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Marlin "Hap" Volz Jr's avatar

Great article. Even more disgusting if that is possible is Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird;s endorsement of Donald Trump for President. How the chief law enforcement officer in the State can endorse a liar, a thief and a traitor is beyond me.

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Pat Kinney's avatar

Well, Ed, if anyone's looking for a potential consensus builder, and that person does not have to be a sitting member of Congress, Condoleeza Rice will be in Cedar Rapids a week from Friday at a fundraiser for the Hoover Historic Foundation in West Branch. She's having a conversation with "Firing Line" host Margaret Hoover. I found a 2021 article in which President Bush said he wrote Secretary Rice in for president in 2020 and told her he was going to do so. She is president of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is former Stanford provost; she apparently straightened out the university's budget and got them on firm financial footing during her tenure. At a time when Congress specifically and the country in general is facing major international issues with dual wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, it might be an opportune time to have someone with her credentials running the House and being third in line to the presidency.

A side note: She was a childhood friend of Denise McNair, one of the four girls killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmiinghame, Ala. 60 years ago last month. The secretary's father was a Presbyterian minister in Birmingham at the time.

https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/condoleezza-rice-headlines-hoover-presidential-foundations-celebration-banquet

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