A “die-in” targeting one of Iowa’s largest employers is turning into a headache for the state’s Democrats.
At the University of Iowa, keffiyeh and COVID mask-clad activists covered themselves with fake blood, demanding that Iowa-based Collins Aerospace “end [its] complicity” with Israel. Joe Mitchell, the likely GOP nominee running in the same district that houses the Collins Aerospace office, told the Washington Reporter that the activists should stop “throwing a temper tantrum.”
“Lying on the floor and throwing a temper tantrum isn’t a marketable skill,” Joe Mitchell told the Reporter. “You wonder why some college grads can’t find work. Well, now we know.”
Iowa Republicans were quick to condemn the anti-Israel stunt. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R., Iowa), who Mitchell hopes to succeed in Congress, criticized the protesters and attacked one of her potential Democratic opponents, State Senator Zach Wahls, as “stand[ing] with Hamas.”
Wahls did not respond to a Reporter’s request for comment; neither did Lindsay James, Mitchell’s likely Democratic opponent.
Mitchell, a former state Representative, told the Reporter that “Lindsay James is a radical leftist, and it’s not a surprise she didn’t want to comment on your story.”
