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The 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary is shaping up to be a spirited affair, with candidates already actively campaigning and taking shots at their fellow Republicans more than seven months before Election Day.
But Civic Skinny, the anonymous gossip columnist for Des Moines’ Cityview, says the contest is as much about revenge and staking a claim on [...]

Delving into the discussion this week of whether former Gov. Terry Branstad should jump back into politics is anonymous Cityview gossip columnist Civic Skinny, and the answer is a resounding ‘no.’

So far, there are five confirmed candidates in the Republican gubernatorial field, but most of the focus is going to a man who is not in the race.

Rumors of Gov. Chet Culver’s temper are nothing new, but according to Cityview gossip columnist Civic Skinny, the recent discovery of worker abuse at Henry’s Turkey Service in Atalissa has pushed that temper into overdrive.
The newspaper received an e-mail from “a friend under the Golden Dome” detailing a testy exchange between Culver and U.S Sen. [...]

The news that Gov. Chet Culver’s former chief of staff, Patrick Dillon, had been tapped to be President Barack Obama’s deputy political director was greeted with pride by Iowa Democrats, as the list of local politicos with prominent D.C. jobs keeps growing.
But apparently, for some the joy over Dillon’s departure wasn’t based purely on Hawkeye [...]

Civic Skinny, the political gossip column published every week in Des Moines’ alternative newsweekly (Cityview), says sources inside the Iowa Democratic Party expect Lt. Gov. Patty Judge to become the party’s next chair.
The idea, Skinny says, is that the move would bolster Gov. Chet Culver’s standing leading up to his re-election bid in 2010.

In this week’s Cityview, Civic Skinny claims that U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell did not attend Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual Steak Fry fundraiser last weekend:
The first bunch of names: Barack [...]

They say you haven’t made it in Iowa politics until you’ve been sliced and diced by Civic Skinny, the gossip column that appears in Des Moines’ alternative weekly, Cityview. Well, going on that definition, congratulations is in order to Republican senatorial candidate Christopher Reed.