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KCRG : Vander Plaats Calls Vote a Referendum on Failed Leadership | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spo

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:48:55 +0000

You either voted or abstained in the elections that put leaders in place to make decisions on your behalf. We are a representative form of government. Just as no one asked you to vote on how to balance the state budget, or which roads were going to be built out of state funds.

KCRG : Vander Plaats Calls Vote a Referendum on Failed Leadership | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spo

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:39:08 +0000

I don't fear such a vote at all, if that were to happen, so long as hatemongering right wing activists from out of state didn't outspend any other voice 1,000,000 to 1 in spreading their vitriole. There is no majority in the hearts and minds of Iowans. Mind you before women's suffrage came in and pushed the envelope, putting the women's right to vote to a vote would've prevented women from ever getting the right to vote. Think process! We elect folks to make decisions for us, we are a representative form of government. We also elect our folks to appoint people, such as Supreme Court justices.

KCRG : Vander Plaats Calls Vote a Referendum on Failed Leadership | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spo

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:50:49 +0000

The majority did not rule, that's the point. In fact, this is an area, as with a lot of social change, where there ISN'T a clear majority.

KCRG : Vander Plaats Calls Vote a Referendum on Failed Leadership | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spo

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:21:54 +0000

Yeah - facts, who needs 'em.

KCRG : 88-Year-Old Veteran Volunteers to Help Other Vets | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:13:06 +0000

What a great example Mr. Zumwalt is to younger generations!

KCRG : Vander Plaats Calls Vote a Referendum on Failed Leadership | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spo

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:10:49 +0000

You are wrong about the will of the people of Iowa. Less than half of the people in Iowa are against it. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090921...

KCRG : Vander Plaats Calls Vote a Referendum on Failed Leadership | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Spo

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:08:46 +0000

The people of Iowa have already rejected Vander Plaats. If he wasn't the puppet of a strong, out-of-state, wing-nut so called "familiy values" organization that literally pumped over a million dollars into Iowa's airwaves, the judges would've been retained as always and no one would be listening to him.

KCRG : Cedar Rapids Police Target Prostitutes’ Customers in Weekend Sting | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids,

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:52:24 +0000

You are right, the only way I'd care if it were taking place in front of my house. Worse crimes are occuring on the same streets and behind closed doors, so it is a matter of priority. Drugs and prostitution are distrinct crimes, and the latter doesn't in and of itself hurt either party.

KCRG : Stranded Woman Sexually Assaulted in Grant County | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:35:48 +0000

The language in this article is troubling - "claims" and "she said". At least say "allegedly". The way the story is written downgrades the credibility of the report without ANY evidence for or against the "claim". It takes a lot of guts for victims to report, so let's not perpetuate a double standard about the truthfulness and accuracy of this alleged crime vs. a simple mugging.

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:38:53 +0000

How do you know what marriage was meant to be?

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:37:58 +0000

America's core values were "red.iculous" - no rights for women, or people of color. Enslavement of people of color! What makes you think there are core values that even half the citizens could agree on?

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:33:18 +0000

So are you a real man, IABoy?

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:31:24 +0000

My creator also made gay people the way they are and he loves no one more than another.

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:29:21 +0000

You are right, I came on too strong with that comment in my first sentence. If we could get ourselves to a place where we could have civil discourse we'd be in a much better place.

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 02:27:53 +0000

Apparently not soon enough for these bloodthirsty pitchfork carrriers.

KCRG : Judges\' Removal Encourages Gay Marriage Opponents | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 02:14:34 +0000

Those of you who voted "no" based on the rationale of gay marriage have sold a little piece of your soul. The mere price for the lot of you was a couple of million bucks from a fundamentalist group based in MISSISSIPPI, who merely hired (the loser) Vander Plaats as their puppet. I am ashamed of the ignorance and bigotry that has been displayed by Iowans. Culver should immediately reconvene the non-partisan commission in order that they might consider reappointing those 3.

KCRG : Defense Calls Psychologist in Kehoe Trial | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:14:25 +0000

Couldn't agree more!!

KCRG : WATCH LIVE: The Michelle Kehoe trial | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Loc

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:09:05 +0000

This should be a discussion about where she belongs for the rest of her life, and her defense attorney should be able to concede her guilt and move immediately into dispositioning her - in a jail with murderers, or in an facility equipped to contain insane murderers. Either way she should be locked away. In her case, it would be best to let her end her own life! Why protect her from herself? She has nothing, nothing at all to give back to society. She is a scourge to motherhood and womankind.

KCRG : Woman Charged After Report About Car in Lake | KCRG-TV9Cedar Rapids, Iowa| Local News

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:43:47 +0000

The incidents of false reports are ~2%, validated through more than one independent crime study. However, news media highlight every single false report. Same when a women us the violent perpetrator. Low incidence, high reporting. Whereas violent crimes against women are high incidence, lower reporting. Its just not as newsworthy when what typically happens, happens.