Joni Ernst: batshit crazy liar who wants to end the federal minimum wage and loves zygotes [View all]

[ND-Dem]

But what is surprising is that the campaign has not been much affected by a series of controversial, extreme, or just plain dumb remarks Ernst has made—and her subsequent denials that she said them.

Here are a few examples of Ernst's out-there statements:

◾Ernst has alleged that the federal government is partnering with the United Nations to force Iowans off their land and into urban cores as part of a conspiracy called Agenda 21. At a campaign event last November, she said:

All of us agreed that Agenda 21 is a horrible idea. One of those implications to Americans, again, going back to what did it does do to the individual family here in the state of Iowa, and what I've seen, the implications that it has here is moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers, and then telling them that you don't have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind, and it's bad for the United States and bad for families here in the state of Iowa.

◾At a candidate forum in January, she said that President Obama has "become a dictator" and should be impeached.

◾Meeting with business leaders in late August, she complained about the existence of federal minimum wage. Here's what she said, per the Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette:

The minimum wage is a safety net. For the federal government to set the minimum wage for all 50 states is ridiculous…The standard of living in Iowa is different than it is in New York or California or Texas. One size does not fit all.

◾She told the Des Moines Register editorial board in May that the United States really did find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

◾She said at a GOP primary debate in May that abortion providers "should be punished" and zygotes should be granted full constitutional protection if the state passed a "personhood" amendment—and in 2013, sponsored a bill in the state Senate to make that possible.

Ernst is hailed by supporters as a straight-talking candidate who will stick to her conservative principles. But throughout this campaign, she has been quick to walk away from her most bizarre statements as soon as she's challenged on them.

When asked by Yahoo News last month about her suggestion that an international cabal would relocate her constituents to Des Moines, Ernst said, "I don't think that the UN Agenda 21 is a threat to Iowa farmers...."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/joni-ernst-bruce-braley-agenda-21-conspiracy-theory


I'll make fun of her all I want. The federal minimum wage is inadequate EVERYWHERE. She's a right wing liar who never was poor a day in her life but pretends she was so she can fuck the poor by doing things like ending minimum wage.

She's a corrupt politician who, as soon as she got into minor state office, channeled government contracts to her father.

She'd be a joke if she wasn't dangerous and I can't believe people here are sticking up for her in the name of solidarity with the poor.

That's bullshit.