The Iowa Democratic Party is challenging U.S. Rep. Steve King’s use of his congressional Web site to promote controversial views on presidential candidate Barack Obama, a story Iowa Independent broke last month.King received publicity in mid-March for comments he made about Obama to a radio reporter in Spencer.  “The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida … would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror,” King said in the interview.

Democrats, who at this point have just raised the matter in a news release, are considering a formal challenge to King’s posting.

“Steve King is using his taxpayer-funded website to promote his hateful comments toward a Democratic Presidential candidate,” said Iowa Democratic Party Chair Scott Brennan. “King needs to stop doing his politicking from his government office and get back to the work he was elected to do. He very well may be in violation of House ethics rules by promoting politically charged comments on his congressional site.

“This kind of rhetoric is out of touch with the mainstream values of everyday Iowans, Brennan added. “It is time for King to take these inappropriate remarks off of his congressional website. Taxpaying Iowans deserve better.”