Families in Iowa can celebrate a victory that unfolded last week and was finalized Monday at around 1:10 pm in the Iowa House of Representatives. But it may only be a temporary win.
The Prevailing Wage Bill (HF 333), if passed, would force local and state government entities to pay labor union wage rates to all workers on public projects. In effect, the prevailing wage would impose government mandates on what has traditionally taken place in the free market. It would force local and state governments to spend taxpayer money inefficiently, and place an even greater burden on family budgets. Additionally, the bill would indirectly strengthen labor unions, who are notorious for partnering with groups that undermine traditional family values in Iowa.
Five Democrat representatives joined the entire House Republican caucus in bi-partisan fashion to keep this anti-capitalist bill from threatening family budgets.
The bill resulted in an unprecedented series of events in the Iowa House. Never before has there been a weekend long camp out in the House chambers, but Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy decided to stay in the building for three days and three nights, only closing the vote on HF 333 after more than 67 consecutive hours of trying to change the outcome.
Unfortunately, due to some procedural acrobatics by Democrat leaders, the issue of prevailing wages is not dead. It will come up again before the end of session, so we encourage pro-family values Iowans to contact their legislators, kindly asking them to stand firm against ANY derivative of the Prevailing Wage Bill.
In particular, people should contact Representatives McKinley Bailey, Doris Kelley, Larry Marek, Dolores Mertz, and Brian Quirk. Thank them for their strong stand against their Democrat Party leaders and ask them to keep standing against the Prevailing Wage Bill and the socialistic wage control principles behind the bill.
Additionally, Representative Geri Huser should also be contacted – she didn’t vote and has been a vocal opponent of the Prevailing Wage Bill, but could also use some encouragement to stand firm through the remainder of the session.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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2 comments:
Amen, bro. Contact those legislators ... this think ain't over yet!
Gay marriage only impacts gay people who are denied the same rights as straight people, you will see over time that the only people that this will impact is gay people, straight people should not even be concerned with this ruling.
Your pro-family organization should spend your time and resources on all the straight people who have kids and abandon them, you should be thankful that some gays actually want to clean up the mess of what some straights have left behind.
I encourage your "pro family" organizations to get and clue and focus on the real problem and not spend your time on issues that are of no concern to you. There will always be gay people, nothing you can do about that, but you can focus on problem in your own backyard like helping children in foster care. It is a "god" given fact that gays couldn't have created the millions of abandoned children. Spend your time on your own mess.
Jon M.
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