A fourth Iowa Democrat plans to join the race to un-seat republican US Senator Chuck Grassley. Her name is Patty Judge. US Senate candidate
Tom Fiegen — a Sander’s Democrat — issued a warning to progressive Iowa democrats this week about the Big Money influence pulling the strings of this latest candidate to enter the race.
"I welcome Lt. Governor Judge to the race because of the contrast between us. Her political base is big money industrial agriculture interests where poisoning Iowa's waters is part of the deal. The majority of Iowans want clean drinking water and small family farmers growing more fresh healthy local food. This election is a choice between status-quo politics where everything is for sale to the high bidder and the politics of putting the needs of working people ahead of Super PACs."
Patty Judge is a perfect reflection of another corporate-owned candidate: favoring laws and policy decisions that cater to billionaire special interests and not working Iowans.
“When Patty Judge was Secretary of Agriculture, in Iowa, she was (and remains) a vocal supporter of CAFOs (Large, polluting hog confinement operations). Few who are surrounded by CAFO-generated water pollution,
flies or the stench of hog manure have fond memories of her tenure.”
In this campaign cycle, like never before, voters are alert to the toxic implications of this kind of cash-for-a-candidate corporate relationship,
as Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rick Perry — and others — have discovered. Political war chests full of corporate cash are not translating into wins.
In this election it is critical to choose a candidate who represents working Iowans — and not billionaires. A supreme court nominee and confirmation is hanging in the balance. This is our opportunity in Iowa and the country to balance the highest court in the land with justices who answer to working people and not billionaire corporate interests.
The Tom Fiegen US Senate campaign, like Bernie Sander’s campaign is grassroots. He is funded by small individual donations. His campaign refuses PAC money because he doesn’t represent billionaire special interests. Unflinching loyalty to working people is the essential candidate yardstick in this election as Bernie Sanders, Tom Fiegen and dozens of other Sander’s democrats are demonstrating in races nationwide.
Support Tom Fiegen for US Senate: No super-PACs. Does not answer to billionaire special interests, he answers to working Iowans.
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