I liked her while she was campaigning, but I'm seeing another power-mad RINO in the making...or finally being revealed.
Opinions? Are Iowans happy with Joni?
Well the important thing is that she remembers to put her career before her husband and family. Now she can SOAR without a family to bog her down.
Probably better off without her. If she will put her career above her family, I doubt we could count on her when we need her to put America above her career.
Sounds like shes dedicated to expediency.
Divorce should be a private matter.
“I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher out of concern for Gail and our family,” she added.
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Sucks to be you. Your marriage maybe fell apart because your husband is probably still really pissed off that his Daddy named him Gail. That’s gotta sting.
It would have been another instance of Trump hiring the exact wrong person for any given job.
Not particularly thrilled with Pence either.
It’s really annoying how he will just start randomly. Ending. Every. Word. With. A. Period.
I’m sure DJT interviewed others, too so Joni is not that special.
I don't know why anyone (even including lawyers) thinks this belongs in a public record or in divorce proceedings. Just say "irreconcilable differences" and that should be enough for the judge. Move on with your lives separately if you can't move on together, but don't air your dirty laundry in public. Out of respect for the love I hope they used to have, they should be respectful of each other even during divorce.
Note: I have no opinion on Joni Ernst.
Why do GOP divorce details always seem to make the news?
I wouldn’t read too much into statements made during divorce proceedings, especially when it sounds like the husband is angling for alimony.
WHY the HELL is this PUBLIC?? NO DIVORCE PAPERS SHOULD BE!
Thank God.
Describing a ‘career’ in ‘public service’ in terms of ‘soaring higher’ is indicative of what’s wrong with politics. Iowa is a ‘no fault’ divorce state. It wasn’t necessary for either of them to trash the other publicly.
Gail Ernst was career Army and quite a bit older than Joni.
Her voting is a little more conservative than I expected, but it’s pretty clear she’s got Potomac fever. Iowans seem comfortable with her, but she’ll face a serious challenge if the Dems don’t nominate a crazy.
VP? I doubt she was under serious consideration. No background. Trump team may have flattered her in order to help get her support.
Divorce is a public record everywhere? Question is, why does the media think that this is news? Oh, never mind...
GW Bush in a skirt.
No thanks.
Democrats flipped two of Iowa’s four congressional seats last November. I don’t know what it means for Ernst’s re-election run but depending on who the Democrats nominate it can’t have made it any easier.
Yea, she must be trying to out-do Corey Gardner, a sure loser in 2020.
From someone who’s been divorced twice I have two comments:
1. Joni’s lawyer did not have to put those statements in their filings and, under normal circumstances, would not have without her approval. Those statements would have cost her my vote were I an Iowan.
2. From Iowa to the glitter of DC? I agree with another Freeper who said he thought she had Potomac fever. Family is far more important long term and she will not find “more” happiness in extended families in her remaining years on this earth.
“I continued to make sacrifices and not soar higher out of concern for Gail and our family,” she added.
It seems to me that someone will always get the short-end of the stick in these arrangements. One or the other partner or the family will take a back seat to the others.
It's human nature. Probably a bridge too far to try and manage two successful careers that demand too much time and still raise a family of children who have constant needs to be attended to.
Somebody's not going to end up being happy in these arrangements by design.
The Democrat alternative to replace Harkin was a standard issue liberal asshat, whose name escapes me now. Total twatwaffle, so we dodged a bullet there. That’s not saying a hell of a lot, still a “win”.
Republicans in general are way, way too squishy and weak on matters of import. They have absolutely no clue what it’s like out here in the cheap seats. I would expect she will reliably fold when the chips are down simply because that’s what Republicans do, that’s their job, apparently.