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Radio Iowa’s top stories of 2020
A pandemic that began here in March, a massive storm that struck in August, and the politics that started in February with Caucus chaos were the top stories in Iowa this past year. Here’s a rundown of those stories:
The Pandemic 2020:
Pandemic report Matt Kelley’s audio report on the pandemic. 3:00
Iowa’s first three cases of coronavirus were confirmed on March 8. Just three days later, the first infected patient was admitted to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Then, on March 17, Governor Reynolds declared a Public Health Disaster Emergency, banning public gatherings of 10 or more people and closing an array of businesses.
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Constituents of New York s 22nd Congressional District will find themselves without representation in the House when the new Congress convenes in early January.
That s due to another delay in ballot-counting in the neck-and-neck race between Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi and former Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Republican who lost the seat in 2018 after a single two-year term and is trying for a comeback.
But ballot-counting has been delayed again in Oneida County, reports syracuse.com, prolonging a courtroom battle lasting more than a month that has seen both candidates take the lead and fall behind.
16 Dec 2020
Marc Elias, the Democrat lawyer behind the Russia “dossier” in 2016, and a slew of lawsuits to expand vote-by-mail in the 2020 presidential election, is involved in seven lawsuits regarding the rules for the Georgia Senate runoff to be held Jan. 5.
Elias’s website, Democracy Docket, is a clearinghouse of information for fellow Democrats on current election litigation around the country. He lists five cases of interest in the runoff, which pits incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler against Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively:
RNC v. State Election Board: a Republican challenge demanding that poll watchers be allowed to observe voting and counting, and opposing the use of ballot “drop boxes” or, if they are used, demanding access to surveillance videos.
On Nov. 13, Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks was seated in the U.S. Capitol s Visitor Center Congressional Auditorium listening to a panel on hiring staff, a duty that the new representative of Iowa s 2nd District will need to become familiar with as retiring Rep. Dave Loebsack prepares to leave office.
In a CSPAN video of the presentation, Miller-Meeks in a cerulean blazer is in the center of the audience leaned forward, writing in the margin of a handout. I took copious notes and then we got all kinds of information, all kinds of books. I wish I had not packed anything because my suitcase was full of books and information I was bringing back home, Miller-Meeks told the Press-Citizen in an interview last week. I ve learned from that experience and so when I went back to the second half (of orientation), I don t pack anything so I d have some room for all the books.
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A Democratic House candidate in Iowa who lost by six votes out of more than 394,000 cast would be viewed as illegitimate by a majority of voters in the state if the Democratic-majority chamber seats her anyway, a poll shows.
Iowa s state canvass board certified results for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District after a districtwide count in all 24 counties in the race between Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Democrat Rita Hart. The board on Nov. 30 declared Miller-Meeks the winner of the election by only six votes in a southeast Iowa seat left open by the retirement of Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack.