Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. I’m looking forward to Tuesday’s Polk County GOP central committee meeting. It is officer election time, so you know what that means: Time to stack the deck with a [...]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has named Nadeam Elshami, a Nashville native, as her new chief of staff. Elshami replaces John Lawrence, who will retire Feb. 1, according to Politico. Elshami is currently Pelosi’s communications director and senior adviser. He previously worked for U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, both of [...]
The first televised debate between Iowa’s third congressional district combatants devolved into exactly what you expect from Leonard Boswell: bickering and attacks. While the Democrat incumbent repeatedly claimed to be a moderate who can get along with the other side, he continued the constant mudslinging that has become the trademark of Boswell’s campaigns. Congressman Tom [...]
A sure sign of a campaign in trouble is the inability to draw a crowd for an event. Leonard Boswell has been in Congress since 1997. He represents the Des Moines area, where the Iowa State Fair is held. However, only 12 Iowans cared enough about what Boswell had to say to bother stopping to [...]
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. All art is political. Otherwise it would just be decoration. I thought Marco Rubio’s speech Saturday in Des Moines was one of the best I’ve ever heard from a politician. There were no attacks, no smears, no distortions, and no promises that he won’t be able to keep. Every [...]
Following a disastrous performance on “Iowa Press”, voter registration numbers increasingly going against her, and an opponent smashing Iowa fundraising records, Christie Vilsack is pulling out all stops in her efforts to defeat conservative Congressman Steve King in November. Vilsack is relying on her union pals to rescue her floundering campaign. AFSCME and SEIU partnered [...]
By Nathan Tucker President Obama proposed this week to raise taxes on those making over $250,000 a year, while extending the Bush-era tax cuts for a mere one year for those under that threshold. Though decrying the tactic as class warfare, elected Republicans concede that premise and merely argue that now is not the time [...]