To the editor: With city elections behind us, it’s time to turn to the 2010 state elections. I’d like to help Daryl Beall jump-start his re-election campaign. Here are a few of his recent actions on our behalf. He strongly supported Gov. Culver’s $830M I-JOBS debt spending. They said it would stimulate tens of thousands of jobs. Since passage, unemployment in Iowa has risen to nearly 7 percent and is expected to remain high for a couple of years. But we are to trust Beall. I-JOBS will help ... maybe .... sometime. He assures us he’s on top of the budget crisis facing Iowans and resisted the Republicans’ push for a special summer session. Instead, he and the Democrats “hoped” the revenue gap with disappear. If a “strategy of hope” is good enough for Obama, it’s good enough for us. When the “strategy of hope” fell short, Gov. Culver took a “lawn mower” approach to budget cuts. Now we’re dealing with the fallout and Beall says this wasn’t such a good idea.