Deidre DeJear posted on social media during her gubernatorial campaign in Iowa a video that says Gov. Kim Reynolds doesn’t think nurses are educated.
. The plan, Reynolds said, would transfer college debt from people with high-paying jobs and a degree to those who choose not to go to college:
"And if you’re the truck driver or a machinist or a nurse, or a person that decided not to seek a college education, why should you be responsible in paying somebody else’s off?" Deidre DeJear, Reynolds’ Democratic challenger from Des Moines, used Reynolds’ comment in a social media video, showing Reynolds saying in the Iowa PBS debate:"And if you’re the truck driver, or machinist, or a nurse, or a person that decided not to seek a college education."and other social media, then states:"Kim Reynolds doesn’t think nurses are educated. She’s wrong."
But Reynolds did not explicitly say nurses are not educated so we took a closer look at what the governor said. In the debate. In the debate, Reynolds begins with a list of professions that are unrelated, then adds:"or a person that decided not to seek a college education.
Pat Garrett, Reynolds’ campaign communications director, said Reynolds did not mean that nurses aren’t educated."She is saying they shouldn’t be responsible for paying off the debt of others," Garrett wrote in an email to PolitiFact Iowa.Student loan forgiveness is “passed. I got it passed by a vote or two. And it’s in effect.
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