Dear Kim-<\/p>\n
I have a question.\u00a0 It’s been bugging me for a while now and I think it’s time I asked.<\/p>\n
What the actual fuck are you doing?\u00a0 \u00a0Are you trying to ruin everything or are you just that inept?<\/p>\n
Iowa used to be number one in the nation for education.\u00a0 In Minnesota we took the “Iowa Basic Skills Tests” every year.\u00a0 \u00a0In 2022 we were 18th and your precious voucher program ensures that we’ll be fighting Mississippi and Arkansas for 50th sooner rather than later.\u00a0 I guess you don’t care that in every poll 60 to 70% of Iowans are against them.\u00a0 And you wonder why we can’t get good teachers to come to or stay in Iowa.<\/p>\n
Iowa was the second state in the nation to legalize marriage equality.\u00a0 Yet only a grassroots eleventh hour full court press stopped the passage of a bill to ban it- a bill that you gave every indication you would sign if it had landed on your desk. I guess you aren’t aware the marriage equality is protected at the federal level?\u00a0 And half your legislature isn’t either?<\/p>\n
In spite of overwhelming proof medical marijuana works for a wide range of conditions, there are only four dispensaries in the entire state, and the very limited list of conditions it’s available for-\u00a0 significantly more limited than any other state.\u00a0 And even after seeing the benefits to the state coffers in Colorado and other states, you firmly oppose any recreational usage.\u00a0 So people just to got Illinois and pay sales taxed there.\u00a0 That’s good fiscal policy.<\/p>\n
You were THRILLED to sign a six week abortion ban.\u00a0 You actually said “Think of all the babies we will save”.\u00a0 Never mind all the women who will have to travel out of state for miscarriage aftercare- hopefully before THEY die.\u00a0 \u00a0Never mind that over 60% of Iowans believe abortion should be legal. Thankfully we have our saner neighbor to the north, Minnesota, who not only has protected reproductive health rights, but has protections in place for women forced to travel for care because of shortsighted, base pandering policies put in place by people like you.\u00a0 As a woman I just don’t understand how you can be so callous.<\/p>\n
And then there is the big Kahuna.\u00a0 COVID.\u00a0 You were ranked dead last in COVID protections for your residents in almost every poll, but there were times Georgia gave you a run for your money.\u00a0 You gave restaurants an entire two hours notice they would have to pivot to take out\/ delivery only.\u00a0 You banned mask mandates in government offices. Fun fact- you signed that bill into law at midnight. Clearly you even knew how bad that one looked.\u00a0 But you did it anyway.\u00a0 You made it extremely difficult to get tested for COVID in the early months by limiting the number of testing sites and then only allowing them to be open a couple hours a day.\u00a0 You pushed for places to open up again way before it was safe and when asked how you could possibly think this was a good idea you simply said “If you don’t think it’s safe, don’t go”.\u00a0 \u00a0And even after you did everything you could to poo-poo COVID you happily stepped up to be one of the first people in the state to get vaccinated.\u00a0 You were vaccinated before 95% of health care workers for a virus you spend months telling us wasn’t a big deal.<\/p>\n
I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point.\u00a0 I don’t know what you are thinking.\u00a0 I don’t know IF you are thinking.\u00a0 I don’t know why you are so hell bent on making the state you claim to love the Alabama of the north.<\/p>\n
Assuming they haven’t all left in disgust by then, I am hopeful future generations will be able to undo most of the damage you are doing.\u00a0 But for now you’re just embarrassing yourself and everyone who calls Iowa home.\u00a0 Please stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Kim- I have a question.\u00a0 It’s been bugging me for a while now and I think it’s time I asked. What the actual fuck are you doing?\u00a0 \u00a0Are you trying to ruin everything or are you just that inept? Iowa used to be number one in the nation for education.\u00a0 In Minnesota we took the “Iowa Basic Skills Tests”… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t