Iowa Senator Joni Ernst visited Indianola Monday, as the first stop in her annual 99-county tour of the state. While visiting, Senator Ernst talked about her experiences inside the US Capitol building on January 6th when rioters made their way inside the building, and stressed to Iowans they should not take the situation lightly.
“I was in the Senate chamber, and it was horrifying. It was horrifying, and I need to stress that everybody that thinks oh well that was okay they were just a little exuberant. No, this was anarchy. When you have people that lose their lives. When you have destruction of our great seat of democracy, the United States Capitol, I am not only saddened and heartbroken but it makes me angry. That I had to grab two terrified girls that were serving as pages, and escort them out on the safety route. They need to know what they were doing, they were terrorizing old men and young girls.”
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst visited Indianola Monday, her first stop in her annual 99-county tour of Iowa. Senator Ernst took a tour of local company IdRamp, a local company focused on Digital Identity and privacy. Senator Ernst tells KNIA News as part of her duties with the Senate Judiciary Committee, she felt it was important to visit a local technology company with local implications, and get answers and information from a company that isn’t a conglomerate.
“There is a way that we can house information or have that accessible without housing it at a large tech company like Google or so forth. To have that fragmented was one of the key words. Fragmented, fractured, instead of all centrally located. It also protects people’s privacy.”