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U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, is expected to announce his candidacy for a fourth term representing Iowa’s Fifth District Friday with events in Sioux City and Council Bluffs.

King, the subject of much speculation about a possible run against U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has not publicly said whether he will seek re-election or move to [...]

DENISON — Western Iowa Democratic congressional candidate Rob Hubler has $83,000 so far to back him his political war cry of “real represenation.”

Recent Federal Election Filings show that Hubler, a retired Presbyterian minister from Council Bluffs who has essentially been campaigning full-time for more than a year, has total receipts of more than $83,000. Hubler [...]

CRESTON — Retired educator Joyce Schulte of Creston, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Iowa’s Fifth District the past two times, is collecting signatures for a third run she says will happen this year unless some unforseen circumstance cuts her off at the pass.

“I think you could put it down like that,” Schulte said in [...]

The race for the 2008 Democratic nomination in Iowa’s Fifth Congressional District is shaping up early this cycle with two contenders already campainging aggressively in the wide swath of 32 western counties that stetches to the borders of Minnesota and Missouri.

Retired businessman Bob Chambers of Essex (southwest Iowa) and retired Presbyterian Minister Rob Hubler of [...]