Articles Tagged: Abby Finkenauer

Also, the conservative Americans for Prosperity endorses the primary challenger to a Republican incumbent state lawmaker

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The debates are scheduled for May 7 and May 19, and will be televised by Hearst TV stations and Iowa PBS

Rep. Ashley Hinson has announced the endorsements of more than 550 grassroots supporters from all 22 counties of the new 2nd District that covers northeast Iowa.

The Grassley Works campaign has $4,600,001 cash on hand, according to Federal Election Commission first quarter reports. His three Democratic challengers have a combined $1,831,396 in their treasuries.

The court's unanimous decision leaves Abby Finkenauer as the likely front-runner in a race with two lesser-known candidates ahead of Iowa's June 7 primary. The winner will run against Chuck Grassley, provided he wins a GOP primary.

A recap of news from across the state of Iowa this week.

Many Democrats see as the former U.S. representative as their best chance — albeit a remote one — to deny Chuck Grassley an eighth Senate term.

Finkenauer will ask the Iowa Supreme Court to reverse a Sunday night ruling by a Polk County District Court judge that she did not submit enough signatures on nomination petitions to qualify for the Democratic primary, preventing her from facing likely GOP nominee U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley in the November general election.

The Democratic candidates – former U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids, retired Admiral Michael Franken of Sioux City and Minden physician Glenn Hurst – agree that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is important, but question proposals to move it through pipelines from Iowa ethanol plants to sequestration sites in other states.

A poll conducted for Cedar Rapids Democrat Abby Finkenauer shows her with a nearly 50-point lead over her nearest competitor in the three-way June 7 primary for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination to face Sen. Chuck Grassley.

In Iowa’s U.S. Senate race, Sioux City Democrat Michael Franken says he’s raised nearly $1.4 million from more than 36,000 unique donors “without one dime of corporate PAC money,.”

A hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Polk County District Court on the

The filing asks the district court to reverse a state panel’s decision, or require the panel to reconsider the objections to the signatures on Finkenauer’s nominating petitions for his U.S. Senate bid.

Alan Ostergren, a conservative lawyer who argued on behalf of many of the challenges, said some of the petitioners now may contest some of the panel’s rulings in court.