Note: The following letter was written on July 7, four days special legislative session mentioned below.

Is lowa becoming a single-party authoritarian regime? With a myopic focus on the culture wars, Gov. Kim Reynolds has called for a special legislative session to enact a six-week abortion ban. It will be rubber-stamped by her legislative supermajority in a matter of hours on July 11 even though a majority of lowans are opposed.

During the regular legislative session, lowa's GOP legislative supermajority spent it's time being afraid of books, public schools, and LGBTQ people while the Nebraska Unicameral was passing legislation to promote economic growth in the semiconductor industry. A group of semiconductor companies is considering sites in Fremont and the

Omaha area for a technology cluster called Silicon Heartland.

Why aren't our Crawford County legislators promoting economic growth and semiconductor industries for western lowa? They should be thinking about how to take advantage of President Biden's additional $415.3 million in federal funding for high-speed internet in rural areas. They should be thinking of how to keep young people in Crawford County. Instead, they are fixated on enacting in lockstep with the governor a radical agenda without open debate and input from lowa citizens.

Larry Peterson, Denison

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