Posted on 10/25/2015 5:59:44 AM PDT by bob_denard
Latino activists in Sioux City are gathering signatures to protest Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s upcoming appearance at a local school. Trump is scheduled to rally supporters at Sioux City West High School Tuesday evening after school hours.
A former student at West, Francisco Valadez, launched the petition drive. He calls Trump a “bully” for his attitudes against immigrants and says he doesn’t belong in Iowa schools. But the Sioux City Schools Superintendent Paul Gausman says the district followed school board policy in agreeing to rent West High to the Trump campaign.
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Get out of my country valadez.
FMCDH(BITS)
Ironic that they call Trump a “bully,” then try to bully the school system into denying him space.
When I refer to Iowans in general as the "booboisie," I'm not just recycling a Menckenism because I find it humorous. Iowans have been dumbed-down and beat-up since Harold F'ing Hughes became governor. Would a state with a majority of sentient beings make Tom Harkin a sentaror-for-life? Would a state of informed voters elect Tom Vilsack and then follow him up with Chet Culver, only to pull Terry Branstad out of well-deserved retirement to forestall a third Democrat in a row? No. A state full of easily-manipulated cattle would, though… and the most gullible livestock in the state forms great herds in places like Iowa City and Dubuque, where academia makes sure that young cattle learn to stay in their stalls while making fun of the livestock out in the meadow.
Ben Carson is the "anti-Trump du jour" for a GOP-e who knows very well what they are doing; they have finally settled down from their panic and are methodically coordinating their attacks. In addition to being a very convenient tabula rasa which the uninformed can place on a pedestal (much as Obama was presented), his magical storybook career in medicine makes him the natural choice of safety-pin Iowa Republicans who are secretly fed up with politicians but who don't want to offend anyone by supporting that "vulgarian" Trump.
IMHO, Carson is now pulling votes mostly from people who don't know a damned thing about him other than he got praise from the right for his prayer breakfast declaration, the fact that he's a celebrity neurosurgeon (and "best-selling author"), and he isn't Donald Trump. That's all the Club for Growth and the UCCofC and the GOP-e need from him… for now.
Mr. niteowl77
Iowa is more conservative now than when you grew up.
I think he's using this run as a way to become known and run for Senator...I don't think he expects to beat Trump and he won't, don't care what the pacs are doing, Trump got more money than they'll ever have...and then when Carson is sitting there thinking he'll go for Senator because every one knows me, with this lose, he won't get it...
I would respectfully disagree, although I will grant you that there have been one or two improvements since I was in short pants (such as "shall-issue" CCW… and oddly enough, Chet Culver wasn't a link sausage in that particular punchbowl).
Mr. niteowl77
I think a lot of people (not necessarily you) confuse conservative lifestyles with conservative politics, especially when looking at the past
A ‘conservative’ Democrat like Harry Truman began promoting federally funded ‘national health insurance’ almost as soon as he became President.
Has Trump got a position on IMMIGRANTS ? I heard what he said about ILLEGAL F’N ALIENS, but the two are as different as chalk and cheese.
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