In the second conversation with Deidre DeJear, I caught up with her in March. She was at Drake - her alma mater - speaking to a group of Iowa girls from around the state. They ranged in age from middle to high school she told me.

She took time out of her schedule that day to chat with me about:

* the power of girls sports (and how anti-trans bill hurts all girls)

* the possiblity of having to govern by veto (with a house and senate remaining under GOP control),

* we've had governors in our path both Republicans and Democrats who've been able to carry on this torch, unfortunately, under Kim's leadership, that torch them.”

* fundraising (and a couple of anonomously sourced DSM Register articles about her fundraising that raised issues of ethics in journalism) and pulling Iow— democrats together

* And why she felt she had to call out Governor Reynolds on Twitter for lying to Iowans about the pandemic and federal resources.

But - that will all be later this week as I am traveling and have to put the finishing touches on the audio!

Transcript of clip:

“Iowa, I firmly believe has been a Petri dish for political progress nearly 100 years before—the rest of the country to say that every student, regardless of their race, or gender should have access to quality public education.

We continued along that path and rose to the occasion and became number one in this nation. And while we lead in education, we see the world and we feel this country as well.

And so this is a battleground of how we fight for the best of who we are, and it can happen in the state because it's happened before.

“I'm okay with us [Iowa] leading But needless to say, we've got to get back to leading and we need a governor that's going to take us in that direction because we've had governors in our path both Republicans and Democrats who've been able to carry on this torch, unfortunately, under Kim's leadership, that torch is dimming.”

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