Isn't it nice that the governor has already made the choice for you?
Branstad: Kim Reynolds is 'next in line to be governor' http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20140131/NEWS09/301310150/1056/news05 Thanks to all the great folks in Sac County! The petitioning is done there, and we have more than twice the number of signatures needed!
Thanks to all the great folks here in Calhoun County! The petitioning is done, and we have more than twice the number of signatures needed!
Thanks to all the great folks up in Buena Vista County! The petitioning is done there, and we have more than twice the number of signatures needed!
Thanks to all the great folks up in Palo Alto County! The petitioning is done there, and we have more than twice the number of signatures needed!
“Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country -- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.”
- Mark Twain h/t to Guy Stevenson "Tom Hoefling is a Hard-Core Conservative."
-- OnTheIssues.org Branstad opens budget negotiations with Dems with 7.8 percent, half BILLION dollar increase1/23/2014 So, Governor Branstad has decided to OPEN negotiations with the Democrats over the budget this year with a 7.8% increase, to over seven BILLION dollars. That's half a BILLION dollars more than last year. Senate leader Mike Gronstal thinks this is a "good, solid bipartisan agenda."
What say you, Iowa conservatives? http://www.statebudgetsolutions.org/publications/detail/branstad-proposes-record-7-billion-state-general-fund-budget "If the unborn child's right to live is not secure, your rights are not secure."
-- Tom Hoefling "If We the People continue to fail to put God, and truth, and principle before personality, party, or process, the republic cannot possibly be saved. But once we begin to do what is right, without compromise, nothing on earth can stand in our way."
-- Tom Hoefling "The Democrats, and far too many Republicans, talk incessantly about 'jobs, jobs, jobs,' as if that was the ideal. I have a different take. I want my fellow Americans, and my fellow Iowans, to OWN our country and our state, and the means of production - to work for themselves, and for their posterity. That's far better than merely earning a paycheck, as honorable as that might be. One other thing: the only jobs government can really create are government jobs anyway, of which we already have far too many."
-- Tom Hoefling "Politicians get points for 'bringing home the bacon.' But what they fail to tell you is that in order for them to do that they had to give away the whole hog. Your hog. And the whole herd of hogs, in perpetuity."
-- Tom Hoefling "We were intended to be a righteous, free, self-governing people under God. No matter what anyone else does, no one can stop you from being that in your own world, in your own sphere of influence, but you."
-- Tom Hoefling "Let me be as clear as I can be: I oppose the Environmental Protection Agency's ethanol mandate. It's a violation of fundamental American constitutional principles, and, like the EPA itself, a serious transgression of the Enumerated Powers of our Constitution. The RFS is nothing less than statist socialistic manipulation, premised on the global warming Big Lie. In other words, it's a giant scam that is being run on the American people. Yes, it has brought large sums of money to some few powerful interests in our state in recent years. But that doesn't make it right. This misguided policy is distorting and perverting our whole economy, and causing our state to build its financial house on shifting sand. And the ones who are ultimately going to pay the highest price for that are our children and grandchildren. It's time for us to stop being penny-wise and pound-foolish in our public policies."
-- Tom Hoefling, Republican candidate for Iowa Governor in 2014 Washington Post: Iowa’s GOP governor expands Medicaid program Thursday
You can read the story in the Washington Post here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12/12/iowas-gop-governor-expands-medicaid-program-thursday/ ----- For the record, technically, both the Washington Post and the Obama White House seem to have their facts a bit wrong. The governor did not expand Medicaid per se. He took a separate program that was slated to expire at the end of 2013 and dropped the new Obamacare provisions and coverage into that. Here is another story on this from the Omaha World-Herald: Iowa Gov. Branstad reaches deal on expanding health care for poor I was asked a couple of good questions by a fellow Iowan yesterday, and I thought I would share my responses. - Tom
-----"What would be different in Iowa under your leadership vs that of Governor Branstad? What would your top priorities be as governor?"----- I'm a conservative Reagan Republican. Governor Branstad, for all his admirable qualities, is cut from “moderate” Republican cloth. So, you will see quite a bit of difference. 1) I will do everything within my legitimate power to stop the practice of human abortion in our state, and in our nation. It’s immoral and unconstitutional. Instead of fulfilling the ultimate stated purpose of the U.S. Constitution “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity,” we are eradicating that posterity. 2) I will do everything within my legitimate power to stop the radical homosexual agenda which has done so much harm to the indispensable institution of one man-one woman marriage, religious liberty, and constitutional republican self-government in our state. 3) I will fight out-of-control judges, restoring the constitutional checks and balances which are supposed to be the mainstay of our system. I will work to amend our state constitution to restore control over the choice of our judges to the people and their elected representatives. It is an un-American violation of republican self-government, quite frankly, to let the bar association have control of our judiciary and our judicial picks as we have foolishly done for the last fifty years or so in Iowa. 4) I will work to reform our education system by restoring true local control over the schools. And that means control over the money. I don’t want to send our education dollars to either Washington, DC or to Des Moines, have them run those dollars through a huge bureaucracy, after which they send a fraction back to the local level with strings attached. In my opinion, that sort of system is stupid and wrong. We can do better. Much better. 5) I will work for real economic development, of a completely different sort than what has been passed off as such in recent decades. I believe that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, no special deals for favored individuals, companies or groups. I believe in the equal protection of the laws, so I would be seeking to implement policies and pass legislation that favors ALL productive Iowans, not just a few. ----“How would you be able to achieve your plans in light of the Democrat/Republican balance in the state house?”---- Let’s work together to throw them out of power in 2014 and then we won’t have to concern ourselves with that. I hope you don’t think that last reply is flip, because I’m dead serious. I have much more to say on all these subjects, but I’m simply out of time this evening. But let’s keep the conversation going! For Iowa, for America, for our Posterity, Tom Hoefling KMA
Dec. 5, 2013 by Chuck Morris (Lohrville) -- Tom Hoefling of Lohrville today announced his intention to enter the 2014 Republican primary race against incumbent Governor Terry Branstad. Hoefling, the long-time conservative activist and organizer, enters the campaign as an anti-establishment outsider, having spent the last six years outside the GOP as a registered independent, and as the founder and chairman of the national America’s Party. On the campaign’s newly-renovated website (tomhoefling.com), he says: “The Branstad era in Iowa is coming to an end soon. There is little doubt about that. The only real question is where we will choose to go from there. Will our longest-serving Governor be followed by a decade or more of liberal Democrat rule like the last time he left the executive office? Or, will he succeed at replacing himself with someone who represents the Republican status quo? I don't think either outcome is acceptable. I believe the people of Iowa deserve a principled, practical alternative.” Hoefling is 52-years-old and is married to Sienna Hoefling. He is the father of ten children and two foster children. Christian NewsWire
Contact: Tom Hoefling, 813-389-0801, tomhoefling@gmail.com LOHRVILLE, Iowa, Dec. 5, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- Tom Hoefling of Lohrville today announced his intention to enter the 2014 Republican primary race against incumbent Governor Terry Branstad. Hoefling, the long-time conservative activist and organizer, enters the campaign as an anti-establishment outsider, having spent the last six years outside the GOP as a registered independent, and as the founder and chairman of the national America's Party. On the campaign's newly-renovated website (tomhoefling.com), he says: "The Branstad era in Iowa is coming to an end soon. There is little doubt about that. The only real question is where we will choose to go from there. Will our longest-serving Governor be followed by a decade or more of liberal Democrat rule like the last time he left the executive office? Or, will he succeed at replacing himself with someone who represents the Republican status quo? I don't think either outcome is acceptable. I believe the people of Iowa deserve a principled, practical alternative." |
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