Is this what Iowans asked for?

Iowans are good people, compassionate and caring. When Iowans voted, did they ask for their public schools to be starved and weakened?

Did they want to make it harder for the hungry to be fed?

Did they ask for books to be banned and the teaching of Black and Native American history suppressed?

Did they want facts about Iowa's dirty, polluted water to be hidden and ignored?

Did they want the governor to have more power?

Did they ask for waste, fraud and abuse of public money to be concealed?

The Iowans I know would answer no to each of these questions.

But, that's exactly what Gov. Kim Reynolds and her fellow hard right Republicans delivered. Now, nearly a billion-dollar giveaway of the public's money goes to parents sending their children to private schools instead of adequately funding public schools. Hungry Iowans will face barriers making it harder to receive food assistance. Some books and history considered "divisive" are now banned. If taught, teachers and librarians will be punished. Republicans defunded the monitoring sensors of streams and rivers to hide the evidence of Iowa's extremely polluted water. The Republicans restructured the state government giving more control to Reynolds and took away subpoena power from the State Auditor so malfeasance of public money cannot be investigated.

Didn't ask for all this? When you vote for Republicans, that's exactly what you get. In 2024, vote them out!

Karen Pratte

Waterville