GOP Candidate Quits Iowa Senate Race to Become Senator of Alternative Government
Iowa City's Randi Shannon, who was the official Republican candidate on the ballot for Iowa Senate District 34, thanked her fellow Ron Paul supporters in announcing she's left the race to become a senator with the "original government."
For months, Randi Shannon has been campaigning in an important Iowa Senate race, telling people why as the GOP-preferred candidate she's a better choice than Democratic incumbent Liz Mathis to represent Linn County's District 34. Shannon has now decided not only that she was the better candidate, but also that she has found a better government, and she dropped out of the race to become "senator" for the "Republic of the United States." A businesswoman who owns Iowa Auto Glass among more than a dozen other businesses, according to Shannon, she could not bring herself to work for "the corporation" as she describes the current legal status of the U.S. government, the one most people are familiar with. "I don’t see running for state senate in …
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mike westman
5:58 am on Wednesday, August 8, 2012
I am sorry you have to feel the way you do.......I grew up in a Calvinist environment and learned about self reliance and the power of the individual.....I also realize that govt. taken to extremes will power itself over the individual.......But....when the individual stands out and proclaims his individualism above the needs and function of the society as a whole....then he...the staunch … more ›