Statement on Brenna Bird welcoming Kash Patel to Iowa
Bird prioritizes building her national profile and defending the Trump administration instead of being an independent watchdog for Iowans
DES MOINES, IA – Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart released the following statement today as Brenna Bird is set to welcome disgraced FBI Director Kash Patel to Iowa:
“Brenna Bird has repeatedly failed to be the independent watchdog Iowans need. Now, she’s once again cozying up to the Trump administration and trying to raise her national profile by welcoming Kash Patel to Iowa. Patel has grossly mismanaged the FBI as its director, including using government resources for lavish personal trips, demanding political loyalty from staff, and prematurely revealing sensitive information on national security investigations. Like Patel, Brenna Bird has been more focused on using her position and taxpayer dollars to push her own extreme political agenda instead of protecting Iowans.”
As Attorney General, Brenna Bird has repeatedly used her office to push an extreme political agenda and defend the Trump administration. She has joined dozens of partisan political lawsuits across the country and recently approved handing over Iowans’ personal voting information over to the federal government, a move other states led by both Republicans and Democrats have successfully stopped across the country.
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