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Rants builds buzz for gubernatorial bid

By Chase Martyn 5/11/09

Though many potential GOP gubernatorial candidates have recently doused speculation that they plan to challenge Gov. Chet Culver in 2010, state Rep. Christopher Rants (R-Sioux City) is publicly acknowledging his interest in running.
In an email apparently sent to state legislators and obtained by anonymous blogger Krusty Konservative, Rants writes, “I’ve put 2,300 miles on my [...]

Conservative bloggers respond to Krishna

By Jason Hancock 1/7/09

It should come as no surprise that Iowa’s conservative bloggers didn’t take kindly to their portrayal as disseminators of lies and character assassination by Republican Party of Iowa Treasurer Gopal Krishna in an interview Tuesday with the Iowa Independent.

‘Konservative’ Iowa Blogger Calls It Quits

By Chase Martyn 5/10/07

A well known and controversial conservative – or, rather, “konservative” – blog went the way of the dodo Wednesday, as the man known online only as “Hershel Krustofski” (the name of the clown on Fox TV’s The Simpsons) announced the closing of his Krusty Konservative blog.
Krusty was the conservative muckraker of the Iowa blogosphere, frequently [...]

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