Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Everywhere I’ve gone the last few days, people are talking about what happened in Ft. Dodge Tuesday night. The Fourth District Executive Committee’s rebuke of the leadership of the Republican Party of Iowa [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. All we have to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. Well, Saturday’s RPI elections were no surprise. The Paulistinians completed their coup d’etat with the reelection of A.J. Spiker as chairman and the election of David Fischer as co-chair … Congrats to them [...]
Check elsewhere on TheIowaRepublican.com for a concise summary of the Republican Party of Iowa’s state central committee meeting today. What follows is a stream of consciousness transcript for information-hungry activists, interested media representatives that didn’t make the trip, and GOP activists who could not attend the meeting in person. This piece is 5,000+ words of palace [...]
By Craig Robinson The Harkin Institute of Public Policy at Iowa State University hosted discussion on the future of the Iowa Caucuses on Monday night in Ames. Former Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen, who now leads the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, moderated the event. The panel consisted of Terry [...]
By Craig Robinson A.J. Spiker, the current Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, is in the midst of a public spat with Governor Terry Branstad. Confrontation between a party chair and a high ranking elected official in a state happens all of the time, but it is the fact that the spat between Branstad [...]
By Craig Robinson When Iowa Governor Terry Branstad told the Wall Street Journal that the Ames Straw Poll had “outlived its usefulness,” he essentially ended the storied event. Republican Party of Iowa leaders were quick to disagree with Branstad’s assessment and pledged to continue the tradition, but what they don’t understand is that Branstad has [...]
Former Michele Bachmann presidential campaign staffer Barb Heki filed a lawsuit Monday against the Minnesota congresswoman, Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson, and several members of Bachmann’s senior campaign staff. The suit, submitted in Polk County district court, deals with the misuse of a statewide list of emails and phone numbers for homeschooling families. The Bachmann [...]