Beth Wessel-Kroeschell from her legislative web page
During the first few weeks of the legislative session, House Democrats have repeatedly called on Republicans to follow the advice of public health officials and require that legislators, staff, and visitors wear masks in the State Capitol to help stop the spread of COVID-19 (as of this week, five confirmed cases have been detected in the Iowa House). Republicans have refused to institute a mask mandate because Speaker Grassley claims it cannot be enforced on the House floor.
So, yesterday I wore jeans in violation of House Rules to prove him wrong. First, I was asked by the Chief Clerk to change my pants and I refused. Next, because of my jeans, Speaker Grassley refused to let me speak against a bill that would end diversity plans in Iowa school districts.
We are in the middle of a pandemic that has killed thousands in Iowa and hundreds of thousands across this country. Republicans will crack down on Democrats wearing denim but can’t muster the courage to have lawmakers and others at the Capitol wear masks to save lives?
By refusing to follow public health guidelines like face coverings and social distancing, Republicans are putting all who work at and visit the Capitol in danger. It’s time House Republicans step up and do the right thing.
Thank you for your support. As President Biden says, “Truth over lies.”
Beth Wessel-Kroeschell
State Representative, District 45
Quick Comment:
Once again, Republicans use public office to make Iowa a national laughingstock. Rather than take on serious issues of the majority of Iowans in a serious way Republicans go about the business of passing the Koch approved ALEC legislative agenda that is on desired by the far right wing (that is their rich donors) of their party.
To state the obvious we are in the very dead of winter. A foot of snow on the ground and temperatures that struggle to get above zero. For baseball fans this was a time known as the hot stove league, a time when everybody’s team will win as our imaginations turned banjo hitters into all-stars.
For those of us who try to keep an eye on who runs the ship of state, this is a time when we can run some “what if” races in our heads hoping to find the right person to put our side back in the winning column. Iowa’s Democrats really took it in the shorts in November. We have had some pretty rough sledding for a while and it seems to get a little worse every year.
Why Iowa’s Democrats have had such a hard slog continues to mystify me. The party and its candidates stand for what Iowans stand for. We are still the party of the working person, the party that works its tail off to get higher wages, better education, more opportunity better health care for all, maintain Social Security and Medicare for the elderly and is the party that is combatting the one enemy that may do us all in – climate change.
Yet here in Iowa issues seem to not make much of a difference at all. Joni Ernst says out loud that Social Security should be cut in a state with a high elderly population and she still gets re-elected.Iowa was once a state where issues where studied by serious, smart voters who then cast their votes based on their study. Now, the president loses the state’s major customer in the world and screws up their ethanol business and farmers vote for him in greater numbers. What happened to that serious Iowa voter?
But let’s pull out the old crystal ball and peer into a cloudy future to see if anything is appearing yet:
Two big races in Iowa in 2022. – the Governor and the Chuck Grassley senate seat. Republicans obviously have incumbents in both offices.
Will Kim Reynolds run again? And will Iowans have a collective amnesia once again about her record? Her handling of the corona virus crisis can be best described as almost doing nothing as we stand near the bottom in vaccinations and testing and near the top in positivity rates. Yet, President Biden will pull Iowa along as his administration busts its ass to whip this deadly disease. Reynolds will be right up front to take the credit.
Meanwhile, Senator forever Grassley will be announcing shortly whether he has one more run in him. If he runs and wins – and to be honest iowans vote for Grassley easier than they breathe – he will be 95 at the end of his next term in 2029.
Do the Democrats have anyone to run against Reynolds or Grassley. At the moment and after a drubbing in November, things are looking a little bleak. Rob Sand looked like he might be interested in a shot at the Governor’s mansion but he seems to have settled in as State Auditor. We’ll see. One of the great things Sand brings to his campaigns is his sterling reputation for honesty. Honesty is not something Reynolds is known for.
What about Grassley? Many Iowans were impressed by the campaign of Admiral Michael Franken in 2020. Although a late entry and hampered by the explosion of the corona virus, Franken’s knowledge and career caught a lot of attention. Could he take out the aging icon? Anything’s possible, especially if he starts early and runs hard.
In either the gubernatorial race or the senatorial race, statewide name recognition will be a valued commodity. Who in the Democratic lineup has that? Beside the two mentioned above there is former congressional candidate JD Scholten, former congress woman Abby Finkenauer and former senatorial candidate Theresa Greenfield.
As always there may be an incident that will make a household name out of a state legislator overnight, but right now the Democratic cupboard pickings are slim. Robb Hogg, maybe? Would Fred Hubbell be interested again? What about some of the other candidates in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 2018 – say Cathy Glasson? John Norris? Ross Wilburn? Andy McGuire?
In 2 years, I believe the political landscape will be looking quite different. With big majorities in both houses of the state legislature, the Republican Party will be looking to transform the state into the Koch brothers vision of Utopia. I don’t believe the average Iowa will be all that thrilled with the product.
On the national level and to a degree on the state level expect the split in the Republican Party concerning the continuing cult of personality fostered by Donald Trump to cause some severe strains in that party. Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris Administration will be getting major praise for taming the corona pandemic and bringing the country out of the Depression conditions left by Trump. The exposure of the lies of the Trump years will continue to fuel conversations.
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22 Legally-cast, Uncounted — and Uncontested — Ballots Will Put Hart Ahead by Nine Votes
WHEATLAND, IOWA — Rita Hart has filed a new response with the U.S. House outlining Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s failure to demonstrate entitlement to the seat for Iowa’s Second Congressional District and reaffirming the need to ensure all legally-cast ballots are counted in this ongoing race.
In her initial Notice of Contest filed with the U.S. House in December, Rita Hart identified 22 lawful ballots cast by voters in Iowa’s Second Congressional District that were wrongfully not counted in the race. As a part of that contest, Rita provided comprehensive evidence to verify that these ballots were cast legally and erroneously uncounted. As Hart outlines in today’s filing, Miller-Meeks does not contest the validity of these ballots, instead she’s wrongly arguing about process to attempt to justify the disenfranchisement of Iowa voters.
“Contestant Rita Hart’s notice of contest identified—and provided comprehensive evidence to verify—22 lawful ballots cast by voters in Iowa’s Second Congressional District that were not counted in the November 2020 election,” said Hart attorney Marc Elias. “In her motion to dismiss, Contestee Mariannette Miller-Meeks does not contest the validity of these ballots. Instead, she shrugs at the undisputed disenfranchisement of 22 Iowa voters and urges the U.S. House to do the same based on a nonexistent procedural requirement with no basis in the law. Ultimately, Miller-Meeks’s focus on process over people fails, both as a matter of principle and as a matter of law, and she raises no substantive objection to the counting of the 22 votes identified by Contestant Hart. Contestee Miller-Meeks’s purported concern that this contest will diminish public confidence in elections rings hollow as she seeks to wrongfully disenfranchise lawful Iowa voters whose ballots should be counted. Her motion should be denied, those ballots should be counted, and Contestant Hart should properly be seated in the House.”
In condoning the undisputed disenfranchisement of 22 Iowa voters, Miller-Meeks calls the errors that caused these votes to go uncounted a product of the “ordinary course of election administration,” and urges the Committee to dismiss the contest. Unfortunately for Miller-Meeks, her insistence that state judicial remedies be exhausted before a House contest can be filed is not only inconsistent with House precedent set by Republicans when they held the majority, see Dornan v. Sanchez, but would also intrude upon Congress’s constitutional prerogative to judge the elections and qualifications of its members. These disenfranchised Iowa voters deserve to have their ballots counted.
For the full text of Rita Hart’s Notice of Contest, please click HERE. For the full text of Rita Hart’s response to the motion to dismiss, click HERE.
Thom Hartmann deep dives Craig Unger’s book American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump, and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery, is being recommended by former CIA operative Robert Baer as: “a bombshell” and by Garry Kasparov as the book to read “to understand why the danger to American democracy is far from over.” And John Sipher at Washington Post confirms American Kompromat “makes a strong case that Trump is probably a compromised trusted contact of Kremlin interests.” https://bit.ly/AmericanKompromat#americankompromat
The book details how Russia recruited Donald Trump as an asset, starting around 1980.
Three Rural (Iowa) White Guys – that is, progressive rural white guys have a brand new weekly podcast and they also have a blog and a Facebook page. It is their intention and hope to bridge the great rural-urban divide. Good luck, guys!
This is from their website:
“It is pretty obvious that the world of podcasting doesn’t really need yet another trio of white men sharing their opinions to the world. So we are owning our privilege. We understand that white men have an unfair advantage in society at this point in history, especially in rural communities. We understand that our opinions and experiences are very limited when it comes to important social issues. One of our goals is to use that privilege to help level that playing field. In addition to their expertise and wisdom, our diverse guest list helps to provide perspectives on diversity, privilege and life in rural America in the post Trump era. We hope to serve as a bridge between these perspectives and the paradigm of our rural white neighbors.
and
“Join us in our journey to help broaden the perspectives of urban and rural folks alike. We seek to help close the urban-rural divide, and give voice to rural communities around the country. From a progressive point of view, we want to engage with those who both agree and don’t agree with where we are coming from. Join us in building pathways forward.”
Here is what everyone needs to understand about the Voucher bill that was passed by the Iowa Senate on Thursday and is heading to the House this week:
Republicans in Iowa and many states have been advocating for Vouchers for years. Betsy Devos elevated this campaign nationally, and ALEC created bills, now being pitched as “School Choice Legislation” are popping up in Republican controlled states across the country. The bill making its way through the Iowa legislator isn’t the effort of Iowa Senators, and it’s not Governor Reynold’s creative plan to help needy kids in Iowa like she wants everyone to believe. It’s an ALEC bill that was created as a steppingstone to larger Voucher programs that will completely reshape our state’s education system. It will damage our public schools, divert tax dollars to private schools, and it will widen existing inequalities. It will further segregate our communities by race and socioeconomic status. It will hurt Iowa’s Public Schools.
This bill, SF 159, tries to soften the hearts of Iowans by carefully planning the first steppingstone of their voucher program to only offering vouchers to kids in Iowa’s “failing public schools.” The problem is, even if this was where Republicans wanted their “school choice” efforts to end, which is it not, it is still fundamentally a flawed approach that will hurt both Urban and Rural public schools.
Republicans pushing for vouchers continue to use the term “failing schools” as a synonym for the 34 schools identified by our state as “In need of comprehensive improvement.” These are absolutely not synonyms.
Every year our state, because of a federal law called “The Every Child Succeeds Act,” must rank schools based on measures such as test scores, English proficiency, graduation rates, conditions for learning as determined by student surveys, and other metrics. Then they must identify the lowest performing 5% of schools in their state as in need of “Comprehensive” improvements. These are not “Failing schools.” In fact, every time I’ve heard a Republican use that term I get angrier.
It infuriates me because nearly every single school being referred to as “Failing” is also on another nationally compiled list: Low-Income Schools serving a high proportion of students eligible for free and reduced lunch. Do you know why these lists share so many schools? Because the socioeconomic status of a school is the number one predictor of most of the metrics we are using to rank our schools. Schools that serve wealthy communities will always outrank schools that serve low-income communities when the ranking system is heavily based on standardized test performance, graduation rates, and even ENGLISH PROFICIENCY.
So yes, these are schools in need of comprehensive support—But not because they are failing schools. Many of these schools are incredible and have amazing teachers in them. In fact, the list of schools that SF 159 refers to isn’t even a list of struggling schools. What it really is, is a list of schools serving low-income students. It’s a list of schools we absolutely should be identifying. But we should be identifying them so we can bring bills to the Senate floor that will provide those teachers additional resources and support. We should be bringing bills to the Governor’s desk that will incentivize the best educational leaders in our state to go work in the those buildings. The point of identifying the 5% of your lowest performing schools is to HELP those schools, not create laws that will damage them and force many of them to close—leaving many urban and rural communities with no public school.
SF 159 won’t help our state. It will take away funding and resources from 34 communities that need more resources, not less. It will hurt kids. And it’s only the beginning of what School Choice advocates hope to see happen to our Public Schools.
If you support Public Schools, I urge you to please contact your State Representatives and tell them to vote NO to any bill that creates Vouchers in Iowa. Public Tax Dollars are for Public Schools. Period.
Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities. Ryan said she thought she was following what her president ‘asked us to do’ and that she had been ‘displaying my patriotism’ in travelling to Washington DC, where she filmed herself entering the Capitol building. ‘I’m facing a prison sentence,’ she told CBS 11 News at her home in Dallas. ‘I do not deserve that’
Ed. comment: you should have practiced fraud
This should come a little surprise. Those who took inventory of who got those eagerly sought Trump pardons – figuring he would pardon even the worst of America’s criminal class – they seemed to find out that he (Trump) favored a particular style of criminal. The fraudster who committed massive frauds on the public much like he himself did.
That brings us to this story from Kaiser Health News.Much like he let Steve Bannon off for scamming the Republican base by selling them a story that they were doing to take their money and build a wall between the US and Mexico only to pocket the money, Trump found many a fraud who had been caught stealing from the public with medical scams that were worthy of a pardon:
At the last minute, President Donald Trump granted pardons to several individuals convicted in huge Medicare swindles that prosecutors alleged often harmed or endangered elderly and infirm patients while fleecing taxpayers.
“These aren’t just technical financial crimes. These were major, major crimes,” said Louis Saccoccio, chief executive officer of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, an advocacy group.
The list of some 200 Trump pardons or commutations, most issued as he vacated the White House this week, included at least seven doctors or health care entrepreneurs who ran discredited health care enterprises, from nursing homes to pain clinics. One is a former doctor and California hospital owner embroiled in a massive workers’ compensation kickback scheme that prosecutors alleged prompted more than 14,000 dubious spinal surgeries. Another was in prison after prosecutors accused him of ripping off more than $1 billion from Medicare and Medicaid through nursing homes and other senior care facilities, among the largest frauds in U.S. history.
“All of us are shaking our heads with these insurance fraud criminals just walking free,” said Matthew Smith, executive director of the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. The White House argued all deserved a second chance. One man was said to have devoted himself to prayer, while another planned to resume charity work or other community service. Others won clemency at the request of prominent Republican ex-attorneys general or others who argued their crimes were victimless or said critical errors by prosecutors had led to improper convictions.
Trump commuted the sentence of former nursing home magnate Philip Esformes in late December. He was serving a 20-year sentence for bilking $1 billion from Medicare and Medicaid. An FBI agent called him “a man driven by almost unbounded greed.” Prosecutors said that Esformes used proceeds from his crimes to make a series of “extravagant purchases, including luxury automobiles and a $360,000 watch.”
There are many more examples with details at the link.
The point of this story is that as we get more and more details of the Trump crime syndicate we get a picture of a man driven to defraud anyone and everyone. Those who continue to throw their lot in with this crook will be turned on at some point if Trump loves long enough.
Those in Iowa’s public offices who have knelt at the shrine of Trump will find him no friend. Look, he actively worked to get his own vice-president killed in the insurrection he inspired on January 6th. Since then here in Iowa we have seen Iowa’s three Republican congress members bow to him – Feenstra, Hinson and the temporary Miller-Meeks.
We have also seen our senators claim the constitutional provisions on impeachment do not apply to him. The reasoning behind Joni Ernst’s statements was some especially tortured logic. The best way to save your own butt is to stand up to him now.
Fealty doesn’t get you loved in the Trump world. Look at the Mike Pence story. Few were as self debasing in front of Trump. At the last minute Trump turned the blame on to Pence and Pence became target #1.
But when it comes to Trump love, he saves that for those who screw over little guy for a big score. We have the pardons to prove it.
“How strange it is to be 70 – staying away from everyone because of coronavirus?”
He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere! Biden is 78? Wow! Seems more like about 30. But the real story is that he is making decisions based on what is good for the country. What a novel idea. It could catch on!
Speaking of decisions for the good of the people, am I the only one who thinks if you gave Kim Reynolds exact directions to the store in the next block and sent her on her way that you would get a call from her from the other side of town blaming YOU for her getting lost.
After she made the announcement that beginning February 1st tier 1B would be greatly expanded. Like many others I actually thought this might mean I could get a vaccination. After many calls, I found someone in a county health position who told me that “I wish she hadn’t done that. There isn’t any more vaccines, so it won’t be any sooner.”
A typical Reynolds move – make a statement with nothing to back it up; and so we are screwed once again. She could at least do something to slow the pandemic like mandate masks.
Meanwhile Biden is doing a great job of beginning to dig out of the huge mess the last guy left. Wish Iowa could have the brains to elect a democrat.
Iowa’s Democratic Party has a new leader. Who is it?
World wide, coronavirus cases passed what milestone number last week?
What congress member was the first to file impeachment charges against President Biden on his sixth day in office?
In what was described as a preliminary test vote on the impeachment trial, what was the vote split on whether the impeachment was constitutional in the US Senate last week?
Notorious member of congress, Matt Gaetz went off to do some politicking away from home last week against what fellow Republican member of congress?
Democrats last week introduced a bill to bring statehood to what current American district?
Merriam-Webster has added what new, somewhat political phrase to its dictionary that describes Doug Emhoff?
One of the strangest stories of the week concerned the stock value of what small game rental company?
What major auto manufacturer said they would make zero emission cars only by 2035 this week?
January 25th, 1961 we have a new era in presidential communications as who gives the first live presidential news conference?
Just before ‘Black History Month’ what perhaps the most honored black actress of all time died Thursday?
Maybe she can do the job if she doesn’t have to answer questions. What former Trump Administration mainstay announced her plans to run for Governor of Arkansas?
What US currency has been scheduled for an upgrade?
What actress born in Des Moines and probably most famous for role in the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Rhoda” died this week at age 94?
“Proud Boy” leader Enrique Tarrio has been outed as a major what this week?
Arizona’s Republican Party did a little house cleaning last weekend issuing censures to what 3 major Arizona Republicans last week?
President Biden secured enough vaccine for the US last week to vaccinate how many people?
First Lady Jill Biden will be taking a hands on approach as she works on what issue for her husband?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped his demands to keep what anachronistic senate privilege so the senate could get on with business?
What former Trump spokesliar was accused by her 16 year old daughter of posting topless photos of that daughter on Twitter?
BONUS: Who swore in the first female Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen last week?
Republicans Say It Is Unconstitutional to Hold Officials Accountable Unless They Are Hillary. – Andy Borowitz
Answers:
Ross Wilburn
100 million. The US is at least 25% of that
Marjorie Taylor Greene the QAnon believer from Georgia
55 to 45. The 45 against was all Republicans and is enough to block conviction.
Gaetz went to Wyoming to campaign against Liz Cheney to try to unseat her for her vote to impeach Trump a couple weeks ago.
Washington, DC
‘Second Gentleman’
Game Stop
GM
JFK
Cicely Tyson
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
The $20 bill
Cloris Leachman
Police informer – oopsie!
Former Senator Jeff Flake, the late Senator John McCain’s widow, Cindy and current Gov. Doug Ducey (no idea what he did).
300 million
Reuniting migrant families separated at the border
Filibuster
Kelly Anne Conway
BONUS: The first female VP, Kamala Harris swore in the first female Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen
So Sarah Palin was just a test run for Marjorie Taylor Greene. – Jeremy Newberger
I was in my car listening to the Iowa men’s basketball game on the radio the other day. We don’t get out much these days due to the pandemic. What little outings we do take usually involve diving to a fast food drive through, getting a meal to eat in the car and then go home. This is a far cry from the old days a whole year back.
Anyway, I was listening to the basketball game. I was thinking that for these young men, playing basketball during the pandemic could be a bad decision especially in Iowa where the directions from the governor have been erratic at best with seemingly little thought of what effects the governor’s directions will have other than ‘will it hurt business. We don’t want to hurt business in any way.
There was a time out and the first commercial was a public service announcement from some “Governors Council.” I believe it was “The Governor’s Council On Traffic Fatalities” or something like that. It was a strong message on just how important wearing seat belts was. Strong message. Few people ever buck the seat belt mandate anymore. Most people refuse to start their cars until all passenger belts are secured.
When the seat belt laws were first passed back in the early 70s (I am guessing) I remember some folks whining about having to wear a belt. But statistics were kept and it quickly became obvious that wearing a seat belt gave a person a much better chance to get out of an accident alive. Not wearing a seat belt could be a death sentence even in a small accident.
I had no idea how many folks died in car accidents in Iowa last year, but based on the strength of the message I figured it must be high and headed up. As soon as I got home I googled ‘traffic fatalities in Iowa 2020.” Thousands maybe? Nope – 337. About one a day. Much better than I guessed. Still that meant 337 people were missing from the dinner table, but frankly not a bad number.
This contrasts in a huge way with the number of coronavirus deaths in Iowa. In less than a year Iowa has lost 4,500! Four thousand five hundred! I figure about 300 days for us to lose 4,500 Iowans and that is an average of 15 per day. Nearly 15 times what we lose to traffic accidents! Gee it would sure be nice if there is something simple we could do to lessen such a huge loss like wearing seat belts.
Turns out there is. Wearing masks to block viruses being exchanged actually works! Predictions from late October that still seem to be on track showed that as many as 25% of projected deaths through this February could have been avoided. 25%! In this case as many as 130,000 of the expected 500,000 deaths could have been avoided!
Surely our political leader here in Iowa would immediately mandate masks know what a huge effect they had on stopping deaths! Nope, not at all. The prospect of possibly saving 150 Iowans from dying from coronavirus in the next couple of months is enough to move our delusional governor. Somebody’s “freedom” from wearing a mask should stop at my freedom to be able to breath somebody else’s diseased air.
Schools
Another fine example of twisted Republican logic is the push to take public education money and give it to “private” schools. This is an idea that has been kicked around for a long time. Back in my youth in my private (Catholic) school education, private schools did not want money from the state.
We all knew that the money from the state would eventually be followed by rules on how that money could be used. Thus the whole reason for being “private” was to be able to determine your course. In the end there were tests to pass. How you got there was up to the schools.
That has flopped 180 degrees. Today’s private schools are more likely to be evangelical. Many decades back they threw their lot in with the Republican Party. Like other donors and adherents to the Republican Party, they expect payback. In this case instead of giant tax cuts o the rich, to will be money for their schools.
Money that will flow to the private schools will flow FROM public schools. I for one (along with millions of others) have a problem with my tax dollars paying for private schools. For one thing, that little clause in the first amendment – “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” means that public money should not favor any religion but should stay out of religion. I do not want my tax dollars for public highways building private homes or roads for the rich. The same goes for my tax dollars for education.
Let me add a little warning for those who are involved with the private schools and who think they will be scoring some big bucks for their personal version of “the truth” and some approval of their version of “the truth.” Those taking public money and giving it to you will not be in office forever. When they change the next version may want to tell you how to run your schools and you will lose your autonomy. Or they may decide the whole deal was unconstitutional and want their money back.
But I can almost guarantee that what looks like some easy money today will bite you in the ass down the road.
Louisiana did nearly the same thing a couple of years ago. The first schools in line with their hands out were private Muslim schools, not Christians. Surprise!
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February 3, 2021
Thom Hartmann deep dives Craig Unger’s book American Kompromat: 
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