In less than three months voters will go to the polls and make important decisions about how they are represented in government.
Recently Congressman Steve King declined an invitation to the debate Rob Hubler October 9 at Sioux City North High School, sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Sioux City Journal. King complained that in a June 29 article, the Journal let Monona County Democratic Party chairman Ken Mertes say that some things King has said seem racist.
What kind of racist comments?
Like when he announced that he was running for re-election and said that terrorists will dance in the streets if America elects Barack Obama president.
Or when he compared Mexicans to cattle while promoting a $3,000,000 per mile wall along the border that people around the world, including the Vatican and former Soviet leaders have compared to the Berlin Wall. And by the way, he offered to have his family construction business do much of the work. (No doubt with no-bid contracts just like we gave to Haliburton and Balckwater in Iraq).
It is a little odd that he voted Against Renewing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
I suspect that King doesn’t just feel persecuted by the press. The Sioux City Journal is a FAR cry from the Greenwich Village Voice or the Mother Earth News, we’re not talking about some kind of Liberal media conspiracy here. I think that King is afraid to face an intelligent, reasonable, rational opponent.
Who is his opponent this time? Rob Hubler is a retired Presbyterian minister, a Vietnam veteran, and a teacher for severely disabled children.
Hubler received a Good Conduct Medal for his time in the Navy, and when he got home, he worked for peace. He served as a legislative assistant for transportation and military issues in Des Moines. In 1989 he entered the University of Dubuqe's Theological Seminary to become a pastor.
Hubler lives his faith, instead of just using it to sell an agenda or to scare people with wedge issues. He’s shepherded Presbyterian churches in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
and been a teacher for severely disabled children.
He believes that Iowa's 5th District deserves a Congressman who is informed, educated, thoughtful, and who will be a positive voice toward creating a more perfect union.
King on the other hand, shamelessly defends the dishonesty of the Bush administration and has lined his pockets with special-interest group and lobbyist money. Like Bush and Cheney, and other "chickenhawks," he never served in the military himself.
He wants to deport the widows and orphans of legal immigrants and is a chief proponent of building an actual wall along the US-Mexican border, of course offering contracts to build it to his son's construction company.
King voted Against Children's Health Insurance, even though most Republicans including Senator Grassley supported it.
King said the events of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse "amounts to hazing."
Last month he disrupted House Judiciary committee meetings on torture and the politicization of the Justice Department.
He's even voted AGAINST Strengthening Flood Levees in Iowa's flooded towns.
King refused to sign a letter asking Congress' Armed Services Committees that the head of the National Guard Bureau become part of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. King is the only Iowa lawmaker in Washington whose name is not on the request.
When Scott McClellan, Bush’s former spokesman, testified before Congress about Bush lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and about there being some kind of link between Iraq and 9/11, Steve King asked McClellen, “Couldn’t you have taken this to the grave with you and done this country a favor?”
King once told the Sioux City Journal that ‘red scare’ Senator Joseph McCarthy as "a great American hero." Joe McCarthy, the demagogue who inspired black lists and witch hunts, who the Army, President Eisenhower, and the Republican party all denounced, who was finally censured by the Senate and drank himself to death? That Joe McCarthy?
He’s one of Steve King’s heroes? “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
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