Iowa gubernatorial candidates on the attack - KTIV NewsChannel 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and Sports
Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats has run for governor three times since Branstad left office. He says that experience, and his grass-roots network in all 99 counties, will help him win.
"Is this gonna be about we who have the power and want to anoint a candidate, or we the people who want to select our candidates? And, I put my faith in we the people," remarked VanderPlaats.
"It's not about Terry Branstad. It's about each candidate standing up and saying why my vision is the right one for Iowa," said Cedar Rapids businessman Christian Fong'.
His vision is ambitious, with plans to secure growth in all 99 counties, reverse "brain drain"-- the trend of kids leaving Iowa after graduation, and phase out Iowa's income tax, all by the year 2020.
The bottom line for all six men is to beat Chet Culver in 2010.
