This is one of the best compliments the WaPo could have given us! Guess we're not "fly over country" anymore, eh WaPo?

Yes, Iowa did finally complete its journey from the days of voting for Obama twice. We now have a great Republican Governor in Kim Reynolds, Republicans have a roughly 2 to 1 majority both Iowa House and Senate, 2 Republican US Senators, and last fall our only Dem Congressman got sent packing. So we are 4 for 4 in Congress also.

But, its not so much that Iowans have turned radically conservative in the last 12 years, it's more that the Dems have gone off the rails - and there are no longer any moderate Dems, at least none who will stand up and say so. I suspect the same is true in Fl

Read the Fox News report here. Link

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, hit back Wednesday after a Washington Post report that called the Republican-led state the "Florida of the North" for its new school choice legislation.

Miller-Meeks said on "Fox & Friends First" that the state is flourishing and voters are making it known which policies they prefer on education.

"You just have to watch the U-Haul traffic to see where people are going. They're not going to high-tax blue states with bad Democratic governments that want to lock people down, mandate vaccines and keep schools closed," she told Todd Piro and Ashley Strohmier.

The Washington Post accused Iowa Republicans of "targeting the LGBTQ community" in a hit piece Monday and of making the state the new "Florida of the North."

"Republicans in the Iowa legislature, empowered by the state’s recent ‘red wave,’ have embarked on an ambitious new agenda that includes a costly school choice bill and legislation targeting the LGBTQ community, a historic divergence from Iowa’s history as a civil rights bastion," Washington Post reporter Annie Gowen wrote.

"A joke among statehouse reporters is that Iowa is becoming the ‘Florida of the North’ — without the beaches," she added.

Miller-Meeks joked that they actually thought Florida is the "Iowa of the South" and applauded Gov. Kim Reynolds for championing liberty even during the coronavirus pandemic.

Reynolds has introduced legislation preventing elementary schools from teaching young children about gender identity, similar to a parental rights bill passed last year in Florida.

Miller-Meeks said it's the left that is pushing "fringe" policies in schools, specifically with gender ideology and pronouns.


"What's fringe is schools that will change the pronouns of your student, your child, and help your child along the pathway of gender-changing surgery, puberty blockers, without telling a parent. That's what's fringe.

"What's fringe is schools not opening, curriculum that's hidden from parents. So I think we made it known what we were campaigning on throughout the election season and we were elected by a large margin in Iowa."

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The Post mentioned Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, 10 times in the article, portraying her as a culture warrior on "gun rights," "school choice" and "abortion access."

Good for Iowa, please keep it up, and thanks for the all R Reps and Senators.

HK Ag

Yeah, let's have the reporter visit Iowa in mid-January and see if he still thinks it's just like Florida.

Kudos to Iowa! I am honored by the fact that much of my family once came from there, and a few still live there.

It would please me greatly if that same spirit growing in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

It certainly does seem like the leftward tide that has been evident for some decades may now be ebbing in the other direction, reversing the flow as it were, like most things do.

It could be seen as a compliment to Florida, too.

flashguy

If the crooked leftist msm is denigrating you, it’s a sure bet you’re doing the right thing. Keep up the good work, Iowa.

As a former longtime resident of the WDC area, I watched the decline of the WaPo from a respected reporter of news and facts to a mouthpiece for the Democrats and the leftists. Oddly enough, it was a WaPo columnist in the 1980s who lamented the rise of "career politicians" in Congress who had no prior experience other than as an elected official. The columnist, in retrospective, was correct that this would not end well. Doubt his op-ed piece would have been published today.