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Revision as of 03:40, April 5, 2020
| Joni Ernst | |||
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| Junior U.S. Senator from Iowa From: January 3, 2015 – present | |||
| Predecessor | Tom Harkin | ||
| Successor | Incumbent | ||
| Iowa Senate, 12th district From: January 5, 2011 – November 28, 2014 | |||
| Predecessor | Kim Reynolds | ||
| Successor | Mark Costello | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Gail Ernst[1] (div.)[2] | ||
| Religion | Lutheran[1] | ||
| Military Service | |||
| Service/branch | United States Army Iowa Army National Guard | ||
| Service Years | 1993 – 2015 | ||
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel | ||
| Battles/wars | Iraq War | ||
Joni Kay Ernst is a Republican U.S. Senator from Iowa who was elected in 2014.
Military service
Ernst saw combat as a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2004) and served in the Iowa Army National Guard as well as the U.S. Army Reserves where she rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.[3]
Political career
Ernst served as auditor of Montgomery County, Iowa from 2005 to 2011. She was later elected to the 84th and 85th general assembly of the Iowa legislature, (January 2011 to January 2015) her second term as a state senator from District 12, representing six counties in the southwest corner of Iowa.[1]
U.S. Senate
Ernst campaigned in the Republican U.S. Senate primary with the claim "I'll know how to cut pork".[4]
Ernst received 52% of the vote in November 2014, while her Democratic opponent received only 44%. In her victory, she swept 85 of Iowa's 99 counties.[5] She was later chosen to give the rebuttal to the president Barack Obama's State of the Union address in 2015.
Ernst has vocally opposed wasteful U.S. federal spending.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Senator Joni K. Ernst" (2015). The Iowa Legislature website. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
- ↑ Gail Ernst, Joni Ernst’s Ex-Husband: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
- ↑ Twitchy staff (January 15, 2015). 'Jackass': Luke Russert writes off combat vet Joni Ernst as 'unknown pig farmer'. Twitchy. Retrieved on January 16, 2015.
- ↑ Strong, Jonathan (March 24, 2014). "Senate candidate: I'll use my hog castrating experience to help end pork barrel spending". Breitbart. Retrieved on January 16, 2014
- ↑ Pate, Paul D. [Iowa Secretary of State] (December 29, 2014). "November 4, 2014 general election". Iowa Secretary of State website. Retrieved on January 15, 2015.
- ↑ Varney, James (September 22, 2019). Joni Ernst aims to change fed's 'spend it while you have it' mentality. The Washington Times. Retrieved September 22, 2019.