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Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for government and public policy at the American Family Association, said Thursday on his radio show that his organization has “put a couple of hundred thousand dollars into this campaign” to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices up for retention votes this fall.
Fischer was interviewing Bob Vander Plaats, [...]

Official voter registration numbers show there are now are 699,707 Democrats, 645,606 Republicans, and 755,513 No Party in Iowa.
The Iowa Department of Economic Development Board is expected to pay a consulting firm $235,000 to prepare a report aimed at developing strategies to assist in the recovery and rebuilding of the Lake Delhi area.
GOP 3rd District [...]

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad’s position on immigration “goes further than other GOP candidates” around the country, according to Politico reporter Carrie Budoff Brown.
In an interview earlier this summer with WHO-AM’s Jan Mickelson, Branstad said a U.S. Supreme Court decision that mandated states provide access to public education to the children of illegal immigrants should [...]

Ben Lange, the Republican hoping to unseat incumbent 1st District U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, released a web video Thursday attacking his Democratic opponent and distancing himself from attack ads paid for by a nonprofit conservative organization.
Des Moines-based America Future Fund (AFF) released an ad last week alleging Braley supported building an Islamic cultural center two [...]

State Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines, told The Des Moines Register Wednesday that he is planning to organize a boycott of any businesses who purchase advertising on Jan Mickelson’s WHO-AM radio program in response to remarks he made regarding homosexuality and AIDS.
As first reported by The Iowa Independent, Mickelson said on the air that AIDS [...]

Former House Speaker and likely presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says U.S. courts are “as fully anti-religious as any institution in the Polish dictatorship, and our elite culture is as frightened of Christ and the cross as any secular group in past radical regimes.”
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley is up on the air with a response to [...]

Almost one week to the day from Sarah Palin’s big speech at the Regan Day Dinner in Des Moines, her first political foray into the Hawkeye State since the 2008 elections, Mitt Romney will deliver his own speech to Republicans in New Hampshire, agreeing to keynote the party’s state convention Sept. 25.
The New Hampshire Union [...]

In an interview with The Center for Public Integrity last week, the spokesman for the Des Moines-based conservative organization American Future Fund said his group plans to spend between $20 million and $25 million on political ads this fall, with a focus on races for the U.S. House.
The group is already involved in a House [...]

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley says consumers can do what the government hasn’t – put egg producer Jack DeCoster out of business.
The estate tax is causing people to consider suicide this year to avoid pay more taxes next year, according to U.S. Rep. Steve King.
Sarah Palin will rally Iowa Republicans at a Polk County fundraiser next [...]

U.S. Rep. Steve King’s assertion that his opponent on the Nov. 2 ballot had not earned the right to a public debate riled Iowa Democrats, who accuse the incumbent Republican of hiding from his challenger.
“Surely a four-term Congressman like Steve King is capable of debating the issues, the only question is why he feels his [...]