Interview: The only person who attended Steve King's Forum

[brooklynite]

Iowa Starting Line

It was early Saturday morning, and Jessica Birch didn’t feel like getting out of bed. Hungover and tired, the 21-year-old University of Northern Iowa student could easily have turned off her alarm.

But the night before, she saw a Facebook event for Congressman Steve King’s town hall forum in Grundy County come across her feed, and she felt a civic duty to attend. So, Birch forced herself out of bed and headed 17 miles down the road to the Grundy Center Community Center.

She arrived to peculiar scene: out of the over 12,000 people that live in Grundy County, Birch was the only one to show up to King’s forum.

“It was just odd, because I don’t know what the record was for the world’s smallest town hall is, but one person I think has to be it,” Birch told Starting Line in an interview this morning.

[Karadeniz]

1. She made a good point: where were all the democrats who should've been there to oppose

His views?

[Demovictory9]

3. plus 1

[California_Republic]

4. Agreed. I understand his supporters losing faith

But let’s get some opposition there

[marble falls]

2. Too bad green shirt guy was to busy.

[rsdsharp]

5. When I was at UNI

I had to take a class in Latin American history to satisfy a requirement for my major. I (and apparently others) had no interest in Latin American history, the text book was written in 1968 (this was 1983) and the professor -- not to put too fine a point on it -- was a well known asshole. As a result, there were only three of us in the class.

Late that semester they did the "Rate the Professor" thing. I was the only one who showed up that day. I was assured the rating would be confidential. I told the woman handing me the rating form that while the guy wasn't overly bright even HE could figure out who had done his rating if there was only one person in the class. I did eventually fill out the form, agreeing with her that I never had to take another class from him. After I was done he came in, sat on the edge of his desk two feet from me, and proceeded to lecture directly to me.

I know how Ms. Birch felt.