Steve King Staffer Pens Anonymous Op-Ed

Mahlon Fleppmann (2016 Photo)

by Flain Douglas, Factotum


A senior member of Congressman Steve King's staff has submitted an anonymous editorial to the Sioux City Pre-Intelligencer.

Mahlon Fleppmann, of rural Kiron, Iowa, writes of the challenges he faces in his role as social media coordinator for the King campaign.

To protect his privacy, his family, and his home (on C Avenue in Kiron, midway between Highway 35 and 290th Street), we are withholding publication of his editorial. (Which is really too bad, because it is a "barn burner." - ed)

In the opinion piece, Fleppmann talks of how Congressman King would fly into rages shouting "Fake News!" when reading The Onion.  Staff are forced to take turns reading King's email to him, given his inability to remember his Gmail password ("StevieK1$".)

After returning from a visit with Neo-Nazis recently in Austria, King returned home bitter that he had not been able to see a kangaroo first-hand.

"We've fought for hours with the Congressman trying to convince him to debate his Democratic opponent this fall," Fleppmann says.  "After giving one excuse after another, King admitted that he was afraid the audience would laugh at him."

"We had to agree."

Update:  In the original piece, we neglected to mention that Mahlon Fleppmann drives a 1993 Beige Toyota Camry with vanity plates "KLMENW."