{"id":365,"date":"2011-01-02T20:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-01-02T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:06:55","slug":"wedding-bells-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Bells In The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/webeagle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-156\" title=\"webeagle\" src=\"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/webeagle2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/webeagle2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/iowappa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/webeagle2.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>With the New Year comes a new legislative session in Iowa.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.ia.us\/index.html\">84<sup>th<\/sup> General Assembly of Iowa<\/a> will gavel in on Monday, January 10, 2001.\u00a0 This G.A. will be sort of like a wedding:\u00a0 something old; something new; something borrowed; something blue.<\/p>\n<p>The same old infighting between parties is getting old.\u00a0 After the first week of the session, when everyone is getting along and vowing to cooperate with the other party, the other chamber, the other branch of government, etc., things will get back to normal.\u00a0 It never takes long.<\/p>\n<p>The new is, of course, the leadership in the House and the governor-elect.\u00a0 Of course, you can safely argue that <a href=\"http:\/\/governorbranstad.com\/\">Governor-elect Branstad<\/a> is also something borrowed (from the past).\u00a0 However, the something borrowed is going to be a few pieces of legislation that seem to pop up every year.\u00a0 The Iowa Attorney General is tops in this category.\u00a0 The AG\u2019s office has already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.ia.us\/scripts\/docmgr\/docmgr_comdocs.dll\/showtype?type=bp&amp;ifyh=false\">pre-flied<\/a> a couple of bills from past legislative sessions that didn\u2019t quite make it to the governor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Wondering where the blue comes in?\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s going to be a very blue session if time is spent on energy-wasting issues such as judge impeachment, maneuvering in the Senate to get germane amendments to bring up a resolution that will provide for a constitutional amendment to write discrimination into Iowa\u2019s Constitution, and other silly little games that do not address the <strong>real<\/strong> problems in this state, such as high unemployment rates, top-heavy school administrations, and an escalating usage of drugs and alcohol, without any meaningful and successful exit plan.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no need to bring a gift, but this is one wedding you might not want to miss.\u00a0 Who knows what sort of wedding may be legal or illegal at the end of the session.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Copyright 2010-2011 Fawkes-Lee &amp; Ryan.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s going to be a very blue session if time is spent on energy-wasting issues such as judge impeachment, maneuvering in the Senate to get germane amendments to bring up a resolution that will provide for a constitutional amendment to write discrimination into Iowa\u2019s Constitution, and other silly little games that do not address the real problems in this state, such as high unemployment rates, top-heavy school administrations, and an escalating usage of drugs and alcohol, without any meaningful and successful exit plan. <a href=\"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[88,159,158],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-issues","tag-branstad","tag-iowa-attorney-general","tag-iowa-general-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}