Speaking to reporters at a press conference Monday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, addressed Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s comments that Democrats are “flipping the bird to the American people.”
Steele was discussing health care reform, about which he later said, “I intend to have my foot [...]
The Des Moines Register is reporting Monday that the National Republican Campaign Committee has launched a robo call against 3rd District Rep. Leonard Boswell, hammering the Des Moines Democrat on issues ranging from health care to cap and trade to the federal stimulus.
The script, according to The [...]
The Ames Straw poll is only 20 months away, so obviously it’s time to roll out Iowa Caucus power rankings.
A three-way Republican primary battle is taking shape for the right to challenge Democratic incumbent Secretary of State Michael Mauro.
Mike Huckabee compares U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson to Judas [...]
Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize winning Web site operated by the St. Petersburg Times, has picked its “Lie of the Year,” and U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, played a part in spreading it.
The lie that stood out above all other in 2009, according to Politifact, was a Republican talking point [...]
Two days after praising U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., to Des Moines Register columnist Kathie Obradovich, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, released a statement attacking the lawmaker for an abortion compromise in health care reform.
In order to garner Nelson’s support, Senate Democratic leaders included a provision in their [...]
A $750,000 allocation to help restore Des Moines’ historic downtown library secured by U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Des Moines, is a waste of tax money and further proof that many lawmakers are “money junkies,” a Republican candidate for Boswell’s seat said Friday morning.
Dave [...]
While he understands why Democrats in the Senate made the changes they have to health care reform legislation, including dropping the public option, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, said their version of the bill is unlikely to pass in the House.
In an interview with Des Moines Register columnist [...]
President Barack Obama has the best intentions with his foreign policy, but his rhetoric “sends signals he’s ambivalent” and could lead enemies of the United States to believe he won’t be “tough-nosed when our national security’s at stake,” U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Thursday.
“And I think it [...]
Provisions of the federal economic recovery legislation passed earlier this year are protecting an estimated 40,000 Iowans from living in poverty, according to a new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The nonpartisan Washington, D.C.,-based research and policy institute found that the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]
The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Hayworth reports that the race to replace former House Speaker Chris Rants in HD54 is shaping up, with Republican Ron Jorgensen announcing his candidacy Wednesday.
Rants, who is giving up his seat in order to run for the Republican nomination for governor, has been [...]
Patrick Bertroche has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission forming a campaign committee in the 3rd District Republican primary.
Bertroche, a doctor from Urbandale, plans to formally announce his campaign Friday at E. 14th Street and Euclid Avenue in Des Moines near a closed Younkers department store in order [...]
They may not agree on much (health care reform, climate change, housing terrorism suspects in Illinois) but Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democratic U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley have found common ground on at least one issue — loud television advertisements.
Asked by reporters if he’d be willing to [...]
A figure regularly cited by Democrats, most recently U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, that 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day is no longer accurate, according to analysis by PolitiFact.
Research showed the number had fallen since the summer to roughly 8,000 people a day.
[...] Gov. Chet Culver will sign an executive order implementing 40 of 90 recommendations issued by a consulting firm to trim the state’s budget.
Culver commissioned the firm Public Works LLC to conduct a government-wide study to identify potential cost savings through efficiency gains. Their report was issued last week. [...]
A vote on the medical use of marijuana has been delayed until February, the Iowa Board of Pharmacy announced Monday.
The delay allows the board to read the 12,000 pages of written comments submitted in regards to the plan, which if approved would recommend that the state legislature legalize marijuana [...]
Even if a version of health care reform legislation in the U.S. Senate does not include a public option or a Medicare expansion, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said it still has enough positive attributes to garner his support.
Liberal blog Talking Points Memo caught Harkin on his [...]
Even though it took a week of pressure to convince him, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, deserves praise for finally doing the right thing and speaking out against proposed legislation in Uganda that would sentence those found to be homosexual to death, the state’s largest gay-rights group said Monday.
“He [...]
Members of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake voted to withdraw from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday because of the organization’s decision to allow homosexuals in committed relationship to serve as pastors, the Mason City Globe Gazette reports.
From the Globe Gazette:
The vote was 238 to [...]
Iowa’s labor unions have stepped up and made sacrifices in order to help the state get past record deficits, and now it’s time for lawmakers to look at the tax code, two prominent labor leaders said.
During a taping of Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” the American Federation of State, [...]
Incumbent U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Des Moines, has yet another Republican challenger, as retired architect Mark Rees has officially joined the 2010 3rd District GOP primary.
Rees formed a campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission last week. His campaign Web site, www.markreesforcongress.com, will go live next week [...]
A panel of experts announced Friday that Iowa’s revenue would once again shrink this fiscal year, but additional layoffs, furloughs or program cuts will not be needed.
The Revenue Estimating Conference, a three-member panel of experts whose revenue predictions are used to guide the governor and state legislature in setting [...]
Recommendations issued by a consulting firm that promise to save the state $341 million could be authorized by an executive order in the coming days, a spokesman for Gov. Chet Culver said Friday.
Public Works LLC issued their recommendations Tuesday. Among the 90 ideas, the firm’s report advocates [...]
Democrat Mark Seidl of Cedar Rapids has announced he’ll challenge incumbent Republican state Rep. Renee Schulte in Iowa House District 37.
Schulte won the district, which encompasses primarily northeastern Cedar Rapids, by defeating incumbent Democrat Art Staed in 2008 by only 13 votes. According to the Iowa Secretary [...]
The National Journal asked Republicans which member of their party they would “most like to mute,” and Iowa’s own U.S. Rep. Steve King earned high marks.
The magazine’s Hotline On Call blog gave a sneak peak of the survey, and coming in first place at 16 percent was “no one.” [...]
Calling recent Republican attacks against her record an unnecessary distraction, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Tom Fiegen called on rival Roxanne Conlin to end her Senate campaign for the sake of “working Iowa families.”
On Tuesday, the Republican Party of Iowa and conservative group American Future Fund [...]
Stricter state regulations on coal ash could create added costs to state government, and during a recession, that is not a viable idea, Iowa Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) Chairwoman Charlotte Hubbell said in a letter to an environmental watchdog.
Hubbell was responding to a request from Cedar Rapids-based Plains [...]
Iowa and New Hampshire should keep their position in presidential politics going into 2012, according to officials close to discussions.
The Associated Press reports that commissions set up by the Democratic and Republican parties to study the presidential election calendar agree that states like Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South [...]
Even though the U.S. economy is believed to have begun rebounding sometime in the third quarter of 2009, state finances are not expected to recover for at least two years, according to a report released Wednesday.
Research by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) found that nationally, state [...]
While most Americans continue to believe the economy is in rough shape, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans or independents to believe things will improve significantly in 2010, according University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll results released Tuesday.
Seventy percent of Democrats believe the economy will be good or very [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee has compiled a list of 17 incumbent Democrats they hope to pressure into retirement before the 2010 elections, and Iowa 3rd District Rep. Leonard Boswell is one of them.
According to the National Journal, the informal list, called the “Dem Retirement Assault List,” includes [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has signed on to an amendment to health reform legislation that would make it legal for U.S. consumers to buy prescription drugs from other countries.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa (Lauren Victoria Burke/WDCPIX.COM)
“I’ve always considered [...]
More than 30,000 Iowans are at risk of losing their unemployment benefits early next year unless Congress intervenes, according to a new study by the National Employment Law Project.
The study found that 10,716 Iowans will exhaust their state unemployment benefits in the first quarter of 2010. Another 19,561 [...]
More than $60 million will be given to Iowa schools for the purchase of new technology, thanks to a 2007 settlement to an anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.
In April 2007, a Polk County judge approved a settlement where the software giant agreed to pay Iowa consumers $179.95 million. Attorneys [...]
A Rasmussen poll released Monday found that while the GOP has been trending ahead of the Democratic Party of late in generic head-to-head matchups, if voters are given the option to vote for a Tea Party, the Republicans drop to fourth place.
The poll found that 36 percent favor a [...]
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., says he is “absolutely taking a look” at running for president in 2012, and even manages to take a shot at one of his potential rivals.
In an interview with ABC News, Santorum said he is seriously considering a run for the White [...]
Peter Hussman of the Newton Independent (no affiliation with this site) has the scoop on a proposed plan to reorganize the state Department of Human Services in light of current and future state budget shortfalls.
According to a memo to the Iowa Council on Human Services by DHS director Charles [...]
It’s no surprise that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s visit to Sioux City Sunday generated a lot of media attention. In addition to fueling speculation that the 2008 vice presidential nominee is laying the groundwork for a 2012 run for the White House, it also reminded observers of her popularity [...]
Jim Gibbons, the former wrestling coach at Iowa State University who hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Rep. Leonard Boswell in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District, issued a release Thursday criticizing Democratic leadership for a what he considers a light workload in 2010.
On the same day that the Republican primary field grew [...]
Republican accusations that the Senate health reform bill will hurt Medicare recipients by making drastic cuts to the program are “fear tactics,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Thursday.
“I’m sad to see that our Republican colleagues have resorted to fear tactics in a desperate attempt to preserve the dysfunctional, costly [...]
In an interview with the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, former Gov. Terry Branstad said those who say he’s not conservative enough for the Republican Party “don’t know me.”
One of Branstad’s rivals for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination was quick to respond, saying the former governor’s critics know him all too [...]
A Democratic tax reform proposal that failed to pass during the 2009 session is supported by a majority of Iowans, according to a poll conducted by Selzer and Associates.
The poll, commissioned by the non-partisan Iowa Fiscal Partnership (IFP), found that 63 percent of those polled favored changes to Iowa’s [...]
Story County Treasurer Dave Jamison and Dyersville Mayor Jim Heavens have announced plans to challenge Democratic state Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald.
The pair of Republicans will face off in a primary for the chance to take on the 28-year incumbent.
Jamison lives in Ames and was first elected as Story County [...]
A spokesman for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roxanne Conlin said accusations that the campaign is strong-arming elected officials for their endorsement are ridiculous.
“We expect ludicrous allegations from Republicans, but not Democrats,” Conlin spokesman Mark Daley said.
The claims were made Monday by Democrat Tom Fiegen of Clarence, who joins Conlin and [...]
Employees of The Des Moines Register must take a mandatory one-week furlough during the first quarter of 2010, according to a memo sent to staff by Register Publisher and President Laura Hollingsworth and obtained by the Iowa Independent.
The furloughs were ordered by the Register’s parent company, Gannett Co. Inc. They [...]
State Sen. David Hartsuch, R-Bettendorf, will potentially face off against two challengers in 2010 — one in a primary and one in the general election — the Quad-City Times reported Tuesday.
Dave Thede, whose wife, state Rep. Phyllis Thede, lost to Hartsuch in the 2006, said he has changed his [...]
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told Fox News Sunday that another presidential run in 2012 is “less than likely.”
Huckabee, who won the 2008 Iowa Caucuses and remains popular among Hawkeye State Republicans, said he would rather continue doing his Fox News program as opposed to re-entering the political [...]
Members of Iowa largest labor union have approved contract concessions that will avoid nearly 500 layoffs.
Fifty-nine percent of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Iowa Council 61 members voted t0 approve the concessions, with 41 percent voting against, according to figures on the union’s Web site. The [...]
An Iowa District Court has reversed a $10 million verdict from 2007 against West Des Moines businessman Gary Kirke and his casino company, Wild Rose Entertainment LLC, saying they did not breach a contract with a consulting company.
One of the six attorneys representing Kirke in the case was [...]
Former Des Moines school board member Jonathan Narcisse criticized Gov. Chet Culver and the Republicans hoping to unseat him in 2010, but remained coy about whether he will challenge the governor in a Democratic primary.
Jonathan Narcisse
Narcisse was speaking to Dave Price, reporter for Des Moines [...]
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling foul on Democrat Roxanne Conlin, saying she is trying to have it both ways on the issue of taking donations from lobbyists and political action committees.
Conlin has repeatedly said she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on the [...]
One of three Democrats vying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on the veteran lawmaker to decline all contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs).
Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin said in an e-mail to Grassley that the senior senator has accepted millions from “the [...]
Iowa Christian Alliance President and Republican National Committee member Steve Scheffler is among 10 co-sponsors of a resolution being circulated that aims to impose a conservative litmus test on potential GOP candidates.
The resolution, dubbed a “purity test” by the media, became public Monday. It lists 10 positions Republican candidates should [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad’s endorsement of Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., in 2000 helped him win his seat and eventually allowed him to join fellow Democrats in moving their health care reform bill forward, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats said Monday.
“Ben Nelson gave Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid [...]
Liberal blog Bleeding Heartland reports that former Butler County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Maske has announced he will challenge Fourth Distict U.S. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Ames, in 2010.
Maske, who has launched a Web site, is a veteran school administrator with no previous electoral experience.
The Fourth District Democratic Central [...]
Iowa conservatives give former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee the highest favorability rating among potential 2012 presidential candidates, according to the most recent Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Des Moines [...]
Former Iowa State University wrestling coach Jim Gibbons and state Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, both announced intentions Thursday to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell in 2010.
Gibbons, who coached ISU to an NCAA championship in 1987, said he will leave his job at Wells Fargo Advisers to [...]
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan’s attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply “insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administration’s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States,” an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday.
Jill Kozeny, communications director for Grassley, was responding to an [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday.
While questioning Attorney General Eric Holder about the idea of prosecuting five men accused as co-conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks [...]
Now that Democratic leaders in the Senate have unveiled their health care reform plan, Democrats have “rounded third [base] and we’re heading to home,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Cumming, said Wednesday night.
During an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Harkin said no one in the Democratic caucus wants to [...]
A little more than half of Americans believe health care reform would do more harm than good, according to a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released Wednesday.
The national phone survey of 772 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent, found that 52 percent believe [...]
The union representing state troopers and game wardens has reached an agreement with the state aimed at saving 43 jobs, Gov. Chet Culver announced Tuesday.
The State Police Officers Council (SPOC) has agreed that its 640 members will take five furlough days during the remaining 7 months of [...]
A Polk County Judge has ruled the Iowa Department of Economic Development should pay a Canadian filmmaker $6.5 million in tax credits.
The ruling could have bigger ramifications down the road, as several filmmakers who have been denied tax credits weigh legal action against the state.
As GOP gubernatorial hopefuls try to draw distinctions from their Republican rivals, the Iowa Democratic Party continues to co-opt their critiques with the hope of weakening potential challengers to incumbent Gov. Chet Culver.
The latest attack was delivered in Dubuque by state Rep. Chris Rants against former Gov. Terry Branstad. Rants [...]
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, responded Monday to attacks from Iowa Republicans who say transferring Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil is a “clear threat to national security.”
President Barack Obama has said he wants Guantanamo Bay facility by January. A nearly-empty Illinois prison near the Mississippi River on [...]
Allowing military service for those with “different beliefs and different religious structure” is a “recipe for disaster,” a West Des Moines pastor told controversial Christian radio host Steve Deace Friday.
Deace was discussing the shootings at the Ft. Hood military base in Texas with Bob Deever, pastor at [...]
Calling it a “clear threat to national security,” Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn called on U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, to oppose a plan to house transferred Guantanamo detainees in Illinois.
A nearly-empty Illinois prison near the Mississippi River on the border with Braley’s Iowa district is among U.S. [...]
The latest Iowa Poll by The Des Moines Register finds Gov. Chet Culver losing to both former Gov. Terry Branstad and Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats in hypothetical head-to-head campaigns.
Culver’s job approval rating, at 40 percent, has hit the lowest point since taking office and has dropped 20-percentage-points since [...]
Even if Democrats manage to pass health reform legislation, if it contains an individual mandate it could prove unconstitutional, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday.
During an interview with KAYL radio in Storm Lake and the Marshalltown Times Republican, Grassley said that even though he’s never studied law and is [...]
An automated call featuring one of Terry Branstad’s former lieutenant governors asking Republicans to support same-sex marriage has drawn the ire of social conservatives.
The calls, which feature the voice of Republican Joy Corning and were paid for by gay rights group One Iowa, say the Iowa Supreme Court [...]
State Sen. Roger Stewart, D-Preston announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in Senate District 13.
Stewart has represented the northeastern district since 2003. In 2006, he easily won re-election with 65 percent of the vote.
He has served as chair of the Senate Economic Growth Committee and serves [...]
The Republican Party should steer clear of infighting and focus on the fiscal issues that unite them, former New York Gov. George Pataki told the Associated Press on the eve of a speech in Iowa.
Pataki was the keynote speaker at the Scott County Republican Party’s Ronald Reagan Dinner [...]
Voters will get a replay of the wild and contentious race for state House District 84, as Republican Ross Paustian will once again challenge Democratic Rep. Elesha Gayman, according to Quad-City Times reporter Ed Tibbetts.
On Election Night, Paustian looked victorious, with early returns showing him with a narrow [...]
If America wakes up and learns the lesson of the Ft. Hood shooting, that Islam is a violent ideology and is incompatible with military service, then the shooter has done the country a favor, Christian conservative radio host Steve Deace said.
WHO-AM [...]
No one who has “sworn allegiance to Islamic ideology” should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Christian conservative radio host Steve Deace said during his show on Monday.
In the aftermath of Major Nidal Hasan’s killing spree at Fort Hood in Texas, questions of whether [...]
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, was greeted on the floor of the U.S. House with catcalls of “trial lawyer” shortly before passage of health care reform legislation Saturday night.
Braley, a Waterloo attorney, was chosen to respond to a Republican effort to block a vote on the bill. The [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will visit the Hawkeye State next month to promote her new book, “Going Rogue,” according to a press release from the bookstore chain Barnes and Noble.
Sarah Palin at a rally in Sioux City last [...]
Iowa’s largest union has reached a tentative agreement with the state, avoiding 479 layoffs that could have resulted from Gov. Chet Culver’s 10 percent budget cut ordered last month, which many feared would impact public safety.
The 479 positions include front line correctional officers, parole probation officers and other support positions.
Culver [...]
Iowa should privatize its prison system in order to alleviate budget problems, a conservative watchdog group said Monday.
Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief, said the privatization of Iowa’s prisons would result in many positive benefits, from making communities safer to minimizing inefficiencies. But the biggest benefit [...]
Two Republican legislators and the state’s largest labor union are calling on the University of Iowa to cancel a planned trip to the Disney Institute in Orlando, Fla., saying the price tag is too high at a time when the state is facing huge budget deficits.
In a statement last [...]
The health care reform bill passed Saturday night by the U.S. House requires the government to encourage suicide, according to U.S. Rep. Steve King.
While walking away from the U.S. Capitol, King, a Republican from Kiron, said page 644 of the health care bill says the government [...]
Steve King
U.S. Rep. Steve King is hoping to derail health care reform legislation scheduled to be debated in the U.S. House by trying to harness the Tea Party protests that took place throughout the summer and once again bringing them to the nation’s capital on Saturday.
King [...]
Paul McKinley
Senate Majority Leader Paul McKinley, R-Chariton, followed through on his promise Friday and dropped out of the 2010 campaign for governor.
McKinley said last month that when former Gov. Terry Branstad made his candidacy official, he would withdraw. [...]
The Associated Press broke the news Friday morning that an aide close to Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin confirms she will formally announce she will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate next week.
The aide also confirms she will file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission next week.
Later [...]
Christopher Reed formally announced his candidacy to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack of the 2nd Congressional District on Thursday, and in doing so vowed to run a less contentious campaign than he did in 2008 against Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin.
In that campaign, which Reed [...]
The website designed to allow citizens to track how and where funds are being allocated as part of the $830 million I-JOBS infrastructure plan now includes an interactive tool to improve transparency, Gov. Chet Culver announced Thursday.
In June, Culver’s deputy chief of staff, Phil Roeder, told The [...]
The 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary is shaping up to be a spirited affair, with candidates already actively campaigning and taking shots at their fellow Republicans more than seven months before Election Day.
But Civic Skinny, the anonymous gossip columnist for Des Moines’ Cityview, says the contest is as much about [...]
For the second time in a week, the Iowa Democratic Party is using audio from a meeting between former Gov. Terry Branstad and leaders of the social conservative movement to attack the veteran Republican.
The four-term governor held a pair of meetings with a group of pastors, social [...]
The Iowa Pharmacy Board held its final hearing on the idea of legalizing medical marijuana on Wednesday, and the board’s vice chair expects a decision before the legislature reconvenes in January.
Susan Frey, vice chair of the board, told Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson that the decision won’t be [...]
In light of historic budget cuts recently implemented by Gov. Chet Culver due to a downturn in revenue projections, the state should increase its investment in postsecondary education for low-income adults. The investment would improve economic prospects for Iowa families, and in the process boost the state budget, according [...]
Tuesday’s election results should be greeted with happiness for Republicans but they should not be seen as a public repudiation of President Obama, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning.
“I don’t think it’s a referendum on Obama,” the Republican lawmaker said in a conference call [...]
In a pair of votes that hit close to home for Iowa, voters in Maine repealed the state’s law allowing same-sex couples to get married while also voting to expand the state’s medical marijuana law.
Both issues are big topics in the Hawkeye State. The Iowa Supreme Court legalized [...]
Gov. Chet Culver’s re-election campaign announced Tuesday it was launching its second television advertisement.
The ad will air in the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids markets as well as some cable around the state. It is titled “Stronger Than Ever” and focuses on the governor’s response to last year’s flooding [...]
Terry Branstad
Although former Gov. Terry Branstad thought meeting with leaders of Iowa’s social conservative movement could help his campaign by alleviating their concerns with his candidacy, the aftermath has not gone according to plan.And for a candidate whose last political campaign took place long [...]
With former Gov. Terry Branstad’s recent return to politics after a decade out of office, Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson decided to take a trip down memory lane. The veteran reporter went into her archives and found the audio from Branstad’s last campaign kickoff event back in [...]
A version of health care reform legislation currently in the Senate makes nearly 1,000 references to the Health and Human Services secretary, a clear indicator that the bill is actually a government takeover of health care, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday.
The Republican lawmaker is pointing to an 839-page [...]
A group of filmmakers has sued the Iowa Department of Economic Development alleging the state breached its contract regarding issuing tax credits to finance their work.
The suit, filed Oct. 28 and scheduled to go before Polk County District Court Monday, was filed by a group of filmmaking companies [...]
While alcohol is still Iowa’s No. 1 intoxicant, the two most abused illicit drugs in the Hawkeye State are marijuana and methamphetamine, according to a report released Monday by the Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy.
“Based on primary substance abuse treatment admission data from the Iowa Department of [...]
U.S. Rep. Steve King has no plans to run for president, but since he never had intentions to run for Congress, he refuses to rule out the possibility of a 2012 campaign.
Steve King
The Kiron Republican told Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV that he wants to [...]
Rod Roberts
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rod Roberts of Carroll supports the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices that are up for retention votes in 2010 due to their verdict legalizing same-sex marriage earlier this year.
Roberts said he will personally vote “no” on all three [...]
Tim Albrecht, a veteran Republican strategist and the man behind the conservative news aggregator TheBeanWalker.com, will join the 2010 campaign of former Gov. Terry Branstad as communication director.
In addition to his website, Albrecht has acted as communication director of the conservative group American Future Fund for [...]
