Josh Turek
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931 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 21 Aug
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I was working, assessing and providing mobility devices like power wheelchairs for individuals with progressive conditions like muscular dystrophy
and Lou Gehrig's disease.
And over and over, we were seeing people that were just being denied, denied, denied health care.
And I thought it was fundamentally wrong.
And it found out that Iowa hadn't had a disabled member of the legislature.
One in five Iowans are disabled.
Capital wasn't even accessible.
And I thought it's got to be because of this complete total lack of representation is why we're seeing all these barriers to health care and to employment.
And so I decided to run and I went out there and
drug my wheelchair upstairs every single day, rain or shine, hot or cold, to win my first election.
I was the only Democrat to win a competitive election on the Western side of the state to win by the grand total of six votes and turned around in this most recent election.
And the two communities that I represent, Trump won Carter Lake by 18 points and won my hometown and community council bus by 10.
I was able to win my district by nearly six points.
That was 50% more over performance than any other Democrat in the state and now have taken my message of common sense prairie populism around the state because we've got a once in a generation opportunity to be able to win Senator Harkin's seat back.
He was the father of the American with Disabilities Act and it's because of senators like him and good common sense bipartisan legislation like the ADA that I've been able to win the American dream.
and now i want to go out there and fight so that the american dream continues for uh for the next generation of iowans and for americans because we're living through the second gilded age and it's the the have and the have-nots we've had people like ashley henson that are just looking out for the halves the billionaires the large corporations uh the donors and the lobbyists and we need more people like myself that are going to go out there and fight for the more vulnerable folks
I think they're spending a lot of time with the bureaucratic billionaire farmers in DC and not enough time with farmers in Iowa.
What I can tell you is in Iowa, every single place that we're going, we're hearing farmers that are terrified.
I mean, it is a scary place to be a farmer in Iowa right now.
It is what I'm calling a farmageddon.
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