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Omaha Steve

(99,741 posts) Tue Jan 13, 2015, 12:21 AM Jan 2015

CNN: Iowa Senator Joni Ernst adjusting to life in Washington ("Chopper! Sic balls!" )

http://wqad.com/2015/01/12/iowa-senator-joni-ernst-adjusting-to-life-in-washington/

(CNN) — Even in celebrity-obsessed D.C., too much attention can be a bad thing.

So as Congress got back to work last week, two freshman stars — Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst and Utah Rep. Mia Love — were trying to figure out how to navigate the spotlight, and in some cases, duck it. Ernst, a conservative favorite, is the first woman to represent the Hawkeye State in the Senate while Love is the House’s first black female Republican.

Joni Ernst photo from her campaign website

Ernst, a political unknown who rose to fame in 2014 with an ad promising she could cut pork in Washington because of her experience castrating hogs on her family farm, has signaled her media strategy by declining interviews since her election from anyone other than Iowa outlets.

“What we really want to do is focus on Iowa,” she told the Des Moines Register.

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CNN: Iowa Senator Joni Ernst adjusting to life in Washington ("Chopper! Sic balls!" ) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2015 OP

Is she The Great Castrator moondust Jan 2015 #1

The Great Pork Chopper is quickly going to learn something about pork jmowreader Jan 2015 #2

moondust

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1. Is she The Great Castrator

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Jan 13, 2015, 01:48 AM

Jan 2015

who'll be cutting all the pork from farm subsidies?

jmowreader

(50,566 posts)

2. The Great Pork Chopper is quickly going to learn something about pork

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Jan 13, 2015, 07:26 AM

Jan 2015

PORK (n): government spending not going to your own district.

The easiest example is the Gravina Island Bridge - Sarah Palin's infamous Bridge to Nowhere. To all but 14,000 Americans (plus the small handful of Lower 48'ers who understand this project) the Gravina Island Bridge is a prime example of government waste. To the people who'd really like to be able to DRIVE to the Ketchikan Airport - which is on an island a mile offshore because that was the only place to put it - or live on Gravina Island but don't want to spend $17 a day to get to work, it's a fine example of the things government should be doing.

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