Iowa

47of74

(18,470 posts) Sun Jul 28, 2019, 04:58 PM Jul 2019

Joni is a fucking idiot

She wants to move Federal agencies away from the DC area now

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, reintroduced a bill last week that would allow — and almost ensure — the exodus of federal agencies from the nation’s capital.

The SWAMP (Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement) Act would strip a slice of U.S. Code that requires federal agencies be located in Washington, D.C., according to a release from Ernst.

The act also would establish a competitive bidding process for states to try and win agencies away from the capital. The Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense and all other national security-related agencies that must be close in proximity to lawmakers would be excluded.

“Washington-based federal agencies and bureaucrats make important decisions that impact the lives of Iowans and all Americans,” Ernst said in the release. “Yet, how can these rule-makers fully consider and understand the effects of their decisions when those who are most impacted by their rules and regulations are out-of-sight and out-of-mind?”

You know Joni that as Ms. Rosenberg said you're not going to get your most talented people to relocate to Bum Fuck, Idaho when their lives and families and spouses with more lucrative jobs all live in the DC area.

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Joni is a fucking idiot (Original Post) 47of74 Jul 2019 OP

No argument can be made on this point. eom guillaumeb Jul 2019 #1

She has turned out to be a complete embarrassment. madaboutharry Jul 2019 #2

Joni is a fucking idiot sitting on $3.4 million cash on hand to get her reelected. IADEMO2004 Jul 2019 #3

You and I agree on that - how do we get another million Iowans rurallib Jul 2019 #4

I'm not against the idea. but the wrong ppl want it for the wrong reasons. Kurt V. Jul 2019 #5

This is the GOP plan ala Sonny Purdue bronxiteforever Jul 2019 #6

As a practical matter federal agencies are already scattered all over the US. Thomas Hurt Jul 2019 #7

Libertarian bushwa. marble falls Jul 2019 #8

"The SWAMP (Strategic Withdrawal of Agencies for Meaningful Placement) Act" LuckyLib Jul 2019 #9

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

1. No argument can be made on this point. eom

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Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:04 PM

Jul 2019

madaboutharry

(41,287 posts)

2. She has turned out to be a complete embarrassment.

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Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:14 PM

Jul 2019

Remember when she was first elected and she was suppose to be the next great thing for the republican party?

She has proven herself to be vapid and moronic and nothing more than a hack.

IADEMO2004

(5,853 posts)

3. Joni is a fucking idiot sitting on $3.4 million cash on hand to get her reelected.

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Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:16 PM

Jul 2019

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/joni-ernst-campaign-financing-fundraising-election-2020-iowa-senate-race-20190712

Joni for Iowa, the first-term Republican’s campaign organization, raised $1.1 million in the second quarter to give her nearly $3.4 million cash on hand more than a year before the 2020 election.
At $3.4 million, Ernst has the largest cash on hand total of any Iowa candidate in recent history at this point in cycle, her campaign said.

That follows on first-quarter fundraising of nearly $1.7 million, which the campaign said was the largest January-through-March reporting period fundraising total in an off-year of an Iowa election cycle.

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She never uses her brain. Garbage in garbage out.

rurallib

(63,150 posts)

4. You and I agree on that - how do we get another million Iowans

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Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:18 PM

Jul 2019

to join us? She has essentially occupied an office and down a big paycheck for 6 years and that is it. Yet she has high approval basically because no one hears anything bad about her - in her case no news is good news.

She and Reynolds are two of the most worthless politicians I have seen in my lifetime.