There’s so much good stuff about Rep. Steve King (R-IA) in Sahil Kapur’s profile today, but I especially like an anecdote in which, during his time in the state senate, he said to a female Democratic colleague: “You women don’t understand — guns are for men what jewelry is for women.”
When he asked that colleague, Johnie Hammond, about it she told TPM:
“There are so many things to be outraged about in Steve’s philosophy. I mean, humanism! People! When he talks about calves like cantaloupes, what is that?!” Hammond recalls a conversation the two had back in the legislature when she chided him for using the term “pro-abortion,” and he obliged. “Steve needs more of those conversations where you see the humanity in the Democrat.”
It’s a good read.