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Sen. Sam Brownback, the Kansas social conservative now running for the Republican presidential nomination, decried the Iowa court ruling, likely to be stayed until a final determination by the Iowa Supreme Court can be made, allowing gays and lesbians to marry in Polk County. In a statement released by his campaign, he said:
“We should have [...]

Not to be outdone by Sen. Chris Dodd’s day-long International Association of Fire Fighters endorsement announcement tour in Iowa, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign today announced an endorsement by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.

The statement from the Clinton campaign:

The arrest and guilty plea of presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Idaho state chairman in a public restroom gay sex sting is unlikely to have an impact on the presidential preferences of Iowa social conservatives, Iowa Christian Alliance president Steve Scheffler said today. Idaho Sen. Larry Craig stepped down from his position with the Romney campaign [...]

Two leading conservative Iowa blogs are calling for Idaho Sen. Larry Craig to step down in the wake of revelations that he was arrested in a Minneapolis restroom in June and pled guilty to disorderly conduct charges in August.

As the national scandal builds, the Mainstream Iowan writes:
“Senator Larry Craig Should Resign Because Cruising Johns [...]

At the start of the year, John Edwards repeatedly slammed Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton on her refusal to apologize for her 2002 vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq. His critiques generated a great deal of media attention but did little to convince voters to abandon their support for her, and subsequent studies [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton called for federal regulation of tobacco products by the Food and Drug Adminstration at the LiveStrong Presidential Cancer Forum in Cedar Rapids this morning.

“It is an addictive deadly substance, and we need to regulate it,” she said in response to a question from cancer survivor and forum moderator Lance Armstrong.

Clinton said that [...]

John Edwards first called for Gonzales’ resignation on March 13, 2007. His full statement:
“Better late than never.”

Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro says Democrats and Republicans have told him that they are committed to keeping the caucuses in January 2008.

“We are bound and determined to hold the thing in January,” Mauro said in a phone interview this morning, reiterating the position he has taken all month. The parties “want it to [...]

Rather than kicking his Iowa campaign up a notch, second-place Ames Straw Poll finisher Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas downsized his Iowa operation to just three paid staffers in the wake of his low-budget achievement.

“Right now were back down to three. We had, gosh 16 or 18 here for the Straw Poll,” Huckabee Iowa campaign [...]

Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback’s campaign shut down his second Iowa office, opened in Ames on June 21, after a third-place finish in the Ames Straw Poll earlier this month.

The campaign continues to operate out of its lone Iowa office in West Des Moines.

Iowa campaign spokesman John Rankin was unavailable for comment; a receptionist said he [...]