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At a press conference in Des Moines Wednesday, Gov. Chet Culver said he’s heard from several people who felt the latest attack ad from his Republican rival, Terry Branstad, was an attempt to insult the governor’s weight.
The ad, entitled entitled “Big, Bad Debt,” is take off on the 1961 Jimmy Dean classic “Big Bad John.” [...]

Political contributions made by the man at the center of a national egg recall to the Democratic Governors Association will be coming back to haunt Gov. Chet Culver, at least if one shadowy conservative group has anything to say about it.
The Progress Project , which formally changed it’s name from Iowa Progress Project last month, [...]

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad holds extreme positions that are out of step with mainstream Iowa values, Democratic Gov. Chet Culver said Wednesday at a press conference in Des Moines.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will visit Iowa in the coming weeks to campaign for GOP gubernatorial hopeful Terry Branstad, D.C. news site Politico reports. But despite the presidential chatter that a trip like this to the Hawkeye State always stirs, Christie insists he has absolutely no interest in seeking his party’s presidential nomination in [...]

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has tentative plans to campaign for Republican candidates across eastern Iowa Oct. 26, his first visit to Iowa since March, when he held a book-signing in Des Moines and gave a speech at Iowa State University.
Romney joins former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich as [...]

Former Gov. Terry Branstad is back on the airwaves with another ad attacking his opponent, incumbent Democratic Gov. Chet Culver. Titled “Big Bad Debt,” the ad criticizes government spending under Culver, particularly the I-JOBS program. The spot repeats a charge that Culver has raised property taxes $500 million, a claim that was disproved after an [...]

At the annual Latino Heritage Festival in Des Moines on Saturday, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Kim Reynolds said children who are undocumented immigrants should be denied access to public education. But she stopped short of offering a specific plan on how to make that policy a reality.

A ruling published Friday by the Iowa Supreme Court is further evidence that former Republican Gov. Terry Branstad didn’t do enough during his tenure to protect Iowans from flooding, said Sen. Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids.
Hogg has been an outspoken critic of the Branstad administration’s response to the historic floods of 1993 and has said Branstad’s [...]

Races for Iowa Attorney General and Secretary of Agriculture have already come under new scrutiny in relation to the ongoing investigation into the recall of more than half-a-billion Salmonella-tainted eggs, and candidates vying for repeat performances as Iowa governor are realizing they are not immune to the scandal either.

Jonathan Narcisse, the former Des Moines School Board member running for governor as a member of the Iowa Party, has launched an online petition he hopes will result in his inclusion in the three scheduled debates between Democrat Chet Culver and Republican Terry Branstad.