Working From The Grassroots
Tonight I attended my first Polk County (Iowa) Republican Central Committee meeting. I have never been at this level of politics (okay, 2008 continues to be a year of firsts for me in local politics), and it was more interesting than I expected. I won’t get into...
T. Boone Pickens Has A Plan
I caught the commercial on TV and went to the web site. Here’s an ad badge for it… I think Pickens definitely has one thing right… we need to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. That’s the basis of his “plan”. Pickens is pushing...Reforming The Process In Iowa – For Republicans
When I attended the Iowa State Republican Convention, one thing that I found odd was the district level meetings that were held on Friday night to select district delegates and alternates to the National Convention, electors to go to Washington if our candidate for...2008 Floods: A Small Epilog
Traveling across eastern Iowa and Illinois this past week we got a look at some of the areas that were affected by the flooding. I-80 looks good… the section that had been flooded looks normal… I didn’t realize what it was until I had driven over...Stay in Touch
