Cindy Axne is getting a big boost in her bid to win Democrats' nomination for Iowa's 3rd Congressional District. EMILY's List is announcing this morning that they're endorsing the small businesswoman from West Des Moines. The backing from the influential national...
Exactly two months remain until Democrats decide who they want as their gubernatorial nominee in an incredibly crucial election for the future of Iowa. The candidates continue to criss-cross the state and put in extremely long hours to raise money and meet voters,...
For all the drama that occurred with Theresa Greenfield's ballot and signatures situation, little attention was paid to the other developments in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District race a few weeks back. Iowa political news was pretty wild for the entire month of...
The candidates are on the ballot, the TV ads have been running for half a year and the final two months of the Democratic primary approaches. One major outstanding question remains: will anyone choose a lieutenant governor running mate before the June 5 primary?...
Here we go again. The ink is barely dry on the $1.75 million check the taxpayers of Iowa had to write last fall to settle a sexual-harassment lawsuit won by an employee of the Iowa Senate Republican staff. The leader of the Senate Republicans, Bill Dix of Shell...
Congressional candidate Theresa Greenfield has ended her campaign. Attorney General Tom Miller put out a judgement late this afternoon that his office does not believe that Greenfield could use Chapter 43 of the Iowa Code to justify remaining on the ballot....
The Iowa Democratic Party filed a Freedom Of Information Act with Governor Kim Reynolds' office today to acquire more information in the case of Dave Jamison's firing over sexual harassment allegations. Jamison was fired by Reynolds from his job as the director of...
The state's three-person elections commission met this afternoon in a lengthy hearing to consider eight objections to various candidates' ballot petitions. It was the most challenges anyone could remember there being in a single year, and it included several major...
Members of the Democratic 3rd Congressional District committee narrowly voted to move forward Theresa Greenfield's candidacy, allowing her to clear the first of three hurdles to join the Democratic primary ballot. The committee voted 36 in favor and 31 against to...
Iowa Democrats are holding their county conventions across the state today, the second part in the caucus-to-convention process that could determine the party's gubernatorial nominee. Were none of the six Democrats to reach 35% in the June 5 primary, the delegates...
