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Chuck Grassley: 25 Years Since 9/11

Chuck Grassley: 25 Years Since 9/11

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, patriotism ran high as Americans stood shoulder to shoulder in sadness and solidarity. People from across the country pitched in to help, including Iowa’s Musco Lighting. Two mobile lighting trucks left Oskaloosa that very day, heading for the Pentagon. Workers from the lighting company were on another job in Rhode Island and were on site in Lower Manhattan within hours of the attack. Musco Lighting crews spent months at Ground Zero, delivering light during one of our nation’s darkest moments. At the request of the New York Fire Department, an American flag was raised on the boom of one of its trucks as a beacon of hope and patriotism.

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Rob Sand Is Running Against Des Moines Insiders. His Whole Career Has Been One

Rob Sand Is Running Against Des Moines Insiders. His Whole Career Has Been One

Newsweek caught him back in 2008 as a former Deaniac, tracing his political awakening straight back to writing Howard Dean a check in 2004 — a caucus he skipped that year to model menswear in Milan, of all things — before caucusing for Obama and telling the magazine he was “more excited about Obama than I was about Dean.” An outsider doesn’t have a Dean-to-Obama origin story. A lifelong Democrat does.

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