2019
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Warren Stumps In Iowa As New Caucus Leaderboard Emerges
Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South Bend is now the “stand-alone front-runner.” The same poll showed Warren, whose numbers…
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Advocates Plan Another Push For Voting Rights Restoration
Of all the states in the country, only two permanently bar felons from voting and require them to petition the state to restore that right. One is Kentucky, the other is Iowa. Earlier in 2019, Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds joined the effort to change Iowa law by amending the constitution to automatically restore voting rights…
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When Everyone Thinks They Have A Chance, No One Does
It is past time for more candidates to drop out of the presidential primary. Seventy-nine days out from the Iowa Caucus, we still have 17 Democratic contenders in the race. The total number started going in the wrong direction this past week with Deval Patrick’s entrance, and it could climb by one more if Michael…
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Poll: Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer Picking Up Steam In Iowa
A recently-released survey from PPP Polls has good news for Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer in the lead-off caucus state. Both are moving up in the still-crowded Democratic primary, with Klobuchar polling at 9% and Steyer at 6% in Iowa in this survey. Klobuchar’s new showing has her just outside the top tier of front-runners…
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Julián Castro Stands Up To Injustice, Discrimination
Guest op-ed from Bonnie Louise Brown, a member of the Iowa Democratic Party State Central Committee Right now in this country and in our home state of Iowa, we have a crisis. Hate crimes are on the rise. We have concentration camps on our southern border and Americans are strapped down by their student loan…
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Steyer’s Call For Public Impeachment Hearings Paying Off
The impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump went public this week, a move presidential candidate Tom Steyer has called for since he first spoke out on impeachment in 2017. In his first Need To Impeach ad, on Oct. 21, 2017, Steyer said: “He has brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice at…
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How A Young Iowan Deals With His Father’s Deportation
It may be difficult to imagine a young person feeling the weight of their family’s future on their shoulders, but at an immigration hearing when he was 15, that was exactly how Giovani Barrios felt. “I remember being in front of the judge, lawyers and other people testifying in favor of my parents,” said Barrios.…
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Iowans’ Views On Super PACs Could Hurt Candidates Who Take Support
In late October, former Vice President Joe Biden indicated he would no longer oppose super PAC money for his campaign, breaking ranks with the majority of the Democratic field. Rejecting money from corporate Political Action Committees has been one of the major campaign promises for candidates in 2020, and it has inspired a lot of…
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“A People’s Senator”: Eddie Mauro Ties Activism To IA-Sen Campaign
On the campaign trail, U.S. Senate candidate Eddie Mauro hits many of the issues important to Democratic voters like health care, gun safety and climate change. But beyond his stump speech, it is apparent Mauro has a deeper connection to these issues than political ideology. The Des Moines native has a pre-existing health condition, has…
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Retired Teacher: How My Health Care Expenses Quickly Piled Up
Health care in America has changed significantly over just the past few generations. One Iowan, Kathy Geronzin, has lived through these changes, and has seen the the quality of her health care affordability erode. “I have been lucky during the course of my life that I’ve always had health insurance as an adult, but I’m…
