At that time that Cindy refers to, the "champion" for the commercial  
"washboard" mussel harvester(s) was then-Representative Jim Hahn  
(-Muscatine).  As floor debate eventually revealed, Hahn was defending  
only one commercial mussel harvester--a constituent.  Then-Rep. Hahn  
was also a member of the Republican majority, and he prevailed.  The  
washboard mussel battle may have been Hahn's most conspicuous effort  
as a Representative.  Now a member of the Upper House, he appears,  
perhaps fittingly, to have become Iowa's most inconspicuous Senator.

--Bill Witt



Quoting Cindy Hildebrand <[log in to unmask]>:

> Thanks for posting this turtle information, Jane.   What a sad  situation.
>
> I worked on the freshwater-mussel harvest issue at the Iowa Capitol years
> ago.  The impression I got back then, after attending a number of  committee
> meetings, was that if even one Iowan was making a  significant profit by
> unsustainably harvesting a wild resource, the  Iowa Legislature would be very
> reluctant to halt the harvest, even though of  course some   
> individual legislators
> would want to do so.
>
> I hope things have changed since then.  I don't know.
>
> ch
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> Dickens)
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