One of the races in next week’s Primary Election is in Iowa’s fourth congressional district, where Kevin Virgil is challenging Republican Randy Feenstra of Hull, who’s seeking a third term in the US House. Virgil is a former Army captain, a former CIA officer and an entrepreneur who launched a software company that has won US military contracts. He grew up near Sutherland, on an O’Brien County farm.
Virgil supports 12-year term limits for members of congress, a 50 percent reduction in the federal workforce and a hard closure of the U-S-Mexico border.
Virgil, who criticizes Feenstra for supporting construction of a carbon pipeline, says eminent domain should not be used for the project.
Feenstra’s campaign manager says Feenstra delivers conservative results and Iowans will reject Steve King’s effort to send a New Yorker to congress to represent Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. Former Congressman Steve King, who lost to Feenstra in a G-O-P Primary four years ago, encouraged Virgil to run and has endorsed him.
