Rep. Issa wishes Sen. Grassley 'deer-free driving'

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) hopes Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-Iowa) Friday is free of deer collisions. 

Wishing @chuckgrassley safe, deer-free driving today

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) October 26, 2012

The Iowa senator hit a deer on Thursday night and tweeted that he pulled his fender off and kept driving.

"Assume deer dead," he tweeted.

Fred and I hit a deer on hiway 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 26, 2012

Deer collisions are not unusual in Iowa, which has ranked the second or third most likely state for drivers to hit a deer in studies performed by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. over the last few years.

In Grassley's case, the tweet resulted in at least one dead-deer parody account on Twitter.

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