Ralph Reed: Give me $500,000 and we’ll take back Iowa
Iowa Independent's Jason Hancock reported on last night's Iowa Christian Alliance event. The keynote was GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum. But perhaps the most telling speech was given by former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed.
The scandal-ridden Reed laid out his plan to elect anti-gay officials from governor to the statehouse to school boards.
From the Iowa Independent:
Ralph Reed: Give me $500,000 and we'll take back Iowa
Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition and a veteran Republican strategist, told a Des Moines crowd Tuesday night that he was helping establish an Iowa-based Christian political organization, and if he could raise $500,000, Hawkeye State politics would be changed for the better.
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After years in the spotlight, Reed’s political career collapsed in 2006 after his work with and close ties to Jack Abramoff — the disgraced Republican lobbyist who is still in prison for his illegal activity — were revealed. He began his political comeback last summer when he started the national group Faith & Freedom Foundation. He is also widely considered to be mulling a run in Georgia’s open 7th congressional district.
But Tuesday, his focus was on Iowa and the new organization he was hoping to fund, an organization that will have some relationship with the influential Iowa Christian Alliance.
“We’re not going to leave the express advocacy during an election to the radical left, MoveOn.org and labor unions anymore,” he said. “We’re going to do it, and we’re going to get people who share our values elected to office, from governor all the way down to the statehouse and school boards all across the state of Iowa.”
