Narcisse for Iowa

Last week was an exciting opportunity to bring our campaign to towns across Iowa. In four days we visited Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Clinton, Dubuque, Waterloo, Carroll, Sioux City, Spencer, Mason City, Oskaloosa, Sigourney, Washington, Burlington. Ft. Madison, Fairfield, and Ottumwa. Details coming…

It is time for Iowa-Centered Leadership

The State of Iowa is at a crossroads:

• We have high unemployment and a stagnant economy
• We are facing record budget deficits
• We are facing massive property tax hikes
• Our once-legendary education system is struggling despite the best efforts of educators
• Our educated native sons and daughters leave the state for better, higher-paying jobs
• Our population is declining to the point that we will lose a Congressional seat
• Our economic development is hampered by archaic and dysfunctional corporate taxes

Meanwhile, our elected leaders continue to focus on issues like dove hunting and relinquishing our electoral college sovereignty while avoiding responsible action on the crucial issues facing our state.

I believe Iowa is a place worth fighting for, that Iowa values and our way of life are worth fighting for.  I will offer the honest, Iowa-centered leadership that has been missing from this state, the type of leadership that protects hard working Iowans.  I will not be afraid to take on the powerful and vested interests that currently own governance in our state.

We must reorganize state government, making it dramatically smaller and much more accountable to its citizens.  Good government can only exist in partnership with a public held accountable for individual or collective decisions.   Government must not deprive the public of precious liberties, nor of earned consequences.

The Four Pillars of My Campaign

1. World Class Plus Educational System
2. Low Tax, Free Market, Prosperous Economy
3. Small, Accountable, Efficient, Transparent State Government
4. Leading by Example a Healthy Lifestyle to Fight the Obesity Epidemic

I am strongly committed to:

• Revive small, accountable and transparent governance
• Create a tax code that doesn’t punish success, excellence, and hard work, or reward corporate welfare barons
• Restore a free market economy replacing our no-growth prison-casino-corporate welfare based economy
• Return our education system to the best in the world
• Protect local control, private property and constitutional rights like the right to be armed
• Promote a truly healthy Iowa and replace recidivism-based justice system with a restitution system

The centerpiece of my reform movement is re-establishing Iowa as the nation’s leader in public education. We need to restore excellence in education by allowing the dollars to follow our students.

Other reforms include reducing corporate and property tax rates so that we can keep existing businesses in, and attract new businesses to, Iowa.

We need an economic growth strategy based in community capitalism, urban and rural economic development, and the restoration of good, high-paying private sector jobs.

Iowa can be a leader in a health movement, demonstrating to the nation what a healthy state looks like.

Finally, a legacy of leadership must be the goal of the next administration. Iowa no longer needs a chief executive that defines his effectiveness by the size of the appropriations he secures.

Questions?  Suggestions?

• Send me an e-mail at jonathan@narciseeforiowa
• Visit my Facebook page
• Follow the campaign on Twitter

We Need Your Help!

• Running a grassroots, state-wide campaign is expensive!  Donate via Paypal (see link on right) or send a check for any amount made out to Narcisse for Iowa, c/o 813-25th Street, Des Moines, Iowa 50312
• Follow our campaign on Facebook or Twitter
• Contact Darren Douglas, Campaign Manager at 515-745-0201 or darren@narcisseforiowa.com
• Send an e-mail to volunteer@narciseeforiowa.com
• We’ll have lots more opportunities in the weeks ahead!