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Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rod Roberts of Carroll supports the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices that are up for retention votes in 2010 due to their verdict legalizing same-sex marriage earlier this year.

With former Gov. Terry Branstad’s tentative entrance into the already crowded field of Republican gubernatorial candidates, conventional wisdom dictates that several lesser-known hopefuls will likely exit the race.
Branstad has high name recognition and will undoubtedly be able to raise a huge campaign war chest quickly, which will likely drain resources and attention from his opponents.
But [...]

Ending months of speculation, former Gov. Terry Branstad filed papers Wednesday morning to form a gubernatorial campaign committee, the first step in a potential run for governor in 2010.

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 [...]

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.

Though I didn’t find it when I looked after state Rep. Rod Roberts (R-Carroll) announced his candidacy for governor earlier this week, it seems his campaign did launch a Web site at some point since Tuesday.

State Rep. Rod Roberts (R-Carroll) has officially entered the race for governor, he announced at a capitol press conference today.
In his announcement, Roberts attributed his candidacy to an article by Douglas Burns that created the buzz that eventually led him to run. He is an ordained minister with strong social views, but he is also [...]

Republican state Rep. Rod Roberts of Carroll has scheduled a press conference next week at the state Capitol to announce whether he will run for his party’s gubernatorial nomination, James Lynch of the Cedar Rapids Gazette reports.

The Sac County Republican Party hosted what was probably the first cattle-call of 2010 Republican candidates for governor over the weekend, and four men delivered stump speeches as candidates (or potential candidates).
To hear what State Rep. Christopher Rants (R-Sioux City), State Rep. Rod Roberts (R-Carroll), State Sen. Jerry Behn (R-Boone), and Bob Vander Plaats [...]

Though State Rep. Rod Roberts (R-Carroll) has not officially announced his candidacy for governor in 2010, his hometown newsman Douglas Burns provides a glimpse of what his campaign might look like.
It seems that Roberts, who is an ordained minister and works in fundraising for a network of churches, plans to focus more on economic issues [...]