Bob Vander Plaats

We're going to discuss that some more for Theology Thursday coming up in the next hour.

The American dream, is it dead? How do we pass it on to the next generation? Just got a cool text from our buddy Bob Vander Plaats this morning.

He was going to go out and meet the president in Sioux City, here in our home state, where he is in town, or at least in state.

Can't, but he's got a really good reason why.

Family Policy Alliance works alongside 39 family policy councils to equip and mobilize Christians nationwide.

And that includes people like Dan Degner in Wisconsin, Bob Vander Plaats in Iowa.

I could go on.

Jonathan Saenz in Texas.

Looking forward to that next hour.

Bottom of the hour, joined by our good friend Bob Vander Plaats.

I had a chance to comb through the early voting data in my home state of Iowa, one of the pivotal states in the country.

I'm going to show you what I found or didn't find.

In Iowa's 3rd District, the Democratic candidate is Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor.

Sand talks about his faith more than any candidate for governor I can remember on this side of Bob Vander Plaats.

According to Politico, the Trump-allied No Going Back PAC has been running ads questioning James' authenticity.

When the cameras are on, Lindsay James goes into character, a caring pastor who says what you want to hear.

We'll love to have you back sometime, and, uh, we'll, we'll keep on pushing on in Ohio.

You keep taking care of Iowa, and we'll, uh, we'll, we'll bring Bob Vander Plaats on next time too to hang out with us.

You got it.

He's way nicer than me.

All right, coming up on today's show, maybe some of y'all heard about this little event that happened at a city council meeting in our own backyard with a prayer to Satan.

All right? We're to talk about that, uh, with Bob Vander Plaats of the Family Leader, and also, um, GOP election year, uh, sanctity of life messaging, and whether that's helping or hurting the cause of this election cycle.

And then next hour, it's your turn to ask me anything.

We've got questions coming from our X audience, so I am entrusting Mr. Erzen, who has combed through and curated all said questions and selected the ones that we will be answering today on the show.

... our, our, our primary Christian evangelical group.

Bob Vander Plaats will tell you it's his Family Leaders-

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The gentleman I worked for is now my boss.

His name's Bob Vander Plaats.

Um, he was what I came to label as a, a Jesus freak amongst a, the party full of Jesus freaks.

Yeah.

We are facing a, we are definitely facing an uphill climb here in the state of Iowa.

We'll get into some of that with Bob Vander Plaats a little bit later on.

Kansas is another one.

Ohio is another one.

I'd have these kinds of conversations all the time.

I mean, if Bob were here, our good buddy Bob Vander Plaats, he would joke about, I finally had to break him when we were just a local show, you know? And he'd call me all the time, "Did you see what's in the Des Moines Register?" And my immediate response would be, "Nope, and neither did anybody who'd ever vote for you or write you a check to your organization.

They didn't see it either.

So why are we talking about it?" I mean, it took years and years and years for me to answer every time he sent me a text or a call with that answer, and I finally broke him.