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Author Archives: Dave Bradley
The Courtney Report
SESSION WON’T END UNTIL THE PEOPLE’S WORK IS FINISHED While I hope the 2013 legislative session wraps up soon, I won’t vote to adjourn until Iowa has a balanced state budget that will help strengthen and grow our middle class. … Continue reading
Posted in Courtney, Courtney Report, Iowa Legislature, medicaid expansion
Tagged Earned Income Tax Credit, mental illness, Royce White, small business
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Steve King Withdraws From Senate Race
The Omaha World Herald this morning has the story that Congressman Steve King has pulled his name from consideration as the Republican nominee for the open Iowa Senate seat being vacated by Tom Harkin. “DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa Rep. … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 Election Campaign, Steve King
Tagged Bill Northey, Iowa Senate
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Dear Iowa Legislators, Branstad Plan Is Just Plain Dumb
This is an open letter to my legislator, Tom Sands. Mr. Sands is a banker in Columbus Junction. There have been two competing versions of Medicaid Expansion passed in the Iowa legislature. The one passed in the Senate is the … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care & Medicare, medicaid expansion
Tagged Branstad plan, morality, tom sands
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A Reminder In Dallas
In case you had forgotten what the real source of our current mess is a huge reminder was opened in Dallas Thursday morning. Dedicated to the worst presidency overall in America’s history, a presidency that failed not just on one or … Continue reading
Posted in ALEC, Branstad, Labor, medicaid expansion
Tagged labor unions, lobbyists, Workers Memorial Day
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Sunday Funday Another Week In Review
I hope you are enjoying this. Putting together this little quiz for the previous week, it amazes me just how much information we are bombarded (pardon for using that word) with daily and how quickly we must forget some to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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The Courtney Report
Senate makes progress for middle class AROUND THE DISTRICT Disaster Assistance for Muscatine County The Governor has declared Muscatine County a disaster area in the wake of recent storms and flooding. As a result, the Iowa Individual Disaster Assistance Grant … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Courtney, Courtney Report
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War On Workers In The US
Workers’ memorial Day April 28th Overshadowed by the the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas is to me a much more significant event. The event in Boston is most likely a one off … Continue reading
Posted in Labor
Tagged factory explosion., fertilizer plant explosion, Texas explosion, Workers Memorial Day
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Grassley: Dead Kids, NO! Dead Presidents, YES!
That is the message I take away from Grassley’s vote against very weak tea gun control legislation Wednesday. I can almost hear him thinking “Let’s see which side can pony up the big bucks for my vote.” And now Grassley is … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Branstad, Charles Grassley, Jobs
Tagged Boston bombing, Branstad and Jobs, NRA
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Dick Fallow Dies
Dick Fallow may be a name unfamiliar to many reading this. But to those who knew Dick, he was one hell of a person. His love for the Labor movement and his knowledge of it were incredible. My encounter with … Continue reading
Posted in Labor
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Sunday Funday – What Happened Last Week?
Let’s do it again. Last week was kind of fun, so let’s see if we paid a little more attention this week. This was quite a week so there was lots to pay attention to. So here we go one more … Continue reading
