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So what comes next from state government and Iowa’s congressional delegation?
By and large, Tuesday night was a drubbing for Democrats in Iowa up and down the ballot.
On this week’s edition of the On Iowa Politics podcast we review the results of the 2022 elections.
District Court Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump based in Fort Worth, said Thursday the program usurped Congress' power to make laws.
The governor’s office says the loss of that money is the result of a deliberate decision to avoid having to commit $3 million in matching state funds toward child care. A Democratic senator says state government is stretched too thin to apply in time to meet the deadline.
The county initially reported more absentee ballots than it received; the error was caught by state officials and the county’s results were corrected
Republican state lawmakers on Thursday chose Sen. Amy Sinclair as the new president of the Iowa Senate following the defeat of current Senate President Jake Chapman in Tuesday’s midterm election.
The four Iowa appellate and 61 district and associate district judges received enough votes in Tuesday’s retention election to remain on the bench. All the judges received above 60 percent of “yes” votes.
Republicans ousted two 40-year Democratic incumbents and could have a clean sweep of statewide offices following a midterm election where the GOP further solidified its control over state government.
The office has been made aware of “an apparent technical violation of Iowa’s election laws,”
The results suggest a continuation of the urban-rural divide playing out across the nation, as well as the move of Iowa counties near the Mississippi River toward the Republican Party.
Applicants have until Dec. 9 to apply on the county’s website
Voters in southeast Cedar Rapids have elected the first Arab American to serve in the Iowa Legislature.
