Tag Archives: Iowa GOP

Iowa Should Have Broken Up With Grassley Long Ago

Below is an excerpt from an article about Senator Grassley published yesterday in Current Affairs by Alex Skopic.  It is an excellent read. Be forewarned it is as long as Grassley’s career but necessarily so.  It meanders to and fro … Continue reading

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Feed The Kids

From the January 2025 edition of The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter. The PP is  funded entirely by reader subscription, available in hard copy for $15/yr.  Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. Click here for archived … Continue reading

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Are We Living In A “David Copperfield” Movie?

From the Summer 2024 edition of The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter. The PP is  funded entirely by reader subscription, available in hard copy for $15/yr.  Send check to PP, Box 1945, Iowa City 52244. Click here for archived … Continue reading

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Public Pressure Rattles Iowa GOP

As you know if you are a regular visitor to Blog for Iowa, I write frequent reviews of the IPBS program Iowa Press now proudly in it’s 51st year on the air. I am not a fan of the program. … Continue reading

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Reluctant Iowa Republicans Told To “Fake” Support For Trump

Ladies and gentlemen, your Iowa Republican party. Click here for a related post at Bleeding Heartland.

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Kim Reynolds Speech Ripped To Shreds

This public post by Molly Donahue refutes Governor Reynolds’ condition of the state speech, line by line (or shall we say lie by lie). Please give it a read. It will come in handy for talking points for letters and … Continue reading

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Polls Of Likely Republican Caucus Attendees Do Not Reflect Iowa

BFIA co-editor Dave Bradley and I share a commitment to the idea that our dysfunctional media system owns a large amount of responsibility for the fix our country is in right now.  Over-simplification of issues, horse race political coverage, getting … Continue reading

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They All Voted For The Radical Agenda

Now we vote them out. Republicans in the House of Representatives including Iowa’s Zach Nunn, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson and Randy Feenstra, voted for Trump’s friend, so-called MAGA Mike Johnson for speaker who said that programs such as Medicare, Medicaid … Continue reading

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Why Do We Have To Explain Everything To Republicans?

Listen to Democrat Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott explaining to Republicans why children need to eat.  Follow Iowa Senate Democrats on Facebook “Tonight, Senate Republicans voted to add unnecessary red tape to accessing important food and health programs – like SNAP. … Continue reading

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Republicans: No Platform – No Principles

GOP principles go up in smoke at the Iowa Statehouse by Kathie Obradovich, Iowa Capital Dispatch March 13, 2023 Republicans in the Iowa Legislature like to talk about their bedrock principles. This year, those principles seem to be printed on … Continue reading

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