Some Iowans are upset about Senator Chuck Grassley’s recent comment about how a person who doesn’t save money may just be blowing it on “booze or women or movies.” Grassley, a Republican, says he was defending the G-O-P effort to scale back federal estate taxes as a way to help people who invest.

 

Grassley says the critics are taking his comments to the paper out of context.

 

Members of the Iowa Citizen Action Network, the Main Street Alliance of Iowa and Americans for Democratic Action Iowa hosted rallies outside two of Grassley’s Iowa offices to protest his remarks. A spokeswoman for I-CAN released a statement saying: “Not only is his comment sexist, and elitist, it shows just how far removed he has become from the hard working Iowans he is supposed to represent.”