April 25, 2017 - Iowa Starting Line

Republicans Show No Fear After Divisive Legislative Session

by Pat Rynard | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized

If Iowa Republicans were concerned about a voter backlash in response to the deeply conservative agenda they passed in the Iowa Statehouse this year, they’re not letting on. After a legislative session in which new GOP majorities passed sweeping rightwing...

Pete D’Alessandro Launches 3rd District Bid

by Pat Rynard | Apr 25, 2017 | IA-03

In what could easily become the most interesting 2018 campaign to watch, Pete D’Alessandro filed papers today to form an exploratory committee for Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District. D’Alessandro is a longtime Iowa political operative, with a resume...

Rural Iowans Give Urban Iowans Some Tough Advice

by Rick Smith | Apr 25, 2017 | Uncategorized

The Iowa Democratic Party has been conducting a 2016 post-election postmortem on why they lost rural Iowa so badly. One recommendation resurfaces in every one of these autopsies conducted over these losses. The suggestion is that urban Democrats must listen to the...