Iowa Dem Gov Candidates Embrace Hollywood Liberal Alec Baldwin at Gala That “Reeked of Elitism”

Iowa Democrat gubernatorial candidates again defined themselves as out-of-touch elitists this week when they flew in Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin to headline their annual “gala.” Now, even their fellow Democrats are labeling the event a failure.

Iowa Democrat Ed Fallon writes in the Des Moines Register that the Democratic Party’s gala, which highlighted their crop of gubernatorial candidates, “reeked of elitism” and “was a colossal failure.”

He writes, “the party is pathologically out of touch with big chunks of Iowa’s electorate.” Some gala attendees from the labor movement even held up their spoons during candidate Fred Hubbell’s speech, mocking his inherited wealth.

The gala comes just after a devastating Des Moines Register report that highlighted the Democratic Party’s inability to connect with rural Iowans because the party has “become estranged from members of the rural middle class and distrusted on the core issues of economic opportunity that drive their votes.”

Fallon concludes that the Democratic Party’s inability to connect with many Iowa voters means that “the smart money remains on continued Republican dominance of the Iowa Legislature, statewide offices, and Iowa’s congressional delegation.”