On Monday, The Iowa Standard sent a legislative candidate questionnaire to most candidates running in contested races this November.
Democrat Ryan Roenfeld will apparently not be answering the questions, which are included below. However, he did respond with this:
“Only Nazi mother(expletives) and bat(expletive) whacko fundies like Al Qaeda support banning books. Never ever in my 52 years in Mills County were those people ever the good guys. Were they?”
Roenfeld is running against Republican State Sen. Mark Costello. Costello has not responded to the survey as of Tuesday morning. Costello and Roenfeld are running in Iowa Senate District 8:
Here are the questions we asked:
*Do you support providing liability immunity for pesticides?
*At what point of a pregnancy, if any, should abortion be prohibited?
*Should Iowa reform the governor’s emergency powers?
*Are you supportive of efforts at the state level to crack down on illegal immigration?
*Would you support an effort to prohibit social media companies from throttling political speech?
*Would you support an effort to reform eminent domain laws in Iowa as it relates to private, for-profit projects such as the carbon capture pipeline?
*Do you support “public dollars” (food stamps) being used at private grocery stores?
*Do you support “public dollars” (Medicaid) being used at private hospitals?
*Do you support “public dollars” (Iowa Tuition Grant) being used at private colleges?
*Do you support “public dollars” (Education Savings Accounts) being used at private schools?
*Should children be prohibited from attending drag queen shows?
*Do you support prohibiting “minor attraction” from being considered a sexual orientation in Iowa law?
*Do you support allowing kids to undergo sex change treatments and surgeries?
*Do you support laws that prohibit people assigned male at birth from playing in women’s sports?
*Do you support books that VISUALLY DEPICT or DESCRIBE the following activities:
Any sexual contact between two or more persons by any of the following:
1. Penetration of the penis into the vagina or anus.
2. Contact between the mouth and genitalia or mouth and anus or by contact between the genitalia of one person and the genitalia or anus of another person.
3. Contact between the finger, hand, or other body part of one person and the
genitalia or anus of another person, except in the course of examination
or treatment by a person licensed pursuant to chapter 148, 148C, 151 or 152.
4. Ejaculation onto the person of another.
5. By use of artificial sexual organs or substitutes therefore in contact with the genitalia or anus.
6. The touching of a person’s own genitals or anus with a finger, hand, or
artificial sexual organ or other similar device at the direction of another person.
Being available to children without parental consent in school libraries?
Being available to children without parental consent in public libraries?
