Rants: “Terry Branstad is now criticizing… Terry Branstad”
“Candidate Terry Branstad is now criticizing Governor Terry Branstad’s record,” said Rep. Chris Rants, candidate for Governor from Sioux City.
Today the Branstad campaign is criticizing the Culver administration for considering a practice that the Branstad administration employed for more than a decade.
“It was a bad idea when Branstad did it, it was a bad idea when I had the showdown with Vilsack in the special session, and its still a bad idea now,” said Rants. “Between Terry and me, I’m the candidate that has demonstrated integrity and consistency on this issue.”
“Terry Branstad must have forgotten that in 1985 Governor Branstad started the practice of funding the Iowa State Patrol from the Road Use Tax Fund. Governor Branstad used this bad budget practice for eleven years as governor. During that time Branstad diverted $275,655,000 from the Road Use Fund to pay for the patrol,” added Rants.
“The practice didn’t come to an end until my first term in the legislature when people like myself made the tough decisions needed to get Iowa’s fiscal house in order,” said Rants.
From the Branstad blast email:
“This is no savings. This is a diversion from the Road Use Tax Fund, and a detour from pay-as-you-go budgeting. This is a bad budget practice that was used in the past, and as governor I put an end to it. This is a step backward, and the governor should not play budgetary shell games with our roads and Iowa State Patrol.”
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