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Rick Giarusso Announces Run For Statehouse
Mar 6, 2014 Comments Off admin(CEDAR FALLS) – Army Reserve Officer, Rick Giarusso, announced today he will be seeking election to the Iowa House in District 59 in Cedar Falls. Giarusso grew up in Wisconsin, graduated high school in Madison, earned a bachelors degree from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay and a Masters degree from Silver Lake College. Rick ...
Continue ReadingMosiman Prepared for First Statewide Campaign
Mar 5, 2014 Comments Off adminWinning elections is nothing new to Mary Mosiman. She emerged victorious in three of them running as a Republican in a Democrat-leaning county. Mosiman served as Story County’s auditor for 10 years. Now, the state auditor is preparing for her first time on the statewide ticket. “I am very excited about this race,” Mosiman told TheIowaRepublican.com. ...
Continue ReadingA Quick Guide to Obamas 2015 Budget
Mar 5, 2014 Comments Off adminYesterday, Heritage experts dove into President Obama's new budget proposal. Check out our infographic to see just a few of the disturbing things they found. A Quick Guide to Obamas 2015 Budget | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News from The Heritage Foundation.
Continue ReadingAlmost Everything You Have Been Told About The Minimum Wage Is False – Forbes
Feb 6, 2014 Comments Off adminThe Democrats, their union supporters, and liberals in general are making a hard and concerted push for an increase in the minimum wage. President Obama mentioned the subject prominently in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night and even promised to take executive action to increase the minimum wage federal contractors must pay ...
Continue ReadingBam! Were Already Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again
Feb 6, 2014 Comments Off adminIt’s timely that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) put out new numbers on America’s financial situation this week. By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again. The CBO’s report, which dropped the bombshell that Obamacare is projected to push 2.3 million people out of the workforce, is chock full of other ...
Continue ReadingSeven Big Lies Obama Told In His State Of The Union Speech
Jan 29, 2014 Comments Off adminI know what you’re thinking – just seven? Actually most of Obama’s speech was filled with the same old platitudes and empty rhetoric that bellows out of all politicians, right or left. Here are seven lies he told. Seven Big Lies Obama Told In His State Of The Union Speech | Independent Journal Review.
Continue ReadingLegislative Forums
Jan 24, 2014 Comments Off adminThere are 5 legislative forums scheduled for the next few months and I hope to post topics as soon as we know them. Please try to attend, support our GOP lawmakers and make your voice heard by the opposition party there. We need to show up and we need to SPEAK OUT! These are sponsored by the League of ...
Continue ReadingJim Nussle Endorses Walt Rogers; Rogers Campaign Raises $127,000 in Quarter
Jan 20, 2014 Comments Off adminCEDAR FALLS – Former Congressman Jim Nussle, who represented Iowa’s 1st Congressional District for 16 years, is endorsing State Representative Walt Rogers, who is running for that same seat. Nussle, the last Republican to hold the seat, said, “As both a former Director of the Office of Management and Budget and a Congressman serving northeast Iowa ...
Continue ReadingMLK Day | How MLK’s Faith Influenced His Public Life
Jan 20, 2014 Comments Off adminAcross the country today, speakers will honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. They will likely quote the resounding “I Have a Dream” speech and the stirring “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” But what made it possible for King to accomplish so much? Let’s go deeper into the origins of his belief that men and women ...
Continue ReadingBuilding Iowas Future Tour- Waterloo
Jan 15, 2014 Comments Off adminCome support Governor Branstad and Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds this Friday, January 17th at Beck's Sports Brewery on University Ave in Waterloo! Tickets available online here. Building Iowas Future Tour- Waterloo Friday, January 17, 2014 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM CST Waterloo, IA via Building Iowas Future Tour- Waterloo- Eventbrite.
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FOX Politics- ‘Game the system’? Nonprofits, including Farrakhan-tied group, enjoy windfall from farm subsidies March 9, 2014Several nonprofits that have little to do with farming or are in poor standing with their local governments have been receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies over the past decade, federal records show.
- Obama to preserve Calif. federal lands March 9, 2014President Barack Obama will expand the California Coastal National Monument to include the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands, a White House official said Saturday.
- Long-time top Obama aide to leave White House March 9, 2014A top White House official who has been with President Barack Obama since he first became a senator nine years ago is resigning.
- Sarah Palin delivers keynote address at CPAC March 9, 2014Sarah Palin on Saturday took her requisite swipes at President Obama and the rest of his Democratic Party but saved some of her sharpest criticism for the old guard of the Republican Party -- telling potential voters to get rid of the “GOP beltway boys.”
- Sen. Rand Paul wins CPAC straw poll March 8, 2014Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul has won the CPAC straw poll Saturday for potential 2016 presidential candidates, taking first place for the second straight year.
- ‘Game the system’? Nonprofits, including Farrakhan-tied group, enjoy windfall from farm subsidies March 9, 2014