An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890
11.07.2018 Vol. 219 No. 058
WEDNESDAY
A HISTORIC
FIRST ‘I’m proud to say that I will be the first elected female governor of this state’ BY DEVYN.LEESON @iowastatedaily.com Tuesday night, Kim Reynolds went from the first woman in Iowa to serve as governor to the first woman to be elected as governor. Reynolds, a Republican, edged out opponent Fred Hubbell winning 50 percent of the vote compared to his 47 percent. With all the precincts reporting, Reynolds lead by 39,000 votes. “I’m proud to say that I will be the first elected female governor of this state,” Reynolds said.
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Incumbent Steve King secures bid for re-election BY ISD STAFF Steve King won his fourth term as Iowa’s representative for the 4th congressional district Tuesday night. King won with 50.69 percent of the vote when the race was called in his favor at 11:35 p.m., beating STEVE KING Democratic contender J.D. Scholten, who received 46.6 percent of the vote and Libertarian Charles Aldrich, who received 2.01 percent. King, a Storm Lake, Iowa, native, has
represented Iowa in different congressional districts since 2002. He currently serves on the judiciary, agriculture and small business committees. King has made waves in recent years as a proponent of immigration reform and as a pro-life advocate. King rejected Scholten’s debate challenges leading up to the election and did not air any television campaign ads until Friday. King has come under fire recently for meeting with a far-right Austrian political party with historical ties to Nazis. This caused Purina, Intel and Land o’ Lakes to discontinue their support of King. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), who chairs the
National Republican Congressional Committee, publicly condemned King’s “recent comments, actions and retweets” as “completely inappropriate” in a tweet on Oct. 30. When Scholten called King to concede, he said he hopes the congressman will represent the district in a respectable manner. Healthcare reform has been a top issue for King. King often referred to Obamacare as a “disaster” and wants to see the program completely defunded. In turn, he would see a health care system that relied more on private insurance agencies providing care. King also supports legislation which would
allow small businesses to pool together and search for health insurance together, reducing the individual risk upon each of the businesses. In 2007, he voted ‘no’ on a bill which required the secretary of health and human services to negotiate the prices of prescription drugs with pharmaceutical companies. He’s staunchly pro-life and sponsored the Heartbeat Protection Act, which would make all abortions illegal after six to eight weeks, when a fetal heartbeat is detected. “It should be the goal of any pro-life person to end abortion,” King said in an interview with the Global Catholic Network. “Human life is sacred in all its forms, and that life begins at conception.”