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• 500 wait in line to meet Sarah Palin in Sioux City

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Sioux City, Ia. — It didn’t matter to Judy Wagoner that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was 90 minutes late for her appearance in Iowa today, or that most of the 16 hours she waited for her was spent outside in subfreezing air. “Who cares,” Wagoner said. “I would have waited another 10 outside for her.” ...
  23 hours ago

• Palin expected to be late to Sioux City, hundreds wait

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was expected to be late to her noon appearance at a Sioux City bookstore today. The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee had been visiting injured veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., today before taking off for Iowa. The threat of snow in the Midwest ...
  1 day ago

• Harkin backs tax on Wall Street transactions

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin today said he would propose taxing stock transactions as a way of generating revenue to offset the budget deficit. Harkin, a Democrat, said he planned to introduce in the Senate a bill co-sponsored in the House by Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley, a measure that would impose a quarter-percent tax on all ...
  3 days ago

• Branstad lists legislative endorsements

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the job again, has announced that 14 state lawmakers have endorsed him. The legislators, all Republicans, are: state Sens. Randy Feenstra of Hull, David Johnson of Ocheyeden, Larry Noble of Ankeny and Pat Ward of West Des Moines; and state ...
  3 days ago

• Gibbons to Boswell: Time to get to work.

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Republican candidate for Congress Jim Gibbons chided the Democratic leadership in Congress, and Des Moines’ U.S. House member Leonard Boswell, in light of the newly published 2010 House calendar. It shows only 17 days where votes are scheduled in the first two months of the year. Gibbons, of Des Moines, sent out ...
  4 days ago

• Has Grassley damaged GOP’s womanizing abilities?

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  The Onion, a farce news Web site, has reported that Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley has “perhaps irrevocably” damaged the ability of his Republican peers to pick up women at bars. Grassley, this week, answered a question about his participation in federal farm subsidy programs on C-SPAN as having “lived off the ...
  4 days ago

• Want to see Palin in Sioux City Sunday? Here are the details

  
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  If you’re thinking of heading to Sioux City to catch Sarah Palin’s book-signing, better gas up the night before and head out early.
  4 days ago

• Iowa Dems call Rants’ ideas for governor “antiques,” Rants fires at Branstad

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  State Democrats criticized Republican candidate for governor Christopher Rants by saying his ideas are outdated and unoriginal. They seem to be trying to use Rants’ own argument against him. Rants has called for Iowans to look to the future, instead of re-electing Republican Terry Branstad, who was governor in the ...
  4 days ago

• Michael Kiernan to McKinley: Apologize now

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Michael Kiernan Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan has called for Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley to apologize for his comments about children with special needs. McKinley made the comments Tuesday in a meeting with The Des Moines Register. Here’s the statement Kiernan just released: State ...
  4 days ago

• Tax credit review timeline extended

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  A review of Iowa’s tax credits has been extended by a week to give departments more time to conduct a comprehensive analysis, Gov. Chet Culver announced today. Culver, last month, ordered a review of 30 state tax credit incentives in the wake of a criminal probe into Iowa’s film program, a dire budget forecast ...
  5 days ago

• Culver: Campaign manager departure “much to do about nothing.”

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  The departure of Gov. Chet Culver’s campaign manager is a minor blip, the governor told reporters today. Culver, a Democrat preparing to seek re-election next year, said Andrew Roos’ announcement Tuesday that he was leaving the campaign after less than three months was normal. “Look, it’s very common, ...
  5 days ago

• Chamber Alliance: Allow county-based tax decisions

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  By DONNELLE ELLER deller@dmreg.com All of Iowa’s 99 counties would be able to decide how they tax businesses and residents, under a proposal from group representing Iowa chambers. The Iowa Chamber Alliance said today the Legislature should give local leaders and voters a chance to decide how they should be taxed. ...
  5 days ago

• Husband of state lawmaker wants to be one, too

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  State Rep. Phyllis Thede, a Democrat from Bettendorf, won a seat in the Iowa House last year. Now her husband, Dave Thede, a Republican who recently became a Democrat, is now seeking a seat in the Iowa Senate. Dave Thede, a 55-year-old teacher, is challenging Republican Sen. David Hartsuch of Bettendorf, a ...
  5 days ago

• Grassley disagrees, but says Coburn ‘OK’ to say seniors will “die sooner”

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said did not agree with his Oklahoma colleague Tom Coburn’s comment Tuesday that Medicare cuts proposed in the Senate health care bill would lead to earlier death for seniors. But Grassley stopped well short of criticizing his fellow Republican, attributing the comment to a debate ...
  5 days ago

• Grassley’s farmer tongue strikes again (video)

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  On Tuesday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who wears his Iowa farmer status on his sleeve, let loose again with a barnyard reference similar to one he used in March. As a guest on C-SPAN’s Morning Journal, the Republican was answering the question of a caller on the cable television public affairs network. The caller ...
  5 days ago

• GOP counters remarks from Culver spokesman

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Troy Price, a spokesman for Gov. Chet Culver, issued a statement today, saying Republicans failed to offer solutions during an online interview with The Des Moines Register. See his letter here . Josie Albrecht, a spokeswoman for the Iowa House Republicans issued the following response: “Republicans have laid ...
  6 days ago

• Correction: Obama’s speech

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  The Register listed the wrong time for when television coverage begins tonight for President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan. Coverage starts at 7 p.m.
  6 days ago

• Iowa 2010 Gubernatorial Race News: Christian Fong Suspends His Campaign

  
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  From a press release he sent out today: Christian Fong, Republican gubernatorial candidate announced that effective today he will suspend his campaign for Governor. “Today, I announce the suspension of my campaign. From this time forward, we will not be actively campaigning for the Republican nomination for ...
  6 days ago

• Republicans failed to offer solutions, Culver spokesman says

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  Troy Price, a spokesman for Gov. Chet Culver, issued the following statement about statements made today by House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen and Senate Republican Leader Paul McKinley during an interview with The Des Moines Register. See the video replay here. More news coverage of the meetings with both ...
  6 days ago

• Wes Whitead won’t seek re-election

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 143
  The Sioux City Journal reports that State Rep. Wes Whitead, D-Sioux City, will not run for another term from House District 1 in 2010. The Journal says that Rick Mullin of Sioux City has filed papers to run for the Democratic nomination and that Whitead says Mullin would be a “fine successor.”
  6 days ago

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