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Iowa

rurallib

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5. Was talking to a state senator last week and told her

Reply to IADEMO2004 (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 2, 2019, 08:10 PM

Apr 2019

that Iowa which was once viewed as a fairly common sense type of state is now viewed as a backwater of civilization fighting with Mississippi and Alabama for the bottom.

She asked me why and I listed pretty much what you posted there. Pretty much all of that except the radio has happened since the Return of the Branstad.

He took the fucking Republican sledgehammer to our state and walked away. And left us as a backwater state.

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Was talking to a state senator last week and told her rurallib Apr 2019 #5

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