| Des Moines, IA – Cory Booker barnstormed Iowa this Memorial Day weekend on a four day RV tour of the state where he outlined his plan to protect reproductive rights and assessed the damage in communities devastated by the recent flooding. Throughout the weekend, Cory visited 11 counties, traveled over 800 miles and held multiple public events, including a round table discussion with women impacted by Planned Parenthood clinic closures across Iowa.
In living rooms, back yards, union halls and community centers, Cory connected with nearly 1,800 Iowans, capping off the tour with a neighborhood barbecue at Cory 2020’s Iowa Headquarters.
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Mr. Booker did get one small-dollar boost on Saturday. While touring the flood damage in downtown Muscatine, Mr. Booker was stopped by two local farmers, Garry and Carolyn Reid. They farm 20,000 bushels of corn and soybeans per year, and said they had lost 85 cents per bushel as a result of Mr. Trump’s trade war.
Since then, Mr. Reid said, the federal government deposited $200 into their bank account from an emergency fund. So Mr. Reid, 83, took $25 from that and donated it to Mr. Booker’s campaign.
“You have no idea how much this encourages me,” Mr. Booker said.
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The smoke from torches warded off bugs from the nearby Mississippi River as several dozen Iowans sat on a patio to hear the candidate. Booker spent 18 minutes giving a stump speech that built from easy-going humor into an emphatic sermon about his hopes for the country.
“We can be the nation that, as a prophet from the Scripture says, is a light unto all nations,” he declared. “I believe that, and I know the one way to achieve that is not by dividing this country against itself, but by uniting this country in the cause of justice and shared prosperity.”
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Preferring to run a campaign based upon what he supports rather than what he is against, Booker told the Newton Daily News on the way to his RV that his strategy is not based upon who he is trying to beat but rather who he and his team are fighting for.
“Obviously I’m in this to be the next President of the United States, which means removing him from office,” Booker said. “OK, now that we started with that, let’s go on to talk about what I want to try to do for the nation as President of the United States, what we can do together. Which is even more important. And that’s what I want to make this campaign about.”
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Alisa Meggitt, of Iowa City, was impressed that Booker would come to Iowa and challenge corporate agriculture.
“It’s 25% of our economy, but it’s our biggest problem environmentally,” she said. “That he would broach that here is courageous.”
Booker’s message was enough to convince Kim Mangers, of Dubuque, to change from the primary candidate she had been supporting.
“I’ve been to all of these candidates who’ve come to Dubuque,” she said. “This was it. I could see the compassion in him. More, I could feel that he’s a man who can get something done.”
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Addressing a jam-packed room of potential supporters at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 13 union hall, Booker said his presidential bid isn’t about defeating Trump, but about standing up for fellow Americans and standing up for what’s right. In an impassioned speech, women’s rights were among the causes he said should be stood behind.
“What does it mean to live in a nation where we stand up for each other?” Booker asked the energetic crowd. “It means when they’re coming after women and their reproductive rights and their contraceptive care and the organizations like Planned Parenthood that we don’t just sit on the couch and watch what’s happening, that we stand with women, we fight with women. We ensure that everyone in this country has the ability to control their own bodies and make their own healthcare decisions.”
MUSCATINE JOURNAL: Sen. Booker talks flooding, farming, building Dem. party in Muscatine
While on a walking tour of downtown Muscatine, the New Jersey senator, and former mayor, took a moment to pick up and throw away a crushed can as local officials described impacts of recent near-record flooding on businesses. Mayor Diana Broderson and Councilman and chair of the county Democrats Kelcey Brackett said the Mississippi River had been in flood stage for the longest number of consecutive days on record and that affected business downtown. The group met with small-business owners who said though their buildings didn’t get wet, the flood closing key routes in the area limited the number of consumers visiting downtown.
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