Libertarian candidate for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District Nicholas Gluba vowed to fight eminent domain and U.S. foreign interventions, speaking Saturday at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair.
Gluba, of Lone Tree, who served as a Marine during Operation Iraqi Freedom, said the money the nation has spent on global problems should be invested at home.
“There was no purpose for us being [in Iraq], other than to benefit the multibillion-dollar war profiteering corporations,” Gluba said. “If we save those trillions upon trillions of dollars that we are currently spending enforcing our globalist policy, we could reinvest that into Iowans, into Americans, lift ourselves up and prosper.”
Gluba is running against Democrat Christina Bohannan and incumbent Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks.
Gluba works as both a chef at the City of Amana’s Price Creek Event Center and a production lead at the City of North Liberty’s Whirlpool facility.
“They don’t need to use eminent domain to take privately held land, from our farmers, from our ranchers, from our citizens to put it in their pipelines,” Gluba said.
Gluba also attacked the Republican Party’s recent legal efforts to challenge Libertarian candidates’ right to appear on the ballot for allegedly not holding party conventions. Gluba said Republican Party officials were scared of Libertarian candidates.
“They’re afraid that we’re going to take out their death grip that the Republicans hold in the state of Iowa,” Gluba said.
Iowa Capital Dispatch