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From last week’s inbox, a very important message from Progress Iowa: For Immediate Release: May 24, 2021 Contact: Ivy Beckenholdt, ivy@progressiowa.org ICYMI: Iowa’s economy sputtering as people flee the state Iowa losing jobs as younger residents flee the state under Republican leadership Des Moines, Iowa -- Two recent reports show a sputtering Iowa economy after…
Requests to Governor, Secretary of State, Legislative Services Agency, and Legislators follows claims from Heritage Action that they Wrote Iowa’s New Voter Suppression Law Des Moines, Iowa -- An advocacy group is demanding that public records be released to uncover the extent to which right wing organizations and corporations influenced Iowa’s legislative process this year.…
Gov. Kim Reynolds: Heartless Des Moines, Iowa – Progress Iowa Executive Director Matt Sinovic issued the following statement in response to Governor Kim Reynolds announcing that Iowa will end its participation in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs, which as of April, benefited about 33,000 Iowans: “The Governor is putting her corporate pals ahead of Iowans in our time of need. And this is hardly the first time. She has made it easier for landlords to evict tenants, turned down resources to protect kids in schools, and bungled the state’s response to the pandemi...
Getty Images North America The Iowa Legislature passed a wide-ranging elections bill in late February. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill into law March 8. A key Republican lawmaker on Thursday denied statements by the head of Heritage Action for America about the conservative lobbying group’s role in the approval of voting restrictions this year in Iowa. Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action for America, said in a leaked video that her organization had drafted parts of and helped pass Iowa’s sweeping election bill. Anderson also said in the video the group had crafted pa...
By Jason Taylor May 14, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa State Representative says a conservative Washington political group had nothing to do with a new voting law in the state. A video leaked by the left leaning news organization Mother Jones features Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson taking credit for crafting the law "Iowa is the first state we got to work in, and we did it quickly, and we did it quietly," said Anderson in the video. "Honestly, nobody noticed." Republican Representative Bobby Kaufmann says he had no contact with Heritage Action, and the group had nothin...