Josh Turek
speaker
931 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 21 Aug
Josh Turek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She didn't support the ACA subsidies.
119,000 Iowans see their healthcare premiums double or triple.
Four times she voted in favor of the tariffs that have led us to this farmageddon and this second farm crisis and is now 10 times more wealthy in her time in DC after not supporting initially a ban on stock trading.
Iowans are fed up.
Sure.
I'm a state representative, Josh Turek.
I'm one of the first permanently disabled members of the Iowa legislature.
The Iowa Capitol wasn't even accessible when I first ran.
I'm born and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Working class family in a working class community.
And my family, we went to the Goodwill for clothes.
We shared clothes, had the wrong color lunch tickets.
I was born with a disability.
I was born with a condition called spina bifida.
It's due to my father's exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.
So I had my first surgery at one day old.
I had 21 surgeries by the time I was 12.
Thankfully for me, I found wheelchair basketball because wheelchair basketball is able to get a college education.
and went on to win, to be in four Paralympic games, won back-to-back gold medals representing the USA in wheelchair basketball.
I've been a director of a nonprofit organization for disabled kids and got involved in politics four years ago because we were seeing the privatization of Medicaid was leading to a thousand percent increase in denial rate.
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