[Note from BFIA:  For background information on how we got here click on the links below.  House Speaker Kraig Paulsen (R- HD 67 – Hiawatha) – a lawyer to trucking company CRST International – axed all funding for both passenger rail and freight rail in Iowa.  You can contact him and urge him to reconsider.   Contact information:   (515) 281.3521   kraig.paulsen@legis.iowa.gov .

Links:   paulsen-inexplicably-slashes-funding-for-iowa-passenger-and-freight-rail/      passenger-rail-and-eminent-domain-get-married/ ]

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A call to senators Bolkcom, Dvorsky, Gronstal and Hogg:

I urge you to support the Kaufmann-Jacoby compromise.

Compromise really isn’t the right word, since both issues are intrinsically democratic points. Issues surrounding eminent domain and passenger rail funding are supported by more than 17 different items in our current state democratic platform.

From due process, water protection and management, preserving farmland and defending democracy against plutocracy; to supporting mass transit and infrastructure, to specific items calling for funding of passenger and high speed rail.  I find this “compromise” to be Win/Win for our entire state.

Respectfully, Progresively  Democratic,

Laura Twing
Tipton