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2010 Issue #11 November 22, 2010

A publication of ID Action in partnership with Iowaʼs DD Council

New Legislature, New Committees Legislative committees will look quite a bit different this year, with six Senate chairs not returning to the Capitol and a shift in power in the House. PAGE 4

38 New Faces in 2011 Session Five of those faces are a bit more familiar, as In this Issue former legislators , Stewart Iverson, and Dan Rasmussen make a come back PAGE 1 38 New Faces in 2011 (and moves from House to Senate). Session PAGE 2 New Legislative Leaders There were quite a few surprises on election night. While Elected Republicans were expected to take control of the Iowa House of Representatives, few predicted they would go from a 44-member PAGE 4 New Leaders, New minority to 60-member majority. Here are a few interesting Committees statistics from election night legislative races: PAGE 5 New Leaders, New Priorities  25% of the Iowa Legislature will be new in 2011. More than a third of the House Republican caucus will be new. PAGE 6 Transition Teams Named: Governor &  No Republicans running for re-election lost. Secretary of State  Eighteen Democrats running for re-election lost (5 from the PAGE 7 Budget Challenges Senate and 13 from the House). These include: Greet New Lawmakers o Sen. (Ackworth) o Sen. (Waverly) o Sen. Keith Kreiman (Bloomfield) PAGE 8 ADVOCATE FOR o Sen. Rich Olive (Story City) YOUR ISSUES NOW o Sen. Becky Schmitz (Fairfield) o Rep. McKinley Bailey (Webster City)

“The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.” Hillary Rodham Clinton

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New Faces (continued from page 1) New Legislative Leaders o Rep. John Beard (Decorah) Elected o Rep. Gene Ficken (Independence) o Rep. (Altoona) Change always offers opportunity, so opportunity o Rep. (Waterloo) abounds in the 2011 legislative session. With 38 o Rep. Larry Marek (Riverside) new legislators, new House leaders, and a o Rep. Donovan Olson (Boone) reshuffled deck of committee assignments, the face o Rep. Eric Palmer (Oskaloosa) of the 2011 Legislature has changed significantly. o Rep. Mike Reasoner (Creston) o Rep. Nathan Reichert (Muscatine) Iowa will now have a Republican Governor, a o Rep. Tom Schueller (Maquoketa) Republican-controlled House of Representatives, o Rep. Paul Shomshor (Council Bluffs) and a Democratic-controlled Senate. o Rep. Ray Zirkelbach (Monticello) o Republicans will have a 60-40 majority in the Iowa  While 23 Democratic legislative districts House of Representatives. More than a third of became Republican this year – only one the House Republicans will be new this year. Republican district became Democratic. Democrat Dan Muhlbauer (Carroll) beat o Democrats are expected to have a narrow 26-24 Republican Dan Dirkx in the House seat left majority in the , depending on the open when Rep. Rod Roberts retired. outcome of two recounts and a special election. Democrats currently have 25 seats and A Note to Our Readers Republicans have 23 seats. The final count in the Senate is dependent on the Legislators elected this month take the oath of outcome of the following races: office in a formal swearing in ceremony at the State Capitol on the first day of the legislative o (Democrat) defeated Andrew Naeve session (Monday, January 10, 2011). Until then, (Republican) by 71 votes in this Eastern Iowa race to your current legislators continue to represent you replace retiring Sen. (Preston). and others in their district. Naeve has requested a recount, but most believe that it will not change the outcome of the For our readers receiving INFONET by mail, we race. Bowman’s win will bring the Democrats up have not yet updated the names of your newly to 26 members. elected legislators. We hope to do this before INFONET comes out again (early January). By o Sen. Keith Kreiman (Bloomfield) lost to Republican then, we’ll know the results of two Senate by only 12 votes. Sen. Kreiman recounts and the January 4 Special Election. has requested a recount, which by law must be A complete list of 2011 legislators and their completed by November 27. If the recount contact information will be available online within changes the result and Sen. Kreiman is re- the next few weeks at: www.infonetiowa.com. elected, Democrats will have a 27-23 majority. Follow us on Facebook to get alerts like this If Chelgren wins, Democrats will return to a 26- between issues of INFONET. 24 majority. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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New Legislative Leaders (continued from page 2)

o Lt. Governor Elect (Osceola) resigned it sounds - to keep majority party members from her Senate seat last week (Senate District 48). in line and voting with their leaders. A special election to fill her seat will be held on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Montgomery County  Rep. (Missouri Valley), Rep. Auditor , a Red Oak Republican, has (Cedar Rapids), Rep. already announced her candidacy. Democrats (Nevada), and Rep. Steve Lukan (New Vienna) have not yet announced a candidate. Senate will be Assistant Majority Leaders. Assistant District 48 includes Clarke, Decatur, Taylor, leaders help their leadership team in a Adams, Montgomery and Ringgold counties, as number of ways, including counting votes well as parts of Union County. If Republicans and meeting with various groups to help set keep this seat as expected, the Democrats will their party’s session agenda. maintain control with a 26-24 majority. IOWA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (DEMOCRATS) Last week, newly elected legislators met in private partisan meetings at the Capitol to elect their  Rep. Kevin McCarthy will be the House Minority leaders. Below are the new leaders for the 2011- Leader. Rep. McCarthy had been the House 2012 legislative sessions: Majority Leader. The Minority Leader is the leader of the minority party and acts as its IOWA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (REPUBLICANS) primary spokesperson.

 Rep. (Hiawatha) will become the new  Rep. Mark Smith (Marshalltown), Rep. Ako Speaker of the House. The Speaker of the House Abdul-Samad (Des Moines), Sharon Steckman is the top leader of the majority party and calls (Mason City), and Rep. (Iowa City) the shots in the Iowa House of Representatives. were named Assistant Minority Leaders. Assistant Minority Leaders help out their  Rep. (Garner) was named the new party’s leader in many ways, including vote House Majority Leader, and became the first woman counts and policy agenda development. in Iowa history to take on this role. You might say the job is in her blood - her father (Del Stromer) IOWA SENATE (DEMOCRATS) served as Speaker, Majority Leader and Minority Leader during his 23 years in the Iowa House.  Sen. Jack Kibbie (Emmetsburg) will keep his job The Majority Leader is very powerful, acting as as the President of the Senate. The Senate the floor leader during debate and deciding if President presides over debate in the and when bills will come up for debate. Senate, assigns bills to committee, and rules on questions during debate.  Rep. Jeff Kaufmann (Wilton) will be Speaker Pro Tempore. The Speaker Pro Tem fills in for the  Sen. Mike Gronstal (Council Bluffs) will remain Speaker of the House as needed; literally the the Senate Majority Leader. The Majority “temporary speaker.” Leader is the majority party’s leader in the Senate and is its chief spokesperson. The  Rep. Erik Helland (Johnston) will be the House Majority Leader sets the policy agenda for Majority Whip. The Majority Whip’s job is just like CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 3

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New Leaders (continued from page 3) New Leaders, New Committees

the party, determines which bills will come up Committees in the House and Senate will look quite for debate, and sets committee schedules. a bit different this year once legislative leaders decide who will chair and serve on the 26 Senate  Sen. Tom Courtney (Burlington) will also remain and the 27 House committees. Majority Whip. Like the House Whips, the job of Majority Whip is to keep majority party The Speaker of the Iowa House Kraig Paulsen members in line and voting with their party. announced the chairs for the House budget committees, and plans to announce the remaining  Sen. (Iowa City), Sen. Bill Dotzer chairs later this week. House leaders say they too (Waterloo), Sen. (Mason City), Sen. will make announcements in the coming week. (Cedar Rapids) and Sen. Steve Sodders Rep. (Urbandale) will chair of the House (State Center) will serve as Assistant Majority Appropriations Committee. This powerful committee Leaders. This is a new job for Sen. Horn and develops the state budget, with the help of the Sen. Sodders, who replace two Assistant following budget subcommittee chairs: Leaders that were defeated this year (Sen. Staci Appel and Sen. Bill Heckroth). o Administration & Regulation: Rep. (Adel) IOWA SENATE (REPUBLICANS) o Agriculture & Natural Resources: Rep. Jack Drake (Griswold)  Sen. Paul McKinley (Chariton) will remain the o Economic Development: Senate Minority Leader. The Senate Minority Rep. (Schlesweig) Leader calls the shots for the minority party in o Education: the Senate and acts as its spokesperson. Rep. (Mt. Ayr) o Health & Human Services:  Sen. (Lake View) will be the Senate Rep. (Mt. Pleasant) Minority Whip, whose job is to keep other o Justice Systems: Senate Republicans in line and voting along Rep. (Storm Lake) party lines. o Transportation & Infrastructure: Rep.  Sen. (Grafton), Sen. (Urbandale), Sen. Pat Ward (West Des Moines), Most committee assignments will be finalized in the Sen. David Johnson (Ocheyedan), and Sen. Tim next two weeks. Watch us on Facebook or online Kapucian (Keystone) will be Assistant Minority (www.infonetiowa.com) for updates. Leaders. Minority leaders help out the Minority Leader in many ways. Advocating Change Day 2011: Wednesday, March 30

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New Leaders, New Priorities Main Street businesses and continuing to find budget savings. Sen. Gronstal said there is “a In the coming weeks, legislative leaders will begin ton of common ground to be had.” to set their priorities for the 2011 legislative session. Senate Democrats plan to meet on o Sen. Gronstal said he’d be willing to work with December 5 to talk about their priorities. House House Republicans on an alternative to the Iowa Democrats plan to meet later in the month to hash Power Fund, but he said he does not want to out their legislative goals. walk away from the state’s commitment to Senate and House Republicans have already green energy development. Sen. Gronstal started that process, with more discussions in the drew a line in the sand and said that his coming weeks. However, you are starting to see caucus was not willing to compromise on some of the priority issues emerge: other areas like early childhood education and health care. Governor-Elect Branstad and o Speaker of the House Kraig Paulsen (Hiawatha) other Republicans had called for an elimination said Republicans will begin working on the very of the state’s free four-year-old preschool first day of the 2011 legislative session to find program. Democrats also say they won’t give “several hundred million dollars” to cut out of the ground on rolling back the state’s children’s current year’s budget. Rep. Paulsen said that health care program (hawk-i). he did not think Iowans would notice the cuts, because “…there's several hundred million Six Senate Committee Chairs will not be dollars in the current year's budget of marginal returning to the Capitol in 2011, leaving or no value to Iowans." Rep. Paulsen said one area they would like to cut is the Iowa Power these chair positions open: Fund, which funds alternative energy projects. Senate Education Committee: Sen. Becky Schmitz

(Fairfield) chaired this committee last year and o Speaker Paulsen also says he would give serious lost her re-election campaign. thought to shortening the planned 110-day legislative session, something legislators have Senate Government Oversight Committee: Sen. done over the past several years to save Rich Olive (Story City) was defeated this year; he money. The 2011 legislative session will start had chaired this committee in 2010. on Jan. 10 and go until April 29 if not changed. Senate Judiciary Committee: Sen. Keith Kreiman o House Republicans say they will focus on job (Bloomfield) was the Chair of this committee for creation, and on undoing property tax increases of years, but lost his election by 12 votes. His race the past two years. They will also tackle a is currently being recounted. constitutional amendment banning gay marriage early in the session. Senate State Government Committee: Sen. Staci Appel (Ackworth) chaired this committee in 2010, but also lost her election. o Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (Council Bluffs) says he is prepared to work with Senate Commerce Committee: Sen. Steve Republicans on common priorities. These Warnstadt (Sioux City) decided to retire this priorities include national board certification of year, opening up this chair position. teachers, economic development focusing on 5

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Transition Team Named: Transition Team Named: Governor-Elect Branstad Secretary of State-Elect Schultz Terry Branstad served four terms as Iowa’s It was a tough election night for first-term Governor (1983 to 1998) and was the longest Secretary of State Michael Mauro. As if narrowly serving Governor in Iowa’s history. He was also the losing the election weren’t bad enough, youngest ever elected (at age 36). This year, Secretary Mauro went home and found it Iowans gave him an unprecedented fifth term. ransacked and his laptop and other electronics stolen. It was a bad night for the Mauro family. Governor-elect Terry Branstad and Lt. Governor- elect Kim Reynolds will be sworn into office on Mauro was a champion of accessible voting, and January 14, and plan to hit the ground running. ID Action had the opportunity to work with him Their three-person transition team will include David to find new ways to encourage Iowans with Roederer (Chair), Jeff Boeyink (Co-Chair) and Tim disabilities to vote. We hope to continue that Albrecht (Communications). After January 14, they relationship with Iowa’s new Secretary of State will assume full-time roles: Matt Schultz of Council Bluffs. Schultz has already announced some of his new staff: o David Roederer (Director of the Department of Management). He was the Iowa Chamber o Jim Gibbons (Chair, Secretary of State Transition Alliance Executive Director and served as Chief Team). Gibbons will be in charge of the of Staff in the previous Branstad Administration. business services division. He is a former ISU wrestling coach. o Jeff Boeyink (Chief of Staff). He managed Branstad’s campaign and was previously the o Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman (Co-Chair, Executive Director of the Republican Party of Secretary of State Transition Team). Mosiman Iowa and President of Iowans for Tax Relief. be in charge of the elections division. o Tim Albrecht (Communications Director). He was o Rep. Doug Struyk (Legal Counsel & Policy the communications director for the Iowa House Advisor). Rep. Struyk is a retiring Council Republicans and was the Iowa Press Secretary Bluffs legislator who served as Ranking for Mitt Romeny’s Presidential Campaign. Member on the House State Government Committee, which set Election Law policies. The transition team launched a new transition web site o Stephanie Laudner (Communications Director). this week to help people keep up to date: Laudner lobbied the Iowa Legislature for the www.GovernorBranstad.com. The new site features nursing home industry and later the an interactive jobs center to submit resumes, a Department on Aging. newsroom and "Your Iowa" section where Iowans can share their ideas to help the Governor reach his One of the issues Secretary-Elect Schultz goals for the state. A recent post seeks volunteers campaigned on was requiring voters to show a for the Jan. 14 inaugural celebration. photo ID before voting, similar to an Indiana law "This new website is an excellent tool for the people that issues free voter IDs to those without of Iowa to be able to communicate directly with driver’s licenses. This change would require Governor-Elect Terry Branstad and his team,” said legislative action. For more about Secretary- Transition Team Chairman David Roederer. Elect Schultz, go to: votemattschultz.com/. 6

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Budget Challenges Greet New Lawmakers

Incoming legislative freshmen will be met with a big eliminate it. He added that the latest estimates challenge this year – balancing the state’s budget. don't take into account the impact of proposed Legislative leaders are calling this their number one changes in federal tax cuts, which could reduce priority for the year. Here is the good news/bad news: state revenues by $200 million.  The state’s panel of economic experts (called the Medicaid Budget Faces Shortfall revenue estimating conference) are “cautiously optimistic” about the state’s economy. Their job is to When legislators return to the State Capitol in predict how much money the state will have to January, they will face what Rep. Dave Heaton spend in the next year. They increased their calls “a Grand Canyon-sized hole” in the state’s predictions for 2011 by 2.2%, which is good news Medicaid budget. Rep. Heaton will chair the for legislators because they’ll have an extra $300 House Health & Human Services Budget million to help balance the budget and replace the Subcommittee, which makes recommendations one time funds used to pay for programs last year. on the Medicaid budget. Here is what he’ll face when returning to Des Moines:  The state ended its fiscal year on June 30 with a $335.6 million left in unspent funds. When you add  Medicaid is estimated to cost Iowa taxpayers this surplus to the $419 million in the state’s “Rainy $1.184 billion in 2012, while ongoing funding Day Fund,” the state ended its fiscal year with levels only cover about $584 million. One time $754 million in the bank. funds help pay for the remaining amount –  The amount of money the state collects in taxes grew including about $223 million in federal last month for the first time since March 2009. economic stimulus funds that will be gone Revenue from business taxes are up 8.2%, after this year. personal income taxes are up 6.2%, and sales  Medicaid enrollment is up by 9.4% (but funding taxes are up 3.5%. All are signs the economy is is only up by 5.2%). Medicaid continues to starting to recover. see rapid enrollment growth. In fiscal year  The current state budget depends on $700 million in 2009, the program added a total of 31,794 one-time funds to pay for ongoing programs like individuals, including 25,935 children. In Medicaid. These one-time funds came from federal fiscal year 2010, the program added an stimulus dollars, the Underground Storage Tank additional 27,164, including 19,286 children. Fund, and the state’s Cash Reserve Fund (the Total current enrollment is 377,382. state’s savings account). This money cannot be  Medicaid will need about $30 million more in used again when legislators budget for next year. state funds to pay for services this fiscal year.  Medicaid is the biggest recipient of these one-time Legislators will need to pass a supplemental funds – a whopping $464 million. One of the biggest funding bill early in session to pay for these challenges legislators will face this session will be costs, or find ways to make immediate cuts. finding ways to fix this shortfall – either with cuts or  Mental health/disability services paid for by the finding new money to fill the gap. county system will also lose one-time federal Rep. Scott Raecker, the new House Appropriations funds. Counties did not receive additional Committee Chair, said the improved revenue funds for two years and saw their funding estimates will help with the budget gap, but won’t CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 7

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Budget (continued from page 7) Health Reform Commission reduced because they were receiving Meets for Final Time additional federal “stimulus” funds. These funds also go away this year, leaving an Two years ago, the Legislature created the estimated $60 million gap in funding for Legislative Health Care Coverage Commission to county-based services. If the state does not develop a strategic plan to implement health care replace these funds, counties will need to cut reform and expand access to affordable health services, eliminate populations served, or insurance. The Commission, which includes create/expand waiting lists. members of the public, business community, insurance industry, and legislators, is wrapping up You can review the Medicaid report prepared by its work and will meet for a final time on December the Department of Human Services, Department 15 to finalize legislative recommendations. of Management and Legislative Services Agency: There are dozens of recommendations – to www.legis.state.ia.us/lsadocs/FiscUpdt/2011/FUM numerous to list here. However, if you are AS003.PDF interested in health care reform, you can find out more by clicking on the following links:

Direct Careworker Grant o General Information about the Commission: www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/Committees/Commi The Department of Public Health received a three- ttee.aspx?id=484. year federal grant to launch a pilot program to train

and certify direct care workers in Iowa. The state will receive $748,000/year for three years to o All Commission agendas, reports and handouts: implement the pilot in one rural and one urban www.legis.state.ia.us/scripts/docmgr/docmgr_ area in the state. comdocs.dll/showtypeinterim?idt=true&type=ih &com=484 The effort will target personal and home care aides that work primarily in home and community-based o Information on Work Groups: settings and provide support and services to aging www.legis.state.ia.us/aspx/Committees/Commi individuals and individuals with disabilities. The tteeInfo.aspx grant will fund the development of necessary skills and curriculum, and pay for the training of care The Commission will meet for a final time on workers in the pilot communities. The Department Wednesday, December 15 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.) at of Public Health will provide mentoring and the State Capitol in Room 103 (the Supreme Court continuing education, evaluate pilot sites, and Chamber). They will vote on their final develop the information management system recommendations, which will be available on the needed to issue credentials and collect data on website before the meeting. Iowa’s direct care workforce. The meeting is open to the public, but the public State funding is not needed to match the federal cannot participate unless asked by a member of funding. For more information, go to: the committee.

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2010 Issue #11 November 22, 2010

Every Vote DOES Count!

For the past four election cycles, ID Action has gone out on the road to train Iowans with disabilities on their voting rights. We always tell people that every vote counts, and elections often come down to a handful of votes.

Well if you had any doubt, just look at the races from this last election.

 As noted before, the race to replace retiring Sen. Roger Stewart (Preston) came down to just 38 votes on election night. After all the absentee ballots were counted, Tod Bowman (Democrat) ended up beating Andrew Naeve (Republican) by 71 votes. Naeve has requested a recount, but most believe that it will not change the outcome.

 Also noted before, Sen. Keith Kreiman (Bloomfield) ended up losing his seat to Republican Mark Chelgren by only 12 votes. Kreiman has requested a recount.

 Democrats narrowly held on to the seat vacated by Rep. Marcella Frevert (Emmetsburg). Democrat John Wittneben beat Republican Lannie Miller by only 32 votes.

 Rep. (Hawkeye) held on to his Northeast Iowa seat after defeating Republican Roger Arthur by only 36 votes.

 28 votes also decided the fate of a Central Iowa legislative race. Rep. Donovan Olson (Boone) lost his seat to Republican by 23 votes.

There were many races that were decided by 100-200 votes (which out of 12,000 votes is not much). Lesson learned this cycle? Every vote does count!

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Reader Question: What happens to Department Heads when a new Governor comes in?

State agency heads work for the Governor, and when the Governor changes, they usually are out of a job. Historically, Governors have kept on some directors. It is not known yet what Governor-Elect Branstad will do. Here is what we do know:  Governor Culver’s Department of Management Director Dick Oshlo is out. David Roederer replaces him.  Department of Transportation Director Nancy Richardson plans to retire. No replacement has been named. Of note, Nancy Richardson is married to Department of Human Services Director Charlie Krogmeier.  Department of Natural Resources Director Richard Leopold left this summer for a federal appointment to the US Fish & Wildlife Service. No replacement has been named (although there is an acting director).  Department of Education Director Judy Jeffries retired in April. No permanent director has been named (there is an acting director).  Department of Inspections & Appeals Director Dean Lerner is a top target of Republicans and Governor-Elect Branstad, so expect to see this position replaced quickly.  Department on Aging Director Ro Foege has been serving as the interim director for several months. Foege is former State Representative that chaired the House Health & Human Services Budget Subcommittee.

Typically, the incoming Governor asks all state agency directors to submit a letter of resignation. The Governor can then decide whether to accept the resignations, reject them, or ask them to stay on temporarily or permanently. You will begin to see these announcements in the coming weeks – so watch our website (www.infonetiowa.com) and Facebook page for timely updates. Send us your questions! You can email us at: [email protected] or call us at: 866/432-2846 (toll free) or 866/432-2847 (toll free TTY/TDD). Press option #3 to leave us your question.

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Capitol Day Grants NNeeww FFeeaattuurree:: Available! CCaalleennddaarr!! Readers often tell us they want to This summer, several local advocacy groups took know more about the scheduled events at the advantage of ID Action's offer to help fund local Capitol during the legislative session. On the advocating for change campaigns. Groups used next page, we have added a calendar to help these grants to fund "Get Out The Vote" efforts, keep you informed. It will now be a regular host town hall meetings and educate voters with feature in infoNET. disabilities about their voting rights. While legislators have not yet scheduled their This year, ID Action legislative forums and town hall meetings, will continue to build IowaPolitics.com, Drake University, and on these efforts to Mediacom are hosting a forum with newly develop committed elected legislative leaders on Wednesday, local advocates. December 15.

ID Action wants to help five local advocacy The audience will be allowed to ask questions and groups interested in having their own the event will later be broadcast on the Mediacom "Advocacy Day" at the State Capitol during Connections channel statewide and will be the 2011 legislative session. Grant funds are available for On Demand viewing on Mediacom available to help offset costs, including Channel 1. Attending are: transportation. These funds are available on a first come, first serve basis, and are limited to one  Rep. Linda Upmeyer (Majority Leader) group per community.  Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Minority Leader)  Sen. Jack Kibbie (Senate President) Eligible advocacy groups must:  Sen. Paul McKinley (Minority Leader)

 Include at least 10 persons with developmental This “Cookies & Conversation” forum is free and disabilities (but no more than 30). open to the public. Registration is required. You  Participate in an advocacy training/briefing at can register by email ([email protected]) or the beginning of the Capitol day. online at:  Schedule a Capitol Day between the months www.esurveycentral.com/TakeSurvey.asp?Survey of January and April, Monday-Wednesday. ID=3L1ml36Illm01.  Promise to meet and talk with their legislators The forum will be held in Des Moines at Drake while at the Capitol. University’s Levitt Hall in the Old Main Building, 2507 University Avenue. Doors open at 8 a.m. Other activities may include (depending on the and taping of the show will be from 8:30 to 9:30 legislative schedule): watching floor debates, a.m. Free parking will be available in Drake lots at attending committee meetings and meeting state 26th & University and 25th & Carpenter. agency staff. For more information, contact ID Action at [email protected] or 1-866-432-2846.

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