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Thursday, Jul 8 2021
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A second Republican has entered the primary race in Iowa’s third Congressional district. Nicole Hasso, who lives in the Des Moines suburb of Johnston and works for the Principal Financial Group, launched her campaign on July 7.
I’m having trouble embedding Hasso’s introductory video, which was posted on YouTube and her campaign’s Facebook page.
Here’s my transcript of the video, in which the candidate speaks throughout.
I was never supposed to end up here. Well, not according to the Democratic Party, anyway.
I am Nicole Hasso. I am a conservative Republican, and if you hadn’t noticed, I am a Black woman.
Bleeding Heartland
Wednesday, Jun 23 2021
Bryan Burkhardt won the June 22 special election for a Johnston City Council seat despite a strong write-in campaign by local Republicans on behalf of Jim Gorsche. Unofficial results posted by the Polk County auditor’s office showed 1,032 votes for Burkhardt (51.1 percent), 783 write-in votes (38.8 percent), all but six of which were for Gorsche, and 203 votes for Adam Haar (10.1 percent).
Turnout was just under 14 percent, not bad for a summer local election, which received little media coverage.
Burkhardt, a Des Moines Area Community College professor and small business owner, will serve the remainder of Scott Syroka’s term, which runs through 2023. Elected to the council in 2019, Syroka resigned early this year to serve as deputy director of communications in the Biden-Harris administration’s Office of Personnel Management. John Temple has been filling the vacancy on the council since February; he didn’t compete in the sp
Even after 25 years, the pain persists.
For the family of Veronica Andrews, it is as fresh and haunting and raw and searing as the day the young mother from Canton died, killed at the hands of a spurned ex-boyfriend.
Twenty-four missed birthdays. Twenty-four missed Mother s Days, all because a man refused to take no for an answer.
On the afternoon of May 25, 1976, Andrews was dropping off her young daughter at the babysitter s on her way to her job as an assistant manager at Paul Harris, a women s clothing store at Belden Village Mall.
She didn t know she was being followed by her ex-boyfriend, who confronted her with four blasts from a shotgun.