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...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...Post-Convention Pain
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...Stay in Touch
