Rotten Appel?

According to the Ragister $269,866 has been spent in Senate District 37, that's the district I reside in.

The Dummycrat Staci Appel has outspent her Republican opponent Julian Garrett 12 to 1!

Yet on her web site claims to be fiscally responsible....

I would work to curb wasteful spending at the state government level and I would work to protect communities from tax increases....

She's wasting well over $250,000 on a political campaign for a seat that currently pays $21,000, No wonder she's now a homemaker and no longer a financial consultant!

This doesn't include money spent heavily by the Iowa Dummycrat Party on her behalf.

The Ragister also issued their endorsement of her today.

They admitted that the Republican Garrett is the more experienced of the two.

They also admitted with her husband, Brent, being appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court that she'll need to abstain from some votes in the legislature.

Supposedly it came down to her emphasis on education.

Checking each candidates web site I found these Education points...

Staci Appel:

I support making access to quality pre-school universally available to all Iowa children....regardless of income.

I support giving teachers the tools they need to succeed in the classroom including a fair wage.

I support adequate funding to maintain and enhance the quality of Iowa universities and to keep down the rising cost of tuition.

I support expanding scholarship opportunities for Iowa residents, increased investments, and special incentives to help control the cost of tuition.

Julian Garrett:

We must hold the line on spending and taxes to allow small business to prosper. The key to excellent schools.... is a growing economy

We do need to increase teacher's salaries, especially math and science teachers.

We must have accountability, rewarding teachers who do exceptional work.

Support for the classroom teachers, promoting better discipline is needed.


What I read is Ms. Appel wants to throw money at a purported problem and that means higher taxes!

The Ragister ends their editorial with the REAL reason they support Ms. Appel....

She also supports a woman's right to choose, while Garrett favors some restrictions on abortion. That might become a critical difference if the U.S. Supreme Court turns the abortion issue back to the states to decide.

I can't understand a woman who has given birth to four children who thinks it's o.k. to kill babies.

Off the Wagon

It took 6 1/2 months, but I penned my first letter(s) to the Editor(s).

One of the reasons I started blogging is because the Ragister lied when they advised me they would run a couple of letters I had sent them.

I was averaging 9 letters published every year.

When the last two letters didn't appear, I decided to find a different outlet for my need to pontificate.

However an opportunity came up to slam a couple of Dummycrats, in my district, running for the Statehouse. See Wednesdays posting, 'Legitimate Issue(s)'.

To the Ragister....

I reside in Senate District 37. I do not know Julian Garrett or Staci Appel and, unlike a previous writer, I have made no contributions to their campaigns. I believe the issues of conflict and hindrance that Mr. Garrett raised are legitimate. Ms. Appel has invaded my home with her campaign mailings, telephone calls, newspaper ads and television commercials in which she has talked of her four children. Not once did she mention a husband, leading my wife to believe she was a single mother raising her four kids alone. It was when Governor Vilsack named Brent Appel to the Iowa Supreme Court that I find out she was married. It feels deceitful and for obvious reasons. At that point I did some further checking on Ms. Appel and found she has given $3,000 to Hillary Clinton's two Senate campaigns. I also see she has raised over $100,000 for a state senate seat that currently pays a little over $21,000. I contacted Ms. Appel on 10/14 with my concerns and have yet to receive a response. These are not the values I seek in my elected representatives.

To the Indianola Weird Herald (also owned by the Ragister)...

I reside in Senate District 37 and House District 74. I do not know Julian Garrett or Staci Appel, nor do I know Doug Schull or Mark Davitt. I have made no contributions to their campaigns.

Ms. Appel has invaded my home with her campaign mailings, telephone calls, newspaper ads and television commercials in which she has talked of her four children. Not once did she mention a husband, leading my wife to believe she was a single mother raising her four kids alone. It was when Governor Vilsack named Brent Appel to the Iowa Supreme Court that I find out she was married. It feels deceitful and for obvious reasons. At that point I did some further checking on Ms. Appel and found she has given $3,000 to Hillary Clinton's two Senate campaigns. I also see she has raised over $100,000 for a state senate seat that currently pays a little over $21,000. I contacted Ms. Appel on 10/14 with my concerns and have yet to receive a response.

As for my one contact with Mr. Davitt, I urged him to support legislation to require school districts to increase the spending that makes its way to the classroom from the current 59.5%, where Iowa ranks 38th, to 65% . This would force districts to adopt better business practices and free up $200 million to increase teacher salaries or reduce classroom size. His response, "Tell me which programs and departments you may be looking toward for the savings". He was too focused on his agenda to truly absorb what I was saying.

These are not the values I seek in my elected representatives.


Davitt is the husband of the Weird Herald's publisher Amy Duncan.

We'll see if they get published.

If so, how much they'll be edited. In the past they've really been gutted and at times have changed what I've actually written(can you say unethical?).

Hardly my best writing, but it'll irritate the Dummycrats in Warren County and my work here will be done....for now!

Legitimate Issue(s)

The Ragister has a story today about the new power couple in Iowa, the Appels.

Brent and Staci, pictured (small like all Dummycrats), are coming across as Clinton wannabes.

As I mentioned Friday (Iowa Values, Iowa Common Sense?), Brent has been appointed by the Pickle to the Iowa Supreme Court. His wife is running for the Iowa Senate.

Ms. Appel's opponent, Julian Garrett, is raising concerns over possible conflicts their relationship/careers could cause. He also believes that the district's representation would suffer.

The Senate Dummycrat leader, Mike Gronstal, tried to pooh-pooh it and make Garrett out to be sexist.

Today there was also a letter to the editor written with glowing remarks about Ms. Appel, the letter was signed by a financial contributor to her campaign.

I live in the Senate District, Iowa 37.

I do not personally know either candidate.

I have not contributed to Mr. Garrett's campaign, although I have already voted for him.

I sent Ms. Appel an e-mail last Saturday regarding this issue....

Why did I have to find out in today's paper about your husband? None of the literature you sent me, your newspaper ads, your TV commercial or your calls to my home have mentioned him. My wife thought you were a single mother raising four children by herself.

I ran for Iowa House, twice getting my clocked cleaned, when you introduce yourself as a candidate you include biographical information such as a spouse and children. She's let me know numerous times about her kids, never her husband. It comes across as something their trying to hide. Also, since he's a failed candidate it feels like he's playing puppetmaster.

I also asked her about her $3,000 in contributions to Hillary Rodham Clinton's two Senate runs.

I have yet to receive a response.

I'll give it 'til Saturday, one week, then I'm going on the attack with letters to the Ragister and the paper they own in District 37--the Indianola Old Weird Herald.

Another concern is the over $100,000 she has raised for her senate campaign.

It's a part time job! The seat only pays a little over $21,000.

Talk about overkill!

Serious?

Like pigs to the slaughter, some Iowa Dummycrats are wanting Staci Appel-sauce for brains to run for Congress against Tom Latham.

Proving my apple sauce for brains theory, and the scientific community is united in that fact, Staci said...

“I’m still very seriously considering it”.

Ed Skinner, described as a party godfather, believes Appel is the person who can beat Latham.

Dummycrat strategist Jeff Link said, “It will take a candidate of Appel’s caliber to make this a competitive race”.

Color these Dummycrats delusional as it will be about as competitive as their three previous high quality female candidates; Becky Greenwald (who lost to Latham by 21 points in 2008), Rozanne, err Taxanne Conlin (who lost to Chuck Grassley by 31 points in 2010) and Christie Vilsack (who lost to Steve King by 8 points in 2012).

Appel thinks her Iowa Senate accomplishments(?) of extension of health care coverage to Iowa children, the 4-year-old preschool program, a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, and an increase in the minimum wage.

Don't forget Staci, you wanted an end to Federal Deductibility, your scheme to award Iowa's Electoral College votes to whichever candidate receives the most popular votes nationwide, regardless of who carries the state, the debt you saddled taxpayers with because of the borrowing scam known as I-JOBS and your sponsorship of the bill (SF193) that helped create the IDED tax credit film office fiasco.

The Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs filed this story and her original report (preserved by me) said "Appel took out a 10-year Republican incumbent, Julian Garrett, an Indianola attorney and farmer who had represented the district for nearly a decade".

Someone later cleaned up the report-errs as it was an open seat (incumbent Doug Shull had sought election as State Representative against Mark Davitt) which Garrett had not previously represented.

Running

The husband of the Publisher of the Old Weird Harold and Record Tribune is seeking a return to the Iowa Legislature, this time in the Senate for the seat vacated by Kent Sorenson.

Dummycrat former State Representative Mark Davitt, pictured, is running against current Republican State Representative Julian Garrett.

I can't wait until the November 19 special election to vote against Davitt, so the absentee ballot will be in the mail and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In his previous terms, Davitt introduced legislation three times to raise the minimum wage (House File 29, House File 2032 and House File 1).

Davitt also introduced legislation to raise state sales and use taxes.

In addition, and even more egregious, Davitt spearheaded the legislation that brought us the IDED film office fiasco. (The bill was managed during floor debate by Governor wannabe Tyler Olson).

As an aside, we almost had the need for another special election as Dummycrat State Representative Scott Ourth didn't look where he was walking and stepped in front of my vehicle, the other day, while he was having a conversation.

Dummycrats it's not smart to put your life in my foot's hands.