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 [...]
Republican Party of Iowa Chairman A.J. Spiker and RPI State Central Committee member Jamie Johnson discuss the RNC Growth & Opportunity Project last month at the Sioux County GOP central committee meeting in Orange City DES MOINES—As the Republican Party of Iowa’s governing state central committee prepares to gather for its quarterly meeting tomorrow, tensions [...]
ORANGE CITY, Iowa—Republican Party of Iowa officials sharply criticized the Republican National Committee’s analysis of the party’s post-2012 plans, slamming the RNC’s messaging on gays and illegal immigrants in a meeting with activists in a key Northwest Iowa county Monday night. “I’m really concerned about some of the language in the Growth & Opportunity Project [...]
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—A united Linn County Republican Party elected businesswoman Cindy Golding as the chair of Iowa’s second largest county GOP Tuesday night. Six percent of Iowa Republicans call the county home, and the party infrastructure will factor into the open first congressional seat in the midterm elections. Steve Armstrong, the outgoing chairman, emceed the [...]
DES MOINES—Steven Bierfeldt might strike some political observers as strange. The 29-year-old New York native stormed into Iowa last summer to work as the right-hand man of Republican Party of Iowa chairman A.J. Spiker, rankling some state central committee members. A former colleague chuckled at Bierfeldt’s habit of working by candlelight to a meticulous candle [...]
By Craig Robinson Despite what one may think of the current administration of the Republican Party of Iowa, they should be commended for their Celebrate Life event on Saturday. The low dollar event isn’t going to solve the party’s fundraising woes or help the party heal the wounds from the 2012 caucus to convention process, [...]
Polk County Republicans will elect a new chair this Tuesday. Republicans will gather at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn (1050 6th Ave.) for the election and central committee meeting. TheIowaRepublican.com has provided each of the announced candidates an opportunity to make their case to Republicans in Iowa’s largest county. Will Rogers, a government relations [...]