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Over the past weeks the middle class has been held hostage by Chuck Grassley and his Republican colleagues in the Senate. Why? To stand with millionaires and billionaires. While thousands of Iowans braced for not only an immediate loss of unemployment benefits, but a tax increase in the new year, Republicans used them to get [...]

While I don’t normally post press releases verbatim on the blog, this one is unusual enough to warrant it. The Chet Culver/Patty Judge 2010 gubernatorial campaign sent out a release once again pushing for a debate between Judge and Iowa Sen. Kim Reynolds, the Republican lieutenant governor candidate. And it looked a little something like [...]

Elena Kagan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today on a 63 to 37 vote. Iowa’s senators, Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin, split with Harkin voting in favor. Will add to this list as more are received… I know I join many Iowans in congratulating Elena Kagan on her confirmation to the Supreme Court, she [...]

Iowa Rep. Deborah Berry, a Democrat from Waterloo, provides great closing remarks on SF 2357, a bill that seeks to prevent domestic violence. The House has passed the bill, which is now in the Iowa Senate.

What could be better than spending the evening with an exceptional group of Iowa Democratic women? For me, it would be getting honored by that same group of women for something I had a great time doing. Last fall, I helped DAWN’s List put together a seminar for Democratic women. My contribution included putting together [...]

So, the announcement has been made: Vice Pres. Joe Biden is the keynote at Iowa’s 2009 Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Biden — in fact, the entire Biden clan — are not strangers to Iowans. When he was chosen by Pres. Barack Obama as a running mate, I put together a round-up of all of my Biden-related [...]

The Iowa Democratic Party has taken issue with an advertisement being circulated by the Draft Terry Branstad Committee, and have released a  point-by-point critique. Branstad previously served four terms as the Governor of Iowa, and was the last Republican to serve in that office. When he chose to retire, in 1997, he was replaced by [...]

The Iowa Democratic Party plans to offer a live internet video stream of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry fundraiser that is scheduled for this Sunday in Indianola. Keynote speaker at the event will be the junior U.S. Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken. “We are excited to launch a new way of including our [...]

Statement issued by Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan upon learning that Curt Hanson had maintained Democratic control of Iowa House District 90 in a special election: FAIRFIELD, IA – “I congratulate Curt Hanson on a successful campaign. His was a local campaign about local issues, and it is not surprising he was successful. Curt [...]

The information in this press release from the Iowa Democratic Party is simply disgusting: Democrats decry hat speech at Republican gathering, demand to know why Republican hopefuls did not speak out Rants, Northey, Behn and others attend event where Dems compared to the Nazi Party Des Moines — Do Republican Gubernatorial hopefuls think Democrats are [...]