Diminished Clout for NW Iowa??

Oh, Lord - please save us from the Sioux City Journal!

A recent editorial in the Journal whines about the "diminished clout" that northwest Iowa and Sioux City will have in state government because Bob Vander Plaats (!) wasn't elected Lt. Governor of Iowa. Oh woe is us.

It appears to me that we were SAVED by the election of Chet Culver, and by electing Democratic majorities to the Iowa House and Senate. We have been FREED from the twisted republican-Machiavellian dealings of Christopher Rants and will now have a legislature that actually works. Rants was famous for his "my way or the highway" style of "leadership" that eliminated any voice other than his own. This perversion of leadership brought Iowa some badly thought-out legislation.

PLUS - we have TWO new Democratic members of the U.S. Congress from Iowa. If only we can be rid of Iowa's great embarrassment, Steve King, in 2008.

Positive Change in 2007
Here in Sioux City, Rep. Roger Wendt was named Chairman of the House Education committee, and Rep. Wes Whitead was named Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs committee. And as previously mentioned, Senator Steve Warnstadt is the new Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.

Lack of clout for NW Iowa? I'd say we've been freed from bully-boy Rants and given real leaders in the Iowa legislature. It's time for Rants to fade into the woodwork and let the Democrats show what real leaders can accomplish for Iowa.