Iowa Democrat Leonard Boswell said upon winning a seventh term in 2008 that he would seek re-election in 2010.
That hasn’t stopped National Journal from noting that Boswell is among some U.S. House members who are the subject of retirement rumors.
Here’s the post from National Journal’s blog:
“We’re going to be [...]
Voters in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District can expect their phones to ring Tuesday with a message from the National Republican Campaign Committee attacking Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell.
Boswell is among about a dozen Democrats being targeted by the NRCC for voting for the health care, energy, economic stimulus and banking industry [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley often notes that he has not missed a vote since 1993, when record flooding swamped Iowa.
Since then, the Republican has become the iron man of the Senate racking up more roughly 5,700 consecutive votes, and no threat of snow in Washington, D.C., was going to interrupt [...]
David Barton, a nationally recognized social conservative, has endorsed Bob Vander Plaats for Iowa governor, the Sioux City Republican’s campaign has announced.
Barton is a Texas-based public speaker and author who focuses on constitutional issues. He was hired by President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign as a consultant for outreach [...]
Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad plans to formally announce his candidacy for the office next month, aides to the Republican said.
Details of Branstad’s campaign roll-out were still in the works. But spokesman Tim Albrecht said Branstad would likely make the announcement in mid-January on a multi-city trip around the state.
Branstad [...]
Gov. Chet Culver has launched a new social networking campaign Web site aimed at bringing supporters together around the state.
Culver’s site, my.chetculver.com, is a takeoff on a concept pioneered by Barack Obama’s campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, said Jesse Harris, Culver’s deputy campaign manager. Harris also was [...]
The daily drama surrounding health care legislation in the Senate will be forgotten as long as Congress passes a bill, Sen. Tom Harkin said today.
“Mark my words, decades from now people will not remember the twists and turns of debate on health care reform in 2009,”Harkin told reporters today. “What [...]
Dr. Patrick Bertroche of Urbandale plans formally announce his candidacy for U.S. House from Iowa’s 3rd District on Friday.
It would make Bertroche, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, the fifth Republican to enter the race to become the Republican challenger to seven-term Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell of Des Moines.
Bertroche, 43, has [...]
Republican former state Rep. George Eichhorn today announced his candidacy for secretary of state, citing as a motivating factor a federal audit that found questionable spending in the office during the previous administration.
Eichhorn, a Stratford lawyer, unsuccessfully sought the 2008 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, having served three tw0-year terms [...]
Chuck Grassley said he might vote for a bill that would curb the volume on television commercials. But it’s more about insuring domestic tranquility than forming a more perfect union, he said.
“Since I control the channel switcher in my house, I get tired of my wife telling me to turn [...]
Congressman Steve King returned from Afghanistan this week with the sense that the nation’s cities have become more secure in the past year.
The Iowa Republican spent four days in the country, meeting with President Hamid Karzai, Iowa troops and civilian advisers. It was the third trip to Afghanistan for the [...]
Bruce Braley’s got a bright future, according to congressional and political insiders surveyed by National Journal.
In fact, the second-term Iowa congressman from Waterloo is seen as one of Washington’s top 5, fastest-rising Democratic stars, according to the Washington, D.C.,-based non-partisan political publication.
Congressional insiders polled by National Journal ranked Braley the [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said an agreement by Democrats to drop a government-run health insurance provision from a comprehensive reform bill would do little to change his opposition to the Senate bill.
Grassley said the agreement announced Tuesday to abandon the so-called public option would continue to overburden Medicare by expanding [...]
A forum about the 2010 session of the Iowa Legislature planned for today at the Iowa Capitol has been canceled, due to the blizzard, aides to Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said.
Culver had said he would try to attend the session, sponsored by the Associated Press, but decided this morning to [...]
Iowa schools are eligible for a share of $60 million in vouchers for computer technology money from the Microsoft class action lawsuit settlement, Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin said today.
The money is part of the $180-million settlement of the 2007 case. Conlin, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, has recently [...]
Sioux City, Ia. — It didn’t matter to Judy Wagoner that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was 90 minutes late for her appearance in Iowa today, or that most of the 16 hours she waited for her was spent outside in subfreezing air.
“Who cares,” Wagoner said. “I would have waited [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was expected to be late to her noon appearance at a Sioux City bookstore today.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee had been visiting injured veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., today before taking off for Iowa. The threat of snow in [...]
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin today said he would propose taxing stock transactions as a way of generating revenue to offset the budget deficit.
Harkin, a Democrat, said he planned to introduce in the Senate a bill co-sponsored in the House by Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley, a measure that would impose a [...]
Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the job again, has announced that 14 state lawmakers have endorsed him.
The legislators, all Republicans, are: state Sens. Randy Feenstra of Hull, David Johnson of Ocheyeden, Larry Noble of Ankeny and Pat Ward of West Des Moines; and [...]
Republican candidate for Congress Jim Gibbons chided the Democratic leadership in Congress, and Des Moines’ U.S. House member Leonard Boswell, in light of the newly published 2010 House calendar.
It shows only 17 days where votes are scheduled in the first two months of the year.
Gibbons, of Des Moines, sent [...]
If you’re thinking of heading to Sioux City to catch Sarah Palin’s book-signing, better gas up the night before and head out early.
The event, at Barnes & Noble in Southern Hills Mall, is expected to be crowded, although store officials are making accommodations — like allowing people to wait in [...]
The departure of Gov. Chet Culver’s campaign manager is a minor blip, the governor told reporters today.
Culver, a Democrat preparing to seek re-election next year, said Andrew Roos’ announcement Tuesday that he was leaving the campaign after less than three months was normal.
“Look, it’s very common, whether public sector or [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said did not agree with his Oklahoma colleague Tom Coburn’s comment Tuesday that Medicare cuts proposed in the Senate health care bill would lead to earlier death for seniors.
But Grassley stopped well short of criticizing his fellow Republican, attributing the comment to a debate environment
that [...]
On Tuesday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who wears his Iowa farmer status on his sleeve, let loose again with a barnyard reference similar to one he used in March.
As a guest on C-SPAN’s Morning Journal, the Republican was answering the question of a caller on the cable television public affairs [...]
Gov. Chet Culver’s campaign manager said today he has resigned, citing personal reasons for leaving the Democrat’s re-election bid after only three months.
Andrew Roos, who was hired in September to manage Culver’s re-election campaign, said he had decided to step down before Thanksgiving and that Culver did not ask him [...]
Republican candidate for governor Christian Fong announced today he has suspended his campaign for governor.
The 32-year-old Cedar Rapids businessman said he will no longer campaign for the 2010 GOP nomination for governor, but plans to stay “involved in the process, even if it’s not as a formal candidate for governor.”
Fong [...]
State Sen. Brad Zaun, an Urbandale Republican, filed paperwork today with the Federal Elections Commission to seek the U.S. House Seat in Iowa’s 3rd District.
Zaun is the third Republican to take steps toward mounting a potential challenge to Leonard Boswell, a seven-term Des Moines Democrat.
Zaun is a former Urbandale mayor [...]
Republican candidate for governor Bob Vander Plaats said today former Gov. Terry Branstad’s support of a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate helped pave the way for health care legislation that advanced in Congress Saturday.
Vander Plaats faulted Branstad, a Republican also running for governor, for endorsing and helping raise money for [...]
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Sarah Palin could expect a lot of support in Iowa’s Republican caucuses if she launched a campaign for the 2012 presidential nomination, according to The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll.
But the rising national figure, who is scheduled to stop in Iowa next month [...]
Vice President Joe Biden assured Iowans Saturday the nation’s battered economy was slowly turning the corner, and urged Democrats to keep faith amid declining approval in the state for President Barack Obama.
“He has the mind of a president who will take this country to the next level, and he has [...]
The U.S. Senate tonight confirmed the nominations of Iowa’s two U.S. attorney nominees, Stephanie Rose for Iowa’s northern district in Cedar Rapids, and Nick Klinefeldt for Iowa’s southern district in Des Moines.
Below is the statement of Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who recommended their nominations.
HARKIN CONGRATULATES IOWA’S NEWLY CONFIRMED U.S. ATTORNEYS [...]
Democratic leaders in the Iowa Legislature, before competing in a pass-the-hat fundraiser at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines, jokingly lobbed insults at each other.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal: “What’s the difference between God and a state senator?” the Des Moines lawmaker [...]
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver took the stage at HyVee Hall to the Rolling Stones’ classic “Start Me Up.”
Here’s the list of tunes played for some of the other speakers as they approached the podium at the state Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines.
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman, Michael [...]
Democrats laughed nervously at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Des Moines tonight as periodic crashes of dishes hitting the cement floor interrupted the program.
At one point, a tray of dishes — packed with grilled pork, chicken, vegetables and potatoes — hit the floor, prompting Iowa Democratic Party [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opposed the procedural measure in the Senate to allow a health care proposal to advance, although the position mattered little in light of majority Democrats’ unified stance.
Grassley, a senior Republican and ranking member of the finance committee, said he opposed the Senate bill that combines his [...]
Congressman Steve King Friday said terrorists would get a foothold in the U.S. if Sept. 11 suspects or suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay Cuba were tried in the United States, as Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled.
Here is the key passage from the Iowa Republican’s comments during a [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad said Iowa voters’ early preference of him over Gov. Chet Culver is helping his fundraising as the longtime Republican governor begins cranking up his campaign operation.
“It doesn’t hurt,” Branstad said today in his first Des Moines Register interview since forming a campaign organization to seek the [...]
Veteran Democratic operative Mark Daley will manage Roxanne Conlin’s U.S. Senate campaign, Daley told The Des Moines Register today.
Daley, an Urbandale political consultant since 2004, had been helping Conlin, a Des Moines lawyer and former nominee for governor, get her bid for the Senate underway.
Daley, 32, is a former congressional [...]
Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is firing up the campaign car and heading out to meet with Republican and civic groups in the coming weeks.
The onetime four-term governor now exploring a 2010 bid has announced a string of public appearances, as he begins to meet with Iowans around the state.
Branstad [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said today Iowans would be afraid to have terrorism suspects housed in a federal prison in Illinois across the Mississippie River from Clinton, Iowa.
“I oppose them even coming to the United States,” the Iowa Republican said during a conference call with Iowa reporters.
Grassley opposes closing the [...]
Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt is coming back to Iowa Friday to make a policy announcement about medical research, event planners said.
Gephardt plans to hold an 11:30 a.m. press conference at the Pappajohn Higher Education Center in Des Moines, as part of the longtime former Missouri congressman’s role with the [...]
The Democratic National Committee announced today it will begin airing radio advertisements criticizing 32 Republicans in the U.S. House for voting against health care legislation this month, and Iowa’s Tom Latham is on the list.
Latham, an eight-term member from Ames, voted against the bill on Nov. 7 because, he said, [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad named former state Rep. Carmine Boal state chairwoman today, the Republican exploring a 2010 campaign announced.
Boal, an Ankeny Republican, served in the Iowa House from 1999 to 2007, and was ranking member of the state government committee.
Her role with Branstad will be to organize the state’s [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley urged President Obama to act soon to grant Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for roughly 40,000 additional troops to the war in Afghanistan.
The Iowa Republican also noted that U.S. troops were dying as Obama deliberated and met with military advisers before making a decision.
“Based on the president’s [...]
The Iowa Family Policy Center issued the statement below today as former Gov. Terry Branstad today noted he personally supports banning same-sex marriage in Iowa.
Branstad, a Republican exploring a 2010 campaign for governor, made the position statement through staff to TheIowaRepublican.
The issue has become a potentially thorny one in [...]
Congressman Steve King seldom minces his words in critiquing the Obama administration.
In the latest chapter, the Kiron Republican said today Obama’s closest advisers, including Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett are part of Chicago’s “gangster government,” and linked Jarrett to former radical William Ayers “and other nefarious characters.”
King made [...]
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said today the House-passed health care bill “goes too far” in restricting insurance providers from covering abortions.
The Democrat said he supported the status quo, which prohibits federal funding for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the woman’s life.
“I fear that the House-passed [...]
Catching up on last weekend’s health care drama in Congress, I point out that Iowa 1st District Congressman Bruce Braley was treated with less than cordiality by some of his GOP peers during the evening’s debate.
Braley, a Waterloo Democrat who made his career as a courtroom lawyer before his 2006 [...]
Sarah Palin is scheduled to make her first appearance in Iowa since the 2008 presidential campaign with a stop in Sioux City Dec. 6 aimed at promoting her new book, according to the bookstore promoting the visit.
However, Republican Party officials were unaware of any political plans in the works Monday, [...]
A Republican-leaning political action committee that operates in Iowa is asking federal regulators to override state laws around the country that regulate automated telephone calls.
The American Future Fund Political Action has asked the Federal Election Commission for an advisory opinion about whether federal law preempts laws like that in Minnesota.
In [...]
Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin today filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to run for U.S. Senate.
The Democrat and former nominee for governor’s move was expected. But she did so with an Internet video on her campaign Web site: roxanneforiowa.com.
Conlin is among three Democrats running to challenge five-term [...]
Former New York Gov. George Pataki is scheduled to headline the Scott County GOP Ronald Reagan dinner Tuesday in Bettendorf, Scott County Republicans said.
Pataki, who once considered seeking the 2008 presidential nomination, has visited Iowa once already this year, speaking at Drake University in April as part of the American [...]
On the heels of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s debut as an Iowa headliner, The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza said the Republican has made some recent errors that need attention should he continue to take steps toward a 2012 presidential campaign.
Cillizza says nothing about Pawlenty’s performance as the featured speaker for [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty took aim at President Barack Obama in Iowa tonight, telling Republican activists in the leadoff caucus state the president’s handling of health care legislation had broken his bipartisan campaign message.
Headlining an Iowa Republican Party fundraiser in Des Moines, the governor mentioned as a 2012 presidential prospect [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty plans to present the image of a common-sense conservative who can win in Democrat territory when he introduces himself today to a key political focus group, a hall full of Iowa Republican Party activists.
The Republican, who is eyeing a 2012 presidential bid, says a profile like [...]
State Sen. Paul McKinley today made formal his withdrawal from the 2010 race for the Republican nomination for governor.
The Senate Republican leader from Chariton had said he would likely step aside should former Gov. Terry Branstad enter the race for the nomination.
Branstad last month announced his retirement as president of [...]
Des Moines lawyer Roxanne Conlin plans to file paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission next week to run for U.S. Senate next year, adviser Mark Daley said today.
Conlin, a Democrat, has said last month she is more likely than not to seek the seat held by five-term Republican Chuck Grassley, [...]
Mount Vernon, Ia. — It could be said that overcoming adversity is the Vander Plaats family motto.
During World War II, Bob Vander Plaats’ father, patriarch of the large, northwest Iowa family, survived the nightmare of Iwo Jima.
Bob became the youngest of the children when his younger brother died after a [...]
Republican governor prospect Terry Branstad announced today Statehouse veteran Tim Albrecht would be communication director for the former governor’s 2010 campaign.
Albrecht has been an active and rising Iowa Republican press aide, beginning with staff work for Steve Forbes presidential campaign in 2000 and most recently as the communication director for [...]
Council Bluffs Republican Matt Schultz plans to return to his home turf Saturday to kick off his Republican bid for Iowa Secretary of State.
Schultz, a 30-year-old Council Bluffs city council member, graduated from West Des Moines’ Valley High School in 1997.
He is scheduled to announce his candidacy for secretary of [...]
Former Gov. Sarah Palin declined the invitation to speak at an Iowa social conservative group’s fall fundraiser next month in Des Moines, after the group had publicly invited the Republican considered a 2012 presidential prospect this week.
Palin turned down the offer from the Iowa Family Policy Center to speak Nov. [...]
Congressman Steve King has been defending Rush Limbaugh in recent days as the conservative radio personality has expressed interest in buying the St. Louis Rams football franchise. On Wednesday, King essentially accused the NFL’s commissioner of hypocrisy as it pertains to a potential NFL owner’s image.
Below is the transcript of [...]
Below is the rather pointed conclusion of a New York Magazine diatribe about Iowa’s leadoff position in the quadrennial presidential nominating sequence.
It keys off developments in the saga about whether Sarah Palin will attend a social conservative group’s fundraiser next month, and a story in Politico today with Iowa [...]
Politico’s Jonathan Martin rounded up some key Iowa GOP activists yesterday, finding that some, including some better-known party operatives, object to the idea of paying former Gov. Sarah Palin to speak in Iowa.
Names like Ed Failor, Steve Scheffler, Ann Trimble-Ray and Tim Albrecht say, in Martin’s piece, say in effect: [...]
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin today said sometimes politicians slip up, say, when they congratulate one Iowa college football team and not another.
Harkin, a Democrat, was asked about fellow Democrat, Gov. Chet Culver, and his weekend congratulatory press release to the undefeated Iowa Hawkeyes, while failing to also note Iowa State’s [...]
The Iowa social conservative group that invited Sarah Palin to its November fundraiser in Des Moines was sounding optimistic the Alaska Republican would make her first trip to the state since leaving office last summer.
Meanwhile, a top aide to Palin, mentioned as a potential 2012 presidential candidate, suggested plans to [...]
Iowa Family Policy Center officials said they hope to know by the end of the week whether Sarah Palin will accept their invitation to headline their annual fall event in Des Moines next month.
In preparation, the social conservative group is looking to hold the Nov. 21 event at Wells Fargo [...]
A social conservative organization in Iowa has invited former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to headline an event next month.
“We have reached out to Gov. Palin through both official and informal channels and have extended an invitation to keynote an upcoming event,” Iowa Family Policy Center spokesman Bryan English told The [...]
Four of the seven Republicans running for governor will be in Sioux City to debate tonight, not including the best-known in the field.
The Woodbury County Republican Party is hosting the debate and low-dollar fundraiser, scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Sioux City Convention Center, 801 4th St.
Scheduled to participate are [...]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich included Iowa with states where Republicans could pick up the governorship in the 2010 elections, according to CNN’s Political Ticker.
“Next year, I think we could win [governorships in] Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, the Senate seat in Illinois. In Ohio, we could win both the governorship and [...]
(Below is the print version of the story about the budget cuts Republican candidates for governor have proposed which ran in today’s Des Moines Register)
Republicans weighing a campaign for governor suggest reducing state employee pay and eliminating newer Democratic priorities, such as certain economic development and education programs, when asked [...]
(The following is the print version of the story on Christie Vilsack’s decision not to run for Senate, which ran in today’s Des Moines Register)
Christie Vilsack said Monday she will not be a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010, which clarifies the race for the Democratic nomination as one now [...]
Tom Fiegen, an Iowa Democrat running for U.S. Senate, said would-be rival Roxanne Conlin’s fundraising strength is not an issue in the race.
Conlin said in a Des Moines Register interview that one reason she was running was to help provide ballot support for Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, a first-term [...]
Republican Ron Paul, the Texas congressman and conservative movement leader, plans to be in Iowa Nov. 13 and 14, with appearances in Ames and Des Moines.
Paul, who ran a spirited outsider campaign for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, is scheduled to speak at Iowa State University in Ames on Nov. [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said he plans to raise $9 million for his re-election campaign, but would not say the extent to which he was prepared to engage his Democratic challenger.
Grassley, a Republican planning to seek his sixth term next year, said he hoped to raise in the ballpark of [...]
Below is the statement of former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack, who told The Des Moines Register via e-mail press release today she will not seek the 2010 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.
Vilsack had been mentioned as a potential challenger to five-term Republican Chuck Grassley. Recently, she said publicly she [...]
For you Iowa Republicans unable to manage to get to Tim Pawlenty’s Nov. 7 debut, thank C-SPAN.
The Minnesota Gov.’s appearance at the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual fall fundraiser
is going to be carried on the public affairs cable network.
Pawlenty’s formation of a national political pac, his decision not to [...]
Roxanne Conlin would mean more to Iowa Democrats than simply the party’s best chance of beating Sen. Charles Grassley in 30 years, party strategists say.
The successful Des Moines lawyer’s fundraising capacity and appeal as a former nominee for governor also could help Gov. Chet Culver as he prepares to face [...]
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Democrat Roxanne Conlin said Thursday she would like to run for the U.S. Senate in 2010, citing disappointment with Sen. Charles Grassley and a renewed desire to serve in public office.
The longtime Des Moines lawyer said in a Des Moines Register interview that [...]
A health care bill that Democrats said today had enough support to pass the U.S. House will contain provisions urged by Iowa members to pay doctors and hospitals in low-cost, high-quality states more.
Health service providers in states such as Iowa would see their Medicare reimbursement rates increase, while the federal [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad has accepted the invitation to speak at the Nov. 7 Iowa Republican Party fundraiser at the State Fairgrounds, giving GOP activists their first look at him as a prospective candidate for 2010.
Branstad is the latest to accept the invitation, which five other potential Republican candidates had [...]
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said he is a key player on the progress of a combined Senate health care bill, despite Sen. Chris Dodd’s role representing the committee Harkin chairs in talks.
“When I took over the committee I agreed, in fact wanted, Sen. Dodd to continue to be our point [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is wondering if a Web site run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has overstepped its bounds by providing a link for people to express support for health insurance reform legislation.
Here is a partial excerpt of Grassley’s comments on the issue he [...]
Republican Michelle Bachman, an outspoken conservative U.S. House member from Minnesota, is not eyeballing a 2012 presidential bid. “Goodness,” she told The Sioux city Journal when asked. “I’ve only been in the House for three years. So, no, I’m not considering anything like that.”
Instead, she said western Iowa’s own conservative [...]
Cedar Rapids, Ia. — Terry Branstad would hand Democrats a 16-year record to critique, were he to be the Republicans nominee for governor next year, fellow GOP candidate Bob Vander Plaats said today.
But Vander Plaats also noted aspects of the former governor’s past that some Republican primary voters would see [...]
The Minnesota Independent has a take on Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s credentials with Iowa’s socially conservative Republicans, keying off Marc Ambinder’s post Monday about the relevance of the Iowa caucuses in the 2012 cycle.
Ambinder, who suggests in his piece that Pawlenty might not be the best fit for Iowa’s [...]
U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, a decorated Vietnam veteran, was with President Barack Obama today at an award ceremony for an American unit honored for its service nearly 40 years ago.
Today’s ceremony was to honor Alpha Troop of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s role in a 1970 mission to evacuate about [...]
Below is the version of the story about Sen. Chuck Grassley’s 3rd Quarter campaign fundraising that appeared in print today.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley had an impressive $4.4 million in campaign contributions on hand as of the end of September, according to the five-term Republican’s third-quarter campaign finance disclosure report.
But the [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley had a tough mid-year report card for President Barack Obama, according to news reports from a Reuters summit with congressional leaders in Washington, D.C., Monday.
“He’s still learning an awful lot,” Grassley said, the most charitable thing the veteran Iowa Republican had for the freshman Democrat president.
Here’s [...]
State Rep. Kent Sorenson announced — ala Twitter — that Republican Ron Paul will campaign for the Indianola Republican candidate for state Senate on Nov. 14.
Details were sketchy, with only the date and Des Moines confirmed, according to The Iowa Republican.
Paul, a Texas congressman, retains an Iowa [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley raised more than $832,000 in campaign contributions toward his 2010 re-election bid during July, August and September, according to a report filed last week with the Federal Election Commission.
Grassley, a Republican planning to seek a sixth term next year, had $4.4 million in the bank, [...]
Christie Vilsack and Roxanne Conlin may be interested in the poll out Friday by Research 2000, showing Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley with narrow majorities in mock head-to-head match-ups.
Grassley, a five-term Republican, beat Vilsack, the former first lady of Iowa, by a margin of 51 to 40 percent, in the poll [...]
(Here’s the print version of the story about former Gov. Terry Branstad’s retirement as Des Moines University president.)
Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad cited a duty to Iowa on Friday in announcing plans to “fully explore the possibility” of seeking the office he left a decade ago.
The four-term Republican governor announced [...]
Gov. Chet Culver plans to begin airing a political campaign advertisement this weekend explaining his actions on the budget crisis, and trying to set the terms of the debate at this early stage in the 2010 campaign.
The ads are expected to run in the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids markets, [...]
Gov. Chet Culver told Des Moines Register reporters and editors today that other governors had raised taxes during economic turbulence — and called it a bad idea.
“Raising taxes during a recession is not a good thing to do,” said Culver, a Democrat planning to seek a second term next year. [...]
Terry Branstad plans to “make an announcement related to his future with” Des Moines University to students, faculty and staff Friday at noon, followed by a public announcement, school officials confirmed today.
Branstad, a Republican at the center of speculation about the 2010 race for governor, is scheduled to address the [...]
Iowans watching the same-sex marriage debate in their state and outside it might be interested in developments in California on the issue Wednesday.
In that state, where voters approved a proposition banning gay marriage last year, a federal judge Wednesday refused to dismiss a court challenge to the proposition.
The California Supreme [...]
Media trailing former Gov. Terry Branstad in search of news about his expected announcement of another run for governor got meager table scraps at a banquet he hosted tonight.
Branstad founded the Willie and Luther Glanton Scholarship in 2004 and presided over a fundraising banquet for its endowment tonight at Prairie [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad, president Des Moines University, plans to address the university Friday, a date that fits the mid-October deadline he has set for deciding whether to run for governor again.
The noon announcement is expected to mark Branstad’s farewell, longtime DMU board member Patricia Yungclas told The Des Moines [...]
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