Jeff Angelo
Insiders: What went right and wrong for Obama, McCain?
While insiders spent time recently thinking about what has made Obama’s campaign successful, most talk of the McCain campaign more was about its missteps than its successes.
VP debate seen as ‘high-wire act’ for Palin
ANALYSIS: With tonight’s vice presidential debate hours away, one rural analyst sees it as a “high-wire act” for GOP candidate Sarah Palin, while another views it as an opportunity for the Alaska governor to escape from what he believes is an unfair media-driven caricature of her.
Reaction to Palin pick splits down party lines
Whether or not you think John McCain made the right decision by choosing Alaska Gov. Sara Palin to be his running mate, not surprisingly, depends on your political party.
Western Iowa Republican: Culver’s Plan In Need Of Reality Check
State Sen. Jeff Angelo, R-Creston, tells Iowa Independent he would exchange Iowa Gov. Chet Culver’s “entire rousing speech for just one good idea.”
Angelo, a southwest Iowan who represents the largest senate district in the Hawkeye State, says Culver’s Condition of The State speech seems in desperate need of a reality check — which Angelo expects [...]
State Sen. Angelo Undecided on 2008 Run
State Sen. Jeff Angelo, R- Creston, told Iowa Independent just moments ago that he’s made no decision and has no announcement pending on a re-election bid for 2008.
Cityview’s Civic Skinny speculates that Angelo won’t run, but he tells Iowa Independent that’s just “people chatting.”
“I just don’t think too much about it at this particular point,” [...]
Iowa GOP Senator: Cut ‘Dead Wood’ Craig
Iowa State Sen. Jeff Angelo, R- Creston, today said his party is primed to beat the woman he believes will be the likely Democratic presidential nominee on taxes and natural security if the GOP has the courage to cut “dead wood” figures like disgraced U.S. Sen. Larry Craig from its ranks.
Moreover, the Craig matter shows [...]
Western Iowa State Senators Weigh Giuliani’s, McCain’s Absences
State Sen. Jeff Angelo, R-Creston, has been on board with the Rudy Giuliani campaign for some time. And Angelo is sticking with Hizzoner even though Mr. 9/11 pulled a no-show for the Straw Poll.
That said, Angelo, who has emphasized what he thinks is Rudy’s strength in a crisis in previous interviews with Iowa Independent, admitted [...]
Giuliani Rolls Out Iowa Heavy Hitters
Despite announcing that he will not be participating in the Iowa GOP’s Straw Poll this August, Rudy Giuliani has announced some big — albeit moderate — Republican guns in the 2008 caucus season.
The campaign announced today that Paul Pate, former mayor of Cedar Rapids, former state senator and former secretary of state, will not only [...]
Iowa GOP Legislator: Romney’s Mormon Faith a ‘Sleeper’ Issue in Caucuses
CARROLL — State Rep. Rod Roberts, a Carroll Republican and evangelical Christian, says Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith could be an emerging issue among the former Massachusetts governor’s GOP opponents in the Iowa caucuses.
“I tend to think that could be somewhat of a sleeper,” said Roberts, director of new church development for Christian Churches/Churches of Christ [...]