Steve King
Inauguration tix still available
If you want to go to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and you live in Iowa’s Fourth or Fifth Congressional District, you may be in luck.
Republican Congressmen Tom Latham and Steve King are asking constituents who are interested in attending to contact their office by Nov. 28. Each has only a limited number of [...]
King, Latham split on House leadership
In an interview with Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, said he would be supporting California Congressman Dan Lungren in Wednesday’s vote for House Republican leadership.
“We’ve lost two elections in a row and we’ve lost 55 seats in the last 24 months and it’s time to put a new face on our leadership…With [...]
King warned McCain campaign about ethanol hostility
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told The Des Moines Register that he tried to get John McCain to ease up on the ethanol attacks and frame the debate in a different way that wouldn’t alienate farmers. King thinks McCain’s vocal opposition to ethanol subsidies played a role in the Arizona Republican’s poor performance in Iowa.
King still thinks terrorists will be ‘dancing in the streets’ for Obama
Following his commanding re-election Tuesday U.S. Rep, Steve King, R-Iowa, told the Omaha World-Herald that the night was a bittersweet one as he retains concerns that President-elect Barack Obama ascendency to the highest office in the nation will embolden foreign terrorists to do harm to the United States.
In highly controversial remarks in the campaign season [...]
King cruises to re-election in Fifth District
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, cruised to re-election Tuesday, holding onto a decisive margin throughout the night.
King had 60 percent of the vote with 402 of 417 precincts reporting, a wide margin that will send him back to Washington for a fourth term and keep him very much politically alive for a potential run for [...]
Iowa votes: Live results
Mouse over a county to see its current election returns:
By Steve King’s standards, a banner week
In just one week, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who represents a heavily rural swath of the nation with no major media market, or even an outlet that can claim to cover the full Fifth District, had his words excoriated by three of the biggest national liberal names: Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann and Alan Colmes.
Not bad for [...]
Hubler banks on community newspaper ad strategy
Fifth District Democratic congressional candidate Rob Hubler may be well behind U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, in fundraising, but the challenger expects big dividends from the strategic use of advertising in small and weekly newspapers, most notably with the insertion in the last few weeks of an 8-page “Congressional Voters Guide” in 75 papers in [...]
Iowans say goodbye to guardsmen headed for Iraq
Not all eyes are on Tuesday’s upcoming election, in particular those of the approximately 310 Iowa National Guard soldiers and their families and friends, who said their goodbyes at sendoff ceremonies across the state Thursday.
Culver: Obama’s coattails could extend into western Iowa
DES MOINES — Gov. Chet Culver told the Iowa Independent that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s coattails are looking long enough to extend even into conservative western Iowa.
“I think this is the type of year where that is possible,” Culver said in an interview at Obama’s Friday rally. “It could be like 1964. We (Democrats) [...]