Highland Park Political Stuff
HP Community Action Association
Dr Dow Bates, our political advisor, suggests we (all HPBC) members need to get to know more legislators on a personal basis. Many legislators are quite willing to speak at our meetings when not in session. Dow invited many of them to our Streetscape opening. Since they were all in session, they sent their reps to read the following letters.
Tom Harkin congratulated us on a job
well done.
Ditto Leonard Boswell.
Opponent Stan Thompson was in the audience.
Charles Grassley sent us a 3.5 page letter also. His Iowa representative read the letter at our Streetscape opening ceremonies (Turning on our Lights). Unfortunately, his rep has not given us a copy yet.
11.04 meeting of the NFIB DSM Area Action Committee
Iowa legislators Libby Jacobs
and Carmine Boal met with the NFIB
Area Action Committee 11.23.04. They asked for the main concerns of Iowa
small businesses. Three main concerns surfaced:
Out of control health insurance costs;
Using Iowa Value fund to assist large businesses;
Inequitable property tax rates on commercial properties.
Jacobs also suggested an “Adopt a Legislator for a Day” program. The legislator would “shadow” the business owner during his/her daily duties. Sound like a workable idea.
12.04 meeting of the NFIB state-wide
Leadership Council.
12.04 meeting of the Iowa Tax Payers
Association.
Many HPBC members belong to the NFIB (National Federation of Independent Businesses). One of our members belongs to their Des Moines Area Action Committee and to their state-wide Leadership Council. NFIB lobbies for small businesses at both the state and federal levels.
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