CREDO Marches Before King Speech

CREDO Super PAC of Ames' Take Down Headquarters marched with about 50 people from the Kmart parking lot to where Steve King, R-Kiron, planned to .

They chanted negative rhymes about King such as: “K-I-N-G too extreme for you and me,”

and “Iowa needs jobs not bigoted snobs,” and more.

“If I had a dollar for every time someone said how embarrassing this man was I could run 10 campaigns," Alec Johnson, CREDO district director, said through a megaphone.

Speakers took turns hurling insults and also asked King to come outside and answer some questions. He didn't, but two other people in Hickory's Hall parking lot shouted back at the group while holding a King campaign signs. One man said there were help wanted signs all over town.

The pair didn't go inside Hickory's Hall and drove away without giving their names. They said they came just to see what the CREDO protest was about.

Johnson said King's recent comments on  about the unemployed “were just absurd.” “Iowans don't need his insults, he occupies a position where he can help people and he is not doing that,” Johnson said.

One protester came from Dayton he said he once was a conservative but became liberal and said liberals seem to care more about people as a group.

Inside speakers didn't acknowledge the group that had been standing outside except for Simon Conway who called them King's fan club. About 150 people attended the dinner, which was a fundraiser for the Story County Republican Party. King served as the keynote speaker.