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Art Cullen, editor of the twice-weekly Storm Lake Times, won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing last year for his editorials on water quality and agricultural issues, and his family won the 2017 Tom and Pat Gish Award. But Republicans in the GOP-controlled Iowa Senate stalled a resolution to honor him since Feb. 14. "Republicans in Iowa indicated that the journalist’s reporting had rubbed some lawmakers the wrong way, which is why Senate Resolution 108 has been stalled for months," Morgan Gstalter reports for The Hill.
That's when a member of the Senate in the Cullens' ancestral homeland of Ireland, from whence they immigrated five generations ago, decided to step in. The Irish Senate passed a resolution honoring Cullen's Pulitzer win yesterday. The motion was introduced by Irish Sen. Mark Daly, the spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, the Irish Overseas and Diaspora.
"Iowa Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver (R) told reporters on Thursday that they’re 'not really taking the lead from the Irish Senate' on considering the resolution," Gstalter reports.
Cullen wrote in a column Wednesday that he "would not want the support of a den of philanderers and oafs" and "I honestly do not care if I am ever honored by the Iowa Senate, the U.S. Congress or any other institution of dysfunction and cynicism. We did not get into this business to win awards or receive resolutions."
It remains to be seen whether the Iowa Senate will honor this year's Pulitzer winner for Editorial Writing: Andie Dominick of the Des Moines Register, who won for her columns on how privatizing the state's administration of Medicaid hurt the poorest Iowans.
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