Iowa Dem’s Populist Working Class Image Collides With Lavish Real Estate and Investments
Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan has centered her congressional campaign on a blue-collar biography, repeatedly describing herself as someone who knows “what it’s like to struggle to put food on the table.” But her own…
IowaDemocratChristina Bohannan has centered her congressional campaign on a blue-collar biography, repeatedly describing herself as someone who knows “what it’s like to struggle to put food on the table.”
But her own real estate holdings and financial disclosures tell a very different story—one that places her squarely among the upper tier of America’s political class, according to Fox News.
“You know, I know what it’s like to work so hard and to, to still struggle to put food on the table,” Bohannan told a crowd at the Iowa State Fair. Throughout her campaigns—she has run twice before for the same House seat—she has emphasized her childhood in a trailer park and memories of choosing “between putting groceries in the cart and filling prescription drugs.”
She echoed the same message in an interview with Iowa