💥Steve King U.S. Congress IA-04 (please vote for J.D. Scholten @Scholten4Iowa) is a quadruple threat at the very least on some of the most prominent issues of the 2018 Election.
1⃣▶️He’s a racist, intensifying the pervasive polarization in the country
desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol…
1⃣▶️He’s a racist, intensifying the pervasive polarization in the country
desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol…
2⃣▶️Steve King has voted for every repeal or bill to chip away at the Affordable Care Act
3⃣▶️He voted for the #GOPTaxScam, a series of tax breaks for corporations & wealthy passed by Republicans, now used as the excusing for cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
3⃣▶️He voted for the #GOPTaxScam, a series of tax breaks for corporations & wealthy passed by Republicans, now used as the excusing for cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
4⃣▶️King is backed by Charles Koch, who has been funding a hybrid of Republican/Libertarian/"eccentric" billionaire causes & politicians for decades in order to promote his agenda: mainly to abolish EPA/all environmental regulations, bust employee unions & ease corporate taxes.
1⃣▶️I tried to put these in order of idiocy, but gave up.
🔶Source article above, King met with members of an Austrian far-right political party associated with neo-Nazi movements on a trip funded by a Holocaust memorial nonprofit, new reports found.
washingtonpost.com/powerpost/holo…
🔶Source article above, King met with members of an Austrian far-right political party associated with neo-Nazi movements on a trip funded by a Holocaust memorial nonprofit, new reports found.
washingtonpost.com/powerpost/holo…
🔶In the interview, King said "Western civilization is on the decline,” mentioned that immigrants were replacing white Europeans and denounced George Soros.
🤥Total hooey, by the way.
Truthful profile about George Soros:
🤥Total hooey, by the way.
Truthful profile about George Soros:
🔶In the same interview King stressed his anti-immigration stance. “What does this diversity bring that we don’t already have? Mexican food, Chinese food, those things—well, that’s fine. But what does it bring that we don’t have that is worth the price?...
King (cont'd): ...We have a lot of diversity within the U.S. already.”
🔶In 2012, he compared immigrants to dogs. "You want a good bird dog? You want one that's going to be aggressive? Pick the one that's the friskiest ... not the one that's over there sleeping in the corner."
🔶In 2012, he compared immigrants to dogs. "You want a good bird dog? You want one that's going to be aggressive? Pick the one that's the friskiest ... not the one that's over there sleeping in the corner."
🔶King on immigrants as dogs, cont'd: "You get the pick of the litter and you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. Well, we've got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet. We've got the vigor from the planet to come to America."
🔶In 2008, King said if Obama won the presidency “The radical Islamists, the al Qaeda...would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror.”
vox.com/2018/6/28/1750…
vox.com/2018/6/28/1750…
🔶King also said immigrants have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling marijuana “across the desert.”
🔶King also said immigrants have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling marijuana “across the desert.”
🔶King also said immigrants have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling marijuana “across the desert.”
🔶King keeps a small replica of a Confederate flag on his desk, despite the despite the fact that Iowa was a Union State in the Civil War
🔶In 2017, he explained his concern that non-whites would outnumber whites in population.
🔶In 2017, he explained his concern that non-whites would outnumber whites in population.
King (cont'd): “I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens.”
🔶King claimed that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
🔶King claimed that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, may have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
🔶King retweets Toronto Mayoral candidate & whiite Nationalist Faith Goldy, who claims Canada is going through a “white genocide.”
🔶🤥He is now claiming he didn't know Faith Goldy was a white Nationalist. She was so radical that she was FIRED by the extreme right political and social commentary website Rebel Media after the “Unite the Right” protest in Charlottesville, VA.
huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-su… …
huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-su… …
🔶After live-streaming the Charlottesville protest, Goldy apparently went on a podcast for the Daily Stormer (a Neo-Nazi website) and let's just say her musings were too far right for the far right website. Hard to believe King didn't hear about this.
🔶Especially since he also tweets support for other far right-wing European candidates, like Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban when he uttered these retweetable words in December 2017: "Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life, but a lower one."
🔶He also retweeted neo-Nazi leader and frequent David Duke collaborator Mark Collette when Collete said "65% of Italians under the age of 35 now oppose mass immigration. Europe is waking up..."
🔶The neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer said “their guy” King was “basically a white nationalist at this point.”
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2⃣▶️As noted, King, a founding member of the Tea Party Caucus, voted for every repeal or bill to chip away at the Affordable Care Act. In a move too radical for many Republicans, he wanted to repeal it without replacing it.
healthreformvotes.org/congress/400220
npr.org/2017/01/12/509…
healthreformvotes.org/congress/400220
npr.org/2017/01/12/509…
3⃣▶️He voted for the #GOPTaxScam. 84% of the benefits from this massive "tax cut" were to business and people who make more than $75K a year per Steve Rattner.
🔶Steve Rattner is an American financier who was an adviser in the Obama administration & President & CEO of the private investment group that manages billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's personal and philanthropic assets.
🔶Rattner tells the truth.
🔶Rattner tells the truth.
🔶Now, after King & the rest of the GOP passed this $1.5 trillion tax cut & passed a $675 billion defense bill now all of a sudden they want to be fiscally responsible & balance the federal budget!
✂️How? By cutting Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.
newsweek.com/deficit-budget…
✂️How? By cutting Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid.
newsweek.com/deficit-budget…
🔶This just happens to be the same basic plan the Koch-backed "Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force" is pushing on state legislatures via a Constitutional Convention.
👉Short version:
👉Long version:
👉Short version:
👉Long version:
🔶These are the 28 states that have passed a resolution for a Constitutional Convention. They need 34 to rewrite the Constitution, Koch-style, so if you are in one of those 28 states & are about to be elected, please consider rescinding this dangerous resolution next year.
🔶#Iowa has passed an older resolution (between 1973-1983) which may or not be valid, but Koch-backed legislation is constantly being pushed in that state.
4⃣▶️King is backed by Charles Koch, formerly of the Koch Brothers.
🔎.Sourcewatch.org shows that $10,000 was given to King by KochPAC, a Political Action Committee that represents the interests of Koch Industries & its affiliates.
sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch…
🔎.Sourcewatch.org shows that $10,000 was given to King by KochPAC, a Political Action Committee that represents the interests of Koch Industries & its affiliates.
sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch…
🔶Charles Koch's interests? Three big ones: being able to pollute without facing consequences (or spend money), breaking up employee unions, easing corporate taxes & cutting off aid to “poor” people.
🔶Example of their pollution devastating Crossett, AR:
🔶Example of their pollution devastating Crossett, AR:
🔶But Koch also has quite a presence in #Iowa: Flint Hills Resources, Georgia-Pacific (the same subsidiary that polluted and killed many residents of Crossett, AR), Guardian, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions and Koch Industries.
🔶Flint Hills Resources "produces a diverse range of fuels and ingredient products for many household goods."
⁉️Do you think they cause any pollution?
fhr.com
⁉️Do you think they cause any pollution?
fhr.com
🔶Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading makers of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals.
🔶Yes, this company causes a lot of pollution. When they are caught they have to pay large fines and retrofit factories.
companytownfilm.com
🔶Yes, this company causes a lot of pollution. When they are caught they have to pay large fines and retrofit factories.
companytownfilm.com
🔶Guardian Industries makes products "from glass that dramatically reduces energy usage and increases comfort in buildings, to innovative automotive parts that improve fuel efficiency and enhance connectivity."
guardian.com/en/about_us/in…
guardian.com/en/about_us/in…
🔶Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC and its affiliates are a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets.
🔶Not a stretch to imagine that company produces pollution/hazardous waste.
kochagenergy.com
🔶Not a stretch to imagine that company produces pollution/hazardous waste.
kochagenergy.com
🔶Here's some information on the parent company, Koch Industries.
🔶Gerald E. Connolly, U.S. Representative for Virginia, said it best: “Koch Brothers’ direct contributions have been an investment well worth it. It’s certainly a lot less expensive than actually having to retrofit factories.”
🔶Accordingly, Steve King's lifetime environmental score through 2017 is 4% favorable and 0% in 2017.
scorecard.lcv.org/moc/steve-king
scorecard.lcv.org/moc/steve-king
🔶In 2018, Steve King introduced the Protect Interstate Commerce Act of 2018 bill—not the first time—which prohibit nearby states' (e.g. Missouri) restriction of a weed killer such as dicamba from affecting other states w/out the restriction (#Iowa).
congress.gov/bill/115th-con…
congress.gov/bill/115th-con…
🔶Do you think this legislation benefits Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC?
🔶Shocker, Steve King is a climate change denier! Climate change “is not proven, it’s not science. It’s more of a religion than a science.”
thinkprogress.org/steve-king-bel…
🔶Shocker, Steve King is a climate change denier! Climate change “is not proven, it’s not science. It’s more of a religion than a science.”
thinkprogress.org/steve-king-bel…
🔶He also argued that an increase in carbon in the atmosphere might actually be a good thing!
⁉️Like Trump thinks making friends with Putin is "a good thing, not a bad thing"?
⁉️No! There would be more photosynthesis with a warmer climate.
⁉️Like Trump thinks making friends with Putin is "a good thing, not a bad thing"?
⁉️No! There would be more photosynthesis with a warmer climate.
🏆That one could win an award from the "I'm not a scientist, but [insert your own blithering idiotic statement that attempts to negate all science.]"
#ClimateChangeIsReal
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