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Iowa Dems Aim To Make GOP Pay On COVID Liability Vote
In campaign advertisements across many Iowa legislative districts, Democrats are attacking Republicans’ vote to shield nursing homes from liability lawsuits over COVID-19 safety negligence. Nursing home protections became a hot-button topic at the end of the 2020 legislative session when House Republicans voted to shield nursing homes and meatpacking plants—Iowa businesses hit hardest by the…
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Iowa Dems Aim To Make GOP Pay On COVID Liability Vote
In campaign advertisements across many Iowa legislative districts, Democrats are attacking Republicans’ vote to shield nursing homes from liability lawsuits over COVID-19 safety negligence. Nursing home protections became a hot-button topic at the end of the 2020 legislative session when House Republicans voted to shield nursing homes and meatpacking plants—Iowa businesses hit hardest by the…
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Pence, Reynolds Tout COVID-19 Leadership As Iowa Cases Surge
On Thursday, as Iowa reported record numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations and its largest number of counties with high positivity rates over 15%, Vice President Mike Pence held a campaign rally in Des Moines, boasting about the Trump administration and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ handling of the pandemic. Pence, the leader of the White House’s coronavirus…
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Greenfield Explains Which Senators She’d Reach Out To First If Elected
During a stop at a Central Iowa farm yesterday, Democratic Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield said that if elected, she’d work closely with Sen. Chuck Grassley and won’t focus on adding seats to the Supreme Court. While touring a family farm in Boone County Iowa on Tuesday evening as part of her campaign’s RV tour across…
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A Decent Man In Indecent Times: Andy McKean Tries To Hold On In Trump District
It was a Friday afternoon in Maquoketa, and state Rep. Andy McKean was huddled around a piano with a longtime local radio broadcaster in the town’s historic Decker House Hotel for some “good old fashioned campaigning.” Good old fashioned campaigning looks the same as it did decades ago, said the man who was Iowa’s longest-serving…
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Andrews Tackles Derecho, COVID During Key Iowa House Race
Second-time Iowa House District 95 candidate Christian Andrews gathered supporters and fellow candidates last weekend for a socially distanced campaign rally—with about two weeks until election day, Andrews said all needed to intensify efforts to finally flip the Iowa House blue. At the Linn County Fairgrounds in Central City on Saturday, a number of cars…
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Andrews Tackles Derecho, COVID During Key Iowa House Race
Second-time Iowa House District 95 candidate Christian Andrews gathered supporters and fellow candidates last weekend for a socially distanced campaign rally—with about two weeks until election day, Andrews said all needed to intensify efforts to finally flip the Iowa House blue. At the Linn County Fairgrounds in Central City on Saturday, a number of cars…
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Iowa Farm Unveils 30-Acre Joe Biden Crop Art Sign
The largest Joe Biden sign in the country was unveiled this weekend in Tama County, Iowa. A 30-acre piece of ‘crop-art’ on Saturday was completed on a family-owned plot of land in Clutier, Iowa after an aerial field artist and dozens of local volunteers labored for less than a week. The sign, which features the…
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Iowa Insurance Board Trips May Undermine Bergan’s Reelection
While now on hold, the potential state review of an Iowa government insurance program could undermine a Decorah state representative’s chance for reelection in an already competitive rematch race. House District 55 Rep. Michael Bergan sits on the board of directors for the Iowa Communities Assurance Pool, which was investigated by the Associated Press in…
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Phillips On Landon’s Attacks: “They Just Made It Up”
Iowa House District 37 candidate Andrea Phillips, a Democrat, wants to debunk several claims made in attack advertisements approved by her opponent John Landon and paid for by the Republican Party of Iowa. Mailers and a TV ad currently circulating the suburban district falsely say that Phillips has pledged to defund the police and that…
