Letter to the Editor

Towering Consequences of Your Vote Nov. 8, 2022

The upcoming off-year election, is not a Presidential Election year. However, this upcoming Nov. 8 election could be the most important election of our lives. It's outcome may determine the future of our state and of our nation! And it weighs mightily on your most powerful voice, in the form of your vote, which is in the balance! The gutting of our well run state Medicaid program, during this administration, to turn over to private for-profit insurance companies at a huge cost to special needs families, and us tax payers, foretold of more bad policy to come. The current Iowa legislative governor and her republican majority, s firmly dedicated to utilizing public tax payer money, taken from existing public school funding, to be funneled to the creation of private schools across our state — dooming both public schools and private schools to failure … Pekin Consolidated Schools and Iowa State Sen. Adrian Dickey voted in favor of this bill to use public money for private school use, and Keota Community School graduate and Iowa House Rep. Jared Klein was one of the few republicans to vote against it, and then retired from the Iowa House for the upcoming session, thus preventing the governor from "primarying" his re-election race, as she oversaw with those republican Iowa legislators who voted with democrats to vote no public dollars for private schools. This governor is committed to enacting eminent domain to take private property for private profit-based carbon capture pipelines — illegal and dangerous on so many levels. The multiple dangerous implications of overturning the over 50-year-old Roe vs. Wade decision have nothing to do with morality but with infringement of US constitutional rights, to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," which republicans claim to hold so dearl! The majority of Iowans have not asked for these separate measures being acted upon by the current republican administration, and in fact the majority are against each and every one of them!

Land ownership, maintaining and improving our public schools, caring for those who cannot care for themselves, and ensuring womens'rights to personal health care are on the precipice! VOTE!

Mary K. Krier, Ollie, IA