Council Bluffs' Turek in conversation as state's 'next Tom Harkin'

Paralympic Gold Medal winner climbed and crawled to 6-vote Statehouse win in a politically red, and stubbornly hilly, city in Western Iowa

Council Bluffs Democrat Josh Turek is a Gold Medalist Paralympics athlete who narrowly captured a Statehouse seat in 2022. .

There is, of course, only one Tom Harkin, a retired U.S. senator who constructed a legislative and political legacy few Democrats in Iowa — and indeed the nation — have.

For two generations in Congress — 40 years in the U.S. Senate …