One Old Vet (Free subscription) | yesterday
King takes a hard line on immigration By Douglas Burns At all four of King’s town hall stops, audience members wanted to hear from the congressman on immigration — an issue King is known for nationally, but one which he says is not as prominent in the presidential election as it should be because of the respective [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Steve King (R - Hot Air) was in Council Bluffs yesterday laying it on thick in front of about two dozen people who can't get enough Republican Kool-Aid. The paper did not report, and I have not heard, that anybody was there in a chicken suit. Hopefully, somebody [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
2laneIA posted a great diary at Daily Kos with photos of activists in chicken suits outside one of Representative Steve King's recent town-hall forums. Do click over, not just for the pictures. I love this line: We used to think King was a chicken hawk. Now he's just plain old [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Yesterday, Steve King (R - Dumber than a chicken) held one of his "town hall" meetings in Sioux City. He claims that these are open forums, but usually have a carefully screened audience of party faithful. At yesterday's town hall, two protesters showed up to show King exactly what [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
"The Vulture Culture" ... Eric Gerst says the US insurance industry is in for a financial fall. Congressman Steve King talks about energy. T-Boone Pickens does the same. Senator Sam Brownback talks about presidential politics. [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King will be in Northwest Iowa in two days, kicking off eight stops over a week. The first public meetings in which he’ll hear citizen input on current issues are in Sioux Center and Sioux City on Aug. 15. Republican King is running [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Christopher Reed wants Senator Tom Harkin's job. Then, "What is your Explosive Child Trying to Tell you?" Then, Rob Hubler wants Congressman Steve King's job. [...]
The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
For a few months, I’ve been corresponding with a friend and regular reader, “Zeitgeist,” who insists that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is, without a doubt, the single craziest member of the House of Representatives. I usually respond by pointing to Rep. Michele Bachmann, the infamous Minnesota Republican. Given recent events, King is really going to have [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Lawrence Solomon talks about "The Deniers" , scientists who stood up the global warming hysteria. Plus, the Whirlpool-Matag economic tragedy continues...pulling the plug on retirees health care. Then, a great T-shirt... Bob McCarty with "Bipolar Bear Disorder". Congressman Steve King on the energy debate. Then, [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
King Stays in DC for Drilling Protest Steve King is one of two dozen Republican U.S. House members staying in Washington during the AUgust recess to demand a vote on offshore drilling. King spoke Monday on a darkened House floor, next to a giant photo of Speaker Nancy [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The U.S. House is in its summer recess, but a bunch of Republicans are giving speeches in the chamber calling for a special session to deal with energy policy. When there's an opportunity to score political points without accomplishing anything on behalf of constituents, you know Steve King will [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King has lost his press secretary, as Brandon Lerch has left the congressman’s office to run Congresswoman Michele Bachmann ’s re-election campaign in Minnesota, the Minnesota Independent reports. You’ll get no jokes here on how Lerch’s departure has left [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
I don’t always like some of the things that Steve King says (I think he may have good motives, but perhaps suffers from Bushitis), but I was glad to see he was still in Washington DC along with a number of other House Republicans to continue protesting the No Vote [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
House conservatives have been engaging in political stunts to demand a vote on oil drilling. Last Friday, they stormed the floor after Congress adjourned “to attack Democrats for leaving town without doing something to lower gas prices.” Today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) brought to the floor a “large garish photo” of House Speaker Nancy [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
It appears Steve King is none too happy with the Sioux City Journal. A formal request was made by the Journal, in conjunction with the League of Women Voters, for a debate between he and opponent Rob Hubler. King declined, citing unfavorable coverage by the Journal in a recent article that [...]
