absolutely attacking the moral foundation of our nation; trying to redefine marriage in our nation,” said Buddy Smith, executive assistant to the group’s chairman. “All we were asking is that they just simply be neutral in the culture wars and focus on doing their business and remain neutral.”

The chamber, based in Washington, D.C., said it doesn’t lobby for same-sex marriage.

Franchisees were feeling the heat from their customers, said Richard Adams of the Franchise Equity Group consultancy. “It was a huge issue for customers in the South. They put a lot of pressure on franchisees,” he said.”

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Eminent Domain is STEALING

October 10, 2008 by 11 Comments

Yes, Christopher Reed is entirely correct when he says “Eminent Domain is the government’s way of legally stealing from citizens.”

As I type, this theft is about to take place here in Southeast Iowa. In this case, you can literally call it HIGHWAY ROBBERY as IOWA DOT is forcing us to sell fifty acres of our farm for a bypass around the city of Fort Madison. This land has been in the family for almost a hundred years. It is land  my husband and his father and his grandfather farmed.  It is land where my husband was born.

So put aside “sentimentality” for a moment—forget the fact that three generations grew up,  grew old, and died here, working hard as a family, facing failures and successes with dignity— let’s just look at what the government is doing on a material plane:

How it works– -FOR THE GOVERNMENT, that is—  is the state of Iowa hires an independent appraiser to put a value on the property and makes us an offer based on that appraisal. If we refuse the first offer, we are given a second and then a third. If we have the nerve to refuse all three offers, the state has the power to put the property in condemnation.

Condemnation under Eminent Domain means that the state brings in six of the area’s supposedly average citizens (one of whom I have  heard might be a realtor) to make an appraisal. The state makes us one last offer based on this appraisal. If we refuse this, the government will simply help itself to our land and give us nothing.

What has happened to us in this process so far?

We have been told rudely at a public information meeting that since the road is splitting the farm in half, we might like to just sell the whole place and move on.

We have received three expensive looking  appraisal brochures with unflattering photos of the property,  describing it as pasture land when in fact it is cropland. The DOT based its first offer on these appraisals and these appraisals used sales of recreational land or land that has remained fallow for ten years as comparison examples for what our land is worth. (In fairness, I need to mention that at any time we may hire our own appraiser for another assessment but we have been holding off on spending that kind of money unless we are forced to.)

We have been visited with an offer by a member of Iowa DOT who had all the charisma of a used car salesman, who lied to us about the possibility of damages,  and who was not “empowered” to make any changes to the offer without running back to headquarters.

We have been offered less than 2900 an acre on the first go-round.

We currently rent this land to neighbors who farm it. This land provides one quarter of our yearly income which we will lose. We think we might also lose rent on more acreage because chopping the fields up into smaller pieces will make them less desirable to farm.  Our only other source of income is a small monthly social security check. We had some retirement assets but they have been diminished by close to forty percent on paper in the last month.

So this is the power the government has? It can force you to sell at the price it offers or go without any compensation at all? It can deprive you of one quarter of your income with no damages for income lost? It can take retired folks on social security in tough economic times and push you around?

We have been looking and we have not yet been able to find comparable land to buy at the government’s price for which we could receive the same amount of rent. And we certainly would not want to invest in the stock market these days!

So we are waiting till the DOT salesman returns so we can formally refuse his first offer, see what his next one is, and head for the lawyer’s office.

It seems it is always a buyers’ market when the government is the “buyer.”

That is why Reed is correct:  Yes, indeed,  I guess you’d have to say that STEALING is “good enough for government work.”

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Civic duty not to vote – watch ABC and decide

October 10, 2008 by 4 Comments

I caught a segment about the John Stossel program that will be aired on ABC. The snippet I saw was eye opening and down right scary!!! Hoping many reading this post on Iowa Defense will want to be enlightened!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5985719&page=1

Maybe It’s Your Civic Duty Not to Vote

Should Uninformed Voters Be Casting Their Vote on Nov. 4?

By JOHN STOSSEL
Oct. 9, 2008

We keep hearing how important it is for everyone to vote and that voting is our civic duty. Legions of uninformed voters could hit the polls next month.

Celebrities like Christina Aguilera, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diddy and Dave Matthews urge everyone to get out and vote. And to help people vote, voter registration groups such as HeadCount deploy volunteers to sign people up.

Watch the story Friday on “20/20″ at 10 p.m. ET and watch John Stossel’s “Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics” at 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17.

HeadCount focuses on registering young people at rock concerts and music festivals around the country. During the concerts, famous musicians such as Eddie Vedder and Jack Johnson implore their fans to sign up to vote. Marc Brownstein, the bassist for the band The Disco Biscuits and a co-founder of HeadCount, tells fans to “please participate this year by casting your vote!”

Brownstein and a friend, Andy Bernstein, co-founded HeadCount in 2004.

“We do this because we want the kids to be a part of the political process,” Brownstein said.

Bernstein added, “We registered over 100,000 people. … It is so imperative that this generation’s voice is heard. And they are being heard.”

But are these get-out-the-vote drives entirely a good thing? “20/20″ asked some of HeadCount’s newly registered young people some basic questions about our government.

Some people were knowledgeable. “There are two senators from each state, making a total of 100,” one young voter said. Another knew that “the Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.”

But many of the young voters didn’t seem very informed. Some didn’t know how many states are in the U.S. or how many senators there are. Few could explain Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling upholding abortion rights.

“Roe vs. Wade is segregation maybe?” one new voter guessed.

Another asked: “Was Roe vs. Wade where we declared bankruptcy?” And still another wondered, “That was about a black person and a white person?”

Brownstein said, “There’s a lot of uninformed voters out there.”

So should those uninformed voters just stay home?

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    Strong words about the candidates & media on illegal immigration

    October 10, 2008 by 2 Comments

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    I am sharing powerful words by Frosty Wooldridge. Americans are writing about the illegal alien crisis. Iowan’s, the illegal alien problem is right here in our own spot in the world. Be informed. Please take the time to read what Wooldridge has to say. We must pay attention to the inattention given to illegal immigration.

    http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty397.htm

    CANDIDATES & MEDIA IGNORING ANGRY VOTERS OVER IMMIGRATION

    By Frosty Wooldridge
    September 11, 2008
    NewsWithViews.com

    “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.” — Arnold Toynbee

    “No matter what the polls report, neither McCain nor Obama address the accelerating 20 million illegal aliens undercutting our laws, working in violation of our U.S. Constitution and degrading our language, culture, schools and medical systems.

    Abetting this ‘silent’ McCain/Obama cartel, national media squelches every aspect of America’s most dangerous immigration topic.

    Both candidates, while doing nothing to stop the invasion during their entire U.S. Senatorial careers, voted to give amnesty to 20-30 million illegal aliens in the June 2007 vote-with no idea of the ultimate number or the cost to American taxpayers. Both voted to double legal immigration from 1.2 million annually to over 2.4 million each year. Obama nor McCain promote any kind of a plan for defense of our borders from further illegal migration into the United States.

    “About 70 percent of voters believe that controlling the U.S. borders is more important than legalizing illegal immigrants,” a new Rasmussen Report national phone survey reveals. “Only 21 percent think legalization is more important. Three out of four respondents said the government is not doing enough to secure the borders.

    “Backers of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain in the presidential race have differing views on immigration,” Rasmussen found. “Among McCain voters, 86 percent believe gaining control of the borders is more important than legalizing undocumented workers; only 53 percent of Obama voters feel that way. Nearly half of McCain supporters say they are angry about the current immigration situation, compared to just 19 percent for Obama backers.”

    Whether the latest triple killing by illegal alien Francis Hernandez, with 16 prior arrests, in “Sanctuary City” Denver-or-millions of Americans displaced from their jobs by illegal aliens-or-rapes, auto theft, forged documents, fraudulent home mortgages, anchor babies, our paying for illegal alien children’s educations, horrific prison costs of convicted illegal felons-the media succeeds daily in burying anything and everything concerning illegal immigration.

    Therefore, I denounce ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, NPR and major newspapers like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal and all other newspapers who downplay or ignore the enormous damage to America by unrelenting, massive and endless lawbreaking illegal alien migration.

    Further, I rebuke every single American citizen or company president or CEO that hires illegal aliens at slave wages in order to gain maximum profits at the expense of our sacred U.S. Constitution. Everything you enjoy in this nation, paid for by the blood of men and women from Valley Forge to WWII to Korea to Vietnam to the hellish sands of Iraq and Afghanistan– you spit on the graves of James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Betsy Ross, Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Martin Luther King and other Americans who gave their lives for the betterment of this country.

    When you hire an illegal alien, you cheat, you lie, you forge, you commit a federal crime that undermines the foundation of your freedom, your right to speak, to worship, to assemble and to live free.

    You undermine the rule of law which forms the foundation of everything you enjoy in this Republic.

    You cheat your fellow citizens who lose their jobs and who must pay more taxes to subsidize your greed, to pay for your avarice, lack of personal accountability and lack of responsibility to your country. And, ultimately to your family!

    To the media, your silence weakens this nation because you hide or obfuscate our national crisis. Every negative aspect of immigration multiplies every single day by thousands of illegals that invade our country against our laws. Those illegals create horrific consequences to our culture, language and civilization.

    It’s as if Obama and McCain along with the national media promote a grand scheme to destroy the foundation of our country by their support of unending hordes of third world poor flooding into our country to destroy our communities, our language, our environment and our functioning society.

    Your actions prove immoral, unethical, corrupt, dishonorable and in direct violation of your responsibilities to support the sovereignty of United States of America and our United States Constitution.

    You CEOs, media, Obama and McCain and other elitists add 100 million people to our country within 30 years at a price that none of us will be able to pay as our cities choke with traffic, energy prices cripple us, our water vanishes with too many people, and we breathe thickening, toxic air as we downgrade our quality of life-America faces what Arnold Toynbee said, “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder.”

    And, what remains as the prime directive for all you people who hire illegal aliens leading to the destruction of your own country: for the love of money!

    Totally, completely, sickening!”

    To take action:
    www.numbersusa.com
    www.fairus.org
    www.proenglish.org
    www.capsweb.org
    www.vdare.com

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    Additional help to expose liberal media bias

    October 10, 2008 by 1 Comment

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    In my attempt to do more about bias in the media I happened upon NewsBusters.org.  I am sharing just one of the informative articles about Illegals having Illegal mortgages. It is good to know that other Americans are watching. Other Americans are calling out the liberal media and their biased ways.

    Hoping to give Iowa Defense Alliance Readers one more place to help understand how much media bias is being shoved our way and keep it out in the open- front and center.

    http://newsbusters.org/about

    About NewsBusters.org

    Welcome to NewsBusters, a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), the leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.

    “Calling the Old Media: Five Million Illegals Have Illegal Mortgages in U.S.A.!

    By Warner Todd Huston October 9, 2008 – 11:42 ET

    A single report by KFYI radio of Phoenix, Arizona highlights a shocking claim made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD says that five million illegal aliens hold illegal mortgages. This is just one more example of the lax lending laws put into place by Democrats like Barney Frank that have contributed to this economic crisis. One would think this would be big news. But, so far we have only this one report to cover it.

    There have been earlier stories of home flipping schemes that made liberal use of illegal aliens as straw buyers and the FBI has followed numerous cases to prosecution and conviction. But the Old Media have not done much with this story.

    KFYI reports that these fraudulent straw purchases of mortgages by illegal aliens has affected every state in the union.

    One illegal alien was arrested this year in Tucson after allegedly using a stolen social security number to buy two homes and rack up over $780,000 in bad debt.

    Some five million fraudulent home mortgages are in the hands of illegal aliens, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

    It’s not known how many of those have contributed to the subprime housing mortgage meltdown, but it has affected every state, including Arizona.

    The problem began years ago when banks were forced to give mortgages without confirming social security numbers or borrower identification. As a result, illegal immigrants were able to obtain home mortgages which they could not afford.

    Lax immigration laws have also helped make this crime easy to perpetrate.

    In 1965 a Democrat Controlled Congress under President Lyndon Johnson passed the concept of “chain” immigration into law. A later commission named the Hesburgh Commission convened during Ronald Reagan’s first term, found that this concept statistically allowed each single immigrant to bring into this country 84 of his family members. Of course, all these people have to live somewhere making such fraudulent mortgages quite attractive.

    What illegal struggling to survive is going to pass up a free house that he can move into without having to present any identification, proof of employment, financial history or even a down payment?

    This story should be in every paper and on every TV news cast. Yet it isn’t. I’ll leave the guessing as to why with you, gentle reader.

    Notice: the link to the story above is a Google cached page link because KFYI has pulled down their report.”

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    The smell of money: campaign donations to Tom Harkin

    October 10, 2008 by 5 Comments

    The smell of money.

    Money donated to Tom Harkin.

    Money from names in the news.

    Money contributed to Tom Harkin from outside Iowa.

    Money used to elect Very Liberal Tom Harkin.

    Have you ever wondered where Tom Harkin gets the big bucks?

    You read. You decide.

    Is this the kind of person we want to continue to be IOWA’S Senator?

    http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?CID=N00004207

    Cycle Fundraising, 2003 – 2008

    Raised: $8,139,857
    Spent: $4,362,844
    Cash on Hand: $4,109,219
    Debts: $0
    Last Report: Monday, June 30, 2008

    Top 5 Contributors, 2003-2008

    <!–HelpOnly on OS–>Herbalife International $72,786
    Texas Pacific Group $39,900
    Monsanto Co $27,203
    Cassidy & Assoc/Interpublic Group $26,250
    Goldman Sachs $24,580

    Top 5 Industries, 2003-2008

    <!–HelpOnly on OS–>Lawyers/Law Firms $591,918
    Health Professionals $347,849
    Securities & Investment $341,460
    Retired $296,637
    Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $279,112

    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1642

    “During the 2004 election cycle, when Harkin was not up for re-election, more than 80 percent of the dollars contributed to Harkin came from outside the state of Iowa. The three locales from which most of Harkin’s cash came were Washington, D.C., Los Angeles-Beverly Hills and New York City. Harkin might look like a Senator from Iowa, but he is the almost-wholly-owned subsidy of special interests and alien ideological groups very far away from traditional Iowan interests and values.

    During the 2004 cycle Harkin’s campaign coffers collected more than $40,000 from nutrient seller Herbalife International and $35,000 from diet and herbal substance maker Starlight International. Starlight, owned by TV producer and concert promoter Steven Goldberg, was questioned in 2003 by a congressional committee about its marketing of products that contained the potentially dangerous herb ephedra. Other big health-related donors include Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Healthsouth Corporation and the American Chiropractic Association.”

    http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=272407

    Top recipients of money from Freddie Mac, AIG, etc.

    Freddie Mac: Recipients

    Senate Dodd, Christopher J $28,800
    Senate Obama, Barack $21,450
    Senate Clinton, Hillary $17,600
    House Bachus, Spencer $11,500
    House Bean, Melissa $11,249
    Senate McCain, John $9,500
    Senate Alexander, Lamar $9,000
    Senate Bennett, Robert F $8,999
    House Davis, Tom $8,999
    House Boehner, John $8,000
    House Pelosi, Nancy $7,500
    Senate Reid, Harry $7,500
    House Cantor, Eric $7,000
    Presidential Romney, Mitt $6,050
    House Frank, Barney $5,500
    Senate Johanns, Michael O $5,490
    Senate Warner, Mark $5,050
    Senate Bond, Christopher S ‘Kit’ $5,000
    Senate Durbin, **** $5,000
    Senate Lott, Trent $5,000

    American International Group: Recipients

    Senate Dodd, Christopher J $104,300
    Senate Obama, Barack $71,761
    Senate McCain, John $41,699
    Senate Clinton, Hillary $41,431
    Senate Baucus, Max $24,750
    Senate Biden, Joseph R Jr $19,975
    Presidential Romney, Mitt $19,950
    Senate Sununu, John E $16,200
    House Larson, John B $14,500
    Presidential Giuliani, Rudolph W $13,200
    House Kanjorski, Paul E $12,000
    Senate Durbin, **** $11,000
    House Perlmutter, Edwin G $10,500
    House Rangel, Charles B $9,000
    Presidential Edwards, John $7,850
    Senate Corker, Bob $7,650
    House Smith, Chris $6,900
    House Neal, Richard E $6,500
    Senate Rockefeller, Jay $6,500
    Senate Reed, Jack $6,000

    Goldman Sachs: Recipients

    Senate Obama, Barack $691,930
    Senate Clinton, Hillary $468,200
    Presidential Romney, Mitt $229,675
    Senate McCain, John $208,395
    House Himes, Jim $114,748
    Presidential Giuliani, Rudolph W $111,750
    Senate Dodd, Christopher J $105,400
    Presidential Edwards, John $66,450
    Senate Specter, Arlen $47,600
    House Emanuel, Rahm $32,950
    Senate Reed, Jack $30,100
    Senate Sununu, John E $29,900
    Senate Baucus, Max $26,000
    Senate Warner, Mark $25,900
    Senate Harkin, Tom $24,580
    Senate Lautenberg, Frank R $23,300
    House Skelly, Michael Peter $22,657
    Senate Collins, Susan M $21,400
    Senate Landrieu, Mary L $20,700
    Senate Durbin, **** $19,800

    As you can see Harkin is in good company with other elected leaders who accepted money from big donors. Under current law, perhaps all of this generous giving is acceptable. Yet, to this voter, I can sure understand the ‘smell of money’ and how our leaders must love receiving it.

    In the case of Reed vs. Harkin (David vs Goliath) I sure can see how Reed is at a great disadvantage with campaign funds when Harkin has the big bucks from outside interests.

    Grassroots voters: Give your time, attention, and yes, hard earned money to Christopher Reed’s campaign. We cannot accept the fact that non-Iowans are deciding with their money who our Senator will be. Yes, the “smell of money” when it comes to Tom Harkin has a bad odor and needs to have an even worse taste in our mouths.

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    Let’s make the Harkin/Reed race UNSAFE!

    October 10, 2008 by Leave a Comment

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    http://www.politicker.com/pindell-report/race/6606/us-senate

    Safe
    Democratic

    About the Race

    Four-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin has yet to win a U.S. Senate election by more than 55 percent, but those elections were against strong Republican challengers. This is the first cycle that Harkin will be given a pass against a sacrificial lamb.

    Iowans:

    Does it get your dander up to read here that some New Jersey group is calling the race for Harkin’s Senate seat “safe”?

    Do you care that our GOP has left Christopher Reed be known as the “sacrificial lamb”?

    And…

    Does it seem obvious to you that many Iowans do not like, do not support and do not want Harkin rewarded for not caring what we think and be sent back to Washington, D.C.?

    Do you care that funds come from OUTSIDE Iowa that are used to promote the vote for Harkin?

    I hope you answer “YES” to my questions.

    Please help spread the word to anyone who will listen that Christopher Reed is the strong, new voice for Iowans. He needs your vote on Nov. 4!

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    Christopher Reed and eniment domain

    October 10, 2008 by 2 Comments

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    In my quest to help Iowa voters understand what a quality candidate we have in Christopher Reed, I am highlighting Reed’s answer to an Iowa Brigade question about eminent domain.

    It is easier to have empathy when it comes to pain or disappointment when you have experience with the same kind of pain. Unless it is YOUR land that is in jeopardy of being taken away by greedy people with their own self interests, it may be difficult to understand the pain that goes along when the government attempts to go the “legal” way of stealing from its citizens. Please try to empathize for the many Iowans who each day fight off greedy people wanting to seize their property.

    I urge you to read with care what Christopher Reed has to say about eminent domain. While his answer is short it says much about where he stands on this important issue. We need Reed to stand up for personal property rights because there are more than enough greedy, hard hearted people willing to do all they can to use any way possible to grab up land for whatever reason they deem important.

    “Home Sweet Home” takes on a whole new meaning when there is a real threat that someone in power wishes to take your home/property/farm from you.

    http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Christopher_Reed_Environment.htm

    Eminent Domain is government legally stealing from citizens

    Question to Christopher Reed:

    Q: What is your position on eminent domain?

    A: Eminent Domain is the government’s way of legally stealing from citizens. They should not have the right, in the Land of the Free, to take what is not theirs just because they think it may be used to generate more tax revenue by some large corporate outfit from somewhere else. Personal property rights must be protected. Home is where we feel safe and should never feel threatened while at home.

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    Judas Named: Caleb Hunter

    October 10, 2008 by 7 Comments

    What is up with the Republican Party of Iowa? This is a serious question to be asked. Tom Harkin is perhaps the most hated politician in the State of Iowa. The GOP has a quality candidate running against him. This is a candidate that is working his heart out to reach the voters of Iowa. And yet the Iowa GOP has been strangely silent in this race. For some time I have suspected that the party is working against him. First it was one of the Republican County Chairs, Gwen Eilers, publically proposing to write in one of the primary losers instead of the party’s nominee. But now we have confirmation that the second in command is actively encouraging party members to not support Christopher Reed. That is right the Iowa GOP’s second in command Caleb Hunter. He has actively told Republicans to not support Reed’s campaign. These are the same people that claimed that Kim Lehman couldn’t be a national chairwoman because she wouldn’t support all Republicans. Now the shoe is on the other foot. These same people are now doing what they claimed that Lehman would do. This type of action is shameful. In fact the only groups that I have seen attempting to support Reed at all are the Iowa Right to Life and Iowa Christian Alliance.

    These actions are now reopening wounds that many people have attempted to heal. And most importantly it points to a lack of leadership in the upper echelon of the state party. I am putting out a call to all Iowa Republicans, get behind OUR Senatorial candidate. Get behind Christopher Reed. It is time to send a message to party leadership. It is time to the leadership that if you do not support all Republican candidates we will declare war and replace you with people that will do the job. We will not be denied. We will have our voices heard. And we will replace Tom Harkin with a true conservative Iowan.

    You can hear Reed in an interview with Steve Deace.

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