Right now in Iowa, there’s a coach torn up about the conversation he has to have to have with a girl on his team. Maybe he emails her parents first to talk about how. He asks if the athlete has access to mental health care, if they have a safety plan for their daughter. 1/
Together they work out a plan to sit her down and explain to this 7th grader why she is off the team and why even mom & dad can’t fix it. They know she will cry. They know she will be angry. What they hope is that she doesn’t sink into depression or harm herself. 2/
Mar 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
Hello to all my new followers after last night’s #SOTU - I’m the founder of @OpePac (give them a follow too!), a 2018 candidate for Iowa Senate, and a recent graduate of the @DrakeUniversity Master of Arts in Communication & Public Policy. Life long Iowan and mom of three. 1/
I tweet a lot about #iowa politics, #education#mentalhealth#LGBTQ#metoo and #GunViolencePrevention I’m a lifelong Iowan and I’m devastated by what @KimReynoldsIA has done to our state.
Feb 16, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Did you know that Ohio created a school voucher program in 2014? Let's look at some facts about their program as #ialegis considers the @KimReynoldsIA voucher plan for #Iowa students 1/15
But first, did you know that school vouchers are not a concept that was created by educational experts; not proposed by parents; not even an idea politicians came up with. Nope. Vouchers are the brainchild of Milton Friedman, a radical free-market economist. 2/15
Jan 3, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
ICYMI from my earlier Tweet - I have #Covid_19 - so do my two youngest children & husband. We didn't realize our middle kid was symptomatic when we went to Xmas at my in-laws. 12 of the 16 folks at our family get-together have now tested positive and/or are having symptoms.
I share this as a warning to others. Like @modestholdings we were extremely careful. We took all the precautions. We are all fully vaxed and boosted. We wear KN95s. We rarely do in-person events. Our family's only major exposure risk is via our kids at school.
Jan 9, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
I just want to say that those of us who have been working in gun violence prevention are not at all surprised by what happened this week. We have targeted, harassed & threatened by these kinds people for years. 1/@MomsDemand@Everytown@bradybuzz@GabbyGiffords@sandyhook
Many of us have reached out to @Twitter@Facebook@Google and law enforcement because they have threatened us with rape, home invasion, murdering our kids and pets and extended family members. @shannonrwatts has been especially targeted 2/
Dec 17, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Over the weekend @desmoinesdem published my article about reaching #rural voters and it spurred some outstanding discussions. One thing I hear a lot from people who did not grow up in #Iowa is their discomfort with Iowans’ emphasis on how long their families have lived in Iowa.
They often see this as Iowans setting narrow parameters on who is a “real Iowan” and who is not. This is not the case at all and glosses over a fundamental misunderstanding of why my family’s Iowa longevity matters.
