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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We live in a competitive world with states and countries that will beat our brains in if we don't have the ability to compete.
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The statement we're trying to make tonight transfers the difference we have in this primary.
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Every student should have the educational opportunities available to them so that they can enthusiastically pursue any career opportunity they might be interested in. And then we need to create those career opportunities in Iowa so that they have the opportunity to live out their educational interests between our rivers.
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You can have the most state?of?the?art facility, but if you don't have the staff there to deal with it, you're not addressing the real safety issues.
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I don't think you dismiss out of hand an independent, nonpartisan report from an entity that's looked and used the same factors to grade all 50 states as something that's totally erroneous.
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I believe this is an area where we can be bold, work collectively, and make a dramatic difference in the quality of life of all Iowans.
I'd like to find a way to do that.
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She has the right experience and the right values to help me move the complex and broken system of health care.
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Much of the talk has been about enhancing high school kinds of offerings. That's way too late.
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We're talking about people who have been left behind (and) ignored by the Nussle budget.
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We need to get back to the basics in elementary school. Without that, the enhanced curriculum in junior and senior high school will reject more students.
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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.