Rod Blum

(Pleasant Hill, IA) Rod Blum, a Republican businessman running for Congress in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race, caught up with Caffeinated Thoughts at the Caribou Coffee in Pleasant Hill yesterday while visiting Des Moines.  In our 35 minute conversation we discussed his motivation for running, the government shutdown, debt ceiling, spending cuts, his prolife position, marriage, education, monetary reform, health care reform, Syria, military intervention, Iran and the Patriot Act.

You can watch the interview below.

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