DES MOINES – A liberal Iowa political group is attempting to shoot holes in Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s famed yearly ‘Full Grassley’ 99 County Tour, saying he skips the state’s most-populated counties.
Progress Iowa on Friday released what it calls “in-depth research” detailing Senator Chuck Grassley’s public town hall meetings since 2011. What they claim to have discovered is that Senator Grassley has not held an open public meeting as part of his annual 99 county tour in nearly all of the state’s major population centers, including no public meetings in 11 counties overall, 8 of which are among Iowa’s most populous 10 counties.
“The findings from our research into Senator Grassley’s public meetings are shocking – he has intentionally avoided hearing from the open public in most of Iowa’s largest counties,” said Matt Sinovic, executive director of Progress Iowa. “This is not just a one-year anomaly. Our research shows Senator Grassley repeatedly and consistently holding zero public events in nearly all of our most populated counties. Senator Grassley is essentially hiding from the public input of nearly half of his constituents. Senator Grassley reminds us regularly that he visits 99 counties each year, but with far too many private events and no public events in Iowa’s biggest counties, his so-called ‘full Grassley’ tour should be called the ‘fake Grassley.’”
Key findings from the report, which can be found at www.fakegrassley.com, include:
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Since 2011, Senator Grassley held just 3 public town hall meetings in Iowa’s 10 most populated counties, and held no public meetings in 8 of the 10 most populated counties:
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Polk: 0
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Linn: 0
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Scott: 2 (none since May 2012)
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Johnson: 0
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Black Hawk: 0
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Woodbury: 0
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Dubuque: 0
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Story: 0
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Pottawattamie: 1 (none since August 2011)
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Dallas: 0
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Senator Grassley has not held a public meeting in Polk, Linn, Johnson, Black Hawk, Woodbury, Dubuque, Story, Dallas, Jasper, Buena Vista, or Fayette counties, which comprise just over 45% of Iowa’s total population, according to census.gov.
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Less than half of his 99 county tour meetings are open to the public; in 2016, Senator Grassley has stated he has visited 72 counties, but just 25 of those have been public town meetings
Progress Iowa is hosting the full findings of the report on the new website www.FakeGrassley.com, which includes additional information and statistics about Senator Grassley’s travel schedules.
Grassley doesn’t think or act for himself anymore, he has become a Tea party, neo-con political hack.
Grassley should have retired a long time ago.
Grassley has been in elected office since 1959, counting back to his time in the Iowa Legislature.
That means he has been, in his own words, “living off the public tit” longer than most.
You must be a member of Progress Iowa. Ha, gotcha.
Of course they say that. They are Democrats and all they do is lie. Just look at Clinton and Obama.
You want to reference a real liar, look no further than LVS.
The old fool is a chronic liar & blowhard.
What about weapons of mass destruction? George Bush number two republican liar and con man. Most famous words mission accomplished.
Politics have become so toxic in Iowa. The public hearings this group wants are staged circuses where protesters express outrage and make pre-planned press statements. They are not true political discourse. It’s a real shame that our political divide has led us to this point.
Progress Illegals – libertard/la raza – read next story -Grassley trying to pass bill to deport drunk driving illegals – Mexican government does not like that – drunk hell -deport ALL illegal aliens and STOP the corrupt H1 Visa program -both of which a are hurting and endangering American lives and livelyhood.
All drunk drivers should be deported, regardless of nationality or origin.
Well if you had any brains you would know that Mr. Grassley is a Lead member of OUR National oversight committee and spends a lot of time at these congressional investigations involving government theft and abuse – I would have to believe this Iowa group are comprised of liberals and democrats trying to install their own corporate puppet. Not to worry about Chuck – have contacted his office more than once and always had good results – These wal mart sooth sayers are just phonies trying to get one of their owned obamma puppets into power -BS ers!
Grassley is the one that gives the impression that he has public meetings in all 99 counties once a year.
If he is too busy to actually do this maybe you should stop giving the impression that holds public meetings is all of Iowa’s countries.
That is supposed to say maybe “he” should stop giving the impression, not “you”
Time for Grassley to go! No one should be in office that long! We need term limits to eliminate the career politicians!
I don’t disagree on term limits, but Grassley is an example of a counter to that argument as an effective long serving public servent.
Term limits.