She who can’t be bothered to answer questions from reporters.

As you have likely heard, Kim Reynolds and Iowa Rs are trying to make it look like they now also care about the water quality in Iowa.  Soon I predict they are going to be saying they thought of it first, and Chris Jones, the Democrat running for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture on the theme of “a vote for Chris Jones is a vote for water quality,”  stole their idea.

Reynolds’ strategy of throwing some money at the water problem they helped create is a transparent, desperate, purely political gambit.  As usual, the asleep Iowa press, but for a few exceptions, are reporting about it straight up. This is a problem that allows Iowa Rs to always be confident that no one will ever exactly laugh in their faces.  And to be fair to Kim Reynolds and friends, Iowans have been voting for Republicans for so long no matter what cra-cra they come up with, Rs naturally assume they can fool all of the people all of the time. Why wouldn’t they?

The Iowa trifecta simply cannot be trusted. They squandered time in office when they could have been helping Iowans access health care or supporting Iowa’s public schools, instead hog-tying State Auditor Rob Sand, by passing a law that essentially prevents the auditor’s office from conducting audits. I’m paraphrasing of course, but it can hardly be denied they intended to throw sand in the gears of the auditor’s office, and they have made it happen.  Sand has called it the “worst pro-corruption bill in Iowa history.”

Leaving nothing to chance, this corrupt hacking of the state auditor’s office has been followed by yet another clever move, pushing a new law stripping certain powers from the next governor, because it looks to everyone – apparently including Republicans – as if the next Iowa governor could be Democrat Rob Sand.  When he became an obvious threat to the Trifecta, something had to be done. I don’t believe a word of what Republicans have been saying to defend this maneuver. Here is a Bleeding Heartland post about it from February. I’m  not sure where the bill stands at this writing.

And so as mid-terms loom, to add to the Trifecta’s trouble,  it seems they can see Chris Jones coming for them and worse, they are shocked to see Iowans everywhere buying what Jones is selling. And if you believe Jones, which I do, Iowans are “fighting mad” about the water.

Check out Laura Belin’s interview with Jones below as he takes apart Kimmy’s pretend We-Care-About-Water-Quality-Too! plan.

Oh, and he looks a little tired as you might imagine. Go volunteer for the campaign and send money!

Iowa, this is our chance.

If you want to lose 30 minutes of your life that you will never get back, here’s a link where you can see Kim Reynolds actually addressing the Iowa press.

And here is a link to a one-page “explainer” of the plan courtesy of Laura Belin at Bleeding Heartland.com