The gay-marriage issue that Republicans see as a hot button to push in 2010 races isn’t so controversial, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver contended in his Sioux City stop this week as part of a five-day swing through the state to officially launch his re-election campaign.
Democrat Culver cited a lot of projects and endeavors from his three-plus years as governor, including raising the minimum wage, making preschool more accessible and helping bring the state back from the 2008 floods in eastern Iowa. Culver didn’t reference the topic of same-sex marriage arriving in the state in April 2009 after an Iowa Supreme Court ruling, so I asked him.
The three Republicans seeking the party nomination to take on Culver in November have varying ways they’d like to push aside the gay marriage ruling. Sioux City management consultant Bob Vander Plaats says he’ll issue an executive order to overturn the ruling, State Rep. Rod Roberts of Carroll says he’ll veto bills that come down the pike before the (now Democratic-controlled) Legislature provides for a referendum for Iowans to vote on a constitutional amendment to return to traditional marriage and Terry Branstad said he wants that referendum to happen too.
Full Story from the Sioux City Journal
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