Democrat Denise O'Brien Starved Cattle To Death

IowaPolitics.com has the press release and the PDF containing scans of the complaint of animal cruelty against the husband of Democratic Secretary of Agriculture candidate Denise O'Brien in 1987, the misdemeanor citation, and Denise O'Brien's check to pay the fine.

That looks like damning evidence to me. No wonder she wasn't Vilsack's pick.

Do Iowa Democrats really want a Secretary of Agriculture who starved cattle to death?

Maybe it's not too late for Democrats write in Dusky Terry for Ag Secretary (and Ed Fallon for Governor). After all, Gordon "The Karl Rove Of Iowa" Fischer predicted that Dusky would be in the driver's seat for the Ag job back in January.


Update: Ed Fallon sent out another email asking voters to not write him in. Further down in the email is this:

You’ve probably seen or heard ads paid for by Iowans for Agriculture promoting Republican candidate Bill Northey against Democratic candidate Denise O’Brien. These ads are a perfect example of what’s wrong with our current campaign finance system.

Iowans for Agriculture has raised and spent at least $220,000 on advertising related to the Secretary of Agriculture race. That’s more than either candidate has spent on his or her own behalf. The group has yet to file a disclosure report with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board. Simply put, the biggest spender in a race for a statewide elected office is an outside interest group, and we don’t even know where they’re getting their money. It’s just another in a long list of examples of problems with our current campaign finance system.

On top of this, Northey’s own ads against O’Brien have included some very negative, nasty and disingenuous material. See for yourself at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMnag8pCHg

Poor Ed Fallon. He seems like such a nice guy. Honest, trusting, and sensitive. I wonder what he's going to say after he finds out that Denise O'Brien starved cattle to death.


Second Update: Considering some of the comments on Krusty's post, it looks like some Democrats think starving cattle to death and animal cruelty is no big deal.

Of course they would think that way. A lot of Democrats believe that a husband has the right to starve anything to death, including his wife.

This just proves my point that Democrats care more about winning than anything else.

I can't wait to see the Iowa media's reaction to this story. Do you think the Des Moines Register, perhaps David Yepsen, will mention it in a paragraph or two on or after November 8th? It'll probably be wrapped in some article next week about so-called negative campaigning.