Iowa s Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he anticipates a smooth Senate confirmation of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as President Joe Biden s pick to again head the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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For the 935 days that he spent planning the Iowa caucus, Troy Price can think of three or four times when he believed things were as bad as they would ever get. In moments like these, Price could feel his stomach drop, and in its place, a fierce and unpredictable panic would rise to the surface, producing some combination of anger and tears and bouts of dry heaving, his head bent unceremoniously over a toilet bowl.
The first time was in June 2019, months into the process of trying to twist the caucus system into something more accessible and transparent via the creation of a “virtual caucus,” when the Democratic National Committee first expressed concerns about the security of the tech they were developing. Price happened to be in Israel, watching a livestream of the DNC meeting, “just screaming in my hotel room, which was probably not great because it was Shabbat.” The next time was at a DNC meeting in August, when it became clear that the party wasn’t going to
Posted February 2nd, 2021 at 10:34am by Pat Rynard
State Rep. Ross Wilburn is settling in to his second week as the new chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, starting the work of assembling a new staff for a state party that’s looking to rebound from another poor election cycle. Wilburn’s election, along with making history as the first Black leader of a major Iowa political party, offers the opportunity to bring some real stability to the beleaguered some might say cursed office of the chair of the state party.
If the IDP is still putting framed photos of their past chairs on the conference room wall at the Fleur headquarters, they’ll need to open up an extra wing of the building soon. The chair’s office for Iowa Democrats has been a constantly revolving door of new faces during the past decade, a real problem that hopefully ends with Wilburn’s election.