Legislators can name a horse, but can’t defend property rights

Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Legislature, Speaker Pat Grassley, Sen. Jack Whitver, Sen. Mike Bousselot, and Sen. Waylon Brown are elected to do the business of the Iowa people. By their choice and design they have been silent on property rights — eminent domain and private usage of public water in times of drought. They all have been AWOL.

Wake up people! This pipeline will tear up 1,000 miles of the best farmland on this planet and use billions of gallons of public water each year. This is obsolete now with already better solutions that will pay handsome returns. At best this is a short term project. It will be piped to North Dakota, potentially for fracking to shore up the Bakken. So much for combating climate change.

The Iowa Utilities Board needs to be elected, not appointed. Summit must put up a billion dollar bond to each state for residual damage/repairs. Each state must agree before one shovel is turned. No insurance company will touch this.

Shame on all of them for doing nothing. But they did find time to name "American Cream," the state of Iowa horse.

This is an all Iowan issue, not just Republicans or Democrats. People of Iowa: attend meetings, ask questions, speak out and don't sign an easement. This is not the piece of cake they want you to believe, lest we wake up and find we're foreign owned. And remember the ballot box!

Jean Granger

Fort Dodge