Source: Tom Vilsack, USA TODAY, 11/23/19


In one of the early episodes of "Wolf Hall," a PBS Masterpiece Theatre presentation, one of the characters laments that England in 1531 is in “disorder." That comment struck home for me as I began to make a decision about whom I would support in the Iowa caucus. The choice was for me — and I suspect for others — a difficult one, made so by the number and quality of candidates from which to choose. My wife Christie and I made the decision that we would try initially to help anyone who asked. As a result, we traveled to events for individual candidates, invited them to our home and provided policy advice on a variety of rural centric topics.

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