The Marion County Republicans held their annual convention this past weekend. The convention was to help choose delegates for the District and State conventions and help the party shape their platform. Both adults and children participated at the convention. Knoxville student Claira Unger tells KNIA/KRLS News about a suggestion she made to the committee.

“That you need to be a recognized citizen to vote and you have to be fair about it.”

Several Republican members of the legislature were in attendance including Senator Ken Rozenboom from district 40 and Representatives Jon Thorup of District 28 and Brooke Boden of District 23 who all spoke briefly. Former member of the Iowa House Greg Heartsill and current candidate for House District 37 also spoke. The committee drafted their proposed 2022 platform planks to be added to the Republican Party platform.

Proposed 2022 Marion County Iowa Platform Planks to be added to the  2020 Iowa Republican Platform 

1.  (Commerce): We support legislation that denounces human trafficking. We believe human trafficking is modern-day slavery where vulnerable people are forced or coerced into involuntary servitude for the purposes of financial profits for traffickers. We need to allocate funds for victim  services and amend the victim service budget line item to include human trafficking, homicide, and  other violet crimes. We must create sexual abuse prevention policy requiring schools to provide  child sex abuse awareness and prevention for students, parents, and school employees and adopt a  Safe Harbor Law protecting minors against prosecution of any crimes committed while they were  trafficked and enact expungement of crimes committed by adult survivors while incurred while  being trafficked. 

 

2.  We support Voter I.D., more difficult qualifications for absentee voting, paper ballots, and voter  monitoring of vote counts, and same day elections. 

 

3.  (Learn to Work Law) Eliminate restriction on people under 18 from doing manual labor. 

 

4.  As Iowa Republicans, we demand accountability from the RPI and insist that they refrain from  picking candidates, favoring candidates, and permit the people to decide who we support. 

 

5.  We demand our representatives draft and fight for legislation to protect the livelihood of all private  sector, city, county, state and federal employees and military personnel who refuse to bow to  medical tyranny while reasserting our inalienable rights to protect our bodies which are private  property. 

 

6.  We support the convening of a Convention of States according to Article V of the United States for  the purpose of limiting Federal Government. 

 

7.  Stop the use of public funds to purchase pornographic materials for use in public libraries and public  schools.  

 

8.  Use state funds to increase pay for individuals working in handicapped or senior care facilities to — competitive levels. 

 

9.  Increase the Iowa bottle/can bill to $.10 and allow clients at handicap workshops to process the  returns. 

 

10.  The state will be prohibited from limiting a local communities right to set local dress code standards  for public places.

 

11.  That all materials containing adult themes not be generally available in public libraries but only  obtained from the library desk so access to such materials can be controlled. 

 

12.  That legal protections for transgender individuals be removed from the Iowa Civil Rights Code. 

 

13.  Pursuant to the 2018 Iowa Republican Platform, I propose that section titled Liberty, specifically  No.8, be amended to add the following words (underscored): 

       . Pursuant to the 2018 Iowa Republican Platform, I propose that section titled Liberty,  specifically No.8, be amended to          add the following words (underscored): 

8. We call for the repeal of sexual orientation and gender identify as a protected class in The Iowa Civil Rights Code and reject any additional similar legislation to Local, State, or National Code. 

       14.  I propose that Governor Kim Reynolds invoke Article VI – Militia in the Iowa Constitution, and give  written permission pursuant to Iowa Code 29A.31 to reactivate and commission officers in Iowa  Militia; to recognize an “unorganized” citizens volunteer militia as vital to the security and defense  of Iowa communities against a high probability of Democrat insurrection after the mid-term  election. Democrat mob violence will only intensify nationally if Donald Trump is reelected president  in 2024.