Patty’s Mad, a RINO quits, Teahen’s in, and Marriage needs to be defined.
Nathan Greene
in Iowa Marriage Issue, Statehouse Issues
|
1 Comment
Iowa Future Fund
Apparently Governor Chet Culver and Lt. Attack Dog Patty Judge don’t like the radio and TV ads that are being run by the Iowa Future Fund. The ads point out the tax increases passed by Culver and the Democrats and their special earmarks for companies like Microsoft. Like Patty, I would like to know who the group is because they need to be thanked! Finally somebody understands that you can’t let this stuff slide and pull it out during an election year, you have to strike while the iron is hot.
Mulder Out
Mulder set to retire and word on the street is that Randy Feenstra will run for the seat. There is no doubt that Feenstra would be a definite upgrade over Mulder. What I think is interesting is that while Republicans might not have much of a chance to pick up seats in the Iowa Senate, they are upgrading their talent tremendously. There is actually a core of good conservative candidates to get excited about if/when this new class of Republican Senators take office in Jan 2009.
Hey Don, see what happens when you call someone out? Keep it up buddy!
Teahen for Congress Announces Campaign Team.
Wes Enos from Des Moines is heading east to run the Teahen campaign. Wes is from Polk County and was the Political Director for Mike Huckabee in Iowa. Teahen has also secured the services of Victory Enterprises (Steve Grubbs and Brian Dumas). The most interesting nugget of info is that Bill and Gerri Dix are heading up his fundraising effort. Dix ran for Congress unsuccessfully in 2006. While Dix was a good fundraiser for his own campaign, it will be interesting to see what he can do for someone else.
Teahen is announcing his campaign on Wednesday.
Marriage Amendment
I know Emily has written a lot about this subject, but I would like to commend Chuck Hurley on his efforts to let the people vote ON THE Marriage Amendment. Now I just wish we would have had the same effort a few years ago when the Republican controlled the House and Senate. Then Majority Leader Iverson failed to apply any pressure to his members to support the amendment. I think Hurley’s efforts back in 2004 would have made a huge difference.
Reader Comments (1)
Republican leaders don't want a vote on a marriage amendment. They would much rather use it (and abortion) as wedge issues when they are losing and need to drum up support from the base.