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Democracy for Iowa

Healing the Country by Electing Progressive Candidates

Democracy for Iowa is a progressive political action grassroots organization that seeks to elect, to statewide and local offices in Iowa, socially-progressive and fiscally-responsible candidates who exude personal integrity.  We are the Iowa “State Group” of Democracy for America, the political action committee run by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

http://www.democracyforamerica.com

We Believe

We believe when we, the ordinary citizens of the United States, rise up and demand an end to the huge corporate giveaways, the damaging, outrageously-large tax cuts for the wealthy, and the overriding selfishness of the special interests, that we will be able not only to put the well-being of our fellow ordinary citizens at the forefront of policy decisions, but that we will be able to accomplish the following goals in a fiscally-responsible manner:

1) health care for all;
2) investment in children – education, pre-natal health care, social support for families;
3) environmental protection;
4) equal rights under the law;
5) a balanced budget; and
6) a national security policy which treats the world as a community rather than a plaything, and which both protects America and our fellow citizens, but does not impinge upon our civil liberties.

We intend to make this happen by:

1. recruiting and encouraging progressive candidates to run for office at every level in the State of Iowa and in Iowa's Congressional races. We will help them find the resources to campaign successfully with small donations from grassroots supporters in order to begin to break the stranglehold special interests have on the political process;

2. developing strategic partnerships with other progressive organizations and political initiatives in Iowa to maximize resources for candidate and grassroots recruitment, training, and organization.

3. bringing new people into politics and training them to stay active; and

4. reclaiming the media from the corrupting influences of multi-national corporations, right-wing bias and cronyism, and infusing them with the voice of ordinary citizens.

Blog For Iowa

Visit Blog for Iowa at http://www.blogforiowa.com.  Blog for Iowa is the central information hub of Democracy for Iowa and is a rich source of progressive Iowa news, events, opinions, humor, announcements, and calls to action.  Blog for Iowa is updated several times a day.  Stay in touch with the Iowa Dean people here.

[Produced in house and paid for by Democracy for Iowa.]