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Culver spokesman: Conservative group’s attacks ‘paranoia’

By Jason Hancock 2/11/09

The conservative non-profit group Iowa Progress Project (IPP) has released a series of e-mail exchanges between state officials that it says calls into question Gov. Chet Culver’s response to last summer’s flooding.
A spokesman for Culver said the allegations fall “somewhere between nonsense and paranoia.”

Duffy hired by conservative group to bash Culver

By Jason Hancock 1/6/09

In addition to his recent hire to contribute to Des Moines alternative weekly Cityview, fired Des Moines Register cartoonist Brian Duffy has also become a mercenary, of sorts.
The Iowa Progress Project, a politically conservative non-profit based in Des Moines, commissioned Duffy to draw a cartoon critical of Gov. Chet Culver’s ties to labor unions, specifically [...]

American Future Fund turns attention to Iowa legislature

By Jason Hancock 10/31/08

A conservative group that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars advocating nationally for Republican candidates for Congress has begun a new focus on Iowa legislative races.
American Future Fund, an Iowa-based nonprofit advocating “conservative and free market ideals” has opened an Iowa chapter, and with it launched a series of ads attacking Democratic candidates for [...]

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