The retired human resources manager brought in by the Iowa Senate’s G-O-P leader to draft new rules of conduct for the legislature says she regrets not acting while she was a member of the senate. Mary Kramer of West Des Moines served as a state senator for more than a decade and was president of the senate for two terms.
Kramer is the former human resources manager for Wellmark, the state’s largest insurance company. She was brought in after a former Senate G-O-P staffer was awarded nearly two-million dollars to settle her lawsuit over a toxic workplace.
Kramer will ask the Iowa Senate AND House to pass a resolution outlining those goals. She’s also recommending a system be set up for reporting legislators, staff, lobbyists or members of the media who engage in questionable conduct. Kramer says while it’s ultimately up to voters to decide whether their legislators stay in office, voters need to be armed with information. She will recommend making founded incidents of workplace misconduct public.
