‘Campaigns’

Despite the rhetoric of some, health reform legislation doesn’t actually nationalize the country’s  health care system, but it does take a step in that direction, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Wednesday on a conference call with reporters.
And that step, Grassley said, could end up costing Democrats this fall.

John Deeth, who has been following candidate filings closer than anyone in the state, reported last night that Democrat Anesa Kajtazovic of Waterloo has filed to run for state House District 21, a seat held by embattled state Rep. Kerry Burt, D-Waterloo.
Burt was arrested for drunk driving last February, and later, police video emerged showing [...]

“Right now, they’re civil, because they think they have a chance of stopping this bill. The reason we don’t have violence in this country like they do in dictatorships is because we have votes, and our leaders listen to their constituents. Now we’re in a situation where the leaders are defying the people!” said U.S Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., will be in Iowa next month, headlining the third annual Defenders of Freedom event organized by U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron.
“Together Michele and I have led the charge in the U.S. House to fight the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care nightmare,” King said in a statement. “It was her idea that sparked [...]

Americans should launch a “Velvet Revolution”-style uprising against the federal government in order to put a stop to creeping socialism and defeat health care reform, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, said Tuesday.
King was a featured speaker at several “Kill the Bill” rallies in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning that were designed to stop health care [...]

U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has never been one to shy away from controversial statements, a trait that followed him to Iowa’s political Twitterverse. His Twitter account of a run in with a “crazy raccoon” got him in hot water with animal-rights group PETA, and his latest Tweet called the process Democrats are using to [...]

The Des Moines Register is reporting that former Iowa Teacher of the Year Ruth Ann Gaines will run for the Iowa House seat held by Wayne Ford.
Ford had repeatedly refused to clarify whether he was running for re-election again, with the deadline to file being this Friday at 5 p.m. Former state Rep. Ed Fallon [...]

Despite being asked numerous times by Dave Price, a reporter for Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV, state Rep. Wayne Ford would not say whether he will run for re-election in Iowa House District 65.
While guest hosting Chris Bradshaw’s afternoon radio show on WOW-FM, former state Rep. Ed Fallon reported that Ford was not seeking re-election [...]

With Republican Rod Roberts’ decision to not run for re-election in House District 51, the big question remains: Who will run to succeed the highly popular legislator who has held a stranglehold on the seat for a decade.

Former Democratic state Rep. Ed Fallon, filling in for liberal radio host Chris Bradshaw on his afternoon WOW-FM program, said he has heard from numerous sources that Wayne Ford will not seek re-election in Iowa House District 65.
Ford’s retirement would be significant, since it has not been made public and the deadline for candidates to [...]