Senate candidate woo Grundy County Republicans

    DIKE — Three of the five candidates vying for the Republican nomination to face Bruce Braley (D - Waterloo) in the upcoming race to replace the retiring Tom Harkin in the United States Senate wooed Grundy County Republicans last Saturday at the annual Republican fundraising dinner.
    Sam Clovis, Scott Schaben and Matt Whitaker alternatively took shots at President Barack Obama’s policies while touting why voters should choose them to run against presumptive nominee Braley.
    “We need a senator who is not only up to the fight of taking on Bruce Braley, but also to take on Obama,” Whitaker, a former United State Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa said.
    He spoke at length about freedom and how it contracts as the government expands. He said the United States needs freedom from Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) and economic freedom.
    “The United States has fallen to 12th (worldwide) in economic freedom due to debt, tegulation and taxation,” he said.
    Whitaker added that he feels President Obama is against religious freedom and that the Second and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution are under attack.

For more of this story, see the April 3 Grundy Register.