Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.-Albus Dumbledore So, the good King is out, as expected. Like I said Friday night: Whoever else is interested, jump in. The water’s warm … Here are my quick thoughts [...]
Iowa Caucus winner Rick Santorum was scheduled to be in Iowa on Monday to headline the Iowa Faith and Freedom’s annual spring event, but the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania was admitted to the hospital in South Carolina over the weekend due to an illness. Santorum was visiting his eldest son who is freshman at [...]
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa last month after his Iowa listening sessions in advance of releasing the RNC’s Growth & Opportunity Project. DES MOINES—At a marathon meeting of the governing board of the Republican Party of Iowa, members set the date for the 2014 caucuses and moved to form [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. Just when they think they’ve got all the answers, I change the questions. This is the 100th edition of this award-winning, groundbreaking, nausea-inducing column. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I have prepared 50 rhetorical questions for my loyal readers (both of ya). 50. After getting caught lying about teachers [...]
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 January – Romney Wins. No, Santorum Declared Official Winner of Iowa Caucuses Due to the early date of the Iowa Caucuses, the top political story from Iowa in 2012 occurred in the early days of the New Year. The winner of the Iowa Caucuses is always in the running to be the [...]
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 [...]