By Craig Robinson Even before Senator Tom Harkin announced his retirement plans, conservative activists around the state were itching for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate to immerge. Now that Harkin is not seeking re-election, the quest for a Republican candidate has been sent into hyper-drive. The desire of activists to identify a candidate and begin [...]
Iowa’s two Republican congressmen, Steve King and Tom Latham, rejected the President Obama-approved, U.S. Senate-backed fiscal cliff bill Tuesday night. King and Latham joined 149 other Republicans in shunning the bill. However, 85 House Republicans and 172 Democrats voted in favor of the measure. Now it will be sent to President Obama’s desk and officially [...]
Small business owner Dan LeRette bested two other candidates in the GOP’s special nominating convention Wednesday night for House District 33. He will face Democrat House Leader Kevin McCarthy for the southeast Des Moines seat in November. LeRette, 40, was not aware there would be a special nominating convention until receiving a notice in the [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. I didn’t build this column. Somebody else made it happen. In case you didn’t get enough of the wonderful county, district and state GOP conventions this year, we’ve got more on the docket in the next few weeks … At least three special nominating conventions will take place soon [...]
Upon his election, new Iowa GOP Chairman A.J. Spiker quickly resigned from his paid position as state vice-chairman of the Ron Paul presidential campaign. However, that does not mean he has cut ties from the Paul campaign and their organizational arm, Campaign for Liberty. Several parts of a fundraising email sent by Spiker on behalf [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. Big plans for the day: I’m gonna go out and get the world by the tail and wrap it around and pull it down and put it in my pocket … Or maybe I’ll do jack squat. Rick Santorum blew it. There’s no other way to describe it. The [...]