Democrat Glenn Hurst, a rural Iowa doctor and city council member, is running for U.S. Senate

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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/29/rural-iowa-doctor-running-us-senate-democrat-glenn-hurst-against-republican-chuck-grassley-election/5395391001/




Glenn Hurst, a Democrat, operates a private medical practice in Minden, where he sits on the city council. Hurst also chairs the Iowa Democratic Party's Rural Caucus and the party's 3rd District Central Committee, and he was involved in founding a branch of Indivisble, a progressive activist organization, in western Iowa.

As a medical doctor and a medical director for three northwest Iowa nursing homes, Hurst, 51, said in an interview with the Des Moines Register that health care for all is a central part of his campaign pitch. Health care also fits into his larger campaign platform focused on helping rural communities grow.


"Obviously I run as a medical person. That’s going to be very obvious that health care for all is top of the line for me," he said. "But it really fits into a much broader plan for how do we save rural Iowa and begin to make rural Iowa grow. We’ve had 40 years of Chuck Grassley and no growth in rural Iowa. So he’s got this beautiful vision for the past. We want to give people a vision of the future."

Hurst said his vision for rural Iowa also includes keeping people in rural communities by providing local jobs, creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors so they can stay in the country, improving broadband internet access so people can work remotely in rural communities and addressing land use and water quality so Iowans can take advantage of recreational activities like hunting and fishing.

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