2018
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Iowa Democrats Release Initial Candidate Caucus Result Numbers
The Iowa Democratic Party has released additional information and numbers from the Iowa Caucus held on February 5. While the vast majority of precincts did not break into preference groups for the governor’s race or congressional races, some did, and we now know how some of those turned out. Overall, the party reports that 4,944…
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Want To End Gun Violence? Start With Voting Republicans Out Of Office
Vote Republicans out of office! You might assume this suggestion came from a Democrat. It didn’t. It’s from former Florida Republican Congressman David Jolly. Jolly was interviewed following the latest Florida school massacre. He believes the only way to end the gun mass murders is to vote Republicans out of office. “Republicans will never do…
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Joni Ernst Got $3.1 Million In NRA Money, Made Gun Laws More Dangerous
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is a national darling of the NRA’s effort to eliminate any and all meaningful gun safety laws that might keep children like those at Parkland, Florida from getting blown to pieces on a regular school day. Ernst received over $3.1 million in financial support from the NRA, the seventh-most of any…
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David Young Has Thoughts, Prayers And $700,000 Of NRA Cash
The nation is coming to terms today with yet another horrific mass shooting at a school, this time in Parkland, Florida. Will anything substantive on gun laws change now that we’ve had our 18th mass shooting in just the first month and a half of 2018? As long as Iowa Congressman David Young is office,…
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Ep11: 3rd District Democratic Primary & Interview with Austin Frerick
The six Democratic candidates in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District held a forum on Tuesday night this week. the Iowa Starting Line sat down with several of the students involved and who attended to get their reaction to the field. We also interview Austin Frerick, one of those 3rd District Democratic candidates, and discuss his…
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What Politicians Could Learn From University Of Iowa Students
Am I the only one who is discouraged these days? [inline-ad id=”2″] My state of mind is not helped by the news spewing out of Washington, D.C., and Des Moines many days. It doesn’t help my attitude when I see one of the top aides at the White House resigning under public pressure after disclosures…
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A Missed Opportunity At Winter Olympics?
With the Winter Olympics now in full swing and with the North Koreans participating, it seems to me we are losing an opportunity to engage on even a minimalist level. I get the increased sanctions we have put on the North and I even get some of the “good cop/bad cop” posturing of the Trump…
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Iowa Republicans’ Copy-And-Paste ALEC Constitutional Convention Bill
Iowa Republicans are pushing a sneakily dangerous resolution through the Iowa Legislature that could upend the nation’s constitution in unpredictable ways if successful. A Senate subcommittee recently moved forward Senate Joint Resolution 8 to full committee, which would add Iowa to a national movement calling for a convention of all 50 states to amend the…
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The Most Laughable Part Of Kim Reynolds’ New Tax Cut Plan
Governor Kim Reynolds released her wide-ranging tax cut plan earlier today, which included a total of $1.7 billion in tax reductions for Iowa businesses and taxpayers. In-depth details of the proposal have not yet been made public, and the initial plan put out today essentially amounted to a bullet point press release of all the…
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Bernie Sanders Plans Iowa Trip To Boost Pete D’Alessandro In IA-03
Democratic 3rd District candidate Pete D’Alessandro has a big guest coming in to campaign for him later this month: Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a rally with D’Alessandro on February 23. It will be the biggest surrogate of the cycle to come in specifically for a congressional or statewide candidate, and should give D’Alessandro, who…
