Liberal Republican State Rep. Megan Jones did not dispute her liberal voting record at all in an interview with the Storm Lake Times. The local newspaper wrote about The Iowa Standard’s urging for a primary opponent against the left-of-center Republican.
Jones has the following voting record:
*Supported sex-change surgeries for kids
*Supported allowing boys’ to use the girls’ bathroom
*Opposed removing obscene materials from school libraries
*Opposed a ban on taxpayer money being used for sex-change surgeries
*Opposed a ban on taxpayer money going to abortion providers for sex-ed purposes
*Opposed a ban on sanctuary cities and counties in Iowa
*Opposed the campus free speech bill
*Supported the gas tax increase
That liberal voting record represents a district with 6,550 Republicans and just 2,615 Democrats. Democrats don’t even challenge Jones, and with her voting record, who can blame them?
Jones, who also has received donations from the Iowa teachers’ union, didn’t dispute her record but defended her liberalism. Regarding her vote in support of letting boys use the girls’ bathroom, she said:
“I heard from people concerned they could not comply, not because of the spirit of the law, but because of the unintended consequences. If it couldn’t be drafted correctly — there were no changes or amendments to their language — then we should have let the school district handle their business.”
Well, maybe we should let girls handle their business without boys in the same bathroom. But apparently, that’s a bridge too far for Megan Jones. Because, you know, “unintended consequences.”
Jones tried to make the argument that government should be limited, and that’s why girls should have to share the bathroom with boys — if local government decides. And I guess that’s why children should undergo radical, experimental, permanent sex-change treatments and surgeries. It’s crazy to think child abuse is now something that shouldn’t be outlawed at the state level because of “freedom.”
“Too often, we have looked to government as the solution,” Jones said. “What I am hearing from constituents is that they want government out of their way.”
Out of their way to change the sex of kids? Seriously. People who advocate for these harmful, dangerous, experimental treatments shouldn’t be represented, they should be reported.
Jones also defended having sexually explicit materials in schools, something she has done before. Jones said the law was “incredibly broad.”
The liberal attorney said she’s voted against conservative measures many times because, as a lawyer, she was “concerned” the law would be unconstitutional.
Speaker of the Iowa House, Pat Grassley, defended Jones in an email to the Storm Lake Times, noting that the liberal Jones “works hard” to represent the district. While Grassley appreciates her hard work, he didn’t offer an explicit endorsement of Jones should she face a primary.
And it’s likely he really appreciates the $327,293 she has donated to the Republican Party of Iowa (and Iowa House Majority Fund) more than her actual work. Most of that money is raised from PACs and lobbyists.
Jones has a defender in the district — and it just happens to be flaming liberal journalist Art Cullen, who The Des Moines Register called one of the nation’s “leading progressive voices.” The Register also wrote that “Washington Post reporters” complimented his work.
Cullen said Jones is “on the right side of compassion and the Constitution.” He referenced the bill protecting kids from sexually explicit materials and the ban on teaching divisive concepts such as Critical Race Theory this way:
“These laws that take Iowa backwards into a state of ignorance were promulgated by a national political action group called Moms for Liberty, closely associated with Gov. Kim Reynolds and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
He continued:
“Those who want to lock gays in a closet and ban books about slavery from the classroom should go ahead and drum up a primary candidate…If (Jones) lost a GOP primary, we suspect Jones would win a general election as an independent.”
Art apparently doesn’t know that Iowa has a sore loser law, which wouldn’t allow her to run as an independent if she lost the primary. But you know, we don’t want Iowa to move backwards into a state of ignorance, or something.
To be clear, Cullen called the bill protecting kids from sexually explicit materials, “stupid.” To be clearer, here is what materials that bill bans from schools:
- Penetration of the penis into the vagina or anus.
- Contact between the mouth and genitalia or mouth and anus.
- Contact between the genitalia of one person and the genitalia or anus of another person.
- Contact between the finger, hand or other body part of one person and the genitalia or anus of another person, except for medical examinations.
- Ejaculation onto another person.
- Use of artificial sexual organs or substitutes in contact with the genitalia or anus.
- The touching of someone’s own genitals or anus with a finger, hand or artificial sexual organ or another similar device at the direction of another person.
Cullen wants materials that describe or visually depict those things in Iowa schools. Why?
Cullen thinks it is “stupid” to keep materials that describe or visually depict those things out of schools. Why?
Cullen is pulling for Jones if she does face a conservative primary challenger.
“The next step is for every teacher, librarian, school board member and freedom-loving citizen to line up behind Rep. Megan Jones. If she puts down a Puritan, we will have struck a blow for civil society,” Cullen concluded.
Look, Jones opposed giving families the freedom to choose the school best for their children in 2022. In 2023, she voted in support of Education Savings Accounts, but only after the bill had already passed. She walked to the well in the House after the vote was recorded and decided to cast a yes vote because it passed anyway without her support.
She was reluctant to support parents having a choice in education but decided to battle for parents to have the right to try to turn their son into a daughter and vice versa.
Jones didn’t just oppose the bill protecting kids from radical, experimental sex-change treatments and surgeries, she filed an amendment trying to essentially kill it.
That amendment failed, thankfully, and Iowa lawmakers protected kids who can’t legally decide to smoke, drink, get a tattoo or vote but in Megan Jones’ world can decide to have healthy body parts hacked off and receive life-altering hormone therapy drugs.
Let’s hope there is a choice in House District 6. The conservatives in the district — and more importantly the kids of Iowa — deserve someone willing to protect them.
