As expected, A.J. Spiker was reelected as Republican Party of Iowa chairman Saturday morning. His fellow former Ron Paul campaign vice-chair David Fischer was selected RPI co-chair. TheIowaRepublican live blogged the event, which you can read below. There are also videos at the bottom of this column of the speeches by Spiker and Bill Schickel, [...]
The Republican Party of Iowa’s state central committee holds it biennial officer elections on Saturday, and in all likelihood, Ron Paul supporters will sweep all of the organization’s officer spots. That election comes on the heels of a Des Moines Register report that details financial troubles for RPI, due mainly to the Paul- affiliated leadership. [...]
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney officially secured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination during the roll call of the states during the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. Iowa Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds, the secretary of the convention, led the roll call, naming each state and its number of delegates. Romney garnered 2061 delegates. A minimum of [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. Am I the only one who thinks Gopal Krishna is fooling us with the thick accent and his real voice sounds like James Earl Jones? So, what’d ya think of the state convention? My predictions going in were that the Paulistinians would get 22 delegates, Steve Scheffler would win [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. I’m serious thinking about attending my own funeral as a guy named Phil Shifley. I’ve been accused of wanting to push the Ron Paul supporters out of the Republican Party. It’s actually the other way around. The Paulistinians want to take over and push the rest of us aside [...]
Some very vocal members of the Republican State Central Committee, who are also Ron Paul supporters, claim their intent is to hold candidates accountable to the party platform. One even said the SCC would withhold funding from Republicans who do not support the platform. “If we have a majority of the central committee, we can [...]
Some very vocal members of the Republican State Central Committee, who are also Ron Paul supporters, claim their intent is to hold candidates accountable to the party platform. One even said the SCC would withhold funding from Republicans who do not support the platform. “If we have a majority of the central committee, we can [...]