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Iowa Republicans have stopped even pretending that they're interested in doing what's best for Iowans.

📝 NOTE FROM THE CHAIR 📝

This past week has been filled with fundraising efforts (as always!), strategy sessions with our in-state partners, planning for constituency caucuses' elections, working on data improvements, hosting orientations for the IDP Chair Ambassador program, and meeting with folks like the IDP District Chairs. Oh, yes, and talking to reporters about Republicans' ridiculous attempts to tell Democrats how we should run our caucuses.
I am very encouraged by the number of folks who have reached out to help with fundraising, organizing, data management, recruitment, communications, etc. If you have a skill you'd like to share, send us an email at [email protected], or give me a call at 563-210-1252.
I am also pleasantly surprised and touched by the number of hand-written letters, emails, and messages I've received along with many in-person and telephone conversations I have had this week. The common thread I've heard from everyone is that this party is going to do better.
Teddy Roosevelt's paraphrased saying "Nothing worthwhile comes about without hard work" absolutely fits our present situation, and we all understand that. Electing Democrats to save the democratic process here in Iowa is definitely going to be hard work, but I truly believe that nothing is more worthwhile.
Meanwhile, Republican legislators at the Iowa Statehouse turned democracy on its head this week when they made a political decision to refuse to answer questions during debate. I guess it doesn't occur to these Republican officials (who swore an oath to uphold the democratic process for their constituents) to actually understand the legislation they intend to pass.
Send your Democratic senators and representatives a message of encouragement during these final days of the session. They need it and deserve it.
Yours,
Rita Hart

🚙 ON THE ROAD 🚙

Democrats gathered in Monticello on Sunday, April 23, for the Jones County Democrats Spring Event to hear from guests like Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls, Rep. Elizabeth Wilson, Sen. Molly Donahue, Sen. Pam Jochum, and IDP Chair Rita Hart.
Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls, Rep. Elizabeth Wilson, Sen. Molly Donahue, Sen. Pam Jochum, and IDP Chair Rita Hart at the Jones County Democrats Spring Event. [[link removed]]

📱 ON THE INTERNET 📱

Iowa Senate Democrats: Last night, Senate Republicans pushed through a dangerous bill expanding child labor in Iowa – and refused at every turn to answer basic questions or engage in a free debate over what the new law will mean for Iowans. This isn’t how democracy is supposed to work. [[link removed]]

Iowa House Democrats: ADD YOUR NAME: Reproductive freedom is under attack in Iowa. Tell Iowa Republicans that we demand reproductive freedom! Sign the petition at: [link removed] [[link removed]]

President Joe Biden: My economic plan has always been to grow our economy from the bottom up and the middle out. We're creating jobs. We're lowering costs. This plan is working. [[link removed]]

📰 IN THE NEWS 📰

Zach Wahls Accuses Iowa Republicans Of ‘Authoritarianism’ [[link removed]]

Citing ‘crony capitalism,’ Iowa Supreme Court blasts late-night legislative logrolling [[link removed]]

Agencies scramble to find money for rape victims' morning-after pills after payments paused [[link removed]]

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