Findley, Jamison Speak at Conservative Breakfast

GOP candidates Brenna Findley for Attorney General and Dave Jamison for State Treasurer both spoke Tuesday morning at the Conservative Breakfast Club in Des Moines.

Dave Jamison has been the Story County Treasurer for twenty-eight years and recently traveled twenty-eight counties announcing the launch of his campaign for State Treasurer. I personally know Dave from my years as an Iowa State College Republican. Dave, and the rest of the Story County Republicans, volunteered many hours and give invaluable advice to help the ISU CR’s obtain and maintain a strong presence on the Iowa State campus and in the Ames community.

Dave is running on a platform which emphasizes the need to place Iowans first: first in treasury and management, first in transparency, and first in protecting taxpayers’ dollars. Dave also emphasized the need to change the culture within the State Treasurer’s office to one that values fiscal restraint and economic discipline. He also intends to use the office as a bully pulpit to spread those values to other areas of state government.

Brenna Findley spoke next, and within minutes it was evident that the group at breakfast was impressed. Findley grew up on a farm in Dallas County Iowa where she learned firsthand, conservative values and hard work are the keys to success. For the last seven years she has served as Congressman Steve King’s Chief of Staff, advising him in his role on the House Judiciary Committee.

She said that on occasion she has been asked how old she is. Her reply is that she is 34 – the same age current Attorney General Tom Miller was when he first won the office thirty-two years ago. Findley, who received her law degree from the University of Chicago, said a lot has changed in the legal profession in the last thirty-two years, and she plans to bring that knowledge to the office of Attorney General.

Findley also intends to fulfill the AG job description by protecting all the rights of Iowans, as opposed to prioritizing the office as an advocate for consumer protection issues, as it would appear today. Through her travels across the state thus far, she has found that most Iowans don’t know exactly what the AG does for them, but they do know that their rights as Iowans have not been fully protected. Findley also stated that the AG can play a key role in shaping Iowa’s business climate by controlling what law suits the office files and what regulations it tries to pass. As AG, Findley will advocate for Iowans and work to make the office open, accountable, and transparent.

Iowans can have confidence in these two GOP candidates and have much to look forward to in this year’s state elections.