Joel Kurtinitis

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Joel Kurtinitis was a Regional Director for Ron Paul 2012 and served on the State Central Committee of the Republican Party of Iowa. Joel co-founded Liberty Iowa in the wake of the Ron Paul campaign, and organized the Free DC Project during the government shutdown of 2013. Joel is also a contributing writer to TheBlaze, SteveDeace.com, and other online publications, and maintains an independent blog covering a wide range of sociopolitical topics. When not busy setting the virtual world aflame with controversy, Joel is actually an okay guy who enjoys reading,cooking, chess, bluegrass music, and an occasional foray into writing fiction. Joel and his family live in West Des Moines, IA.

Iowa Politics

Polk County Doesn’t Need More Tax Revenue, It Needs Better Spending Habits

Joel Kurtinitis: Polk County residents are willing to do our part to keep the county growing and improving, but it’s just not fair to ask us to give more to a county government that has shown itself to be addicted to frivolous spending.

Joel Kurtinitis
March 2, 2018
3 minute read

Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz speaking at the 2013 Young Americans for Liberty National Convention . Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Election Central

Ted Cruz’s Quiet Coup in Iowa

Joel Kurtinitis: Ted Cruz’s coup among libertarian Republicans is perhaps the quietest revolution of 2016, in part because it’s the one that Washington fears the most.