Pat Rynard

Never over-promise and under-deliver. That’s an old lesson that Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, never seemed to learn. After boasting last week that the campaign had over one million ticket reservations for Trump’s triumphal return to the campaign trail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, only a mere 6,200 people showed up, nowhere near the event center’s…

It took Mallory Gosch an hour and fifteen minutes to gather the courage to step up and take the microphone at the racial justice discussion in Cresco, Iowa. The 14-year-old sat in the crowd of well over 100 as her mother and others took turns in the park raising their concerns over instances of racism…

Activists with the Des Moines Black Lives Matter organization left their follow-up meeting with Gov. Kim Reynolds late this morning with a major commitment on voting rights, but an unclear timetable. Reynolds, according to the activists in the room, said that she would issue an executive order restoring former felons’ voting rights in some form…

Activists with the Des Moines Black Lives Matter organization left their follow-up meeting with Gov. Kim Reynolds late this morning with a major commitment on voting rights, but an unclear timetable. Reynolds, according to the activists in the room, said that she would issue an executive order restoring former felons’ voting rights in some form…

Iowa’s Black Lives Matter activists finally got their meeting with Gov. Kim Reynolds today at the Statehouse, during which they tried to get her to commit to an executive order on voting rights restoration. After six of the group’s leaders sat down with the Governor and State Reps. Ras Smith and Ako Abdul-Samad this morning,…

“Aye.” “Aye.” “Aye.” The votes in favor came raining down from the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during the roll call for HF 2647, the criminal justice reform bill that sailed through the Capitol tonight in unprecedented fashion. Not even an hour before, just before 5:00 p.m., the text of the new bill was released, the…

“Aye.” “Aye.” “Aye.” The votes in favor came raining down from the Iowa House Judiciary Committee during the roll call for HF 2647, the criminal justice reform bill that sailed through the Capitol tonight in unprecedented fashion. Not even an hour before, just before 5:00 p.m., the text of the new bill was released, the…

On Tuesday night, Mariannette Miller-Meeks received at least 22,771 votes in her winning campaign for the Republican nomination in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Despite facing a vote-splitting, five-way field, it was the largest number of votes Miller-Meeks has ever earned in a primary. In 2014, she got 15,043 votes. 18,830 Republicans backed her in 2010.…

Jeff Shipley picked up the microphone when he was angry. That was a bad idea. The state representative from Fairfield had a rough day as the Legislature returned following over two months away during the pandemic. Shipley, a libertarian-minded outsider who won an upset victory in 2018, has danced to his own tune since arriving…

Jeff Shipley picked up the microphone when he was angry. That was a bad idea. The state representative from Fairfield had a rough day as the Legislature returned following over two months away during the pandemic. Shipley, a libertarian-minded outsider who won an upset victory in 2018, has danced to his own tune since arriving…