cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53772954

The early voting for the Midterms is now available in many places. You can early vote at a polling place or you can use mail-in voting.

Get organised today here: https://www.vote.org/

If you choose to vote in person, either now or on election day, be aware of your rights and course of actions: https://lemmy.world/post/53334632

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53715875

The early voting for the Midterms is now available in many places. You can early vote at a polling place or you can use mail-in voting.

Get organised today here: https://www.vote.org/

If you choose to vote in person, either now or on election day, be aware of your rights and course of actions: https://lemmy.world/post/53334632

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53356622

Plan to vote early this midterm season.

Start here: https://www.vote.org/

New research found that 25% of bedroom dust samples in rural Iowa contained at least one antimicrobial-resistant gene, raising the risk of hard-to-treat infections.

There will be a discussion between Dave Bushaw and local office holders in Black Hawk county today. It features Democrats, Republicans, and independents that want to work together to find common ground and make change in our state.

It will be streaming online but I'd like to take questions here as well. If you have any questions for Dave Bushaw, Kelly Dunn, or Justin Brandt please post them and I'll forward them on. I'll also post links to the streams as I get them. Would love to hear from other Iowans even if they don't live in this district.

The event is taking place at Bootleggers in Waterloo at 6pm.

I recently started an ask for state-level candidates at Amendment, a site where you can ask candidates to go on record about issues. I asked candidates to go on record to put gender identity back in the Iowa Civil Rights Act. Please add your name. Here is the link to the ask: https://www.amendment.app/asks/3JyDhecgj9m0snkRHFnKjFnmvHE Thank you!

Any 2nd district people around? This is the best article I've read on Dave Bushaw so far. Curious to know what you all think.

https://archive.li/nf0U5

Sand said he supports Iowa's law barring transgender athletes from competing in programs that align with their gender identity because of "fairness," adding it's the same reason he does not support removing gender identity as a protected class from Iowa's Civil Rights code.
His support was met with silence, and one attendee shouted "coward" at Sand. Sand emphasized he wants "everyone to feel welcome in the state."

Like all rational parents, I want to keep my four kids safe. But I also know that the threat posed to my kids from their transgender classmates or teammates is, statistically, zero.

Meanwhile, the threat posed by male authority figures in sports, activities, or private institutions is so much larger, I can document hundreds of recent cases in just the next few lines.

Democratic candidate Sarah Trone Garriott of Iowa’s third congressional district isn’t just selling out transgender people this election cycle—she’s fomenting hate. She uses inflammatory rhetoric that stokes right-wing fantasies and paints trans girls as sexual predators infiltrating women’s spaces. And none of it is stopping the anti-trans attacks on her campaign from the right.

“I oppose letting men in women’s locker rooms,” said Trone Garriott in an ad released by her campaign last month. She continued to say that “politicians have become too extreme on these issues.”

This is only the last part of the article. I'll post a video soon of Dave's response.

But the two major party candidates are not the only contenders for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Independent Dave Bushaw and Libertarian Rick Stewart have also qualified to appear on the ballot in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Bushaw told reporters Friday after his appearance at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox he would be unlikely to appear at an Iowa PBS debate due to changed criteria for qualifying for a debate. The independent candidate also said he had not had contact with other media organizations about potential debates.

Bushaw praised Mitchell for calling for both himself and Stewart, a Libertarian, to be included in 2nd District debates. James’ campaign did not reply to a request for statement on debate participation.

“He has called for me to be included in debates, and I would welcome invitations to any debates,” Bushaw said.

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Legal Observer Training in Waterloo, IA Saturday March 21 10am - Noon First Baptist Church 434 Baltimore Street

Sap's running@iowa #MapleSyrup

The model was this:

• found not guilty? You owe court fees
• plead guilty, you do not

So prosecutors could coerce the innocent into pleading guilty to minor offenses through the threat of court fees