And don’t forget how the obscure Joni Ernst was launched into her inglorious political career abandoning Iowans in favor of billionaires even before she reminded us that “we are all going to die.  I remember very well her comments praising the “wonderful” Koch network.

Here she is as a candidate for U.S. Senate speaking at the Kochs’ semi-annual political strategy meeting on June 16, 2014 in Dana Point, California at the St. Regis Monarch Bay Resort. Eleven years later she will announce her intention to not run for re-election, basically resigning in disgrace.

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Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice shame on me. Let’s not get fooled again.

If you need another reason to not vote for a Koch connected candidate, look at the harm the Republicans in the Iowa lehislature have done to Iowa over the last decade at least. Nine years ago, then state senator from Iowa City, Democrat Joe Bolkcom speaking at a legislative forum, explained to constituents that the Koch Brothers were in “firm control” at the Iowa state house. What good has come from that?

So this..