Politics
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‘Dark Money’ Group Funnels Money To Super PAC Boosting Ernst
Iowa Values, the “dark money” group accused of illegally coordinating with Sen. Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign, recently funneled money to Iowa Values Action, a new super PAC set up to boost Ernst and run ads against Theresa Greenfield. The Clive-based Iowa Values Action registered as a super PAC with the Federal Election Commission on July…
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’52 Rural Hospitals’ Stat Comes From Anti-Public Option Lobbyists
To make the case against voting for Democrats in the 2020 election, Republican candidates in Iowa often tout a study claiming a public option within the Affordable Care Act could force dozens of rural hospitals in the state to close. In an interview last week with Siouxland News, Sen. Joni Ernst called it an “independent…
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’52 Rural Hospitals’ Stat Comes From Anti-Public Option Lobbyists
To make the case against voting for Democrats in the 2020 election, Republican candidates in Iowa often tout a study claiming a public option within the Affordable Care Act could force dozens of rural hospitals in the state to close. In an interview last week with Siouxland News, Sen. Joni Ernst called it an “independent…
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Ernst Obsessed With Opponent, Spending, Ads As Days Dwindle
Sen. Joni Ernst has five final days to turn things around. While Ernst is closing on TV with a longer positive spot, the senator herself has been largely obsessed with her opponent Theresa Greenfield on the campaign trail, her stump speech for the past month focused on attacks, fundraising disparities and the national Senate scene.…
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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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Ernst Goes To Nebraska For Trump, Gets Snubbed
A week out from Election Day, Sen. Joni Ernst spent her first day back from D.C. after the Supreme Court nomination vote traveling across the state line to Nebraska for a large Donald Trump rally in Omaha. Aside from a very quick shout-out from stage from the President, she appears to have gotten nothing out…
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Ernst Leaves DC With No COVID Relief, Heads To Nebraska For Trump
Sen. Joni Ernst returned from Washington, D.C. today for a final week of campaigning on the heels of a Supreme Court confirmation vote that took precedence over delivering a much-needed coronavirus stimulus package. Rather than hold a large event of her own, Ernst will join President Donald Trump tonight in Omaha, Nebraska for a “Make…
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Contrary To GOP Ads, Miller-Meeks Was Who Advocated For Less Meat Consumption
One of the Republican criticisms of the Green New Deal is it encourages eating more vegetables at the expense of meat in order to reduce pollution, which they argue will harm livestock producers. Republican ads against Rita Hart, a farmer in Eastern Iowa, have seized on this narrative, but state Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks actually is…
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Contrary To GOP Ads, Miller-Meeks Was Who Advocated For Less Meat Consumption
One of the Republican criticisms of the Green New Deal is it encourages eating more vegetables at the expense of meat in order to reduce pollution, which they argue will harm livestock producers. Republican ads against Rita Hart, a farmer in Eastern Iowa, have seized on this narrative, but state Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks actually is…
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GOP Ads In Iowa, Kansas Senate Races Feature The Same People
Two conservative super PACs are running ads against Democratic Senate candidates in Iowa and Kansas using the same people purporting to be concerned about the policy implications of electing Democrats in states they do not live in. In Iowa, Senate Leadership Fund is running a TV ad called “Struggling,” featuring a woman telling voters “the Theresa…
