Pat Murphy: "You know how Christopher likes to overdramatize. He’s winning an Academy Award today"

From the Des Moines Register:

The Iowa House will debate the merits of a car-title loan bill tonight — and the late notice from the majority party upset Republicans, then spiralled into a conflict with black legislators.

Although the bill has been on a calendar of legislation eligible for debate, the Democratic leadership didn’t disclose that the bill would be debated today until this afternoon. Because of the late notice, Republicans said they had missed the deadline for filing a long amendment they were polishing up with the help of six Democrats.

Steamed at that news, House Minority Leader Christopher Rants called for an immediate meeting of House Republicans. This postponed a presentation by a national delegation of African-Americans, who were in town to hand over historic legal archives to Drake University on the first day of Black History Month.

After waiting 45 minutes, the group, from the National Bar Association, had to leave for its next appointment. One black legislator, Rep. Helen Miller, a Democrat from Fort Dodge, was in tears, frustrated that the group didn’t get to speak.

When Rants emerged from his meeting, he heatedly told reporters that the Democratic leadership had misled Republicans and used “strong-arm tactics”
to squelch public debate.

In response, House Speaker Pat Murphy told reporters the car title loans bill has been on the debate calendar for the better part of two weeks. “We told them to be ready for two bills,” he said, referring also to an antibullying bill. “It’s not like we had 47 bills sitting out there.”

Murphy added, “You know how Christopher likes to overdramatize. He’s winning an Academy Award today.”

Three other black legislators — Democrats Rep. Wayne Ford of Des Moines, Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad of Des Moines, and Rep. Deborah Berry of Waterloo — admonished Rants. Berry called his disruption “childish” and Ford called it “embarrassing.”

I've got a couple questions directed towards Rants.

1. Why did an organization Rants is heavily involved with take $40,000 from car-title loanshark kingpin Rod Aycox, a fella with known ties to people involved with organized crime?

2. What's conservative about a business designed to prey upon the dumbest of the poor with 360% interest rates?

Dirty, dirty, dirty. That's all Christopher Rants is. A totally fake Konservative who's on the take of people with ties to organized crime; the very same people who want to fuck the stupid poor with their monopoly on legalized loansharking in Iowa. Ain't nuthin' KONSERVATIVE 'bout that.