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
Also, two of the three Democrats running in Iowa’s U.S. Senate primary are scheduled to participate in a candidate forum in Delhi.
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for capping the monthly cost of insulin. However, experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin.
The 2022 Iowa primaries are today, June 7. Here is a list of candidates for U.S. and statewide offices who appear on ballots.
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.
Challenges are considered by a state panel, which will meet Tuesday. If the panel determines the candidate’s paperwork does not meet state requirements, that candidate’s paperwork is nullified, which would take them off the ballot.
Jessica Wiskus, who has also been organizing against the Navigator CO2 Ventures carbon pipeline after learning her property was in the corridor, is running as a Democratic in Senate 42. The district covers rural Linn County, wrapping around the Cedar Rapids metro area, and eastern Benton County.
“Service has been central to my life,” said Colman Silbernagel, one of three candidates in the June 7 primary for the Republican nomination. He looks forward to representing the district “to defend life, protect our Second Amendment rights and fight for family-supporting jobs.”
Also, Democrat Rob Sand officially filed to run for re-election as state auditor
Deidre DeJear, the likely Democratic candidate for Iowa governor, filed her nominating signatures Tuesday, officially making her the first Black woman in Iowa’s history to be the Democratic or Republican party candidate for governor
Also, Burlington Democrat Bob Krause has withdrawn from the race for his party’s nomination for U.S. Senate.
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