Vanguard, smithfield and which is also partners on one of these projects are getting control of their land. Theyre turning us into a colonial model and they are strip mining the wealth and the equity from the american public. When i get in the white house, i will put an end to this and this pipeline will never be built. Thank you all very much. [cheers and applause] good afternoon. Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker
Good afternoon. Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox i
Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox is an incubator o
Good afternoon. Im carol hunter, editor of the Des Moines Register and welcome to the Des Moines Register political soap box. [applause] a little bit about the soap box. Each candidate gets 20 minutes to speak. They can choose to speak for five minutes or 20. How they use their time is up to them, but we do have a timekeeper that cuts them off at 20 minutes. We at the Des Moines Register are believers in the power of civil discourse. We ask you to uphold the best of iowa traditions and let our speaker have her say without interruption. And our next speaker is Mary Anne Williamson. Shes the author of 15 books. Shes a speaker and shes a spiritual thought leader. She ran for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 and she is again seeking the democratic nomination in 2024. Please welcome Mary Anne Williamson to the soap box. [cheers] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, iowa. Its great being here because the iowa state fair, the iowa Des Moines Register soapbox i
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump dueled for attention as they flipped pork chops and greeted Iowans at the Iowa State Fair this weekend, while a slate of other challengers for the presidency highlighted their own platforms.