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Drake alum introduces Obama at Iowa event

byBAILEY BERGandALEC HAMILTON
September 9, 2012
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President Obama gives a speech focusing on job creation, higher education and healthcare at Living History Farms last Saturday.

A bevy of speakers took the podium ahead of President Barack Obama at Living History Farms on a steamy, overcast Saturday in Urbandale.

But the one who got a chance to introduce someone known around the world was Lucas Beenken, a Drake University alumnus and veteran of the war in Iraq.

“The president has shown we all need to work together to bring ourselves up as a nation and that we are better collectively rather than individually,” Beenken said in a later interview.

A raucous cheer rose from the crowd when Beenken mentioned that he had attended Drake and asked if there were a lot of Bulldogs in the crowd.

An early supporter of the President, Beenken was approached by organizers last week and asked to introduce Obama.

Beenken, who lives in Belmond, Iowa, said it wasn’t an opportunity one could say no to, and he was excited to have been given the honor to assist Obama in his bid for reelection.

“In 2008 the theme of change was so evident, but this time we need to take a hard look at where this country is going, and I believe that we’re on the right path to turn our country around,” Beenken told The Times-Delphic.

Beenken’s speech emphasized how Obama’s policy has helped support and benefited his family.

Beenken’s mother is a small business owner, his father a municipal worker and volunteer firefighter, and his sister a teacher. Obama’s policies have helped Beenken’s family and him get through the recession and allowed him to attend Drake after his tour of duty in Iraq from 2007-2008.

Beenken served in the Iowa National Guard for six years and thanks to the G.I. Bill was able to go back to school and graduated from Drake in December 2008. That same year he won his bid for election to the Wright County Board of Supervisors.

“We know someone in Obama who not only talks the talk, but walks the walk, and needs the chance to continue moving us forward,” Beenken said.

Tags: AlumniAround Des MoinesElection 2012Politics

BAILEY BERG

ALEC HAMILTON

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