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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 [...]

Tone of state legislative campaigns turns negative

By Jason Hancock 11/3/08

With control of the Iowa House hanging in the balance, candidates and interest groups from both sides of the aisle are waging a campaign that has turned decidedly negative.

Conservative radio ad attacks Culver

By Jason Hancock 9/6/08

A non-profit conservative group has attacked Gov. Chet Culver’s handling of the flood recovery effort in a new statewide radio advertisement launched this week.

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