Essential Estrogen

Mark Langgin at Bleeding Heartland was, we believe, the first in the Iowa blogosphere to report on the absence of some GOP Iowa House members from a public hearing they called. Mark's report was then followed by Geraldine at Iowa Progress. So, while it isn't 'our' story, it still deserves a few lines here since three of the four negligent representatives were women.

Without recapping the story, we do hope there was a circumstance which required Rep. Carmine Boal (R-Ankeny), Rep. Linda Miller (R-Bettendorf) and Rep. Tami Wiencek (R-Waterloo) to miss a meeting they scheduled. To do so without a legitimate excuse is unacceptable.