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Kevin Virgil is a fifth-generation Iowan and small-town entrepreneur who was hoping to find someone to run for U.S. Congress in his home district. His representative, Randy Feenstra, had proven to be a disappointment, earning a dismal cumulative score of 68 on The John Birch Society’s Freedom Index, which ranks federal legislators “based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government.”
Aside from unconstitutional votes for measures like funding of Ukraine, keeping our southern border open, suspending the federal debt limit and financing climate change research with $50 billion, Feenstra has also become a champion of carbon capture pipelines, which threaten private property rights throughout his state. “The carbon capture pipeline is not about capturing carbon,” Virgil says. “It’s about harvesting tax dollars.”
But Virgil could not find anyone to take on the gargantuan task of running a political campaign and challenging The Swamp on Capitol Hill. So he set himself to the task.
Virgil meets with The New American senior editor Rebecca Terrell to discuss his plans, which involve protecting Iowans against unconstitutional eminent domain for private carbon capture companies, as well as constraining the federal bureaucracy, securing the southern, halting foreign aid and out-of-control spending and defending life at conception.
