Restore prestige to the U.S. Senate

One must conclude that Bruce Braley is not qualified to be a U.S. Senator based on his TV and radio advertisements. The Senate is supposed to be a deliberative and prestigious body and historically has been more collegial and far less partisan than the Braley ads. Instead of debating issues and presenting ideas and vision, he uses scare tactics, fear mongering, half truths, lies by omission and downright fibs.

His ads are largely paid for by elite billionaires while he demonizes businesses such as the Koch Brothers who provide many goods and services that we desperately need and they hire more than 70,000 people, many of them women, minorities and mostly in the middle class. Is this a war on the middle class, minorities and women? And the ads vilifying Joni Ernst appears to be his own 'War on Women.”

Ernst believes that Social Security must be preserved for our seniors and supports reforms that will strengthen Social Security and Medicare to ensure the long term health of both programs. Instead of thoughtful deliberation, Braley's attack ads uses inflammatory terms such as privatization, risky stock market and wall street casino to scare people. Time would be better spent in educating people on basic economics and ways to strengthen the program.

Iowa can help the Senate to become a more prestigious, deliberative, collegial and less partisan legislative chamber by electing Ernst.

Jim Dvorsky

Cedar Rapids