Comments for Iowa House of Representatives

Comment on Our Members by Marie

Marie — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:28 +0000

Please vote to ban the cameras in Iowa. Leave the money in Iowa. We don’t need companies from out of state preying on us. They do nothing but put up cameras and then take our money. They don’t care about us or our safety. They only want our money at any cost. The Iowa representatives should represent the people– it’s not a Republican/Democratic issue, it’s a people issue. If it was put to a vote we all know what the majority of voters in Iowa would say. You’re not a representative if you don’t represent. You’re then a person voting for your personal beliefs-that’s wrong. Don’t let the word safety get in the way. There are other ways we can be safe. We’ve managed to do it for a long time. We aren’t stupid hicks here in Iowa like these companies think we are, let’s tell them to get lost and don’t come back. We want to be known as a friendly state-not one where people driving through remember Iowa as the state that scrounged money off of them when they visited here.

Comment on Legislative Forums by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:53:24 +0000

Our representatives are in office to represent the people of Iowa(not themselves. If this was put to a vote the people you are “representing” would vote no. Let’s forget about being Republican or Democrat and keep Iowa’s money in Iowa and find a better more Iowan way to promote safety. (i.e. longer yellow lights)

Comment on Legislative Forums by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:19:58 +0000

I have heard that representatives from camera companies first approach the chief of police in any given city. They ask them to try to convince the city council to approve the use of the cameras. If the cameras are voted in by the council, after a couple of years you hear that the police chief is leaving for another job. That job ends up being with the camera company which has promised the police chief a great paying job at their company if he can help get the cameras approved. It’s sort of a You scratch my back I’ll scratch yours deal. And they laugh all the way to the bank.
If no revenue was collected by the city they would have no interest in the cameras and everyone knows it. Safety is merely a word that some people find hard to argue against. In the case of traffic cameras it is 100% about the money. Please don’t lie to us and say it’s for our safety. Iowans don’t like to be lied to. Let Iowa say NO to these vultures who do nothing to earn an honest living-unless preying on Iowans they don’t know or care about is an honest living. They are laughing at Iowa.

Comment on Our Members by Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:15:52 +0000

Sir,
Please vote not to ban traffic cameras’. Look at it this way a camera is like having a cop on duty 24 /7 and not having to pay all the wages. They do slow down people. Go down 235 and where the cameras are traffic slows down after they think they are away from them . they pass you like you are stopped. People that obey the law shouldn’t worry about them. It’s the people who want to speed are the ones that don’t want them .It is like giving people a lic to speed because they know chances are they won’t get caught . Please make speeder sand red light runners accountable for their actions . Please pass this on to other repasenitves.

Comment on Bill Tracking by Gerald Edgar

Gerald Edgar — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:29:28 +0000

Traffic cameras are a slippery slope of adjudication without allowing one to confront his/her accuser, question immediately the calibration of the device, etc.
Want better enforcement? Post a law enforcement person near the intersection or stretch of hi-speed traffic!

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Comment on Education Reform by Brad Jensen

Brad Jensen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:58:57 +0000

It is curious to me that the tenets of the Iowa Core Curriculum stress learning in a way that is nearly impossible to measure with a traditional standardized, multiple-choice test, yet standardized tests are the only measurement of schools and teachers that politicians and the media use. Which is it going to be–brainless standardized test preparation or meaningful learning with authentic assessments and demonstrations of learning? You can’t have it both ways. Why are teachers and students not the first source of information used in putting together an education reform package? In my 32 years of teaching in Iowa public schools I believe I may know a bit more than our typical politician about what works and does not work in students’ learning.

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Comment on Education Reform by Craig Christensen

Craig Christensen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:04:24 +0000

When it comes to schooling, we need to return back to the basics. Too many hidden agendas have come into play. It’s the 4 R’s Religion, reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic. We need to at once rid our educational systems of self imposed hedonistic and atheistic religious domination including values clarification which only muddies the water and return to the God-fearing nation we were intended to be with religious freedom for all which means that our students have the option to study Scriptural topics as we did over @ Hoover High in years leading up to June 1971. We prayed during school outside the class and shared Scriptures. Others were free to participate or decline. The atheistic thinking didn’t have a stranglehold on us. It’s time to repent and break off encouraging our youth to experiment with irresponsible sexual activity. Condoms are not the answer. All of what we see today is symptomatic of the moral collapse and rot we are all witnessing. Throwing more money at the problem will not make it go away. We all need to return to Yahweh and His moral principles. He is the greatest educator of all and His ways are pure truth and wisdom.

Comment on Education Reform by Deborah Ruth Fink

Deborah Ruth Fink — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:34:32 +0000

It’s unfortunate that education gets considered separately from the other things that kids need to thrive. It is part of a package — decent jobs, good health care, safe environment, social services. Schools can’t do everything.

Small class size is very important at every level.
Also good teachers, which is complicated and can’t be legislated. Requiring a 3.0 average and a certain test score doesn’t cut it at all.
If we have healthy, focused kids in small classes, teachers will at least have a shot at doing a good job.

I also think charter schools have an important place, as long as they don’t pull resources away from public schools. There is more than one good way to teach, more than one good way to learn, and private schools have contributed a lot to public education.

Testing is good in its place, but it shouldn’t be used to run the curriculum or freak anyone out.

We can’t do what we need to do on the cheap.