(6) We are trying to attract the best and the brightest to our state --- faculty and students, leaders of large and small businesses, skilled workers, and the creative class. We want to retain our first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses. Other states have lost business for being far less offensive than Trump.
Iowa's Republican officials don't need to drop their membership in the Republican Party, or announce they are voting for Hillary Clinton. They don't need to publicly itemize the daily lengthening list of reasons why Trump is unsuited to be president.
What they do need to do, for their own sake and that of their constituents, is to join the impressive ranks of responsible Republicans who have announced they are neither endorsing nor voting for Donald Trump.
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Nicholas Johnson of Iowa City is a former Iowa Democratic congressional primary candidate and Washington official. Blog: FromDC2Iowa.blogspot.com. Contact: mailbox|AT|nicholasjohnson.orgEmail address .
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