I would have chosen a few more topics from your selection so I was only able to choose one!
I would like to stay informed on Enviroment issues also.

I tried to sign up…tells me my “email is invalid”…
Odd…I’ve been using it for years…..???.

Voting rights are of utmost importance because when voting rights are restricted all the other rights suffer. We must expose these voting restriction laws for what they are-fraudulent ways to steal an election. The republicans have resurrected Jim Crow.

How does this platform work? I’ve signed up twice and still do not have access to a new
way to acquire information. What is different from just going to the statehouse website?
Joe Gorton

Please don’t defund Planned Parenthood. Women and men rely on them! Please don’t repeal the ACA without a replacement. Please fix it, instead of repeal!

As a state employee, please protect collective bargaining for state employees.

It also said my email was invalid…

I have many issues on the list of concern to me. Not just healthcare. Women’s rights, jobs…

20 years ago Iowa schools were 3 in the nation .. now we have fallen almost to the bottom. Thank for always fighting for our schools??! Thank you for leaving districts in limbo until after their budget are complete to let them know if you’ve funded them. It is a very efficient way to run the business of government.
Perhaps we should use the same method to determine whether Iowa legislator including the governor should be paid. They could work for a ‘year’ then talk about whether you should be paid. We could use a lottery system to determine who gets paid. Iowa Loto seems to have a pretty good method.
Iowa students and teachers deserve better!

I care very strongly about more than one of those issues. I selected womens, but I also wanted to select education and environment. Am I only going to get updates about what I selected?

I am interested in all catagories!

I am extremely worried about all of the issues listed. I am worried especially about the mentally ill narcissist President we have and the Republican control of our country. I truly believe that Trump is not mentally competent or capable to run the country. He doesn’t know what he is doing! He is just a crazy spoiled old rich disgusting sexist abusive Traitor! We need to regain control of Congress on all levels. That is the only way to protect our health care, environment, union jobs, women’s rights and the whole list! Please let’s do what we can to stop them and get Democrats to vote. Thank you.

All of those issues above are “women’s issues.” The phrasing is antiquated, and even then subsumes a lot of issues. Do you mean reproductive choice, equal pay, child care, domestic violence?

It’s really too bad that we are limited to one choice of topic here to get updates on. I am interested in ALL of the topics. Please rethink this.

Email would not work. thanks!

I tried to sign up but the app refuses to accept my email address as valid

I am very concerned about most of these issues and understand that I will get information on all not just the one I indicated? Is it possible to get email addresses of the House and Senate Republicans?

I am also interested in health care.

I selected WOMEN’S ISSUES. Every topic listed was/IS a WOMEN’S ISSUE!!!!!!!!
We also need to focus on election districting issues. Voting districts need to be taken away from partisan politics!

Please sign me up. System says email invalid

This is my email address.

Please sign me up. it won’t take my email address either!

Your iowahouse wouldn’t let me sign up saying my email isnt valid. It is.

I’m disappointed that you’ve omitted agriculture. Don’t write us all off as die-hard Republicans: we’re not! Agriculture relies on trade; isolationist policies don’t improve trade so there will be plenty of room for Dems in Iowa to show they support agriculture. Maybe you intend to lump that into the economy, but in a farm state, you need to be seen as proudly standing up for agriculture as much as the other issues.

One of my many concerns is the treatment of animals in Iowa and puppy mills

Would have selected many additional topics – Women’s Health, Worker’s Rights

We need to leave Planned parenthood alone. Women are capable of making decisions with there own hearth. This a organization that helps thousands and thousands of women with affordable healthcare. If they feel that the worker needs to lose bargaining rights and health benefits, then everyone in the house and Senate should lose all the hearth care INS. Lose the power to vote in any pay raises. Everyone should remember on DEC.6,2018, we vote for new Senate seat and House seats and Governor. I would like to have marked more areas of interest.

I, too, would have like to have had more than one “issue of importance” checked. Actually they are All important and of interest to me.

I attended the Education forum tonight, January 30, 2017. We moved back to Iowa from Texas after we got married and had a child. I’m very concerned about the state of education in Iowa. My son will be entering preschool next fall. I’m afraid education has really gone downhill. Iowa HAS to pay it’s teachers more to keep & retain young talent.

All of the issues listed on this email are equally important. What’s going on in the workplace is horrific. Women’s rights are in serious jeopardy. Healthcare is a joke. We have insurance cost care. I want to know when the insurance companies got a liscence to practice medicine. They tell the doctors what they can and can’t do. Once you’re on Medicare you get passed from dr to dr with no resolution. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Insurance premiums are outrageous and then what they pay is a joke.

Since I am a mental health provider and supervisor, I am deeply concerned about the lack of mental health resources – mental health beds, need for a variety of placement options, community support for mental health, and the desperate workforce shortage of clinical social workers and miserably low pay.

I too am concerned about all of the issues

I would have checked all of the issues that were listed. I think they are all very important!!

I signed up and received a confirmation email that I had signed up, on Jan. 26.

Since then, I have received nothing.

Shouldn’t I have received an email Monday, Jan. 30?

I would say ALL of the issues listed are important to me. I would also include voting rights, fighting Citizens United, and support for the State Library of Iowa and all libraries in Iowa. To fight Citizens United, I’d like my legislators to support and sponsor HJR2009 (Iowa Resolution to Restore Free and Fair Elections in the United States). The purpose of HJR2009 is to apply to Congress for a limited national convention for the exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that will restore balance and integrity to our elections. Getting the money out of politics so that our legislators are more responsible to their constituents rather than their donors is imperative! Thanks.

I would also like to sign up for more than 1 category. Please add women’s issues, education, MCOs, and anything regarding Iowans with disabilities. Is it possible to also get information on bills brought forth by Republicans that Democrats can agree with?

I’m really disappointed that we can only choose one of the above. I have read the comments and responses and I hope you will understand my lack of trust that I will receive information on all of the topics.

Preserve or improve IPERS !

I’m very concerned about Medicare and Medicaid. We have a 34 year old daughter who has cerebral palsy and needs total care. She cannot do anything for herself and is in a wheelchair. We are definitely worried about Medicaid and if it is changed what will it its effect on her quality of life.

I am concerned about further GOP attack on workers retirement benefits through changes to our pension. LEAVE IPERS ALONE!

I want to be kept informed on Ipers and retirement isued also