Well, Iowa activists - Will we stand up to Grassley? Time for him to be FIRED!

[rurallib]

Letters to the editor, letters to Grassley's office, Ernst's office and your rep's office.
let them know that not doing their job as described in the Constitution itself is not acceptable.

Republicans are always talking about the private sector. Well, if Grassley was working in the private sector his ass would have been out the door this afternoon had he not been fired previously.

And his buddies need to go with him.

Personal responsibility? That's what Republicans always say. Well, Chuck just gave his bosses (us) the finger. Are we going to lay down and take it or fire this Koch sucker out of office?

[saturnsring]

1. unfortunately the constitution give no time frame for the seat to be filled - it could be a 4-4

scotus all through the next 4

[rurallib]

2. or we could fire people who refuse to do their job

and replace them with people that will do their job.

[saturnsring]

3. well they can be voted out but unless you can organize a mass migration of dems into red states

theyre not gonna be and to their supporters making dems lose IS their job. - they dont care about what the cons make the dems lose at just so long as they lose and if they screw themselves? well at least they stuck it to the dems first.

[47of74]

4. And prodding the state party to do ITS job is part of this.

Namely in getting a candidate out there to run against Grassley in the coming years, promote that candidate as much as possible, and support him or her until the end of the campaign and even past the end if it comes to a recount.

[rsdsharp]

5. Grassley is up for reelection this year

If there is a Democrat running against him I honestly don't know who it is.

Assuming he wins in November, and it's overwhelmingly likely, he would be 89 in 2022 when he would next be up for reelection. After this year there really is only one more opportunity, in all likelihood, to get a candidate to run against him.

However, assuming Braindead is still governor at the time (and he is "Governor for Life&quot I think Grassley probably retires sometime late in his next term, so that his named successor can run as an incumbent -- possibly his grandson Pat.

[Bluzmann57]

6. Who to run against him?

That is a problem. It seems that no Democrat wants to try and unseat him. I was thinking Tom Vilsack but who knows if he even wants to?

[rurallib]

7. Rob Hogg is our best bet. He's a state senator and is already in

of course name recognition is a problem.
ETA Sate senator from CR area

Tom Fiegen and Bob Krause also running.