Josh Turek

I recognize that we need to have safe and secure borders, but we also need to have an easier pathway to citizenship for individuals that want to come here and work hard and make their communities better.

You can have both.

They're not mutually exclusive.

And so I think talking about it in a common sense way is the way forward.

I think that's where Iowans are.

I think that's where Americans are.

I don't know how to respond to that other than to say, if you want to restore Iowa to the way that we were, we were number one in public education and now we've precipitously dropped.

So we need somebody that's going to actually go out there and fight for our public schools.

And I believe public money belongs in public schools.

We had vibrant rural communities that are being absolutely decimated because of bad federal policy.

These rural communities are being hollowed out because we're only looking out for the billionaires and the large multinational corporations.

We've done nothing on small businesses.

These small communities have lost their pharmacies.

They've lost their grocery stores.

We're closing health care clinics all over the state because of Medicaid cuts, because of what Ashley Hinson has voted for there.

And now we're even closing the public schools.

These are the pillars of these rural communities.

So if he's talking about bringing Iowa back, what we need is we need prairie populace like we had for 30 years with Senator Harkin and actually policies that are going to actually help the middle class that's being hollowed out.

And that's a livable wage, affordable housing, affordable health care, drinkable water, addressing our cancer rates and addressing the corruption that we're seeing both at the state level and at the federal level.

Yeah, well, we we have the second highest rates of cancer behind only Kentucky.