Citizens in Iowa’s 5th soon-to-be 4th congressional district are rising up.  About a dozen protestors showed up outside Steve King’s congressional office in Sioux City last week.  Complete with protest signs (“Ready to work!” “Where are the jobs?” “We are your neighbor”  “Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!”)  and a high school student spokesperson, the group would like their congressman to start making jobs a priority.   Andrew Munson, East High Senior, served as an articulate spokesperson for the protestors:

“We think Congressman King should really be focusing on jobs.  He seems to be one of the really extreme congressmen and we think we need someone that can work with both sides and help create jobs because that’s a big thing in America right now…  I’m in high school but when I get to that point I want to have a good job market, I don’t want to have to worry about finding a good job… When I talk to my friends at school about it, they say, well why should I care, why does that matter to me, and you think it doesn’t affect you but really everything does.   If we’re not creating jobs now it’s going to be a lot tougher to create them in the future…and just in general like  health care and stuff like that, it all affects us. We need to be informed and competent voters.”

Larry Steinbrecher, another protestor, said:

“…Under union labor I made a good living and all of that is gone now. People are making 8-10 bucks an hour, paying $4 for gas…I have a friend that pays over $1000 per month for medical insurance.  How can we do it?  We need jobs, but we need good jobs.”

Video coverage by the Sioux City Journal  here.