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Reynolds misses the mark by a country mile
I just finished watching Gov. Kim Reynolds deliver her second Condition of the State address.Here’s our take: She missed the truth by a country mile with an address filled with falsehoods and half-truths that paint a rosy picture of what it’s like for folks across Iowa, especially in rural areas.What we hear from people across the state paints a much different story.In her address, Reynolds highlighted (amongst other issues): Achievements last year in funding water quality,Efforts to expand healthcare access around the state,Balancing the state budget, andRestoring felon voting rights. CCI Action members want to call out the truth: Factory Farms and Water Quality: Her “funding” for water quality efforts was simply shifted around from existing state revenues that are already stretched thin. And that money is being dumped into Iowa’s failed voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy faster than the factory farm manure entering Iowa’s waterways, as...
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Many issues were discussed in the gubernatorial debate last Wednesday night, but one got short shrift: Iowa’s clean water crisis.
Iowans across party lines want clean water and air. But pollution from corporate factory farms is making that impossible, as millions of gallons of untreated waste ends up in our waterways.
Fortunately, more and more Iowans are taking a stand. One in five Iowa counties have passed a resolution or sent a letter to the state in support of stronger permitting standards, local control, and/or a moratorium on factory farms.
Sign the petition to unprivatize Iowa’s Medicaid program
Iowa's privatized Medicaid program has been a disaster since day one.
We call on Governor Reynolds to immediately end the privatization of Iowa's Medicaid program and push to guarantee quality healthcare to all Iowans, regardless of employment, income, or health status.
Are you with us? Add your name here: Tell Gov. Reynolds to put our lives before corporate profits!
Our plan to endorse a People & Planet candidate for governor of Iowa
The CCI Action board of directors sees Iowa's 2018 governor's race as an opportunity to inject our style of progressive populism into the race to do politics differently. I’m excited to announce that CCI Action has decided to start a formal endorsement process for the governor’s race.
- Specifically, we think our endorsement process is a way to:
- Advance our organizing campaigns, by making candidates take a stand on our issues.
- Build our people-power base, bringing like-minded Iowans into our work.
- Train ourselves on doing electoral field work – knocking on doors, making calls, talking to voters, etc.
CCI Action statement on Kim Reynolds
To see how she will govern, just follow the money… With the announcement of Governor Terry Branstad’s appointment as ambassador to China, Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds will be taking his place. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Board President and CCI Action member Cherie Mortice released the following statement: “We don’t need to wonder how Kim Reynolds will govern as Iowa’s incoming governor. All we need to do is follow the money.” “We know she’s a pawn of business-as-usual corporate ag, since she and Branstad have taken campaign contributions of $248,298 from corporate ag kingpin Bruce Rastetter, $261,750 from meatpacking tycoon Eldon Roth, and over $88,000 from the Iowa Farm Bureau. “We know where she stands on the Dakota Access Pipeline, since she took $2,500 from Energy Transfer Partners, and $31,000 from Wells Fargo, which is helping fund the pipeline. “Big money is polluting Iowa politics and Kim Reynolds exemplifies that problem. All told, over...
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