Mike Blouin
Mike Blouin
Michael Thomas "Mike" Blouin, American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1979, representing Iowa's 2nd congressional district. He was a candidate in the 2006 race for Governor of Iowa but lost in the primary to Chet Culver...
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Chet, there you go again. I can tilt at windmills or try to make a difference. I choose to try to make a difference.
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I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.
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If we want to honestly pursue a system in which we leave no child behind, we have to reform the entire system, because we're leaving a lot of kids behind today.
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If we want Iowa to thrive ? not just survive in coming years ? but really thrive, we should establish Iowa as a health care leader and take the bold and responsible steps to protect our children.
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If you look at it on a chart, it looks like a bad week on Wall Street. We've got to find a way to reverse that.
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Children who are not covered still get sick, they still seek treatment. And the cost is dramatically higher if we ignore the problem.
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But when you're talking about replacing, expanding, renovating an existing facility, I think that has to stay in the community it came from.
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They believe I can win. They believe as governor I can work with them.
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It starts here in this building where the past collides with the future in our present struggle for where this state needs to go. It starts here and I'd like to be part of that clash as we define our future in the months and years ahead.
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It's going to take five or six years, at a minimum, to fund it properly, and it's going to take another 10 years to see outcomes.
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It was a mistake to move into these. It's a mistake to move out of them until we know what the financial consequences are for the state of Iowa. We have some exposure here and folks are kind of ignoring that issue. Do we get out of them? You bet. But we get out of it with knowledge as to what our responsibilities and liabilities are.