Des Moines, IA- The Democratic candidate for US Senate in Iowa says that the politically charged environment in America needs to change.
Radio Iowa reports that Mike Franken, the Democratic challenger to Republican Chuck Grassley, says that politicians owe it to the next generation to be better.
“I now see the political charged environment that now haunts us and it’s the Iowa that I don’t recognize…where you’re not so sure if you’re friends with your neighbor any more,” Franke says. “People, we cannot have this future. We must have a new dawning…There’s far more things that make us the same…than what separate us.”
Franken, a retired US Navy admiral, suggested it’s hard to imagine the national unity so evident after 9/11 has largely disappeared.
“We must do better,” Franken says. “We must think about the future of America, not get balled around with the difficulties and the political leadership in Washington, D.C.”
Franken made his comments Monday afternoon on the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.
