Iowa Republicans will stop at nothing to avoid discussing the real issues facing this state.

Just ask Iowa’s Republican National Committeewoman Kim Lehman who thrust herself into the national spotlight by tweeting that President Obama “personally told the muslims that he IS a muslim. Read his lips.”

The GOP’s new distract and offend strategy has no place in Iowa, a state that has always valued open and honest debate, but it is unfortunately taking over their side of the aisle.

Lehman is just the latest GOP leader to make a false and incendiary claim. In the past month alone Congressman Steve King has called President Obama a “Marxist” who “does not have an American experience.” Republican legislative candidate Jeremy Walters wrote on his Facebook wall that HIV/AIDS is God’s way of punishing homosexuals. And then there’s Dave Leach, a Republican State Senate hopeful that accused his opponent of being “Iowa’s chief sodomite.”

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At the end of the day this incendiary rhetoric doesn’t help Iowa. Every week another Iowa Republican makes a statement that is an embarrassment on a national level. Meanwhile our Democratic candidates have a vision for a better Iowa and are working to make it a reality.

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With your help we will continue to discuss the real issues and real solutions for the state without resorting to incendiary and false attacks.

- Sue Dvorsky