2019
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Iowa Democrats Elect New Leaders For Vice Chair Slots
The Iowa Democratic Party has a new first vice chair: June Owens. Owens was elected on Saturday after Andrea Phillips, who had held the first vice chair role for several years, stepped down to run for the Iowa House in Ankeny. She’s the first African American woman to serve in the position. “What I’d like…
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Local Solutions Need Federal Help, 2020 Dems Say At Waterloo Forum
Five 2020 Democratic candidates were peppered with questions in Waterloo, Iowa, on Friday, about their agendas for local America and asked how to lessen the disconnect between Washington and cities nationwide. Infrastructure, housing and economic development were highlighted at the Local America Presidential Forum as Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Amy Klobuchar and Tom…
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Watch: Local America Presidential Forum from Waterloo
The Local America Presidential Forum, welcomed to Waterloo by Mayor Quentin Hart, was hosted by Accelerator for America and the United States Conference of Mayors, and was sponsored by Iowa Starting Line and Mediacom. The forum connected the wide-ranging federal issues on debate stages to the local implementation and impacts mayors and voters see and…
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‘It’s A Pattern Of Flouting The Law’: Not Ernst’s 1st Brush With ‘Dark Money’
Sen. Joni Ernst’s reelection efforts took a hit today in the midst of revelations her campaign may have illegally coordinated with the “dark money” group Iowa Values. But this isn’t the first time Ernst has skirted the bounds of campaign finance laws. In the fall of 2014, during Ernst’s initial run for the U.S. Senate,…
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Swift Condemnation After Report On Joni Ernst’s ‘Dark Money’ Ties
Condemnation came swiftly Friday morning as news broke of Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst’s connection to the “dark money” group Iowa Values, and how it has helped raise money to bolster her 2020 reelection effort. The Associated Press reported today on material it obtained revealing the group has done more than simply raise money and push…
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To A Union Audience, Klobuchar Pitches Plan For 21st-Century Jobs
Sen. Amy Klobuchar shared the details of her newly released plan for the future of work Thursday afternoon at the Machinists Union Lodge in Des Moines. Klobuchar spoke for nearly an hour with a table of Iowans about the new challenges workers and businesses face in a modern globalized economy. Panelists on the roundtable included Randy…
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Can Andrew Yang Save Iowa’s Super Smash Bros. Scene?
Andrew Yang has championed a universal basic income policy, coined “the Freedom Dividend.” A big part of his sell has been that you could use this money for any personal need or want. Struggling to afford housing rent prices near your job? $1,000 can help cushion that cost. Buried under student loan debt? Now you…
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Friends And Allies Vouch For Biden’s Character On Bus Tour Across Iowa
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s eight-day ‘No Malarkey’ bus tour across Iowa isn’t full of shenanigans. In fact, it’s really quite serious. Biden spent the first five days of the 660-mile tour discussing a variety of weighty topics with voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state including an idea he’s been repeating all year. He wants…
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Paved With Good Intentions, DNC’s Debate Plan Isn’t Working
Guest op-ed by Polk County Democrats Chair Sean Bagniewski The Democratic National Committee’s road to the debate stage was paved with good intentions. Throughout 2018, a record number of up-and-coming Democratic presidential candidates crisscrossed the country and early voting states to boost down-ballot candidates from would-be legislators to first-time congressional nominees. In November 2018, that…
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She Delivers: Four Mayors For Amy Klobuchar
Guest op-ed from Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson, Moorhead Mayor Johnathan Judd and Mankato Mayor Najwa Massad. This week, Senator Amy Klobuchar will take part in the Local America Presidential Forum hosted by the United States Conference of Mayors in Waterloo (you can still get free tickets here). As four mayors from…
