Pat Rynard founded Iowa Starting Line in 2015. He still keeps a close eye on Iowa politics, his dog’s name is Frank, and football season is his favorite time of year.
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Joni Ernst’s “Bruce Braley Moment”
Sometimes you really do wonder if Sen. Joni Ernst is trying to lose. As if Iowa wasn’t already facing enough embarrassing national headlines for the state’s disastrous COVID-19 situation, Ernst decided she’d make her own waves with a set of dangerous comments on pandemic conspiracy theories. In the Amie Rivers story in the Courier that…
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Kim Reynolds Makes A Fool Of Herself On ISU Game
Gov. Kim Reynolds has no idea what’s going on in her state. As Iowa draws international notoriety for its complete inability to contain the coronavirus, topping the lists for the worst current spread in the U.S., Reynolds was somehow completely unaware of a major decision regarding COVID-19 in her state. At her 11:00 a.m. press…
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Kim Reynolds Makes A Fool Of Herself On ISU Game
Gov. Kim Reynolds has no idea what’s going on in her state. As Iowa draws international notoriety for its complete inability to contain the coronavirus, topping the lists for the worst current spread in the U.S., Reynolds was somehow completely unaware of a major decision regarding COVID-19 in her state. At her 11:00 a.m. press…
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Kim Reynolds Makes A Fool Of Herself On ISU Game
Gov. Kim Reynolds has no idea what’s going on in her state. As Iowa draws international notoriety for its complete inability to contain the coronavirus, topping the lists for the worst current spread in the U.S., Reynolds was somehow completely unaware of a major decision regarding COVID-19 in her state. At her 11:00 a.m. press…
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Eddie Andrews Celebrated Trump Under Confederate Flag
A Republican candidate running in a suburban Des Moines metro seat attended a Trump campaign party that featured a Confederate flag hanging on the wall last week. Eddie Andrews, the GOP nominee for House District 39, was at the “FreedomFest/Donald Trump Acceptance Speech Party” last Thursday, where the flag hung above the attendees inside the…
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Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an attendee if…
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Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an attendee if…
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Ernst Suggests Iowa Doctors Falsifying COVID Cases For Money
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst seemed to embrace on Monday a thoroughly-discredited QAnon conspiracy theory about U.S. deaths from COVID-19 being a mere fraction of what has been reported. As Amie Rivers of the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reported, Ernst said she was “so skeptical” of the official death count when asked by an attendee if…
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ISU Plans 25,000-Person Home Game Amid Huge Outbreak
To celebrate their city’s ranking as top in the nation for new COVID-19 spread, Iowa State University announced plans today for a possible superspreader event next week. Okay, that’s not how they phrased it, but it’s essentially what is playing out today in the current global epicenter of coronavirus spread. ISU Director of Athletics Jamie…
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ISU Plans 25,000-Person Home Game Amid Huge Outbreak
To celebrate their city’s ranking as top in the nation for new COVID-19 spread, Iowa State University announced plans today for a possible superspreader event next week. Okay, that’s not how they phrased it, but it’s essentially what is playing out today in the current global epicenter of coronavirus spread. ISU Director of Athletics Jamie…
