Storm Lake Times Endorses O'Brien

By the Storm Lake Times

O"Brien has her first endorsement! Also, her TV ads look great.

O’Brien is subject of lies
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We did not care who the next Iowa Secretary of Agriculture would be, until we caught an ad this week sponsored by Republican candidate Bill Northey. It attacked Democratic candidate Denise O’Brien as not sharing “Iowa values.” It also attacks her for attending a fundraiser with “animal rights activists” in California.
 
We support Denise O’Brien for the job, based on that stupid and dishonest ad.
 
It’s time to put a stop to the lying. Denise O’Brien is a farmer, former president of the National Family Farm Coalition, a wife and mother, a lifelong resident of Cass County in western Iowa, hard-working, pleasant, dirt under her fingernails type of person. At that fundraiser, O’Brien was promoting Iowa pork which was served at the supper! Now how does that jive with the animal rights code-words?
 
We don’t know what Northey means by Iowa values, but by our definition he lacks them. Chief among Iowa values is honesty. The sort of dishonesty Northey displayed in that ad disqualifies him from state office. He knows better.
 
Vote for O’Brien, and put a stop to the sort of rubbish put out by the likes of Northey.