(Le Mars) — Democratic governor candidate Nate Boulton made a campaign stop in Le Mars Thursday afternoon. Boulton is a state senator from Columbus Junction, Iowa. He spoke before a group of 15 people about the state’s budget woes, public education, public employee pensions, mental health, and he touched on water quality.
Boulton kept telling the group that 2018 would be the year Democrats can again take over the governor’s seat. He says the current administration of Governor Reynolds, and her predecessor Terry Branstad, have made some serious errors
that the state is now beginning to pay for.
Boulton says the Branstad and Reynolds administrations were giving away massive amounts money to corporate entities to set up business in Iowa, that he says should never have been given any type of tax credit incentives, because in the long run it hurts Iowans, more than it helps Iowans.
The state senator from southeast Iowa says it is because of the state’s budget shortfalls that is also hurting the state’s, once proud stance on education. Boulton says our schools and our teachers are suffering due to Iowa’s lack of establishing priorities.
Boulton says it reaches far beyond our secondary schools, but it also hurts our colleges and universities.
The democratic governor candidate was also critical of Branstad and Reynolds for closing two state-run mental health facilities, and not replacing the facilities. He says Branstad, and now Governor Reynolds, had no plan in place as to what should happen with the many hundreds of mental health patients, once
they closed the mental health centers.
