Josh Turek
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931 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 21 Aug
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And then additionally, I think we need more people in D.C.
from places like Council Bless Iowa with real lived experience, both on the economics and on the healthcare side.
Because when you have lived it firsthand, you'll have a different level of fight and you'll have a different level of empathy.
And that's what we need.
We need folks that are going to go up there and fight for the people
and fight for our workers and fight for the middle class, fight for the people that can't afford, you know, to make political donations or have a lobbyist.
Yeah, for 30 years, we had the amazing opportunity to have Senator Tom Harkin as our senator from Iowa.
He was championing issues like FMLA to make sure that you've got leave.
And certainly, he is the father of the American with Disabilities Act.
And it's great because I now have a friendship with him and they say, never meet your heroes.
And he was everything and more and just an amazing human being.
And this is one of the reasons why I'm also running for this is because
For 30 years in Iowa, we had this amazing opportunity to have somebody that was really fighting for the people, fighting for the most vulnerable, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, the poor, children, you know, the schools, a true prairie populace, the same way that I define myself.
looking for a livable wage, affordable housing, affordable healthcare.
That's what he was fighting for.
And I think that this is a once in a generation opportunity that we have here in Iowa to win his seat back and that we can once again from Iowa having someone that's really fighting for the people.
It's a real farm crisis, what I'm calling a farmageddon.
Our farmers, we now lead the nation in farm foreclosures in Iowa.
It is a massive problem.
You're looking at commodities prices being upside down, and that is largely driven because of the tariffs.
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