Schulte for Change

Thanks

2006-11-25T21:54:00.000-06:00

Thanks Joyce. You did good.
Glenn

Rejecting the culture of fear

2006-09-08T09:15:00.000-05:00

As we head into the weekend that will lead us to the 5th anniversary of one of America's darkest days, attention needs to be given to our approach to life.

If we approach life in fear, and hand over what we know is rightly ours without question, we have lost this war - for that is the goal of terrorism.

The current administration and Congressional majority have pumped and fueled the fear for 5 years too long.

Rather than leading with courage - we have been twisted by deceit.

Rather than working to ensure our safety, our money has been continually misdirected by cronyism.

Joyce Schulte urges us all to return to the roots we know to be American. With intelligence, strength and bravery, we will continue to be a beacon to the world.

Ignite Your Mind: Schulte

2006-09-01T21:04:00.000-05:00

Listen to an interview where Schulte discusses the environment, education, and more at http://www.qualitynewsnetwork.com/2006intv.htm#Iowa

One of 33

2006-07-13T21:52:00.000-05:00

It must be lonely being Steve King when even the rubber-stamp Republicans won't join your parade. After embarrassing himself on the House floor today and getting some great attention with his "electrocute the illegals" plan for border protection, he lost his valiant attempt to repeal sections of the Voting Rights Act.

In this election year stunt to rally the far-right base of their party, he only found 32 others (all Republicans) that wanted to go along in his crazy bid to strip protections for millions of voters.

Before the 390 to 33 vote to extend the measure for a quarter-century, the House defeated four amendments that would have diluted two expiring provisions and possibly derailed final passage before the November congressional elections.

Washington Post

King Yearns for Construction and Agriculture...

2006-07-13T12:52:00.000-05:00

...but gets his place and livestock wrong.

In a speech on the floor on Tuesday, King brought out some high dollar tinker toys in order to garner some more minutes in the spotlight as his appetite for attention apparently still isn't hampered by his diuretic mouth.

While taking much effort not to reach to higher levels of thought (such as Gephardt's plan in 2000 to require reasonable minimum wages with no-tariff trading partners), King blunders on with an isolationist approach of building a wall.

While he might not be a fiscal conservative for the people, he certainly is enterprising for himself, as he again plugs his construction business as being able to do the job, saying "Our little construction company could build a mile a day of this pretty easily, once you’ve got your system going."

The most astonishing part continues to be his arrogance towards anyone not like him. We continue to find out the different groups of people he doesn't like, which makes the odds high that he inherently does not like most of America. We're now beginning to find out how he would like to handle those he doesn't like: "We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time."

Mr. King, please, if you're going to do construction, please move back to Iowa, and if you're going to manage anything living, please keep it to legal livestock.

If Iraq is really safer than Washington, D.C....

2006-07-05T12:39:00.001-05:00

Then this is sound advice from a very astute reader in Iowa, courtesy of the DesMoines Register's editorial pages:

1. Congressman King should, forthwith, call for the immediate removal of all U.S. troops in Iraq. They obviously are no longer needed there.

2. Deploy those troops in the District of Columbia. Establish a secure area (call it the Red Zone while the GOP is in control; the Blue Zone when the Democrats rule), around the U.S. Capitol and downtown Washington to protect lawmakers, federal workers and K Street lobbyists from the lawlessness.

3. Name Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chief of police in Washington, D.C.

4. Appoint King as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, where he, obviously, will feel much more secure.

King continues tactics in pursuit of notoriety

2006-07-02T15:18:00.000-05:00

Yet this notoriety remains one that the majority of citizens in the Congressional 5th District, Iowa, do not desire nor deserve.

Why would someone who is responsible for representing a large population of good faithed, honest, and high-valued people spread untruths, and continue to do so in light of factual arguments to the contrary?

The only reason we've been able to come up with is megalomania. Mr. King, we didn't ask you to simply be a well known star in Washington. We asked you to take our values and bring them to Washington on our behalf.

Continuing to press unfounded assertions in an attempt for headlines is beneath us as a constituency.

It is past due to restore Iowa Quality to our Congressional representation for the 5th District.

Does King Write His Own Letters? aka Who Really Stalled Renewing the Voting Rights Act

2006-06-27T19:35:00.000-05:00

Last week Steve King spearheaded the effort to stall voting on extending the Voting Rights Act. In what should have been a time for non-partisan bickering, Mr. King decided- and in typical Rubber Stamp Republican fashion 78 others jumped right on board - to delay a vote.

Well, as they say, "More will be revealed." A little scratching at the surface reveals there might be some less-than-savory people behind the call to delay a vote on this important piece of legislation.

EPluribus Media has done a bit of digging and the dirt don't look good.

Who's Really Behind the King Letter

It now appears some questions have come to light about exactly who is behind both the King letter and the effort to shelve the renewal of the VRA. The official copy of the letter that appears on the web site of the US Congress (www. house.gov) apparently was not generated by a house member or their staff, but rather by one of the leading anti-immigration/English only advocacy groups.

The true author?

In this case it is quite possible that the actual letter that 79 Representatives put their names on was not in fact authored by one of their own, but rather by outside interests. Interests with some rather disturbing skeletons in the closet.

Hmmm.....

Given that the King letter posted at House.gov was authored by McAlpin on a computer registered to NumbersUSA, coupled with its striking similarities to McAlpins testimony, only one of two possible cases seem plausible. Either King copied his letter from ProEnglish literature almost word for word, and then asked McAlpin, or someone using his computer, to type up a copy to post at the House of Representatives website, or McAlpin authored the letter himself. In either case the letter that 79 Representatives signed to force the cancellation of the renewal of the VRA came from ProEnglish.

In fact, in the weeks and months leading up to the vote on the VRA, ProEnglish had been advocating the defeat of the bill.

....

The group is one of thirteen like-minded organizations founded by anti-immigrant advocate John Tanton. Tanton's multi-million dollar web of groups includes not only ProEnglish and NumbersUSA, but also the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR).

There is certainly more to this story. We will be watching as this story unfolds.

Also visit this good summary, Who Really Killed the Voting Rights Act

Kingly confusion galore

2006-06-23T08:04:00.000-05:00

The shock of what King believes to be right, true or fair continues to increase in direct correlation to time he spends thinking and speaking.

Nevermind his acknowledgement of how little we pay our men and women in uniform, even though this contradicts the Republican party's thinly veiled messages regarding increased military spending, which are used to tug at the heartstrings of us patriotic Americans. That increased spending is going to the contractors in deals that start in places like Charlie Palmer's. That money is never intended for those risking their lives for us - or for their families when the ultimate sacrifice is made.

But the argument about our military's low wages is convenient when it can support the erratic methods he uses to try to calm his personal fears - this time about immigrants.

And we've already discussed his confusion about whether our nation's Capital is more dangerous than Iraq - though we're still not sure if he's in compliance with DC gun law.

But he continues to walk a tightrope on the issue of protecting the Constitution. This is truly baffling and becoming somewhat hard to follow.

He states to the Des Moines Register that "My job is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,", yet this comes from a man that has sponsored legislation to repeal an amendment to the Constitution.

This comes from a man trying feverishly to alter the 14th Amendment to stop "Anchor babies" which would give other families the same opportunities he conveniently exalts when he uses his own family's history to pad his thin resume of outreach. Speaking at a naturalization ceremony, he told the new citizens, "The fact that each of you in this room made an individual choice to become an American citizen, motivates those of us who are citizens by birth to appreciate the blessings we enjoy. "

So why does he take time unraveling his party's party line on military spending only to shoot himself in his foot (hopefully outside of DC) by touting his family's immigrant past?

We'll stop there, though, since the fertility issue he raised was hopefully abolished in the early 20th century and this was just a case of tourettes; and we hope he's seeking professional help.

King's support for financial aid?

2006-06-22T10:38:00.000-05:00

King is now, conveniently, a supporter of education? I didn't really get that from his site.

UPDATE

Your tax dollars at work changed the site since about 4pm EST today, but hey, aren't you glad your money is going to pay for someone's salary?

We're glad that someone who claims to support Education (probably only when convenient) actually has any information for those seeking to better themselves (or chase skirts - jury is still out).

In all fairness (something unlikely to be granted in return), his updated page can be found here: http://www.house.gov/steveking/constit_grants_student.shtm

Is King Breaking the Law?

2006-06-22T09:02:00.000-05:00

Or is he just confused as always?

As widely reported before, King was under the misguided belief that DC was more dangerous than Iraq.

Yet, at the Iowa Republican Convention he claimed that he wanted to run out into the street (or his yard) and shoot his gun into the air. He says he stopped himself because "This time I was in Washington, DC and they frown on those kind of things, in fact you'd probably see the police come in if I did that."

That sounds like a city with a decent police force to protect its residents.

So which is it Mr. King? Is DC more dangerous or not? Maybe it's more dangerous for confused politicians such as yourself.

And moreover, do you have a gun in D.C., where there are laws against possessing a gun in the District since 77, especially for non-residents?

2006-06-21T20:42:00.000-05:00

Steve King continues his vituperative and uncivil behavior during his speech at the Iowa Republican State Convention

Creston, IA - Congressman Steve King continues his vituperative and uncivil behavior during his speech at the Iowa Republican State Convention.

Commenting on the recent death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a most reprehensible person at best, King opined that al-Zarqawi has probably learned that 72 virgins did not await him in the hell he is in. King went on to state "And if there are, they probably all look like Helen Thomas." There was extended laughter by King and his audience.

While we should not be surprised by any of King's remarks at this point in his career, his desultory comments about the appearance of a respected member of the journalistic community is so low as to evoke a response from me.

Mean-spirited remarks are beneath the dignity of any self respecting Congressperson, and remarks about another person's appearance are even lower.
I am not an apologist for al-Zarqawi, and the hell he put many people through; Muslim, Christian and unknown others. I am certain that he is getting his justice and that there is no excuse for the kind of terror he practiced. I let God be God.

I hesitate to even use Helen Thomas' name in the same document with so vile a wretch as al-Zarqawi. But I want her and the world to know that Iowans are not insensitive buffoons who make fun at someone else's expense.

2006-06-15T14:39:00.000-05:00

King's continued delusions

Apparently King is now asking to be sent home for his own safety. As he explained so confidently on the House floor this week, he and his family is less safe in DC than in Iraq.

Using incorrect numbers, either fed to him unchecked by the right wing propaganda machine he blindly follows, or creating them through some unknown algorithm, King produced "evidence" that it is safer to live in Iraq than the Capital of the free world.

We are unsure how much King truly knows of the great city he refers to as "this place", even after living there for 3 years now. On the other hand, Schulte has enjoyed many of the city's great neighborhoods during her many trips to the city to support educational and agricultural matters to Congressional members and association meetings & conventions.

Neighborhoods such as Adams-Morgan, in NW DC, with a rich global ethnic mix must put fear into the mis-understanding mind of King, since fear is so easily born from a lack of understanding. The large hispanic communities across the river in Arlington, VA must similarly keep him relegated to DC, while the poorer neighborhoods of eastern DC would leave him boxed in to Capitol Hill and the few blocks north and west of it.

This would, as the article states so clearly, leave him feeling protected, if not a bit claustrophobic. But that fear of being locked in might keep his other fears company.

2006-06-15T08:24:00.000-05:00

Schulte wins Democratic Primary!
Congratulations to Joyce and all her supporters! Now, onto a November Victory!

In the 5th CD, Joyce Schulte again picked up the nod (over Bob Chambers) to take on Steve King. Good luck with that. And speaking of the 5th CD, there were a few problems in a precinct or two and the Register has the story here.

2006-06-06T12:21:00.000-05:00

DesMoines Register Editorial: Schulte connects with challenges Iowans Face

Two Democratic candidates, Joyce Schulte of Creston and Bob Chambers of Essex, are seeking their party's nomination for Iowa's 5th District congressional seat. The winner will run in the general election against Rep. Steve King. Shulte stands out as more qualified.

She lost to King in the general election two years ago. She's running again because she wants to bring change to Congress. She's the best candidate to do that, as someone who is connected to her community and recognizes the challenges typical families face.

Read the whole editorial: http://desmoinesregister.com/...

2006-06-06T12:16:00.000-05:00

Today is the primary!

Don't forget to VOTE!

Tuesday 6 June 2006 polls close 9:00p CDT (0200 UTC)

2006-03-27T07:29:00.000-06:00

Press Release – For immediate release – March 24, 2006

Contact: Angel Head, Communications Director
Phone: 641-202-3383

Schulte to take No Break for Spring Break
Congressional Candidate going strong in Iowa’s 5th District

Creston, IA – Voters seeking a face-to-face with Congressional candidate Joyce Schulte will find her throughout the district during next week’s spring break. Schulte, who officially filed her candidacy with the Iowa Secretary of State’s office last week, has actually been running for nearly a year. She continues her drive on the campaign trail this week with stops in Storm Lake, Massena, and Dickinson and Harrison counties. Other stops will be added by the start of the tour, Monday, March 27 with full details available on the campaign website that day at www.SchulteforCongress.com.

Schulte will be making appearances at county fundraisers as well as thanking volunteers along the way who assisted in the petition drive that put her on the ballot. Iowa’s 5th District is a sprawling set of 32 counties requiring many hours of driving and much organization to qualify to be on the June 6 ballot. Schulte and volunteers from all 32 counties collected nearly 2,000 signatures, well over the 1,100 required.

Schulte will be available for interviews along her route and arrangements can be made with media outside of the route to talk about her candidacy.

Bio:

Joyce Schulte brings a lifetime commitment to family, faith and community to the U.S. Congress. Born and raised on a farm in Missouri, Joyce was widowed at age 31 and left to raise two young sons while pursuing an education. She completed an impressive education including pastoral studies, a bachelor’s degree in general studies and a masters in education.

Joyce’s studies and life experience led her to a diverse work and volunteer history that has included the mental health field, education and family farming. Joyce is currently Director of the Student Support Services program at Southwestern Community College in Creston, where she sees on a daily basis how government funding and policies can affect lives.

Joyce’s sons, Dennis, a corporate communications consultant and Carl, a Major in the U.S. Air Force are now grown and enjoying their own families. The most recent addition and joy for Joyce is a grand-daughter by Dennis.

2006-02-09T19:53:00.000-06:00

I share the thoughts that this current Congress has put our nation on a derailment path. How can any Republican worth their salt think that 1. giving away the nation's surplus, or 2. running up a huge deficit, or 3. creating the largest budget in history is conservative?

And how can anyone look back at the way this Administration has treated the Gulf Area Rebuilding Process and think "Christian" in the same breath?

I wonder how much Steve King's boys received in contracts in the Gulf Area? They certainly went south quickly. Anyone know?
MoWalker

2006-02-02T14:10:00.000-06:00

Schulte Condemns Budget Reconciliation Bill

Contact: Angel Head,
Communications Director
Phone:641-202-3383
press@SchulteForCongress.com

Joyce Schulte for Congress- A Better Choice for western Iowa

Creston, IA - Two days from now the United States Congress will take a final vote on the "Budget Reconciliation" bill S. 1932, formerly known as HR 4241, if the bill passes the House it will be a step backward for many of America's at-risk families.

Joyce Schulte, candidate for Congress in Iowa's 5th District, believes this proposed law must be stopped, "I would vote 'No' on S. 1932. Its intent is to nearly eliminate governmental support, from federal to state to county for low to middle income families over the next 5-10 years. From under funding child care assistance to cutting student loan programs to slowly drawing funding away from child support enforcement, this bill represents a disconnect between Congress and the American people."

Some numbers from S. 1932:

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Due to an $11 billion short fall in this bill, 255,000 fewer children in low-income working families would receive child care.
Federal student loan programs: The amount of funds available would be cut by $12.7 billion over five years and interest on the loans still available would be raised. This would reduce or even eliminate the ability of some poorer students to attend college.
Child support enforcement: Funding for these programs is reduced by $1.5 billion over five years and $4.9 billion over 10 years in this plan. This will result in nearly twice that amount in support payments going uncollected over that same period, most affecting low-income single mothers and their children.
Foster Care: The bill will cut $450 million over five years from Title IV-E federal assistance. This will primarily affect abused and neglected children cared for by grandparents or other relatives.
Medicaid: S. 1932 increases co-payments and premiums for patients and reduces benefits for a total of $42 billion in cuts over the next 10 years. Also for the first time states will have the ability to allow providers to deny needed medications and services to beneficiaries if they are unable to afford the co-payments. This will leave the poorest Americans, overwhelmingly children, without even basic medical care.

Schulte added, "Congress must work in the real world where the American family functions. It is a place where too often there are hard choices made about food versus medicine or day care versus welfare. S. 1932 will only increase the stress and burden on America's most at-risk families. Please join me in calling on Congress to vote 'No' on this so-called 'budget reconciliation'."

2006-01-19T08:00:00.000-06:00

Saturday, January 21, 2006: Decatur County Democrats Fundraiser

Joyce Schulte will attend Decatur County's annual Democratic Party Fundraising event the 2006 Bean Soup Supper sponsored by the Decatur County Democratic Central Committee on Saturday, January 21, 2006. The event will be held at the Barnum Community Center in Decatur City from 5:00-9:00 PM.

Please stop by to support the local democrats and say hello to Joyce.

2006-01-16T16:55:00.000-06:00

Press Release – For immediate release – January 12, 2006

Contact: Angel Head, Communications Director
Phone: 641-202-3383

Schulte to Announce Candidacy for Change in Congress
Will Return Reason and Respect to Western Iowa Representation

Creston, IA – Joyce Schulte will announce her candidacy to be Iowa’s next Congressperson from Iowa’s 5th Congressional District this Saturday, January 14 in a six-stop tour of the Western Iowa. Schulte will speak on a number of issues concerning Iowans and the American people.

Schulte talks about why she is running, "Western Iowans want and deserve to be represented by the highest possible level of integrity, compassion and knowledge in Congress. I will bring Iowa quality leadership to Capitol Hill. Iowa quality that will stop missteps like the FEMA disaster that happened after hurricane Katrina; will challenge every policy of the presidential administration to be honorable; and will not misrepresent history by hailing heroes where there are none and deriding the every day hero."

Schulte for Congress Schedule for January 14, 2006:

7:30 a.m. – Press Conference – Creston, IA – Restored Depot – Schulte will address Economic Growth

11 a.m. – Press Conference – Council Bluffs, IA – Senior Center, 7th Ave and S Main St – Schulte will address Senior Issues

12:30 p.m. – Announcement Meet and Greet and lunch – Missouri Valley, IA – (CHANGE in location) Kopper Kettle, 1961 Hwy 30 – Schulte will address why she is running for Congress

2 p.m. – Press Conference – Sioux City, IA – Sanford Center, 1700 Geneva St – Schulte will address Family Issues

5 p.m. – Press Conference – Storm Lake, IA – Storm Lake High School Commons, 621 Tornado Dr – Schulte will address Education

7:30 p.m. – Press Conference – Denison, IA – Yellow Smoke Park, Enclosed Shelter 2237 Yellow Smoke Rd. – Schulte will address Security – Event to be followed by Candidate meet and greet with supporters.

Schulte is Director of the Student Support Services program at Southwestern Community College in Creston, where she sees on a daily basis how government funding and policies can affect lives. She has a long history in the mental health field, education and family farming. A full biography will be available the day of the announcement at each location.