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Picking a Fight? Spiker Continues to Needle Branstad Over Straw Poll Comments
By Craig Robinson A.J. Spiker, the current Chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, is in the midst of a public spat with Governor Terry Branstad. Confrontation between a party chair and a high...
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Iowa GOP Needs to Get Serious About Caucuses
By Craig Robinson The Harkin Institute of Public Policy at Iowa State University hosted discussion on the future of the Iowa Caucuses on Monday night in Ames. Former Des Moines Register columnist...
View ArticleInside the Republican Party of Iowa leadership elections
Check elsewhere on TheIowaRepublican.com for a concise summary of the Republican Party of Iowa’s state central committee meeting today. What follows is a stream of consciousness transcript for...
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Kevin’s Korner: RPI Election Thoughts, Straw Poll Spiked and T-Paw’s Price
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. All we have to decide what to do with the time that is given to us. Well, Saturday’s RPI elections were no surprise. The Paulistinians completed their coup...
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Kevin’s Korner: Ft. Dodge Fallout, A Blueprint for RPI’s Future and Our...
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Everywhere I’ve gone the last few days, people are talking about...
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TIR Bookshelf: Bachmannistan
Last week’s resignation of Kent Sorenson from the Iowa State Senate nudged me to finish reading a book I had downloaded to my Kindle over a month ago, Bachmannistan: Behind the Lines. Sorenson served...
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State Central Committee Members Favor Keeping Ames Straw Poll
Although Iowa Governor Terry Branstad believes the Ames Straw Poll has out lived its usefulness, it appears the majority of the Republican Party of Iowa’s State Central Committee favors keeping the...
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Kaufmann: Straw Poll Won’t Violate New RNC Rules or Hurt First-in-the-Nation...
Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann released a statement Thursday saying the RNC has informed him the Ames Straw Poll would not violate new RNC rules. It also would not damage Iowa’s...
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RNC’s Opinion on Ames Straw Poll: Legal, but Unscientific, Unofficial
The Republican National Committee has “serious concerns” about the Ames Straw Poll. However, their legal counsel sees nothing in the RNC rules that would prohibit the Republican Party of Iowa from...
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Kevin’s Korner: Heads Buried in the Sand Edition
Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Do some pf Iowa’s top Republican elected officials...
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