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| Rep. Steve King (R), 5th district, Iowa |
The website Kingwatch has cataloged a number of reckless quotes from Steve King.
(Curiously, Kingwatch appears to include no examples of King's many homophobic remarks, of which it apparently does not disapprove. One supposes that progress can only go so far at the Progressive Democracy Corps, which funded Kingwatch.)
Here are two examples of King's heterosexual supremacist meanderings:
2009 '“We have no residency requirement in Iowa law, which means that people can come from all over this country — a man and a man, a woman and a woman — it could be, I suppose, a father and a son or a mother and a daughter,” he said. (This is utter bullshit, as Iowa does not issue marriage licenses to close relatives.)From DownWithTyranny:
2010 "So, if we lose marriage - for instance, if our children are raised in warehouses, so to speak. There have been civilizations that have tried to do that. The Spartans did that."
King is well known locally as a bigot who hates Blacks, gays, immigrants, feminists. If you have already guessed that his espoused favorite form of government would be theocracy, you have figured out Steve King. The NATIONAL REVIEW hails him as "the great right hope." The most extreme right wing member of the Iowa delegation, King's voting record is an abomination. Looking at a list of the most far right congressmen, he falls way towards the bottom of the Republican caucus, right between Steven Colbert's friend Lynn Westmoreland and Chris Chocola, Indiana's looniest — and least popular — congressman.
On October 23, 2010, the Des Moines Register endorsed Matt Campbell in Iowa's fifth district congressional race, and called Steve King an "embarrassment to the entire state."
The top 100 contributors to Steve King's successful 2010 campaign are here. Readers, take note.
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