‘Name calling, attacking, trying to assault a legislator is not constructive’
DES MOINES — A University of Iowa doctoral candidate was escorted out of a higher education subcommittee meeting Monday following a contentious back-and-forth over a DEI-related bill, compelling the woman to take a swipe at Rep. Steve Holt as she left.
“I don’t know what is going on, but we have to have civil discourse. It’s a subcommittee,” Rep. Skyler Wheeler, R-Hull, said. “Name calling, attacking, trying to assault a legislator is not constructive. And if your goal is to try and end these bills, I want to give you some friendly advice — I wouldn’t act that way. Because other legislators are going to see that and go, maybe I need to vote for this thing if they’re going to act this way.”…