Articles Tagged: Iowa Democratic Party

The Iowa caucuses — on the Democrats’ side — are in danger of losing their enviable position atop the nation’s presidential nominating calendar

Also, Republicans nominate a Cedar Rapids-area statehouse candidate

A group of northeast Iowa Democrats will host a virtual speakers’ panel on reproductive freedom in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned a constitutional right to access an abortion.

Iowa Democrats argued Thursday the state offers a path to victory for longshot candidates and opportunities for meaningful conversations with rural Americans as they made their pitch to hold onto their place at the front of the party’s presidential nominating calendar.

Iowa Democrats will present proposed changes to its caucuses in an effort to streamline the process and hold onto its place at the front of the party’s presidential nominating calendar.

The state party is proposing a simpler, streamlined process that essentially would be a straw poll

The Heart of Iowa Democrats will kick off Pride Month with a forum on Equality for All: the LGBTQ+ community and Iowa politics at 7 p.m. June 1.

The state party Wednesday announced plans to make the every-four-years caucuses for winnowing the Democratic presidential hopefuls more accessible and simpler, but offered no details.

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.

An official said Biden will speak to Iowans about his administration’s plans to address rising costs on consumers, and highlight investments in infrastructure, particularly in rural communities.

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,.”

Wolfe, who has been clerking for her sister, Rep. Mary Wolfe, D-Clinton, is running for an open seat in House 90 in Iowa City. Most of the district is represented by Rep. Christina Bohannan, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to the U.S. House in the new southeast Iowa district.

With fewer than 100 days until the primary, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Mike Franken has shaken up his campaign leadership, bringing in veteran Democratic operative Julie Stauch as his campaign manager.

Elle Wyant, LGBTQ+ activist, is running for the Iowa Legislature from House 91 where there is no incumbent. The district covers Iowa County where she grew up and northwest Johnson County.

In making the case for Iowa to go first with presidential caucuses, state GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann said it’s important to start in a small state and that the Midwest has a voice in the nomination process.