by Art Smith
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...
by Art Smith
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...
by Art Smith
Well, I am amazed at how people who are supposed to have a common mission, a common cause, can find themselves so divided. Of course, we’ve had over 232 years of that. What’s really surprising to me is that the Iowa Republican State Convention actually...
by Art Smith
The afternoon of the convention went fairly smoothly. As I mentioned yesterday, we heard the results of the National Committee Man and Woman. I appreciate the way that Stew Iverson kept things moving by inserting speeches at places where there were dead spots because...
by Art Smith
Well, the convention is over. We wrapped up, unbelievably, at 5:30 PM. I have more to share about the afternoon, but I need to do a few things at home… I’ll finish the update in the morning.
by Art Smith
In case you’re new, I’m a delegate to the Iowa State Republican Convention this year. And it is today. So far we’ve had an interesting day. I thought for sure we were in for a long haul after the extended time spent on the report from the Rules...