RPI should embrace District Executive Committees

It’s been over a year since the current slate of Republican Party of Iowa state central committee members were selected at District Conventions across the state.  Seven members of the 16-member committee are supporters of former Congressman Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign, a few others supported other candidates for president but also have connections to [...]

Kevin’s Korner: Who’s Running, Cruz Control and Obama’s Guns

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 [...]

Kevin’s Korner: Candidate Casting, Grading Hermie and Politics of the Power Grab

Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. – George R.R. Martin I just got my taxes done on Saturday and I am not in a good mood. It was a truly depressing and maddening experience. I think I’d rather have my toenails ripped off [...]

Kevin’s Korner: Candidate Casting, Grading Hermie and Politics of the Power Grab

Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. – George R.R. Martin I just got my taxes done on Saturday and I am not in a good mood. It was a truly depressing and maddening experience. I think I’d rather have my toenails ripped off [...]

APRIL FOOLS’: Madam Shannon’s Empire

Shannon, left, joins Liberty Iowa PAC executive director Adil Khan, congressional candidate Rod Blum of Dubuque, and Republican state Sen. nominee Will Johnson of Dubuque CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—Meet Randi Shannon, a former Republican state senate candidate and shadow Senator of an insurgent federal republic. The fate of the Republic of the united States (RuSA), a rag-tag rebel [...]

APRIL FOOLS: Madam Shannon’s Empire

Shannon, left, joins Liberty Iowa PAC executive director Adil Khan, congressional candidate Rod Blum of Dubuque, and Republican state Sen. nominee Will Johnson of Dubuque CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—Meet Randi Shannon, a former Republican state senate candidate and shadow Senator of an insurgent federal republic. The fate of the Republic of the united States (RuSA), a rag-tag rebel [...]

PREVIEW: April Fool’s Day look at Madam Shannon’s empire

On Monday—April Fool’s Day—TheIowaRepublican.com will publish an extensive investigation into the business and quasi-political empire of Randi Shannon, a former Cedar Rapids-area state Sen. candidate who dropped out to assume the title of U.S. Senator of the Republic of the united States. The report will detail Shannon’s campaign finance violations, bizarre statements, compelling personality and [...]