The next question is about King's stance on ag-gag laws. These are laws that prohibit the undercover photography of animal cruelty in concentrated feeding operations. Questioner is torn; he wouldn't let strangers skulk around his business, but some of the animal cruelty is awful
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I would especially like to point out the cross-cutting issues brought up at this event that don't break cleanly on party lines: marijuana legalization (and hemp production), health care access in rural places, free trade, renewable energy, and of course immigration policy.
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Thank you for enduring this long thread! My sole request is, please don't reply to this thread with political opinions; we probably share them, no one will convince anyone here on Twitter if we don't, and it makes the discussion tiresome.
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You might also be interested in seeing the (very good!) political ad that King, one of the worst fundraisers in Congress, dusts off and re-runs every four years. I think of King's lack of fundraising as another manifestation of his intellectual vanity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWCXEgv5miE …
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One footnote to this event: there was a town hall with Joe Biden in Mason City earlier that morning, where press nearly outnumbered attendees. But no national reporters came to Steve King's town hall that afternoon, six miles away, though it was politically far more interesting
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The event was instead covered by the Iowa local press. Iowa has some of the best regional and local reporting in the country, and events like this highlight why it is so vital to keep local journalism alive.https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/in-town-hall-steve-king-touts-opening-up-trade-says/article_0587e778-1bbb-5aec-acf1-d9d1db6567aa.html …
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