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Iowa Republican State Senator Tells Students to ‘Go Home’ At Budget Hearing - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

Iowa Republican State Senator Tells Students to ‘Go Home’ At Budget Hearing - E.D. Kain - American Times - Forbes

Iowa Republican State Senator Tells Students to ‘Go Home’ At Budget Hearing

This doesn’t strike me as a very good way to maintain a healthy political discourse:

A group of students from all three regents universities visited the state Capitol on Monday to speak about potential budget cuts. However, they were told by Sen. Shawn Hammerlinck (R-Dixon) to "go home."

"It was nice that somebody asked us to come to talk about what a seven percent cut, a $41 million cut, how that would affect the students of those universities," said Jared Knight, vice president of the Government of the Student Body. "We were happy that somebody asked us to talk about that."

After the student representatives were finished, Hammerlinck gave a response. Hammerlinck told