While Iowa and the nation struggle with a recession, King has neglected his district in an attempt to play kingmaker in the GOP primaries–Even going to South Carolina to co-host a candidate forum and traveling to Michigan to endorse a Senate candidate.

From Radio Iowa:

Five Republican presidential candidates gathered in South Carolina yesterday for a forum and Iowa Congressman Steve King was on the panel, asking questions.

“Hopefully we filled some of the pieces in in the jigsaw puzzle,” King told reporters after the forum. “I was also impressed by the depth of the candidates. When I listened to them talk…even though I know all these candidates, things came out of these candidates that I’ve never heard in the time that I’ve had to be around them.”

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