Have You Actually Met and Interacted With Any of the Politicians You Post About?

[GOHOX69]

I have. I have met Kim Reynolds, Brenna Bird (Findley), 3XMMM, Steve King, Jim Nussle, Loebsack, Leach, Boswell and numerous sundry types.

Let me clear to all of you. No one on either side gives 2 shits about you, your morals, values and/or your existence. At the end of the day, it's all about power and self preservation and $$$$$$ regardless of party affiliation.

Same goes for peeps from other states. The only person that impressed me was Tammy Duckworth because of her helicopter injury. She's got the tail rotor from the chopper that chopped off her legs in her office. It was stark and powerful.

So if your party won, great. If your party lost, oh well. I know one thing. They are gonna be eating good on tax payer money in DC tonight. I know because I used to attend those parties as a lobbyist. Good looking young women, best steak and seafood and bodily fluids shared across party lines.

That's why I find politics funny. No one gonna give you a hot minute unless ya butter them up with $$$$.

 

[torbee]

I have interviewed:

Obama
Biden
GW Bush
Chuck Grassley
Tom Harkin
Jim Leach
Denny Hastert (ew, perv)
John Edwards (creepy, with limp, damp handshake)
John Kerry
Cheri Bustos
Lane Evans (RIP)
Bob Dole (RIP)
Kim Reynolds (ew, gross)
Dave Loebsack (he is a sack of loeb)

And worked for three years with newly-elected IL 17 Congressman Eric Sorensen (good dude)

There are also scores of state, county and municipal pols I've interviewed with as well.

I am sure I am forgetting a few. Somehow never had the opportunity to interview either Clinton, kind of wish I'd gotten to meet Bill.

 

[ConvenientParking]

Have met:

- Grassley
-FDR (faked his own death before deep state could fake it for him after the war)
-Steve King
-Pat Grassley

 

[Mayland]

I’ve met the current governor of ND, Doug Burgum, before he was involved in politics. Good dude.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

I have not met any of the ones currently holding office. I have met a former US senator and a former governor my state.

 

[GOHOX69]

Steve King was always interesting. He used have wads of useless Iraqi currency in his office. Probably fumigated it after I left. Chuckles has rotted teeth. I bet he dies of sepsis.

 

[dandh]

I've met a lot of them, but I don't post about them. Some names you might know are Jesse Jackson and Senator Paul Simon.

 

[Moral]

I was just thinking about this. Iowa elected a guy yesterday that I know as a major asshole IRL. Three of the previous politicians I have met are also self center assholes.

 

[Finance85]

Joe Scarborough when he was in the House.
I used to play pick up basketball with him at a local parish, and sat beside him on Monday morning flights.

 

[JMNSHO]

I met Chuck Grassley at the Orlando convention center during the 2005 Cap1 bowl festivities. We were waiting in the lobby and an elevator door opened up right next to us. Out comes Chuck, he locks onto us immediately for some glad-handing. The guy had a long fresh drip of blood running from the corner of his mouth down his chin and throat. At the time we figured he had just cut himself shaving. 20/20 hindsight allows me to realize he had instead been ritualistically drinking blood with the rest of his elite satanic buddies. Schrodinger’s razor supports my analysis.

 

[Ree4]

I was just thinking about this. Iowa elected a guy yesterday that I know as a major asshole IRL. Three of the previous politicians I have met are also self center assholes.

Seems to be a general qualification for higher office.

 

[ConvenientParking]

Steve King was always interesting. He used have wads of useless Iraqi currency in his office. Probably fumigated it after I left. Chuckles has rotted teeth. I bet he dies of sepsis.

I didn't actually "meet" Steve King as much as stand next to him at the Clay County Fair where they were airing the Iowa-ISU football game in 2014 (this was an awful, no good, very bad game). Steve was openly rooting for overtime. The crowd was heavily ISU, I would have respected him for going with or against the crowd. But he rooted for overtime.

 

[Moral]

I didn't actually "meet" Steve King as much as stand next to him at the Clay County Fair where they were airing the Iowa-ISU football game in 2014 (this was an awful, no good, very bad game). Steve was openly rooting for overtime. The crowd was heavily ISU, I would have respected him for going with or against the crowd. But he rooted for overtime.

He was rooting for more football. I can respect that, and it really makes me wonder what else he might be right about. I'll have to reconsider his position on minorities.

 

[GOHOX69]

He was rooting for more football. I can respect that, and it really makes me wonder what else he might be right about. I'll have to reconsider his position on minorities.

As my ex gf's white father (she too was pale) used to say to me, you're not white, but you're acceptable. The read between the lines was that his daughter was not on an interracial porn site.

 

[torbee]

He was rooting for more football. I can respect that, and it really makes me wonder what else he might be right about. I'll have to reconsider his position on minorities.

He probably just wants to see more football player calves. Dude has a thick calf fetish (NTTAWWT).

For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another hundred out there who weigh a hundred and thirty pounds—and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling seventy-five pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

Steve King and the Case of the Cantaloupe Calves

Why is Congressman Steve King so fixated on the bodies of high-school graduates who were illegally brought to the United States as children?

www.newyorker.com

 

[Hawki97]

I'm still trying to wipe the slime off of my meeting with Kimmie. Chucky was a decent dude. Shook Ronald's hand back in the 80's. Loebsack like to chat it up on his flights back home from DC to CID in ORD.

That's all I got.

 

[ConvenientParking]

He was rooting for more football. I can respect that, and it really makes me wonder what else he might be right about. I'll have to reconsider his position on minorities.

He was afraid of me. He could tell I was an Iowa fan because of when I folded my arms. I am taller and have way bigger muscles and he was afraid of me or he would have rooted for Iowa State.

 

[SL Hawk Fan]

I was drinking buddies with Rodney Davis back in the mid-nineties, when he was involved with state politics but not a politician himself.

 

[SL Hawk Fan]

Bumping for no reason

 

[ping72]

Trump

💩

 

[millah_22]

Ron Wyden's the man.

 

[lucas80]

Chuck, but that was 35 years ago, sadly. Even then he counted visiting a high school classroom as one of his 99 county check offs, even though he had a captive, intimidated audience. RIP, Dale Hibbs.
MMM, at tail gates in IC. She seemed normal then, but sold out. Weird that she’s going all hate in the LGBTQ community when her very gay cousin was at those tail gates. She probably avoids those, now.
Jim Leach. He was friends with the owners of the restaurant I worked at in college and dropped in several times.
Loebsack. I talked to him several times at my local Hy-Vee. Despite the OP’s passion, people like Loebsack and Leach prove there are good people in politics.

 

[DooBi]

I graduated with Steve Kings son. I spent the night at his house once in elementary.

 

[Aardvark86]

Son played high school hockey with sons of rand Paul and joe Crowley. Both great guys.

 

[BioHawk]

I've communicated with Kinzinger, but I've never met him in person.

 

[MR BEEBS]

I have had handshakes/short greetings with:

Harkin
Grassley
David Young
Chet Culver
Terry Branstad
Howard Dean
Bill Richardson
John Edwards
Mayor Pete

1. Every one of these were at an event or while on the campaign trail.
2. It has generally been pretty easy to meet presidential candidates in Iowa. I have successfully declined invitations to smaller events from 3 of the last 4 Presidents while they were campaigning in my area.
3. I really wish there were more young, brilliant and pragmatic politicians who won’t get corrupted by D.C. or state level power (wishful thinking). The RNC and DNC continue to own us all… and it is getting worse.
4. Embrace getting to know your local representatives. If you are able to get in direct contact with your local representatives or candidates for questions/concerns it is pretty easy to see who cares about the community and who is a fraud. I have known several of each from both major political parties on the local level.

 

[artradley]

The only politician I ever really met was Jim Leach during his first run for Congress. A friend’s neighbor had him over for a meet and greet, and because there were about six people there I was able to chat with him quite a bit. I felt he was very intelligent and a very nice guy. He also had a pretty quiet, almost boring personality. I felt he didn’t have much of a future in politics.

 

[gohawks50]

Got a haircut while Joni Ernst was getting her hair done in the same beauty shop.

 

[torbee]

Oh, forgot I also interviewed Howard Dean.

EEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! 🙂

Man that dude’s political career collapsed quickly.