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If U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) continues to work with Democrats on health care reform legislation and energy policy, he will face a primary in 2010, conservative activist Bill Salier predicted during an interview on WHO-AM.

A recent guest column by Republican Rep. Steve King in The Des Moines Register has drawn the ire of a leader of Iowa’s social conservative movement, and even raised the specter of a primary.

Four prominent leaders of Iowa’s social conservative movement are criticizing the Republican Party of Iowa and its leadership in the state Senate for not doing more to overturn the Iowa Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, saying if the next legislative session is no better, 2010 will be “the year of the primary.”
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Conservatives in Iowa would be “incensed” if they were paying more attention to how far to the left U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley has drifted, a leading voice in the state’s social conservative movement told Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson.
Bill Salier, who ran unsuccessfully for the right to challenge U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin in 2002 and [...]

Leading Iowa conservative Bill Salier, a farmer and former Marine who ran a surprisingly close U.S. Senate primary race against Congressman Greg Ganske in 2002 and in so doing carved out a place for himself as something of a rural icon, has some thoughts on the fact that none of Mitt Romney’s five able-bodied sons [...]

In 2002, Bill Salier, an Iowa hog farmer, stunned the political world in Iowa and beyond when he won 41 percent of the vote in a Republican primary, his first run for public office.  He challenged four-term U.S. Rep. Greg Ganske for the right to run against U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa's Democratic incumbent. Ganske [...]