by Pat Rynard | Mar 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Starting Line will be live-blogging Bruce Rastetter’s Iowa Ag Summit happening today at the Iowa Fair Grounds. A long list of potential Republican presidential candidates, along with many Iowa leaders, are slated to speak to the crowd. About 200 national and...
by Pat Rynard | Mar 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
The next great Republican cattle call is this weekend at GOP mega-donor Bruce Rastetter’s Ag Summit in Des Moines. The event will discuss issues affecting Iowa and the nation’s agriculture with a number of likely Republican presidential candidates and...
by Pat Rynard | Mar 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Democrats on the House Labor Committee fought back against a new Republican proposal during a marathon meeting on Wednesday night. On Monday House Republicans had introduced without warning a bill to change collective bargaining rights for public school teachers. The...
by Pat Rynard | Mar 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday afternoon that Matt Paul will run Hillary Clinton’s Iowa operations for the caucus. Paul was the communications director for Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack until today. Paul will return to his home state where he...
by Pat Rynard | Mar 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
For a couple hours there on Monday, it looked like Democrats might really not have any race at all for their nomination. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in Congressional history, announced she will be retiring after her current term that...