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Moderate Republican Doug Gross has released another 2010 gubernatorial campaign poll through his group, the Iowa First Foundation.
Gross, who served as a top aide to former Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and was his party’s 2002 gubernatorial nominee, has been releasing the results of his latest round of surveys, conducted July 23-26, this week. Today, he [...]

Don McDowell, communications aide to Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley, called me a few minutes ago to explain why he owns BranstadForGovernor.com. He says it has nothing to do with his boss, who is “aggressively exploring” a run for governor, or with former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who is also considering becoming a candidate.
McDowell says [...]

With six men actively seeking the Republican Party of Iowa’s gubernatorial nomination and a few others publicly mulling a run themselves, a hotly contested 2010 GOP primary is virtually guaranteed.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful and Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley blasted Democrats Monday for blocking a bill during this year’s legislative session asserting Iowa’s sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

State officials have completed the sale of $601 million in bonds for Gov. Chet Culver’s I-JOBS infrastructure program, with the end result saving Iowa nearly $12 million a year.

State Sen. Paul McKinley (R-Chariton) will take the next step toward a campaign for governor, reports The Beanwalker, a GOP blog.
The Senate Minority Leader will reportedly begin “aggressively exploring” a bid for governor today, and he will file paperwork to form a campaign committee soon:

Republicans are not being honest with Iowans about the state of the budget and have chosen to play politics instead of working to overcome challenging economic realities, Gov. Chet Culver said Thursday.

Iowa could end the 2009 fiscal year with $161 million less in net revenues than expected, according to estimates by the Legislative Services Agency. That could force Gov. Chet Culver to call a special session to balance the budget.

Perhaps still reeling from his own Web site gaffe earlier this week, Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley (R-Chariton) posted a message to his Twitter account earlier today making fun of his Democratic colleagues for not having a page on their site dedicated to their government reorganization effort. The link he posted was, in fact, broken; [...]

When I took at look at Iowa Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley’s new Web site yesterday, I noticed the same thing Craig Robinson did: the “Contribute” page says that it is paid for by a different committee from the rest of the site.
The second committee, “Paul McKinley for Iowa,” caught my interest because of the [...]